Geographical Research

Submit your manuscript to Geographical Research, Australia’s premier geographical journal. The journal publishes high-quality papers that advance geographical research across the breadth of the discipline. In addition to major research articles, the journal publishes shorter contributions, including commentaries, research notes and teaching notes.

"Embedded in our need to tackle changing climate are issues surrounding food security, shrinking resources and environmental degradation. All are issues linked by one inescapable fact. Australia's population is growing rapidly. To properly deal with these issues policy makers and the community have to discuss the population, where we congregate and how many Australians are prepared to change where they live..."
Continue reading article by Michael Mackenzie, host of ABC Radio’s Bush Telegraph.

Watch videos of the special issue on population

Phillip O'Neill: Introduction

Graeme Hugo: Geography and Population in Australia: A Historical Perspective

J.B. Kirkpatrick: The Political Ecology of Soil and Species Conservation in a ‘Big Australia’

Pauline McGuirk: Population Growth and Change: Implications for Australia's Cities and Regions

Ruth Fincher: Population Growth in Australia: Views and Policy Talk for Possible Futures

Bruce Thom and Fiona McKenzie: The Population Policy Debate from a Natural Resource Perspective: Reflections from the Wentworth Group

Celebrating 50 years

To mark the 50th anniversary of Geographical Research, a commemorative volume was published throughout 2012, with contributions by distinguished geographers from Australia and worldwide. You can read the results of this hallmark event in Australian geographical research publication online now.

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Read the top Geographical Research articles online:

The Challenge of Change: Australian Cities and Urban Planning in the New Millennium
Clive Forster

Population Growth and Change: Implications for Australia's Cities and Regions
Pauline McGuirk and Neil Argent

Going Bush: the Implications of Urban-Rural Migration
Lauren Costello

Geography and Population in Australia: A Historical Perspective
Graeme Hugo

The Economic Geography of Australia and its Analysis: From Industrial to Post-Industrial Regions
Andrew Beer

Geographical Research'svirtual issues are available online now:

'City Economy Stream' from the 2007 State of Australian Cities Conference, Adelaide

Physical Geography: Process and Change at Global, National and Local Scales