Family, Community and Disability
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Year: 2003
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Author: Matthew Tonts et al
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Publisher: Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation
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Published Location: Barton, ACT
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ISBN: 0642586926
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Country: Australia
This report examines the socio-economic impacts of changing farm business structures in five case study communities. It highlights the positive and negative impacts of changing farm business structures, and makes a number of recommendations about how to maximise the benefits and minimise the potential problems. One of the key conclusions of the r ....
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Year: 2004
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Author: National Rural Health Alliance Inc.
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Publisher: National Rural Health Alliance
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Country: Australia
This paper examines the issues involved with enabling people living in rural and remote Australia who are affected by disasters to recover and rebuild their lives and communities. Because the NRHA’s objective is to improve the health of rural and remote Australians it concentrates on the health aspects of disaster recovery.
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Year: 2002
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Author: Davies, Liz; Jukes, Janet; Hodges, Craig; Crosby, Jamie
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Publisher: Youth Affairs Council of Victoria
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Published Location: Parkville, Vic
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: Victoria
Young people in rural areas of Australia have worse health and welfare than their urban counterparts. This report provides an overview of the health and welfare issues facing young people in rural Victoria and the issues facing workers in delivering services to young people. Issues particular to regional, rural and remote youth inc ....
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Year: 2007
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Publisher: Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation
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Published Location: Barton, ACT
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ISBN: 1741514940
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Country: Australia
A national forum, convened by the Department of Primary Industries Victoria, was held at Rutherglen on 20-21 July 2005. The purpose of the forum was to capture new knowledge and explore engagement strategies and capacity-building opportunities for the small lifestyle farm sector. The papers from the forum included here are: Engagin ....
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Year: 2006
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Author: Graham, Melissa L; Ward, Bernadette; Munro, Geoffrey; Snow, Pamela; Ellis, Julie
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Journal Name: Rural and Remote Health
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Journal Number: Vol.6, No.1
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: Victoria
This article explores the attitudes, beliefs, and concerns of rural parents about teenage alcohol drinking. Focus groups were conducted with 26 parents in north and north-western rural Victoria, which discussed drunkenness and drinking patterns, age of initiation into drinking in the home, where and when alcohol is consumed, and th ....
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Year: 2010
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Author: Khalil, Hanan; Leversha, Anne
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Journal Name: Australian Pharmacist
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Journal Number: Vol. 29, No. 3
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: Victoria
Aims: To explore the challenges, including recruitment and retention issues, facing rural community and hospital pharmacists in the Gippsland region of rural Victoria. Results: Family ties, career/business opportunities and flexible working hours were significant issues for both recruitment and retention for all of the participants ....
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Year: 2001
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Author: Swanson, Louis E
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Journal Name: Rural Sociology
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Journal Number: Vol.66, No.1
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Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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Published Location: Columbia, United Kingdom
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Country: United States, Mexico
During the closing decades of the twentieth century, the federal government has experienced a period of delegitimation and fiscal crisis that has led to decentralization of some federal programs and a fledgling revival of community- and place-based policies. Historic and recent records of locality-based policies suggest that they are not pan ....
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Year: 2003
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Author: Munn, Peter; Munn, Tricia
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Journal Name: Rural Society
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Journal Number: Vol. 13, No. 1
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Country: Australia
This paper discusses issues relating to the practice of front-line practitioners in rural social work. It identifies issues such as centralised decision-making, living and working in the community, establishing an identity and competitive tendering. It briefly addresses these well-known issues and discusses some potential approache ....
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Year: 2013
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Author: Rural Support Program
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Publisher: NSW Department of Primary Industries
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ISBN: 978 1 74256 515 6
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: New South Wales
Our vision is to have resilient rural communities
across NSW, driving social and economic change.
With this goal in mind, over the past year,
we have worked with our partner organisations
on a variety of programs. Together we have
delivered services to build community capacity,
assisted communities to prepare for and manage
advers ....
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Year: 2007
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Author: Sergeant, Peter
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Journal Name: 9th National Rural Health Conference
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Publisher: National Rural Health Alliance
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Published Location: Deakin West, ACT
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Country: Australia
The focus of this paper is on issues facing men, particularly men in regional areas where the incidence of isolation, loneliness and depression are especially acute. Some relevant literature is reviewed. The potential role of 'men's sheds' in helping to overcome these problems is discussed, along with comments on the overall contri ....
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Year: 2006
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Author: Godwin, Michelle; Pritchard, Bill
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Journal Name: Rural Society
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Journal Number: Vol. 16, No. 3
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: Tasmania
This paper critically evaluates the related concepts of the 'deserving community' and 'self-help' forms of governance that have underpinned the economic development initiatives of the Dorset local government area, North East Tasmania. Following the announced closure of a major food processing factory, this region implemented a regi ....
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Year: 2009
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Author: Australian Institute of Family Studies.; Australia. Parliament. Senate. Select Committee on Regional and Remote Indigenous Communities
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Publisher: Australian Institute of Family Studies
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Published Location: Melbourne, Vic
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Country: Australia
In this submission to the Senate Select Committee on Regional and Remote Indigenous Communities, the Institute focuses on the Committee's third Term of Reference: the health, welfare, education and security of children in regional and remote Indigenous communities. The submission discusses: 1) the evaluation of Indigenous community ....
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Year: 2012
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Author: Cockfield, Geoff; Botterill, Linda Courtenay
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Journal Name: Australian Journal of Political Science
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Journal Number: 47.4
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
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Published Location: United Kingdom
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ISBN: 10361146
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Country: Australia
Some political scientists have argued that 'countrymindedness', a set of tenets about the importance of agriculture and rural life, is of decreasing political and social importance. There has been little empirical research to test this, so the authors conducted an exploratory survey of attitudes to rural industries and people. The results reveal ....
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Year: 2000
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Author: Bell, R; Kilpatrick, S
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Publisher: Centre for Research and Learning in Regional Australia, University of Tasmania
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Published Location: Launceston, Tas
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: Tasmania
This paper explores through empirical research, what contributions small business people make to the community of Scottsdale (a small country town in north eastern Tasmania), over and above their economic contribution within the sphere of normal business activity. It is the notion of networks and productive interactions between peo ....
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Year: 2007
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Author: Carole Hollier, Michael Reid
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Publisher: Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation
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Published Location: Barton, ACT
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ISBN: 1741515823
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Country: Australia
Australia's farming history has seen a shift from a countryside once scattered primarily with traditional family farms, to a diverse landscape where large farms operate next door to rural residential properties and small farms. This project aims to increase national understanding of the contribution that small farms make to rural communities. The ....
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