Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00049182.2022.2071280
P. Bishop, P. Bishop
Paul Bishop commenced his life in universities at Macquarie University in the School of Earth Sciences. He graduated with First Class Honours in Physical Geography and then went on to complete a PhD in 1984. When I joined the Department of Geography at University of Sydney in 1985, it was a pleasure to meet Paul. He had an adjoining office with another tutor, Peter Cowell, and it was obvious that they both brought intellectual vigour and enthusiasm to physical geography. Together they had what Peter called self-indulgent fun engaging in philosophical questioning of many topics besides sharing a love for classical music. Sadly Paul recently died (age 72) and the lights that he shone on those he worked with have gone out; but he cannot be forgotten. Our deepest condolences to his partner, Geraldine Perriam. His fertile brain and immense curiosity saw him pursue an array of intellectual endeavours that are quite stunning in both scope and impact. We jointly ran the lower Hunter field excursion for Geography 2 students before he left Sydney and it was then that I got to know him and appreciate his methodical and enthusiastic approach to organising work. He is someone you always learnt from, generously giving time to stimulate your thinking. This is evident in the way former students recognised his passion for landscape especially on field trips. The establishment of computer and GIS lab facilities at Sydney in the late 1980s owed much to Paul’s capacity to innovate. Peter Cowell recalls his somewhat unorthodox application of GIS in the way he digitised orientations of the long axes of pebbles extracted from ancient stream deposits to estimate palaeostream flow directions. This is one example of his many skills which were readily transposed into teaching. Paul Bishop moved from Sydney to Monash in 1989 before settling in Glasgow in 1998 where he became Professor of Physical Geography. However, he maintained his deep connections to geomorphic studies in Australia. Paul’s field studies in the eastern highlands of NSW built on the work of others in association with colleagues such as GeoffGoldrick. This work focused on aspects of longevity of the landscape, the role of lithology in the evolution of rivers, and centrally the importance of denudation isostatic rebound within intraplate highlands. This passion for knowledge commenced during his PhD study. At the time of the International Geographical Congress in 1988, as editor of a special volume in Progress in Physical Geography (vol.12, no.2), I invited Paul to publish what he knew at the time. It was the lead paper and gave international readers a clear summary of the evolution of an intraplate highland belt. What is impressive is that over the next three decades he elaborated, modified, and developed the analysis based on new evidence from the field, an increased understanding of tectonic processes, and the application of new earth surface dating techniques. A more recent version of this work is summar
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00049182.2022.2059825
M. Kok, Matthew Tuson, B. Turlach, B. Boruff, A. Vickery, D. Whyatt
ABSTRACT Misallocation of finite healthcare resources can occur when guided by maps that are produced using aggregate-level administrative units. Such maps are affected by the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP), which describes how patterns may change depending on the particular choice of mapping unit. Smoothing can help avoid this unintended yet detrimental phenomenon. This paper compares the utility of aggregate-level administrative units and smoothing for exploring variation in lower urgency emergency department (ED) presentations across metropolitan Perth, Western Australia. Rates of such presentations were mapped using Australian Bureau of Statistics Statistical Areas Levels 1, 2, and 3 (SA1-3s) and the recently proposed Overlay Aggregation Method (OAM). Resulting maps were compared based on their ability to represent local variation in rates and optimise the targeting and logistical efficiency of geographically targeted resource allocation. SA1-level variation in rates was increasingly obscured by SA2s and SA3s. OAM helped avoid this pitfall, facilitating stable identification of SA1-resolution, high-rate regions while preserving privacy, mitigating the MAUP, and balancing the targeting and logistical efficiency of planned resource allocation to those regions. Routine application of smoothing can help avoid issues undermining maps of lower urgency ED presentations and other health outcomes that are based on aggregate-level administrative units.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.1080/00049182.2022.2056963
Nick Osbaldiston
ABSTRACT In recent times there has been a population turnaround in the island state of Tasmania sparked by an increase in in-migration of mainland urban dwellers. This paper argues that one of the major driving factors of this change is the quest for a new lifestyle in regional/rural life, that incorporates a desire for a temperate climate. As literature in lifestyle migration shows, this quest for a new life does not end once migration is over. Rather, the migration experience continues well after the move. In this paper, it will be shown how weather not only attracts migrants into Tasmania, but then encourages/discourages certain activities allowing the individual to engage in new ways of living. The paper suggests that while we need to be careful about romanticising this, we can potentially view this shift as emblematic of people’s relationship to climate change.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-25DOI: 10.1080/00049182.2022.2052396
Caitlin Buckle
ABSTRACT Many motives for undertaking a counter-urban move appear to be associated with a search for a sense of ‘home’, such as moving for a sense of community, for affordable or larger housing, perceptions of a ‘safer’ area for children, or moving to a childhood hometown. However, rarely is counter-urban migration directly linked to the concept of home. In this paper, I make the direct link between counter-urban moves and the search for a sense of home using biographies of four (4) counter-urban movers to the Sunshine Coast, Australia. The participants each moved to the area in a search for a sense of home related to four key themes: housing, family, stability and familiarity, however they varied in their pre-move experiences and expectations of how the Sunshine Coast would improve their sense of home. These differences impacted their post-move experiences, as those participants with prior familiarity with the Sunshine Coast felt a greater sense of home post-move. This paper provides an important conceptual link between the search for a sense of home and counterurbanisation, to add further critical insight into motivations and experiences of counter-urban migrants, and the perceptions of a sense of home being better achieved outside of major cities..
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Pub Date : 2022-03-12DOI: 10.1080/00049182.2022.2043807
N. Argent, P. Plummer
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has stimulated a resurgence in counter-urbanisation in Australia with ex-urban populations leaving behind the perceived disamenity of city life for simpler, cheaper and lockdown-free lives. This article investigates the drivers of in-migration and net migration into non-metropolitan New South Wales from the metropolitan zone between 2011 and 2016, focusing on the potential draw of rural amenity, together with the potential ‘push’ factors of urban disamenity. The results show that non-metropolitan NSW is becoming less dependent on counter-urbanisation flows from Sydney, while simultaneously seeing stronger net migration gains from interchanges with the broad metropolitan zone. Hypothesis testing upheld the contention that rural amenity accounted for a statistically significant share of the variance in in-migration - and net migration - from Sydney. However, the hypothesis that Sydney’s perceived disamenity is leading to out-migration flows and net migration losses was not well supported, confounded by mis-specification issues. High population densities are associated with out-migration from the Sydney region to all categories of settlement within the remainder of NSW and Australia. However, changes in density are only a strong and reliable influence on net migration within the broad Sydney metropolitan area but the direction of that influence is positive rather than negative. The article reveals that the proportion of immigrants within a metropolitan local government area population is negatively associated with out-migration.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-28DOI: 10.1080/00049182.2022.2042037
P. McManus
ABSTRACT The term ‘counterurbanisation’ is receiving renewed academic attention due to the Covid-19 pandemic. While not in vogue in popular discourse, the concepts invoked by the term counterurbanisation often appear uncritically in popular media as a Covid-19-induced rural renaissance. This article presents four arguments about using ‘counterurbanisation’ as a term and its applicability in the Australian context. I argue that ‘counterurbanisation’ emerged when categories of urban and rural were less theoretically problematic, and that being unidirectional it does not capture the diversity of migration dynamics. Third, in the Australian context, counterurbanisation is inaccurately often associated in the popular imagination with migration to rural productive landscapes. Fourth, the contemporary measurement and representation of counterurbanisation is flawed. While accepting that various forms of counterurbanisation are occurring, which is important in coastal and near-urban locations, the concept has little relevance for many Australian towns whose future will emerge outside the discourse of counterurbanisation.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00049182.2022.2032559
D. Rogers
ABSTRACT This article outlines the role of rivers and oceans in colonial land 'settlement' in Sydney. The analysis exposes a form of thalassic colonisation, whereby territoriality was a defining feature of settler-colonialism in the first decades of the colonial invasion, but wherein claiming and/or controlling vast bodies of water was necessary to that territoriality. Britain was a maritime empire and Sydney a maritime town in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, and there was a maritime pathway to early land theft in Australia. This archival analysis follows the colonial ships and Aboriginal nawi (bark canoes) to undertake a history from the water. Three nautico-imperial logics of settler-colonialism are presented. 1) ‘Aboriginal resistance and labour’ highlights the role of Aboriginal action against and incorporation into the colonial maritime economy and industries, and British Royal Navy exploration more broadly. 2) ‘Atomised colonial landscapes’ shows how Aboriginal Country was used as a colonial resource in the early maritime industries, with land claimed for ship building yards and whaling and sealing infrastructure, and trees felled for ship building. 3) Theorising the rivers and oceans as a ‘nautico-imperial infrastructure’ shows that water preceded land as a pivotal colonial infrastructure for the British maritime empire.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00049182.2022.2037179
Maia Germano
ABSTRACT Pacific Islands are facing some of the most immediate and direct impacts of climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report of 1.5°C Global Warming (SR15) outlines the possibility that some low-lying atolls will become uninhabitable by 2030 and submerged by 2100. I analyse how and where SR15 presents climate change impacts for Pacific Islands. In doing so, I seek to highlight to what extent the IPCC’s structures and pressures influence SR15’s marginalisation of or emphasis on Pacific perspectives and challenges. The main findings that emerge from this discourse analysis are, first, that climate change impacts for Pacific Islands are largely conceptualised as relating to the physical environment and the economy. Second, SR15 frames Pacific Islands as vulnerable; however, it appears to be reflecting a shift in the literature toward recognising Pacific adaptation and resilience. The third finding is that the IPCC explicitly defines and acknowledges Indigenous and local knowledge but frames this knowledge as alternative to scientific expertise. I interpret these findings in the context of the underrepresentation of Pacific authors, the availability of published knowledge for assessment and the IPCC’s claims of neutrality. Pacific leaders and communities continue to advocate for the 1.5°C threshold investigated in SR15 and are mobilising IPCC assessments.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00049182.2022.2052238
Travis Young, C. Lucas, K. Booth
ABSTRACT Across the world, cities are growing, blurring lines between urban and rural. In Australia, peri-urban areas are undergoing demographic shifts and extensive development. In the literature, these shifts are characterised by differences in the risk perceptions and hazard experiences between established and incoming residents. In this paper, we illustrate how some of these differences are perceived by focusing on house and contents insurance in the bushfire-prone City of Whittlesea on the fringes of Greater Melbourne. This location captures the complex relationship between growing population and high bushfire risk, and is the site of the country’s deadliest bushfire event, Black Saturday, in 2009. Through in-depth interviews, we observe that residents perceive insurance as playing a role in peri-urban change. Specifically, underinsurance is understood to be a challenge faced by many impacted by the Black Saturday fires, and contributes to feelings of uncertainty regarding the capacities of changing communities to work together to prepare for and recover from future fires. Our focus on insurance is informed by the need to better understand the social qualities of this dimension of disaster preparedness and recovery, and how perceptions of insurance amid peri-urban change may help produce social patterns and trends.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00049182.2022.2052400
Jesse Doolan, Josephine Gillespie
ABSTRACT In this paper, we chart the changing character of Australian geographical research based on trends in publications in the Australian Geographer. Using data starting from the journal’s inception in 1928 until 2018, we document changes in geographical research reflecting broader trends in the evolution of the discipline. We argue that a long-term perspective, harnessing an empirical approach to data produced over a 90-year publication history, enables geographers to better understand the discipline. Accordingly, we track ‘who’ is doing geography and ‘where’ these studies take place. We also ask ‘how’ geography is being done vis-à-vis physical/human and combined studies. Our analysis of the publication history of the Australian Geographer over the last 90 years aims to provoke broader reflection on the progression of geographical research and the discipline’s identity.
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