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Culture and Heritage

'Heritage and Regional Development: An Indigenous Perspective'

  • Year: 2007
  • Author: Collins, Robbie; McMahon-Coleman, Kimberley
  • Journal Name: Sustaining Regions
  • Journal Number: Vol. 6, No. 1
  • Country: Australia

Heritage is important to regional development in terms of promoting a sense of place and a sense of identity for those in the region. Heritage is often expressed through culture and the arts as a means of manifesting a community's sense of what the community or region is about. For Indigenous communities this is particularly releva ....

A Place for the Arts in Rural Revitalisation and the Social Wellbeing of Australian Rural Communities

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: McHenry, Julia Anwar
  • Journal Name: Rural Society
  • Journal Number: Vol. 19, No. 1
  • Country: Australia

Despite the significance of rural Australia to national identity, many commentators claim that rural Australia is in crisis and suffering from decline as a consequence of economic restructuring and policy reform (Gray and Lawrence, 2001; Sonn, Drew, and Kasat, 2002; Baum, O'Connor, and Stimson, 2005; Tonts and Atherley, 2005). As a ....

Alcohol Consumption, Obesity, and Psychological Distress in Farming Communities-An Australian Study

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Brumby, Susan; Kennedy, Alison; Chandrasekara, Ananda
  • Journal Name: Journal of Rural Health
  • Journal Number: 29.3
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
  • Published Location: United States
  • ISBN: 0890-765X
  • Country: Australia

Alcohol consumption patterns nationally and internationally have been identified as elevated in rural and remote populations. In the general Australian population, 20.5% of adult males and 16.9% of adult females drink at short-term, high-risk levels. Farmers are more likely to drink excessively than those living in major cities.   This stu ....

Anthropological Theory and Government Policy in Australia's Northern Territory: The Hegemony of the "Mainstream"

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Morphy, Frances; Morphy, Howard
  • Journal Name: American Anthropologist
  • Journal Number: 115.2
  • Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
  • ISBN: 00027294
  • Country: Australia

In this article, we set up a dialogue between two theoretical frameworks for understanding the developing relationships between indigenous Australians and the encapsulating Australian society. We argue that the concept of "the intercultural" de-emphasizes the agency of Aboriginal people and the durability of their social relations and value orien ....

Asian migrants' lived experience and acculturation to Western health care in rural Tasmania

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Terry, Daniel; Ali, Mohammed; Le, Quynh
  • Journal Name: Australian Journal of Rural Health
  • Journal Number: Vol. 19, No. 6
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Tasmania

Objectives: The study was designed to explore the lived experience of Asian migrants' health care-seeking behaviour in Tasmania, to discern the acculturation process by which Asian migrants are enabled to use the health system and to identify strategies, which assist migrants to understand and use the health system better. Methods:&nb ....

Audit of the Indigenous Heritage Program

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Australian National Audit Office
  • Publisher: Australian National Audit Office
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 0642811121
  • Country: Australia

The Office of Evaluation and Audit (Indigenous Programs) (OEA) conducted a performance audit of the Indigenous Heritage Program (IHP) to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts' (DEWHA's) management of the IHP and to determine whether the IHP is meeting its objectives of identifyi ....

Australian Heritage Database

  • Year: Current
  • Author: Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
  • Country: Australia

Information on natural, historic and indigenous heritage places. This resource provides a wealth of publications on regional issues, including specific reports relating to heritage in Regional Australia. As a collection, these publications provide valuable information on significant regional heritage locations. Report Locationhttp://www.env ....

Australian Heritage Database

  • Year: Various
  • Author: Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
  • Published Location: http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: All

Information on natural, historic and indigenous heritage places ....

Between Conservation and Development: Concretizing the First World Natural Heritage Site in the Alps Through Participatory Processes

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Wiesmann, Urs; Liechti, Karina; Rist, Stephan
  • Journal Name: Mountain Research and Development
  • Journal Number: Vol.25, No.2
  • Publisher: Centre for Development and Environment Institute of Geography, University of Bern
  • Published Location: Boulder, Switzerland
  • Country: Switzerland

This article presents an empirical interdisciplinary study of an extensive participatory process that was carried out in 2004 in the recently established World Natural Heritage Site "Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn" in the Swiss Alps. The study used qualitative and quantitative empirical methods of social science to address the question of success f ....

Beyond Education and Employment: Exploring Youth Experiences of Their Communities, Place Attachment and Reasons for Migration

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Eacott, Chelsea; Sonn, Christopher C
  • Journal Name: Rural Society
  • Journal Number: Vol. 16, No. 2
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Victoria

The population in rural areas of Australia has been declining for many decades and it has become common practice to blame this decline on the migration of young people due to structural limitations (e.g. education and employment). This study explores factors associated with migration of youth from rural Victoria looking at their ex ....

Breaking My Country's Heart

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Charmaine Green
  • Journal Name: Artlink
  • Journal Number: Vol. 33 No. 3
  • Publisher: Artlink Australia
  • Published Location: Semaphore
  • ISBN: 0727-1239
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Western Australia

Yamaji writer and painter Charmaine Green explores the impact of mining on the Aboriginal arts industry in a Western Australia rural coastal community with particular emphasis on tensions created from a mining-initiated Aboriginal art exhibition held in Perth called Good Heart. Report Locationhttp://www.artlink.com.au/articles/4038/breaking-my- ....

Broadband policy and rural and cultural divides in Australia

  • Year: 2016
  • Author: Scott Ewing, Ellie Rennie and Julian Thomas
  • Publisher: CRC Press
  • Country: Australia

The example of Australian broadband policy touches on a central concern of digital divide debates, namely the relationship between socio-economic factors and internet adoption, which scholars and experts have long argued determine the digital divide, leading them to conclude that infrastructure provision will not, on its own, solve the problems c ....

Communication and cultural knowledge in Aboriginal health care: a review of two subprograms of the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal and Tropical Health's Indigenous Health and Education Research program

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Lowell, A
  • Publisher: Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal and Tropical Health
  • Published Location: Casuarina, NT
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Northern Territory

The information and the three papers presented in this publication report on the review of the two subprograms Health Priorities and Communication of Health Information, and Cross-Cultural Education for Non-Aboriginal People conducted by the author during the first half of 1998. The papers are: Communication in Aboriginal health ca ....

Cooperation and tolerance: restoring our economic system

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Kingma, O; Falk, I
  • Publisher: Centre for Research and Learning in Regional Australia, University of Tasmania
  • Published Location: Launceston, Tas
  • Country: Australia

This paper argues that present institutional settings in rural Australia are inadequate for the task of bringing about a culture which is fair and inclusive. The solution is seen to lie in policies for rural Australia that support an infusion of new values into our institutions - values associated with the development of bridging t ....

Crafting Regional Cultural Production: emergence, crisis and consolidation in the Gold Coast surfboard industry

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Warren, Andrew; Gibson, Chris
  • Journal Name: Australian Geographer
  • Journal Number: 44.4
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Published Location: United Kingdom
  • ISBN: 00049182
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland

Surfboard-making is concentrated in regions with vibrant surfing subcultures, suitable waves and sufficient expertise in crafting boards, by hand, to suit prevailing coastal conditions. This article charts the rise of the Gold Coast as Australia's most concentrated cluster of surfboard-making, from its origins as do-it-yourself craft in backyards ....

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