Journal Name: Paper presented at Symposium Renaissance of The Regions
Publisher: Institute of Public Administration
Published Location: Melbourne, Vic
Country: Australia
Issues raised by the Productivity Commission's national public inquiry into the impact of Competition Policy Reforms on Rural and Regional Australia are addressed in this paper which discusses: demographic trends and population movement in rural and coastal areas of Australia; globalisation and The World Trade Organisation; nationa ....
Author: D. A. Plane, C. J. Henrie, and M. J. Perry
Editors: Susan Hanson
Journal Name: PNAS
Journal Number: 102.43
Publisher: PNAS
Country: United States
In this article, we begin by reviewing the concept of step migration that originated in E. G. Ravenstein's seminal papers “The Laws of Migration” (1885, 1889). As a result of the forces of the Industrial Revolution underway in 19th century Great Britain, migrants moved from farms to villages, from villages to towns, from towns to county seats ....
This report explore the interactions between local labour demand and short-term and long-term mobility or, more correctly, migration. Given that the definition of drought is contested, sensitivity analysis was conducted using independent regional data. Census data for Statistical Local Areas (SLAs) throughout Australia were used to capture mobili ....
In the past decade Australian immigration policy has emphasised settlement of refugees/humanitarian entrants in rural and regional locations, in preference to metropolitan areas. The settlement outcomes of a case study of African humanitarian entrants of South Sudanese background in Murray Bridge, a regional centre in South Australia, are examine ....
Publisher: Australian Council for Educational Research
Published Location: Camberwell, Vic
ISBN: 9780864315021
Country: Australia
Rural communities are affected by the rate of urban migration of their young people once they leave school. This study draws on data from the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) to map the experiences of a group of Year 11 students not living in any of the major Australian metropolitan areas in 1997. It examines the pat ....
This paper explores aged migration in Western Australia between 1991 and 1996, focusing on net movement outcomes. Migration is considered in three age cohorts: ‘pre‐retirees’ aged 55 to 64; the ‘young old’ aged 65 to 74; and the ‘old old’ aged 75 and over. Senior Western Australians aged between 55 and 74 are, in significant net ter ....
Includes data over varies years on population, family and community, health, education, work, economic resources, housing, crime and justice, transport, economic activity.
Report Locationhttp://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/1368.1Main+Features12007?OpenDocument ....
Author: Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE)
Publisher: Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics
Published Location: Canberra
ISBN: 978-1-921260-36-0
Country: Australia
The Northern Australia Statistical Compendium was prepared by BITRE with the assistance of the Office of Northern Australia, with the aim of compiling a base of factual information that would contribute to improved understanding of the economic and social developments in this region. The compendium discusses essential characteristics of Northern ....
This report is the draft final report for the Northern Inland Region of NSW regional freight study. It includes a strategic overview of the freight drivers in the region, the road freight network, the list of high priority freight projects in the region, a $40million priority
investment program and a freight strategy.   ....
The Northern Rivers Regional Plan 2013-2016 is the culmination of months of research, data analysis and stakeholder consultation. The plan is a clearly articulated strategy for future development. Issues such as transport and affordable housing have been brought forward from previous plans (see below) as they are still priorities for our region. ....
Indicators report for regional New South Wales. Analyses regional employment conditions, industry employment and population growth.
Report Locationhttp://www.business.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/29346/nsw_tandi_regional_indicators_201304.pdf ....
Author: Monica Brezzi, Lewis Dijkstra, Vicente Ruiz
Publisher: OECD
The extended typology is used to compare the dynamics of population and labour markets. Remote rural regions show a stronger decline in population and a faster ageing process than rural regions close to a city. The remoteness of rural regions is in fact a significant factor explaining regional outflows of working age population, confirming that t ....
Publisher: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Published Location: Canberra, ACT
ISBN: 1740242076
Country: Australia
Significant changes to all aspects of social and economic life are expected to occur as a result of the increasing proportion of older people in the community. This report, a joint venture of the Australian Institute of Health and the Commonwealth Government's Ageing and Aged Care Division, presents current demographic data about a ....
Author: Stafford Smith M (CSIRO Centre for Arid Zone Research, Alice Springs); Walker D (CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Aitkenvale); Maru Y (CSIRO Centre for Arid Zone Research, Alice Springs); Stoeckl N (CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Aitkenvale); Herr A (CSIRO Su
Publisher: Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Savannas Management
Published Location: Darwin
ISBN: 0958101477
Country: Australia
State/Region: Northern Australia
A scoping study of the regional dynamics of northern Australia explored the justifications for investigating savanna regions as dynamic systems and considered the characteristics of savanna regions that make them behaviourally different from more densely settled regions. The implications of those differences for methods of explorin ....