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2001

Evaluating the Rural Chronic Disease Initiative

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: England, D
  • Journal Name: Australian Health Consumer
  • Journal Number: Vol. 1, No. 2001 Summer
  • Country: Australia

The author discusses the Rural Chronic Disease Initiative and its strategies to assist people in rural Australia, especially those in small communities, to prevent and better manage chronic diseases and injury. The views of the Health Consumers' Council of Western Australia on this Initiative are also presented. Report Locationhttp:// ....

Exploring regional crime and socio-economic linkages

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Addison, L
  • Journal Name: New Crimes or New Responses: 4th National Outlook Symposium on Crime in Australia
  • Publisher: Australian Institute of Criminology
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • Country: Australia

Aiming to encourage greater exploration and research into the socioeconomic factors and their linkages to regional crime, this paper addresses the lack of research which looks at licit and illicit drugs and these linkages, arguing that these gaps in knowledge are restricting evidence based policy development and the clear identific ....

Following the yellow brick road and the future of Australia's declining country towns

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Forth, G
  • Editors: Rogers, M. F. and Collins, 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: Australia, United States
  • State/Region: Victoria, Kansas

The author argues that small town decline is part of an inevitable historical process, and that changes in government policy are a symptom rather than a cause of decline. He uses the south west Victoria and north central Kansas regions to illustrate this survey of the long-term causes of decline. Although solutions for dealing with ....

Food, place and identity: consuming Australia's 'beef capital'

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Lockie, Stewart
  • Journal Name: Journal of Sociology
  • Journal Number: Vol.37, No.3
  • Country: Australia

As social practice the consumption of food demonstrates the fundamentally social nature of the human body and subjectivity. Through eating, individuals are both incorporated into global networks of production and exchange, and incorporate themselves the meanings associated with those foods. Consumption is also, however, a spatially and temporally ....

Generation X-pendable: young, rural and looking for work: an examination of young people's perceptions of employment opportunities in rural areas

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Alston, Margaret; Kent, Jenny
  • Publisher: Centre for Rural Social Research, Charles Sturt University
  • Published Location: Wagga Wagga, NSW
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

In this study, young people, parents and community representatives in the small towns of Temora, Leeton, Forbes and Eden, New South Wales were interviewed about local employment opportunities for young people. The report explains the methodology and recommendations and discusses the following findings: small town culture; the impor ....

Giving credit where it's due: the delivery of banking and financial services to Indigenous Australians in rural and remote areas

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: McDonnell, S; Westbury, N
  • Publisher: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 0731526538
  • Country: Australia

Australia's financial system is undergoing a period of substantial structural change. While these changes may have had positive impacts on most consumers, they have had a number of negative impacts, particularly for low income consumers of financial services and for people located in rural and remote communities. This discussion pa ....

Government response to the Commonwealth Grants Commission report on Indigenous funding 2001

  • Year: 2001
  • Publisher: Commonwealth of Australia
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • Country: Australia

Detailed response to findings of Commonwealth Grants Commission 'Report on Indigenous funding' which see also at B C734.62/R1; outlines background to commissioning of report including concern with outcomes which below reasonable expectations despite increasing commitment of resources; discusses circumstances of Indigenous Australia ....

Hopes and fears: the life choices, aspirations and well-being of young rural women

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Warner-Smith, Penny; Lee, Christina
  • Journal Name: Youth Studies Australia
  • Journal Number: Vol.20, No.3
  • Country: Australia

An Australian study of 40,000 women found that the age at which young women have children is related to broader patterns of social inequality and to the disadvantagement of young rural women. Of particular concern is the increasing polarization between better-educated young women who defer motherhood and less-educated women who have children at a ....

Illicit drug use in regional Australia, 1988-1998

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Williams, P
  • Publisher: Australian Institute of Criminology
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 0642242135
  • Country: Australia

The number of people who use drugs in both metropolitan and regional Australia has increased over the last decade. In previous research it was shown that between 1985 and 1995, rates of drug use in regional Australia were at levels which were observed in metropolitan Australia between one and eight years earlier. Concerns have been ....

Improving access and equity in rural and remote Australia - provision of women's health medical services by female GPs in remote and rural areas

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Whittle, P; Williams, L
  • 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

The personal experience of a bush woman and health consumer, who is also the convenor of the Consumer Network Group of the Royal Flying Doctor Service Central Section, is outlined in part one of this paper. Part two describes the experience of Doctor Priscilla Whittle, provider of the Rural Women's GP Service. The particular health ....

Improving post-school outcomes for rural school leavers

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Abbott-Chapman, Joan; Kilpatrick, Sue
  • Journal Name: Australian Journal of Education
  • Journal Number: Vol.45, No.1
  • Country: Australia

A study of Year 10 leavers from rural high schools in Tasmania has found that school pressures to remain in Years 11 and 12 have not necessarily solved the post-school career dilemmas of rural youth. Indeed, despite growing numbers of VET options in schools, these are not being taken up significantly by younger students despite student and family ....

Improving water use efficiency by reducing groundwater recharge under irrigated pastures

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Kingston H; Bethune M; Alam J
  • Publisher: Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Victoria

The recharge under well-managed flood irrigated pastures in the Berriquin and Shepparton irrigation areas in Victoria was estimated through field based experimental programs and lysimeters. Recharge was estimated at less than 0.2 ML/ha/y on most soil types. The results indicated that recharge on lighter soils was influenced by clim ....

Indigenous communities and business: three perspectives, 1998-2000

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Altman, J C
  • Publisher: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 0731549082
  • Country: Australia

The issues of Indigenous engagement with business are perennially debated and nowhere is this question more pertinent than in the community sector. Indigenous people often live in remote communities, often underdeveloped and dependent on the state, where the market is largely absent. 'Doing business' in such circumstances can be ex ....

Inland rivers and riparian zones

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Edgar B
  • Journal Name: RipRap: river and riparian lands management newsletter
  • Country: Australia

Australia's inland rivers have characteristics that make them unique and require innovative management approaches. The characteristics of highly variable flows, the landscape scale at which they function and the cyclic biodiversity coinciding with flood and drought are discussed. These are linked to the principles required to manage inland rivers ....

Intermodal freight terminals: Locality and industrial linkages

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: McCalla, R.J., Slack, B. & Comtois, C.
  • Journal Name: Canadian Geographer
  • Journal Number: Vol.45, No.3
  • Country: Canada

The areas around eight Canadian intermodal freight terminals form the focus of this study. Two basic research questions are addressed: What is the character of the zones adjacent to the terminals and what is the functional tie between industries located in these zones and the terminals themselves?' Report Locationhttp://onlinelibrary. ....

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