Household Characteristics
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Year: 2004
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Author: Kilpatrick, Sue; Loechel, Barton
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Journal Name: Rural Society
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Journal Number: Vol.14, No.1
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: Tasmania
This paper reports some of the main lessons learnt from a collaborative project titled Generating jobs in regional Tasmania: a social capital approach investigating how two small rural Tasmanian communities could better match local training needs with training provision. The project was conducted within the context of the wider soc ....
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Year: 2008
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Author: BITRE
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: Tasmania
This study provides an analytical investigation of the challenges facing regional Australia. BITRE's study takes a multifaceted and holistic approach. The underlying principle is that economies do not work in isolation and a complex mix of interacting drivers affects a region's economic performance. Tasmania's economic performance has experienced ....
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Year: 2004
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Author: Jobes, Patrick C; Barclay, Elaine; Weinand, Herb; Donnermeyer, Joseph F
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Journal Name: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, The
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Journal Number: Vol. 37, No. 1
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: New South Wales
This paper extends research on rural crime beyond North America by analysing associations between census measures of community structures and officially reported crime in rural New South Wales (Australia). It employs social disorganisation theory to examine variations in crime rates between different kinds of rural communities. A t ....
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Year: 2003
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Author: Taylor, John
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Publisher: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University
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Published Location: Canberra, ACT
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ISBN: 0731551087
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: Western Australia
The Northern East Kimberley region of Western Australia is facing a development crossroads with the need to make a decision on either the extension or closure of Argyle Diamond Mine. This region also has a major economic development problem in that half of its adult population is almost entirely Aboriginal, is highly dependent on w ....
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Year: 1991
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Author: RUSSELL DRYSDALE
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Journal Name: Australian Geographical Studies
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Journal Number: 29.2
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Publisher: Wiley
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: New South Wales
To better understand migration by the aged to non-metropolitan destinations this article compares both the household characteristics and the migration behaviour of aged inland movers with aged coastal movers. Inland movers are significantly different to coastal movers in socioeconomic and demographic respects, such as age, mobility, the location ....
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Year: 2014
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Author: Jung Hoon Han & Jonathan Corcoran
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Journal Name: Australian Planner
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Journal Number: 51.1
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
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Published Location: United Kingdom
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ISBN: 0729-3682
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: Queensland
This paper investigates a decade of changes in the location patterns of older people in the ‘sunbelt’ region of South East Queensland (SEQ). Despite the accentuation of public policies to better cater for older people in an ageing Australia, little attention has been directed towards exploration of the changing spatial distributions of older ....
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Year: 2005
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Author: Baum, Scott; Stimson, Robert
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Journal Name: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, The
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Journal Number: Vol. 11, No. 3
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Country: Australia
Australia's large regional cities and towns display wide variation in how they are adjusting to the socioeconomic transitions that have occurred over the past decade. In terms of socio-economic advantage and disadvantage these changes, which are often associated with globalization, wider economic and technological restructuring, ch ....
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Year: 2005
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Author: Social and Institutional Research Program (SIRP), Canberra
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Publisher: Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation
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Published Location: Canberra, ACT
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Country: Australia
This policy sheet provides a brief overview of demographic research on farmers in Australia's agricultural sectors that can be used to inform natural resource management (NRM) policy. The research outcome provides detailed statistical information on age, income and occupation trends in the rural sector, and dominant land use practi ....
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Year: 2008
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Author: Graeme Hugo
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Journal Name: Journal of International Migration and Integration
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Journal Number: 9.2
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Publisher: Springer
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ISBN: 1488-3473
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: South Australia
In post-demographic transition societies, the impacts of low fertility and aging are most strongly felt in peripheral areas where they are exacerbated by youth outmigration. International migration is increasingly seen to have the potential to offset these demographic constraints on economic development. In Australia, immigration policy has been ....
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Year: Various
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Author: World Criminal Justice Library Network
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: All
A variety of statistics on crime in Australia, including for each state.
This resource provides a library of crime statistics in Australia, including specific reports relating to state specific statistics, social trends as well as a statistical profile of crime in Australia. As a collection, these publications provide valuable information on s ....
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Year: 2008
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Author: McNamara, Justine; Harding, Ann; Daly, Anne; Tanton,
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Publisher: Australian Institute of Family Studies
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Published Location: Melbourne, Vic
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Country: Australia
The development of regional measures of child social exclusion for Australia are underpinned by increasing research and policy interest in indicators of child wellbeing, multidimensional measures of poverty, and spatial differences in disadvantage. The National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling at the University of Canberra ....
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Year: 2010
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Author: Franklin, Janice
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Journal Name: Education in Rural Australia
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Journal Number: Vol. 20, No. 2
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Country: Australia
Research about rural education, and education policy directions for rural schools, are set against formal measures of 'disadvantage'. These measures about rural 'disadvantage' have been defined, evaluated and compared to more 'advantaged' provincial and urban schools. Rarely has educational research or policy been 'inverted' to be ....
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Year: 2013
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Author: Paul, Christine L; Piterman, Leon; Shaw, Jonathan; Kirby, Catherine; Sanson-Fisher, Robert W; Carey, Mariko L; Robinson, Jennifer; McElduff, Patrick; Thepwongsa, Isaraporn
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Journal Name: Implementation Science
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Journal Number: 8
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Publisher: BioMed Central
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Published Location: London, United Kingdom
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ISBN: 1748-5908
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Country: Australia
Background: Type 2 diabetes is one of the fastest growing chronic diseases internationally. The health complications associated with type 2 diabetes can be prevented, delayed, or improved via early diagnosis and effective management. This research aims to examine the impact of a primarily web-based educational intervention on the diabetes care pr ....
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Author: David de Vaus
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Publisher: Australian Institute of Family Studies
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ISBN: 0 642 395115 2
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Country: Australia
The book provides snapshot and trend information on families over the last 30 or so years. It has three main focus areas - the diversity of family types, the changes and transitions a family may experience, and issues affecting families.
Report LocationClick here to view the full publication ....
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Year: 2000
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Author: Sherwood, Patricia; Holroyd, Carl
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Journal Name: Social Alternatives
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Journal Number: Vol.19, No.4
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: Western Australia
The article focuses on an ethnographic study on the rural town of Nannup in Western Australia. The three broad phases of interaction and development of the rural town were discussed such as the confrontation of differences during 1970s, mutual beneficial encounters in the 1980s and synergistic encounters in the 1990s. The alternative lifestylers ....
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