Ruth Fincher

RUTH FINCHER is Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Melbourne. In the early 1990s she was a Research Manager in the Bureau of Immigration Research, and has also worked at McGill and McMaster Universities in Canada. She recently co-edited Australian Poverty: Then and Now (1998) and Cities of Difference (1998). PETER SAUNDERS is the Director of the Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales. He has also worked as a consultant for the OECD, the IMF, the...See more

RUTH FINCHER is Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Melbourne. In the early 1990s she was a Research Manager in the Bureau of Immigration Research, and has also worked at McGill and McMaster Universities in Canada. She recently co-edited Australian Poverty: Then and Now (1998) and Cities of Difference (1998). PETER SAUNDERS is the Director of the Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales. He has also worked as a consultant for the OECD, the IMF, the International Social Security Association and the UN's Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). The contributors are John Buchanan, Dr Boyd Hunter, Peter Putnis, Peter Travers, Ian Watson, Peter Whiteford and Maryann Wulff. See less