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Bob Birrell

Bob Birrell is Reader in Sociology and Director of the Centre for Population and Urban Research at Monash University. He is the joint editor of the quarterly demographic journal People and Place, published by the Centre. He was a member of the National Population Council between 1987 and 1993. He is currently a member of the Commonwealth Government’s advisory committee on international education. The Centre for Population Research has provided consultancy services on urban issues for local and state government authorities in Melbourne. This background has contributed to the Centre’s wide range of publications on urban issues. It also provides the foundation for the Centre’s current work on metropolitan planning in Melbourne.

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    Bob Birrell, Kevin OConnor, Virginia Rapson and Ernest Healy

Events

Book Launch: From Convict Printers to Book Arcade

Melbourne Athenaeum Library Level 1, 188 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Join us for the launch of From Convict Printers to Book Arcade A History of the Book in Australia, Volume I: 1788 to 1890 Edited by Wallace Kirsop, Elizabeth Webby...

See our authors at Adelaide Writers’ Week

Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden King William Street, Adelaide, South Australia

See Kim Carr, Gareth Evans, John Lyons and Richard Denniss at Adelaide Writers’ Week.

See our authors at the Manly Writers’ Festival

Darley Smith Building Corner of 1 Darley Road and The Corso, Manly, NSW

Join our authors Kim Carr, Lauren Samuelsson, Sarah Arachchi, Tracey Kirkland and Gavin Fang at the Manly Writers' Festival.