David Nichols

A future of uncertainty: school, class, ethnicity, gender and power in Australian television’s ‘chalk-operas’ of the 1970s

D Nichols

Journal article  |  2023  |  History Australia

High school education underwent a radical change in Australia in the 1960s and 1970s, commensurate with the major changes experien..

Can Growth Be Planned? The Case of Melbourne's Urban Periphery

Nicholas A Phelps, David Nichols

Journal article  |  2022  |  JOURNAL OF PLANNING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

Growth may have a logic of its own that results in the unplanned appearance of development at the urban fringe. We summarize the c..

The Alert Grey Twinkling Eyes of C. J. DeGaris

David Nichols

Book  |  2022

'Where Will All the New Citizens Live?': The Satellite Development of Sunbury, Victoria, 1959-70

Victoria Kolankiewicz, David Nichols, Elizabeth Taylor

Journal article  |  2022  |  AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES

Melbourne, Victoria, experienced rapid population growth in the decade following World War II through both natural increase and po..

Long-Term Settlement Scenarios for Australia: A Survey and Evaluation of Community Opinions

J Bolleter, N Edwards, R Freestone, D Nichols, G Oliver, P Hooper

Journal article  |  2022  |  Urban Policy and Research

The projected long-term growth of Australia’s population to over 50 million people raises significant implications for infrastruct..

New Cities

Victoria Kolankiewicz, David Nichols, Robert Freestone

Reference Work  |  2022

Evaluating scenarios for twenty-first-century Australian settlement planning: a Delphi study with planning experts

J Bolleter, N Edwards, R Freestone, D Nichols, P Hooper

Journal article  |  2022  |  International Planning Studies

This paper presents findings from a national survey of Australian planning experts examining future settlement patterns and locati..

‘Gumnut-flavoured’ British comedies and the representation of race, sexuality and suburb in Love Thy Neighbour in Australia

D Nichols

Journal article  |  2022  |  Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

In the 1970s, Australians with non-Anglo-Celtic backgrounds were successfully arguing for acceptance of their cultural roots as pa..

Richmond and 18 Berry Street Revisited

James Lesh, David Nichols

Book Chapter  |  2020

Lesh and Nichols explore the history of Richmond, the inner-city suburb in which much of the action of Dogs in Space takes place, ..

Urban Australia and post-punk: Exploring dogs in space

D Nichols, S Perillo

Book  |  2020

Richard Lowenstein’s 1986 masterpiece Dogs in Space was and remains controversial, divisive, compelling and inspirational. Made le..