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2002

'How can you deal with that?': Coping strategies among young residents of a rural community in New South Wales

  • Year: 2002
  • Author: Bourke, Lisa
  • Journal Name: Journal of Family Studies
  • Journal Number: Vol.8, No.2
  • ISBN: 1322-9400
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

Rather than presume to understand the ways in which young people think about and effectively resolve their problems, it is important to learn from their successes. Therefore, exploration into young people's perspectives can provide valuable insight into how young people have made the transition into adulthood, negotiated their way through difficu ....

Abbott's welfarism

  • Year: 2002
  • Author: Reynolds, J
  • Journal Name: Indigenous Law Bulletin
  • Journal Number: Vol.5, No.20
  • Country: Australia

Reviewing an address by Tony Abbott, Minister for Employment Services and Workplace Relations, to the Indigenous Employment Conference in Canberra, 2002, the author suggests that Abbott's solutions to Aboriginal unemployment are based on a flawed premise. In his view Abbott's belief that native title stands in the way of a successf ....

Agriculture, drought hitting the rural sector hard

  • Year: 2002
  • Author: Gleeson, Trish; Martin, Peter
  • Journal Name: Australian Commodities
  • Journal Number: Vol.9, No.4
  • Country: Australia

The net value of farm production is forecast to fall by 63 per cent to $3.7 billion in 2002-03, reflecting a sharp fall in winter crop production and lower prices for most livestock products. Winter crop production in 2002-03 is forecast to decline to 22.2 million tonnes, 15.1 million tonnes below last season's crop and the lowest since 1994-95. ....

As the Population Clock Winds Down: Indicative Effects of Population Ageing in Australia's States and Territories

  • Year: 2002
  • Author: Jackson, Natalie; Felmingham, Bruce
  • Journal Name: Journal of Population Research
  • Journal Number: Vol. 19, No. 2
  • Country: Australia

Among the more profound features of population ageing is its regionality. This regionality is particularly marked in Australia, where the timing and speed of ageing are occurring at substantially different rates by state and territory. The shift to natural decline is expected to create many social, economic and political predicamen ....

Australia's children: their health and wellbeing 2002

  • Year: 2002
  • Author: Al-Yaman, F; Bryant, M; Sargeant, H
  • Publisher: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 1740241827
  • Country: Australia

This report brings together information from a wide range of state / territory and commonwealth sources to reveal a national picture of the health status of Australian children. It attempts to integrate the social and environmental determinants of health, with the outcomes in terms of health status. The report contains demographic ....

Australian regional policy and its critics

  • Year: 2002
  • Author: Collits, Paul
  • Journal Name: 2020 vision: Australia's demographic future: Australian Population Association 11th Biennial Conference
  • Publisher: Australian Population Association
  • Published Location: Acton, ACT
  • Country: Australia

This paper describes the principles of regional policy in Australia, focusing on Commonwealth policy in New South Wales. The author discusses how a consensus in policy approach has developed across Australia, sharing policy characteristics such as strategic intervention, decentralised partnership development, and 'local solutions t ....

Can the participatory evaluation of new communication technology initiatives assist in building sustainable and inclusive rural communities?

  • Year: 2002
  • Author: Lennie, J; Simpson, L; Hearn, G
  • Journal Name: 2002 International Evaluation Conference: Evaluation in Practice - Making a Difference
  • Country: Australia

This presentation first addresses the role of new communication and information technologies (C and ITs) in building sustainable and inclusive rural communities; factors in community adoption and use of C and IT initiatives; the role of participatory planning and evaluation in making C and IT initiatives more sustainable and succes ....

Canada must make broadband infrastructure a priority [Information deficit: Canadian Solutions 2001]

  • Year: 2002
  • Author: Matear, Maggie
  • Journal Name: Canadian Journal of Communication
  • Journal Number: Vol.27, No.4
  • Publisher: Canadian Journal of Communications Corporation
  • Published Location: Toronto, Canada
  • State/Region: Ontario

Maggie Matear is the Director of Operations for the Northeastern Ontario Communications Network (NEOnet), a northern Ontario community-based network. She co-ordinates a non-profit strategic planning "gateway organization" for community capacity building in the information, communication, and technology (ICT) sectors. As advocates, facil ....

Community participation and regional crime

  • Year: 2002
  • Author: Carlos Carcach; Cathie Huntley
  • Journal Name: Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice
  • Journal Number: 222
  • Country: Australia

Based on data for local government areas in the mainland eastern states this study shows that crime rates are lower in local areas with high levels of participation on community-oriented activities; includes short section on Indigenous population. Report Locationhttp://www.aic.gov.au/documents/0/2/8/%7B0280A17B-5E35-4402-B130-5FB03A7C ....

Creating a contemporary Common Property Resource (CPR) management institution

  • Year: 2002
  • Author: Brunckhorst, D
  • Publisher: The Institute for Rural Futures - University of New England
  • Country: Australia

Rural communities face an uncertain future. These communities are reliant on the long term resilience of their productive resources, but often utilise these resources to resolve short term pressures. Their survival is dependent upon their ability to sustain their families by balancing social demands and the biophysical capacity of ....

Crime Increases in Perspective: The Regional Dispersion of Crime in NSW, 2001

  • Year: 2002
  • Author: Chilvers, Marilyn
  • Publisher: Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research New South Wales
  • Published Location: Sydney, NSW
  • ISBN: 0731326458
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

When an increase in crime at the State level is publicly reported, a large proportion of the general community become fearful, and may alter their lifestyles to avoid what they see as their increased vulnerability to becoming included in victimisation statistics. However, the reported change in aggregate risk may have little or not ....

Developing Landscape Frameworks for Regional Conservation Planning; an Approach Integrating Fauna Spatial Distributions and Ecological Principles

  • Year: 2002
  • Author: Scotts, David; Drielsma, Michael
  • Journal Name: Pacific Conservation Biology
  • Journal Number: Vol. 8, No. 4
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

Habitat loss, degradation and fragmentation are heavily implicated in the decline of biodiversity throughout the world. Numerous conservation programmes have emerged in the attempt to deal with these primary threats but they are often isolated and disparate, foregoing opportunities for integrated, cumulative approaches and benefits ....

Development of guidelines for non-Indigenous people undertaking research among the Indigenous population of north-east Victoria

  • Year: 2002
  • Author: Henderson, R; Simmons, D S; Bourke, L; Muir, J
  • Journal Name: Medical Journal of Australia
  • Journal Number: Vol.176, No.10
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Victoria

The Department of Rural Health at the University of Melbourne has developed a framework for conducting research in partnership with Indigenous communities. This article provides an overview of the framework which addresses past inappropriate research practices, incorporates cultural understandings, and outlines culturally appropria ....

Drought, regions and the Australian economy between 2001-02 and 2004-05

  • Year: 2002
  • Author: Adams, Philip D.; Horridge, Mark; Madden, John R.; Wittwer, Glyn
  • Journal Name: Australian Bulletin of Labour
  • Journal Number: Vol.28, No.4
  • Country: Australia

During the latter part of 2002 large areas of Australia have been affected by severe drought. In this paper, we examine the prospects for the Australian economy between 2001-02 and 2004-05, with particular emphasis on the implications of the drought for regions. Forecasts that take into account the drought and an assumed recovery are undertaken w ....

Entrepreneurship and sustainable tourism: The houseboats of Kerala

  • Year: 2002
  • Author: Kokkranikal, Jithendran; Morrison, Alison
  • Journal Name: Tourism and Hospitality Research
  • Journal Number: Vol.4, No.1
  • Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC.
  • Published Location: Thousand Oaks, United States
  • Country: India
  • State/Region: Kerala

Within developing countries, it has been identified that one means of achieving sustainable tourism is through the effective engagement of local communities. In particular, this involves the encouragement of indigenous entrepreneurship, often in the forms of self-employment and small-scale enterprises. The aim is to maximize potential e ....

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