IS THE CONCEPT OF THE HOME MAINTENANCE AREA OUTMODED?
The home maintenance area or living area has played an important part in closer settlement programmes in Australia during the last fifty years. It has been applied in Australian land policy in a number of ways:- (i) as a maximum in restricting transfers of land to prevent aggregation into large holdings; ( ii) as a minimum in determining the size of farms to be allotted in closer settlement programmes; (iii) as a measure in determining the area for retention by an original holder, when land is resumed or surrendered for closer settlement.
Facing the imminent pressure of opening the domestic construction ::: market to foreign contractors, every domestic construction company ::: should reinforce the technological and managerial competitiveness ::: which is relatively weak in comparison with that of foreign ::: contractors. ::: The purpose of this study is to suggest several measures which ::: aim to enhance the competitiveness of domestic medium and low ::: level construction companies. ::: Several measures suggested in this study are based on the ::: improvement of company's inherent constitutional and relevant ::: problems.