ABSTRACT
This chapter explains generally about the family, mobility, careers, education and the social fabric in these more mobile times. By concentrating on the larger biographical event of domestic relocations, it becomes evident that such mobility events do not feature as a constant potential in people's reflexivity, but rather as an intermittent potential that stutters and starts over family phases. The concept of viscosity will also help organisations and policies concerned with managing mobility to better assess and operationally tweak the institutional conditions they have at their disposal. The new mobility paradigm invites more consideration of the role mobility plays in career trajectories, while the consideration of families invites more exploration of how different occupations move on to get ahead, on whose terms and at what cost within the family unit. The chapter explores the tangle of dimensions around these family mobility issues in the unique geographic conditions of Australia, with its isolated communities and sparse population.
