Glenn Withers
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View article: It is Time for a New Regional Compact!
It is Time for a New Regional Compact! Open
We outline the case for Australia to adopt a ‘New Regional Compact’ focusing on working with its Pacific Island neighbours and Timor‐Leste through improved labour mobility and skilling as a complement to foreign aid and development assista…
View article: Methods for projecting future migration levels: an assessment
Methods for projecting future migration levels: an assessment Open
The need to supplement traditional fIxed level projection methods for migration by rates-based approaches, and by other more sophisticated options also, is argued in this paper. It is concluded that more pluralistc methodology will make fo…
View article: Migration: the economic debate
Migration: the economic debate Open
Over the last seventy years, immigration has added seven million people to Australia’s population and will, if current policy settings continue, add a further thirteen million by 2060. The current focus of the migration program on skilled …
View article: Through a Glass Darkly: The Social Sciences Look at the Neoliberal University
Through a Glass Darkly: The Social Sciences Look at the Neoliberal University Open
This collection of essays arose from a workshop held in Canberra in 2013 under the auspices of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia to consider the impact of the encroachment of the market on public universities. While the UK triple…
View article: The State of the Universities
The State of the Universities Open
Historically the public-private divide matters a lot.Much of the 20th century was devoted to a global battle between public and private ownership philosophies.The difference brought us to the brink of nuclear war.The so-called end of histo…