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Constructive compassion

  • Year: 2000
  • Author: Abbott, T
  • Publisher: H.R. Nicholls Society Conference
  • Country: Australia

A profile of rural Australia is provided in this paper which makes comparisons between urban and rural living in terms of average incomes, access to services and unemployment problems. The federal government's Job Network and Work for the Dole policies are discussed along with the Regional Assistance Program, arguing that they have ....

Coping with a crisis: human services in times of drought

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: Alston, Margaret; Kent, Jenny
  • Journal Name: Rural Society
  • Journal Number: Vol.14, No.3
  • Country: Australia

This paper draws on original research conducted in 2003 with drought affected people and communities in inland NSW The paper outlines the scale of the drought, its social impacts and the resultant need for services. Income support mechanisms aimed at drought affected people and communities such as the Exceptional Services scheme ha ....

Country towns: impact of farmers' expenditure on employment and population in Australian towns

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Levantis, C
  • Journal Name: Sustaining Regions
  • Journal Number: Vol.1, No.1
  • Country: Australia

Information on the expenditure patterns of farmers was collected as part of the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics' 1999 Australian agricultural and grazing industries survey. Farmers were asked to estimate the proportion of their expenditure on certain farm and household goods and services that was spent in t ....

DEVELOPMENT IN THE 'FIRST WORLD': Alleviating Indigenous Disadvantage in Australia - the Dilemma of Difference

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Mazel, Odette
  • Journal Name: Griffith Law Review
  • Journal Number: Vol.18, No.2
  • Country: Australia

The levels of Indigenous disadvantage in Australia are startling compared with those of the rest of the nation. Despite various government initiatives and legal reforms, systemic poverty remains prevalent in Aboriginal communities. In the Northern Territory, this has culminated in the Emergency Intervention initiated by the Howard gover ....

Does climatic crisis in Australia's food bowl create a basis for change in agricultural gender relations?

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Alston, Margaret; Whittenbury, Kerri
  • Journal Name: Agriculture and Human Values
  • Journal Number: 30.1
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • Published Location: Netherlands
  • ISBN: 0889048X
  • Country: Australia

An ongoing crisis in Australian agriculture resulting from climate crises including drought, decreasing irrigation water, more recent catastrophic flooding, and an uncertain policy environment is reshaping gender relations in the intimate sphere of the farm family. Drawing on research conducted in the Murray-Darling Basin area of Australia we ask ....

Enriching lives: a response to 'Inquiry into poverty in Australia': Senate Community Affairs References Committee consultation paper

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: Mission Australia. Research and Social Policy Unit
  • Publisher: Mission Australia
  • Published Location: Sydney, NSW
  • Country: Australia

This submission by Mission Australia to the Senate Inquiry into Poverty emphasises the multidimensional nature of poverty. Issues covered in the submission include identifying groups suffering poverty and inequality, regional and community poverty, the working poor, the effectiveness of income support and new international developm ....

Exploring regional crime and socio-economic linkages

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Addison, L
  • Journal Name: New Crimes or New Responses: 4th National Outlook Symposium on Crime in Australia
  • Publisher: Australian Institute of Criminology
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • Country: Australia

Aiming to encourage greater exploration and research into the socioeconomic factors and their linkages to regional crime, this paper addresses the lack of research which looks at licit and illicit drugs and these linkages, arguing that these gaps in knowledge are restricting evidence based policy development and the clear identific ....

Exploring the rural paradox: A spatial investigation of rurality and mortality

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: Yang, Tse-Chuan
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University
  • Published Location: United States -- Pennsylvania
  • ISBN: 9781124324609
  • Country: United States

While life expectancy in the U.S. has lengthened over the 20th century, demographic sub-populations have not shared this improvement equally. Health disparities exist along several social dimensions such as gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Among them, somewhat less attention has been paid to geographic health disparitie ....

Financial Disadvantage in Australia - 1999

  • Year: 2000
  • Author: Harding, Ann; Szukalska, Agnieszka
  • Publisher: The Smith Family
  • Published Location: Camperdown NSW
  • ISBN: 1876833025
  • Country: Australia

This is the first edition of an annual, comprehensive report on financial disadvantage among Australia's children and adults. The key goal of this annual report is to provide authoritative and up-to-date estimates of financial disadvantage (or 'poverty') in Australia. Section 2 of this report looks at what types of families are in ....

Focus on Regions No. 4: Social Capital

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Leanne Johnson; Ibi Losoncz; Christopher Williams; Jacqui Childs; Judith Winternitz
  • Journal Name: Information Paper
  • Journal Number: 55
  • Publisher: Bureau of Transport and Regional Economics (BTRE)
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 1877081949
  • Country: Australia

Social capital theory proposes that social networks and norms have a role to play in influencing a community's development. This paper presents and analyses statistical information relating to social capital in Australia and its regions, using a set of 33 social capital indicators for 2001–02. It also explores the relationship between social ca ....

Fostering a newly defined entrepreneurship in impoverished communities: A key component of the solution for eradicating poverty in America

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: Sinha, Sachidanand
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: University of Southern California
  • Published Location: United States -- California
  • ISBN: 9780549610168
  • Country: United States

This study takes a fresh look at why high levels of poverty persist in certain American neighborhoods despite billions of dollars having been invested over decades by the government. To overcome this problem, the author proposes a New Entrepreneurial Initiative (NEI) as a policy solution. The thesis of the NEI is that to eradicate persi ....

Household Wealth

  • Year: Various
  • Author: Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: All
  • Scope: Divided by: State: All
    Region: Yes
    Industry: No
  • Regularity: One-Off
  • Nature of Data (Primary/Secondary): Primary

This information paper presents and explores new statistical information relating to household wealth at a small area scale. The paper also explores the relationship between wealth and income for Australia's cities and regions. Report Locationhttp://www.bitre.gov.au/publications/2009/ip_063.aspx ....

Housing unaffordability at the statistical local area level: new estimates using spatial microsimulation

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: Taylor, Elizabeth; Harding, Ann; Lloyd, Rachel; Blake, Marcus
  • Journal Name: 2004 ANZRSAI Conference
  • Publisher: National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • Country: Australia

NATSEM is part of the way through a three-year Australian Research Council Linkage project on 'Regional dimensions: new models for analysis of the spatial effects of policy, socio-demographic and economic changes'. This 'regional linkages' project aims to develop and apply spatial microsimulation techniques to generate detailed syn ....

How Australia is faring 2nd Edition

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Australian Social Inclusion Board
  • Publisher: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 9781921739880
  • Country: Australia

This report highlights Australia's progress against social inclusion indicators. We're a thriving, prosperous nation with high rates of employment, good health and high educational attainment, but there are people who miss out on the resources and opportunities to fulfil their potential. Around 5% (or 640,000) of working age Australians continue ....

Immigrant and Minority Entrepreneurship in Federal Community Development Programs

  • Year: 2010
  • Author: Smith, Richard John
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: University of California, Berkeley
  • Published Location: United States -- California
  • ISBN: 9781124554693
  • Country: United States

This study is about the role of immigrants and minority businesses in a recent community development initiative administered by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The Federal Renewal Community, Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community (RC/EZ/EC) programs spanned the Clinton and Bush administrations and promised t ....

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