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Australia is a highly urbanised country. Planning policy in most Australian cities is trying to divert development that would naturally have occurred on the urban fringe into inner established areas. A large part of the argument for this policy is that State and Local governments are challenged to provide appropriate standards of infrastructure and services in greenfield locations. This paper explores the extent of infrastructure provision issues and tries to identify the actual costs of provision in different situations. Three case studies in metropolitan Adelaide were chosen to explore the cost factors for developers and government. One case study is in the greenfield development within the Playford Alive project on the northern urban fringe; the second is within the renewal area of Playford Alive; and the third is the transit oriented development in Bowden, adjacent the Adelaide Park Lands. While some costs are able to be determined from a review of budget documents and annual reports of State and Local government agencies, the study has found it somewhat difficult to arrive at any firm conclusions about relative costs of infrastructure provision. The estimated costs for infrastructure for the infill development at Bowden are approximately one third that of both greenfield and renewal areas of the Playford Alive project. In established areas, the increased density of development implies a policy review of the capacity of existing infrastructure. In addition, there is concern about standards for streetscapes and transport infrastructure required to meet multiple objectives such as high quality urban design and active/healthy living. ; Cathryn Hamilton and Jon Kellett

Australia was the first United Nations member state to commit to the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund when it was established in 2006, and it has made annual contributions since then. Australia has also made significant contributions towards enhancing gender equality in peace and security governance, most recently during its 2013–14 term of office on the United Nations Security Council, recognising that gender matters in and to all aspects of peacebuilding activity. This article offers a discourse-theoretical policy analysis of a range of Australian Agency for International Development guidelines and strategies addressing gender and peacebuilding issues, and reads these against the international framework to explore the discursive construction of gender-sensitive peacebuilding in Australia. The authors argue that the representations of peacebuilding in the documents they analyse shape how Australia engages in peacebuilding-related activities and inform how Australia is positioned internationally as a peacebuilding actor.

THIS ARTICLE EXAMINES THE HISTORICAL POSITION TAKEN BY THE MAJOR CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS AS FAR BACK AS THE NEW DEAL. THE AUTHORS THE TWO OLDEST AND LARGEST, THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE (NAACP) AND THE NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE (NUL). THEY CONTEND THAT THESE CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS HAVE ALWAYS UNDERSTOOD THE EXISTENCE OF TWO AGENDAS: SOCIAL WELFARE AND CIVIL RIGHTS, AND THEY HAVE ATTEMPTED TO DEAL WITH BOTH. THE STRUGGLE TO ACHIEVE THE GOALS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS AGENDA IS WELL KNOWN. MUSH LESS IS KNOW WHAT THOSE GROUPS ATTEMPTED TO ACHIEVE REGARDING THE SOCIAL WELFARE AGENDA AND HOW THEY RESPONDED TO THE POLITICAL REALITIES FACING THEM OVER THE DECADES. INDEED, MANY OF THE ARGUMENTS MADE TODAY ABOUT SUBORDINATING THE RACE CONCERN TO THE LARGER SOCIETAL CONCERN WERE MADE DECADES AGO. MANY OF THE WARNINGS ABOUT POLITICAL BACKLASH MADE TODAY WERE MADE DECADES BEFORE. IN OTHER WORDS, HARSH POLITICAL REALITIES FACES IN THE 1990S ARE NOT NEW TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS, WHO HAVE ALWAYS HAD TO BALANCE LEGITIMATE CONCERNS FOR BOTH AGENDAS ON A DELICATE SCALE OF POLITICAL CALCULATION AND PRAGMATIC POLITICS. GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF THIS HISTORY OUGHT TO IMPROVE DISCUSSION OF THE POLITICS OF RACE AND SOCIAL WELFARE TODAY.

Of the two values of ancient objects, the connoisseur's first concern is with the object today, and the archaeologist's is with its past place and the knowledge it offers about the past. Central to both is provenance, which comprises the 'archaeology' of the item - its story until it went to rest in the ground - and its 'history' - its story once found and brought to human awareness again. Our response to looting of antiquities depends on how serious is the impact on knowledge, so we need a 'quantitative history' of collecting - how much there was to start with, how much has been dug up, how much we know about it, how much remains. Four quantitative histories are reported: on Cycladic figures, on items in recent celebrated classical collections, on antiquities sold at auction in recent decades, and on classical collecting at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. These pioneering studies are not yet enough to make a clear overall picture; our preliminary conclusion is a glum view of the damage caused by the illicit pursuit of antiquities.