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2001

Fly-in/Fly-out and Fly-over: Mining and regional development in Western Australia

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: KEITH STOREY
  • Journal Name: Australian Geographer
  • Journal Number: 32.2
  • Publisher: Carfax Publishing
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Western Australia

Adoption of fly-in/fly-out (FIFO) or commute work systems in the Western Australian mining industry has increased rapidly over the last decade, with metropolitan Perth becoming the main source of labour and the base for major mining supply and service companies in the state. This situation has led to increasing concern on the part of many regiona ....

A future for regional Australia: Escaping global misfortune

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Gray, Ian; Lawrence, Geoffrey
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Published Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • ISBN: 0521002273
  • Country: Australia

This ten-chapter book was the first of its type in Australia, bringing a critical sociological perspective to the analysis of contemorary regional change. Synthesising results from over 15 years of research by the authors, the book sought to explain regional disadvantage. In then provided ideas for a platform for regional revitalisation, based up ....

Aboriginal economy and social process: the indigenous hybrid economy and its sustainable development potential

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Altman, Jon
  • Journal Name: Arena Magazine
  • Journal Number: 56
  • Country: Australia

The indigenous hybrid economy - the state, the market and the Indigenous customary - sustainable development potential. Report Locationhttp://trove.nla.gov.au/work/153356834?q&versionId=167133098 ....

Aboriginal Health Worker Status in South Australia

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Dollard, Joanne; Strewart, Terry; Fuller, Jeffrey; Blue, Ian
  • Journal Name: Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal
  • Journal Number: Vol. 25, No. 1
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: South Australia

In 1999, the South Australian Centre for Rural and Remote Health reviewed the status, support arrangements and training needs of Aboriginal health workers (AHWs) in South Australia for the South Australian Aboriginal Health Partnership. This article presents the findings relating to the status or standing of AHWs. Major issues rela ....

Access to health services in urban and rural Australia: a level playing field?

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Young, A; Dobson, A; Byles, J
  • Journal Name: Good Health - good country: from conception to completion: proceedings of the 6th National Rural Health Conference
  • Publisher: National Rural Health Alliance
  • Published Location: Deakin West, ACT
  • Country: Australia

In relation to a lack of data in Australia to assess the effect that direct financial cost has on the use of health services, this paper identifies the database maintained by the Health Insurance Commission (HIC) as one source of information about out of pocket costs for medical services. Financial data from the HIC for the three a ....

Advanced nursing practice: experiences of clients and multi-discipline health workers in bush nursing centres in rural Victoria

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Siegloff, L; Burley, M; Duffy, E
  • Journal Name: Good Health - good country: from conception to completion: proceedings of the 6th National Rural Health Conference
  • Publisher: National Rural Health Alliance
  • Published Location: Deakin West, ACT
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Victoria

The development, implementation and work in progress of a study of advanced nursing practice in the bush nursing context in rural Victoria are examined in this paper. Data are presented about the experiences of clients attending five nominated bush nursing centres in Eastern Victoria and the experiences of other health care workers ....

All Change! Gippsland Perspectives On Regional Australia in Transition

  • Year: 2001
  • Editors: Dibden, Jacqui; Fletcher, Meredith; Cocklin, Chris
  • Publisher: Monash Regional Australia Project
  • Published Location: Gippsland, Victoria
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Victoria

The genesis of this book was a seminar held at Monash University's Churchill campus, in Gippsland, Victoria, on 15 November 1999. The seminar was held, fortuitously, very soon after the unexpected defeat of the Kennett Liberal government on 18 September. The title of the seminar, "The Region Strikes Back", reflected the astonishment felt by many ....

An analysis of regional labour markets in Australia and the role of labour market programs (LMPs)

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Howard, D
  • Publisher: National Unemployment Conference
  • Country: Australia

In attempting to analyse the proposition that labour market programs (LMPs) were not creating real jobs in rural and regional Australia, this paper refers to Australian Bureau of Statistics census data from regional Australia for the period 1981 to 1996 to discuss the following issues: unemployment and labour market policy; a brief ....

An evaluation of a nutrition program in a remote community in central Australia

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Warchivker, I; Hayter, A
  • Journal Name: Good Health - good country: from conception to completion: proceedings of the 6th National Rural Health Conference
  • Publisher: National Rural Health Alliance
  • Published Location: Deakin West, ACT
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Northern Territory

The Pintubi Homeland Health Service, the Ngintaka Women's Centre, the community store, the Centre for Remote Health, the Alice Springs Unit of the Menzies School of Health Research and the mothers and carers of children under three were involved in a collaborative program aimed at improving the nutrition of young children in the No ....

ARIDFLO: environmental flow requirements for Australian arid zone rivers

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Puckridge J; Costelloe J; Reid J; Good M; Bailey V
  • Editors: Webster R
  • Journal Name: Inland Rivers Workshop
  • Publisher: Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 0642760624
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

The main objectives and research undertakings of ARIDFLO, a multi- disciplinary research project into the environmental flow requirements of Australian arid zone rivers, are briefly described. The project aims to develop an interactive predictive model of hydrology-biology relationships for arid zone rivers which can also be applie ....

Atherton Tablelands Regional Analysis

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Tammy Braybrook; Alistair Nitz; Anthony Casey; Joe Motha
  • Journal Name: Working Papers
  • Journal Number: 43
  • Publisher: Bureau of Transport Economics (BTE)
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland

The agriculture-based Atherton Tablelands region of Far North Queensland experienced major change after the deregulation of the tobacco industry, and more recently, the dairy industry. The area was previously stable and relatively prosperous, but coping with continual change, unfamiliar market systems and the move to operating professional farm b ....

Australia's changing economic geography : a society dividing

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Kevin O'Connor, Robert Stimson, Maurice Daly
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Published Location: South Melbourne, Vic
  • ISBN: 0190020539
  • Country: Australia

"... Geography plays a crucial role in the operation of economic and social processes, a dimension ignored in much current Australian public policy development and program implementation. The fundamental rearrangement of spatial patterns of activity presents major challenge for the people, businesses, and politicians of Australia's cities and reg ....

Australia's regional cities and towns: modelling community opportunity and vulnerability

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Stimson, Robert; Baum, Scott; Mullins, Patrick; O'Connor, Kevin
  • Journal Name: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies
  • Journal Number: Vol. 7, No. 1
  • Country: Australia

Economic restructuring over the last decade or so has created a wide diversity of positive and negative outcomes for regional cities and towns across Australia, evident through change in a range of socio-economic measures over the decade 1986–96. This paper develops and applies a multi-variate model to categorise community o ....

Building on success in rural and remote communities: insights from the Grampians region of Victoria

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Brown, L; Murphy, A; Mann, S
  • Journal Name: Good Health - good country: from conception to completion: proceedings of the 6th National Rural Health Conference, Canberra
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Victoria

The University of Ballarat established the Centre for Rural and Regional Health (CRRH) in order to facilitate participation and collaboration across university, government and community groups to improve outcomes in rural health within the Grampians region of Victoria. Issues raised by a community forum, Building on Success in Rura ....

Building social capital for sustainable enterprise development in country towns and regions: successful practices from the United States

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Lyons, T S
  • Editors: Rogers, M. F. and Coffins, Y. M. J.
  • Journal Name: The future of Australia's country towns
  • Publisher: Centre for Sustainable Regional Communities, La Trobe University
  • Published Location: Bendigo, Vic
  • ISBN: 1864465352
  • Country: United States
  • State/Region: California, Central Appalachians

This paper addresses some of the problems facing rural enterprise development, such as how to achieve sufficient economies of scale, how to find capital and resources, and how to succeed in an environment which may not appear ready to foster innovative business ideas. The author looks to rural social capital building to support ent ....

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