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How Australia compares / Rodney Tiffen and Ross Gittins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tiffen, Rodney, author.
- Gittins, Ross, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Australia--Politics and government--21st century.
- Australia.
- Australia--Economic conditions--21st century.
- Australia--Social life and customs--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxvi, 267 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How Australia Compares is a handy reference that compares Australia with seventeen other developed countries across a wide range of social, economic and political dimensions. Whenever possible, it gives not only snapshot comparisons from the present, but charts trends over recent decades or even longer. Encyclopaedic in scope, it provides statistics for a huge range of human activity, from taxation to traffic accidents, homicide rates to health expenditure, interest rates to internet usage. This new edition is fully revised and updated, and features two new chapters: The Howard Impact and The Search for Scoreboards. New sections include obesity, advertising, broadband internet access, childcare and corruption. Information is highly accessible with double-page spreads for each topic. Tables and graphs are presented on one page, and clear explanation and analysis on the facing page. In each discussion the focus is to put the Australian experience into international perspective, drawing out the implications for the nation's performance, policies and prospects.
- Contents:
- People
- Government and politics
- Economics
- Work and labour
- Government taxes and spending
- Health
- Education
- Inequality and social welfare
- International relations
- Environment
- Science and technology
- Telecommunications and computing
- Media
- Family
- Lifestyles and consumption
- Crime and social problems
- The search for scoreboards
- The Howard impact.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-267).
- ISBN:
- 0-511-84953-2
- 1-316-08767-0
- 0-511-69215-3
- 1-282-63702-9
- 0-511-69029-0
- 0-511-69103-3
- 0-511-68955-1
- 9786612637025
- 0-511-68880-6
- 0-511-69166-1
- OCLC:
- 642661106
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