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Dr Gordon Carmichael   BA (Auck), MA (Auck), PhD (ANU) Current Position: Fellow Contact Details: (Building 62, ANU map) National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health The Australian National University Canberra, ACT, 0200 Australia T: +61 2 6125 2309 F: +61 2 6125 0740 E: Gordon.Carmichael@anu.edu.au

Research Interests

• family formation decision-making in Australia
• sexual and reproductive health
• health inequalities
• family formation and dissolution
• nonmarital and adolescent sexual behaviour, fertility and fertility control
• Australian mortality trends, patterns and differentials
• Indigenous demography.

Selected Recent Publications

Carmichael G, McDonald P. Fertility Trends and Differentials. In Khoo, Siew-Ean & McDonald, Peter (eds) The transformation of Australia’s population: 1970-2030. University of New South Wales Press, Sydney 2003; pp 40-76.

Carmichael G. New Zealanders. In: J Jupp (ed), The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, Its People and their Origins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp 602-608.

Carmichael G, Mason C. Part 1: 15 (2), 1998, 131-154; Part 2: 16 (1), 1999, forthcoming. 'Consensual Partnering in Australia: A Review and 1991 Census Profile', Journal of the Australian Population Association.

Carmichael G. Things Ain't What They Used to Be! Demography, Mental Cohorts, Morality and Values in Post-war Australia, Journal of the Australian Population Association, 1998; 15 (2), 91-113 (Presidential Address to the Australian Population Association).

Carmichael G, Webster A, McDonald P. Divorce Australian Style: A Demographic Analysis, Journal of Divorce and Remarriage 1997, 26 (3-4), 3-37.

Carmichael G. From Floating Brothels to Suburban Semi-respectability: Two Centuries of Nonmarital Pregnancy in Australia, Journal of Family History,1996; 21(3), 281-315.

Carmichael G. Consensual Partnering in the More Developed Countries. Journal of the Australian Population Association, 1995; 12(1), 51-86.

Carmichael G. Trans-Tasman Migration: Trends, Causes and Consequences, Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service for the Bureau of Immigration Research, 1993. 435 pp.