Collection: Tech Book

Describes the results of the seventh national survey on the use of tobacco by Australian secondary school students

Economic stress in the sense of economic depivation which results in financial hardship, regardless of whether its effects include emotional stess and also to describe social factors which impose hardship on families.

Report of project aimed to understand the socio-economic and spatial patterns of water use, including values, attitudes and behavious linked to consumption.

Brings together a waelth of health information. Describes the patterns of distribution of socioeconomic disadvantage and health status at a local level.

This is an extension and update of a set of indicators developed for the western Sydney Area Assistance Scheme (WSAAS) in 1991, to assist with that program's Regional Needs Consultations.

Contributed and review papers which provide the basis of the Third Australia Soil Conservation Conference discussion.

Describes the nature and properties of soils at Katoomba and surrounding areas. Provides soil and landscape resource information. Characteristics of soil are described in terms of composition and distribution in addition to traditional classification.