In light of alarming rises in the prevalence of obesity worldwide, tackling the obesity ?epidemic? is now a national health priority in many countries. Increasingly, population measures that provide accurate estimates of body fatness are required to assist public health organisations in...

BHP Billiton is the world's largest resources company, although it is a relatively new global corporation having been assembled from the merger of BHP Ltd, a large Australian mining and steel manufacturing company, and Billiton PIc, a UK-listed company with extensive mining histories in southern...

This paper is an account of institutional and spatial shifts in the Sydney basin economy that coalesce around Australia's current, long period of prosperity. The paper briefly sources this prosperity, noting the key shifts towards the financial and professional services sectors that accompany...