Glossary
[Monetary references throughout are in US dollars]
Aboriginal First native peoples of New World nations generally; and
specifically of Australia.
Aboriginal autonomy Formal recognition of the special standing of ‘first native
peoples’ in New World Nations; legally recognizing their
resource attachments, their policy basis for resource
development, and their structure of representation within
State Administrations.
affordable housing Being ‘housing that can be afforded by households with
incomes of 80 percent or less of metropolitan area median
income, paying [financed from] no more than 30 percent
of the gross [household] income for housing’ (Connerly
and Muller 1993).
Agenda 21 Outcomes for the twenty-first century from the 1992
United Nations Conference on Environment and
Development, at Rio de Janeiro. (See also Local Agenda
21s.)
agricultural unit An economically viable unit of agricultural production –
capable of providing an income from farm production
sufficient to meet all business out-goings andsustain a
family living on the site, without recourse to supplemen-
tary incomes.
AMCORD Australian Model Code for Residential Development.
APEC A negotiating protocol for institutionalizing (1997) an
Asia Pacific Cooperation Forum
Australasian Pertaining to Australia andNew Zealand. Also antipodean.