Neither chemical engineering nor industrial chemistry have much surface chemistry or nanotech in their core courses, but in 4th year you can take professional electives which would more closely relate to your interests, and you have a wide variety of thesis topics in 4th year as well.
Chemical...
Good luck with organic chemistry, if you're not into rote learning. I think chem eng would have as much physics as nanotechnology, or at least as little chemistry. Possibly industrial chemistry?
I've heard that if you have a travel pass you should dip because it's recorded and it means that more buses will come in the future in the morning... only takes 1 sec, not like it's inconvenient at all...
I would say Parramatta; as there is a high student population density, decent public transport etc.
btw... are there any positions available for tutors???
You would need to go through UAC (if you want to transfer to Comm), if you just want to drop one part of the combined degree (engineering) then I think internal is ok.
$1 of government spending is $1 of expenditure whereas a $1 tax cut will lead to $1*(amount spent), so it will be less expenditure regardless of what the multiplier is...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_propensity_to_consume
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_propensity_to_consume
The tax will be borne by either the consumer or the producer, if the consumer is not willing to pay more than a set price before the tax, and then the same price after the tax, then obviously the producer is bearing the cost. If demand is horizontal then as the supply line changes the amount...