Collaborating on whiteness: representing Italians in early White Australia1

Creating White Australia: new perspectives on race, whiteness and history

The Changing Stock Cycle in Australia1

Traditionally, fluctuations in firms’ stocks have played a key role in shaping the business cycle in industrialised economies. While changes in stocks – that is, inventory investment – account for only a very small part of the level of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) they play an important part in explaining changes in the level of GDP. In Australia, over the past thirty years, quarterly changes i...

Some Observations on the Cost of Housing in Australia1

In recent years, there has been concern in many sections of the community about the cost of housing in Australia. This is not the fi rst time that such concerns have surfaced: the 2003/04 Productivity Commission Inquiry on First Home Ownership was preceded by studies into housing issues in 1977–78 and 1990–92.2 But the current episode of high housing costs has been quite prolonged, and there ar...

Collaborating on Referring Expressions

This paper presents a computational model of how conversational participants collaborate in making referring expressions. The model is based on the planning paradigm. It employs plans for constructing and recognizing referring expressions and meta-plans for constructing and recognizing clarifications. This allows the model to account for the generation and understanding both of referring expres...

Towards Virtual Communities in Rural Australia1

The farming community, in many parts of Australia, is widely dispersed and heavily dependent upon communication both within the community and outside. In this preliminary paper we explore the information needs and information flows of the rural sector and consider the farm as the potential focus of a virtual community. A virtual community may form a basis both for electronic commerce, in the tr...