Educational Provision for Refugee Youth in Australia: Left to Chance?

This paper investigates how education bureaucracies in Australia are using languages of categorisation and promoting community partnerships to construct and govern the refugee subject. We use a framework of governmentality to analyse education policies and statements emerging from two levels of government - Commonwealth and State. Drawing on web-based materials, policy statements and accounts of parliamentary debates, the paper documents the ways in which refugee education continues to be subsumed within broader education policies and programmes concerned with social justice, multiculturalism, and English language provision. Such categorisations are premised on an undifferentiated ethnoscape that ignores the significantly different learning needs and sociocultural adjustments faced by refugee students compared with migrants and international students. At the same time, educational programmes of inclusion that are concerned with utilising community organisations to deliver services and enhance their participation, point to the emergence of 'government through community partnerships'; a mode of governance increasingly associated with advanced liberal societies

Using simulation modelling to examine the impact of venue lockout and last‐drink policies on drinking‐related harms and costs to licensees

Abstract Objective: Many variations of venue lockout and last‐drink policies have been introduced in attempts to reduce drinking‐related harms. We estimate the public health gains and licensee costs of these policies using a computer simulated population of young adults engaging in heavy drinking. Method: Using an agent‐based model we implemented 1 am/2 am/3 am venue lockouts in conjunction with last drinks zero/one/two hours later, or at current closing times. Outcomes included: the number of incidents of verbal aggression in public drinking venues, private venues or on the street; and changed revenue to public venues. Results: The most effective policy in reducing verbal aggression among agents was 1 am lockouts with current closing times. All policies produced substantial reductions in street‐based incidents of verbal aggression among agents (33–81%) due to the smoothing of transport demand. Direct revenue losses were 1–9% for simulated licensees, with later lockout times and longer periods between lockout and last drinks producing smaller revenue losses. Conclusion: Simulation models are useful for exploring consequences of policy change. Our simulation suggests that additional hours between lockout and last drinks could reduce aggression by easing transport demand, while minimising revenue loss to venue owners. Implications for public health: Direct policies to reduce late‐night transport‐related disputes should be considered

The industrial corporation and capitalism's time-space fix

In this chapter I review economic geography's study of the modern corporation. There are two parts. In the first part I revisit the influence of analysis from political economy and the pioneering work of David Harvey and his exposition of capitalism's geography. I then use Harvey's work to track research into the changing nature of the organizational and investment behaviors of corporations. Here we encounter four themes: the post-war development of monopolies, the processes of industrial restructuring, the impacts of financialization processes, and the pursuit of globalization. In the second part, I present a case study of BHP Billiton, the world's largest minerals company, and relive its development as a powerful capitalist entity. The chapter concludes with a discussion of what an economic geography of the corporation might look like in the years ahead