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2003

Enriching lives: a response to 'Inquiry into poverty in Australia': Senate Community Affairs References Committee consultation paper

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: Mission Australia. Research and Social Policy Unit
  • Publisher: Mission Australia
  • Published Location: Sydney, NSW
  • Country: Australia

This submission by Mission Australia to the Senate Inquiry into Poverty emphasises the multidimensional nature of poverty. Issues covered in the submission include identifying groups suffering poverty and inequality, regional and community poverty, the working poor, the effectiveness of income support and new international developm ....

Evaluating regional plans in Australian tropical savannas: a guide for planners and reviewers

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: McDonald GT; McAlpine CA; Taylor BM; Vagg AR
  • Publisher: Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Savannas Management
  • Published Location: Brisbane Qld
  • ISBN: 1920949011
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Northern Australia

A framework for evaluating regional natural resource management plans in tropical northern Australia is described which can help planners ensure that their plans consider the critical issues for regional sustainability in a comprehensive and effective way. The framework is presented in two parts. Part one identifies the criteria, p ....

Family carers' health and well-being and community capacity building in rural areas

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: Warmington, Rosemary
  • Journal Name: 7th National Rural Health Conference
  • Publisher: National Rural Health Alliance
  • Published Location: Deakin, ACT
  • Country: Australia

The Carers' Association of South Australia performs services across the state, but the author focuses on approaches taken by carers in rural areas. She looks at the impact of caregiving on the health and well being of family carers and their lifestyle choices. She also considers current trends in Australian policy with reference to ....

Fatal attraction? The lure of technology and the decline of rural Australia 1890-2000

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: Davison, Graeme
  • Journal Name: Tasmanian Historical Studies
  • Journal Number: Vol.8, No.2
  • Country: Australia

The relationship between city and country is one of the great themes of Australian history, yet it has recieved surprisingly little sustained attention by historians. Current academic debates about the cause and cure of the 'rural crisis' are also conducted within a foreshortened historical framework. Report Locationhttp://search.informit.com.a ....

Finding solutions: delivering quality aged care in rural and remote Australia

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: Alt, Merilyn; Beatty, Dianne
  • Publisher: National Rural Health Alliance
  • Published Location: Deakin, ACT
  • Country: http://nrha.ruralhealth.org.au/conferences/docs/7thNRHC/Papers/general%20papers/beatty.pdf

In 2000, the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care commissioned a survey of regional, rural and remote aged care in over 20 services across Australia in order to identify and document the common features of successful practice in a challenging environment. The authors outline common difficulties associated with service de ....

Focus on Regions No. 1: Industry Structure

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: Leanne Johnson; Judith Winternitz
  • Journal Name: Information Paper
  • Journal Number: 49
  • Publisher: Bureau of Transport and Regional Economics (BTRE)
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 1877081469
  • Country: Australia

Australia, like many other developed countries, has experienced a decline in the importance of the manufacturing and agriculture sectors over recent decades, and strong growth in the services sector. In particular, Business services accounts for a large and growing share of national value added and employment. Between 1991 and 2001, the Business ....

Governance for sustainable development: strategic issues and principles for Indigenous communities

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: Dodson, M; Smith, D E
  • Publisher: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 0731556259
  • Country: Australia

This Discussion Paper examines the concepts of 'governance', 'good governance' and 'sustainable development' in the context of Australian Indigenous communities and regions. It explores the hypothesis that there is vital link between governance and sustainable development. The first half of the paper defines the key concepts and re ....

Government Interventions in Pursuit of Regional Development: Learning from Experience

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: Bureau of Transport and Regional Economics
  • ISBN: 1877081337
  • Country: Australia

The questions of why regions grow or fail to grow, and what, if anything, governments can do about it have attracted considerable interest and debate for many years. This report provides a select review of previous government intervention approaches and experiences in pursuit of regional development. The review provides useful insights into the p ....

Government purchase of water for environmental outcomes

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: Goesch T; Heaney A
  • Publisher: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics
  • ISBN: 0642764980
  • Country: Australia

Governments will need to consider a range of issues when purchasing water for environmental flows. For instance, they need to consider whether it is more cost effective to purchase water directly from irrigators or to subsidise investments in more efficient water use technology, and retain some of the savings for the environment. T ....

Growth, development, and innovation: A look backward and forward

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: Cheshire, Paul C; Malecki, Edward J
  • Journal Name: Papers in Regional Science
  • Journal Number: Vol.83, No.1
  • Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
  • Published Location: Urbana, United Kingdom
  • Country: United Kingdom

This article reviews where we have come from and where we are going in research on regional growth and development. Our object of study is the region, an imprecise term that has been taken to mean areas as large as small countries or as small as urban regions, although how regions are defined does itself have implications for both theor ....

Health and access issues among Australian adolescents: a rural-urban comparison

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: Quine, Susan; Bernard, Diana; Booth, Michael; Kang, Melissa; Usherwood, Tim; Alperstein, Garth; Bennett, David
  • Journal Name: Rural and Remote Health
  • Journal Number: Vol.3, No,3
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

In 2000 a study began to examine the health needs and help seeking behaviour of young people in New South Wales, and their service provision. More than 650 high school students took part in focus groups in 2001-2002, with 56 focus groups in urban areas, 22 in rural areas, and 3 in regional areas. This current article examines the r ....

Health and community services labour force, 2001

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
  • Publisher: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 17402543099
  • Country: Australia

This report contains information on people employed in health and community services in 2001. It is divided into broad sections on the population, economy and industry context; characteristics of health and community services workers; health occupations; community services occupations; and geographic regions. Report Locationhttp://www ....

Health in rural and remote areas of Australia: summary report prepared for the Australian Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: Warner-Smith, Penny; Lee, Christina
  • Publisher: Women's Health Australia (WHA), University of Newcastle
  • Published Location: Newcastle, NSW
  • Country: Australia

This is a summary of an Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health technical report. In terms of physical health and quality of life, the project finds surprisingly few differences between women living in different parts of Australia, though there are some risk factors for the health of women living outside urban areas, includ ....

High technology policy in the Alpes-Maritimes and in British Columbia: Two cases of adapting regional economies to globalization

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: van den Hoven, Adrian
  • Journal Name: Journal of Canadian Studies
  • Journal Number: Vol.37, No.4
  • Publisher: Trent University
  • Published Location: Peterborough, Canada
  • Country: France, Canada
  • State/Region: Alpes-Maritimes, British Columbia

The main problem with building Sophia Antipolis, however, did not lie in the different conceptions of the A-M departmente and Pierre Lafitte, but in the geography of the region. The A-M is a big department that consists mainly of a mountainous region that is difficult to access. The population is concentrated largely along the coastline ....

Identifying on-farm management practices aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from sugarcane primary production

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: Park S; Lisson S; Harper J; Milford B; Thorburn P
  • Journal Name: Solutions for a new environment: Australian Agronomy Conference
  • ISBN: 0973031309
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland

A scoping study was undertaken to assess the potential for sugarcane growers to implement practical and effective abatement strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from sugarcane cropping. A range of management practices was explored for the Herbert River Qld region and the impact of the different agronomic regimes on annual ....

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