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2004

Interactional infrastructure in rural communities: matching training needs and provision

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: Kilpatrick, Sue; Loechel, Barton
  • Journal Name: Rural Society
  • Journal Number: Vol.14, No.1
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Tasmania

This paper reports some of the main lessons learnt from a collaborative project titled Generating jobs in regional Tasmania: a social capital approach investigating how two small rural Tasmanian communities could better match local training needs with training provision. The project was conducted within the context of the wider soc ....

'You don't want to be a check-out chick all your life': the out-migration of young people from Australia's small rural towns

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: Alston, Margaret
  • Journal Name: Australian Journal of Social Issues
  • Journal Number: Vol.39, No.3
  • Country: Australia

Globalisation and changes in agribulture have resulted in major social changes in inland Australia. Depopulation of the inland has led many to speculate on the future of rural towns and rural people. This paper will examine population drifts from country towns to cities and from the inland to the coastal regions and, in particular, the out-migrat ....

13 Days and Counting: A Mutual Support Model for Young, Homeless Women in Crisis

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: Green, Rosemary; Mason, Robyn; Ollerenshaw, Alison
  • Journal Name: Youth Studies Australia
  • Journal Number: Vol. 23, No. 2
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Victoria

An innovative program in rural Victoria matches young homeless women with older homeless women and provides them with a range of support services.The result is more stability in the accommodation setting, mutual benefit and satisfaction for clients, and impressive rates of permanent housing outcomes. Report Locationhttp://search.infor ....

A future for Indigenous youth?

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: Beadman, Bob
  • Journal Name: Policy: a Review of Public Policy and Ideas
  • Journal Number: Vol.20, No.3
  • Country: Australia

The future of Indigenous communities depends on the introduction of a new framework of government assistance that focuses on mutual obligation requirements, rewarding of initiative not idleness, and policing of school attendance. The author explains how a set of mutual obligation principles for the bush would work, and how the Land ....

A hand up not a hand out: renewing the fight against poverty: report on poverty and financial hardship

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: Australia. Parliament. Senate. Community Affairs References Committee
  • Publisher: Parliament of Australia, Community Affairs Committee
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 0642711992
  • Country: Australia

There has been a significant growth in poverty in Australia over the last decade. At the time of this report's release a consensus of estimates puts the number of people living in poverty at between two and three and a half million. In reporting on this inquiry into poverty the Senate Community Affairs References Committee gathered ....

A Profile of Problem Gambling Clients in Northern NSW

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: Evans, Barry; Corrigan, Yvonne; Buultjens, Jeremy; Haw, John; Hing, Nerilee; Breen, Helen
  • Journal Name: Proceedings of the 14th National Association for Gambling Studies Conference
  • Publisher: National Association for Gambling Studies
  • Published Location: Gold Coast, Qld
  • ISBN: 0958535892
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

This paper analyses the first four and a half years of client data from the Northern Rivers Gambling Service (NRGS), an outpatient gambling counselling and education service operated by The Buttery in the Northern Rivers region of NSW. Because the NRGS provides the vast majority of problem gambling services in the region, these dat ....

A report of the Derby/West Kimberley Project: Working With Adolescents To Prevent Domestic Violence

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: Poelina, Anne; Perdrisat, Ian
  • Publisher: Attorney-General's Department
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 0642211949
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Western Australia

This report is a snapshot of a project managed by the Shire of Derby/West Kimberley in partnership with the National Crime Prevention Program, to reduce the incidence of domestic violence within the community. The aims of the Working With Adolescents to Prevent Domestic Violence - Indigenous Rural Model were to increase awareness a ....

A review of community consultation in the development of a multipurpose service in rural and remote Australia

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: Durey, A; Lockhart, C
  • Journal Name: Australian Health Review
  • Journal Number: Vol. 28, No. 1
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Western Australia

This paper examines the role of community consultation and participation in the process of establishing a Multi Purpose Service (MPS) program in two towns in Western Australia. Information was gathered through written documents and semistructured interviews with individuals who were integral to the process. Consumer involvement in ....

A spatial divide? Trends in the incomes and socioeconomic characteristics of regions between 1996 and 2001

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: Lloyd, Rachel; Harding, Ann; Yap, Mandy
  • Publisher: National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • Country: Australia

This paper examines trends in income for different regions of Australia between 1996 and 2001, using census data. Most regions and states experienced strong income growth during the five years, although incomes in the capital cities remained much higher than in other areas of Australia. Sharp rises in housing costs offset part of t ....

A Structural Analysis of Social Disorganisation and Crime in Rural Communities in Australia

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: Jobes, Patrick C; Barclay, Elaine; Weinand, Herb; Donnermeyer, Joseph F
  • Journal Name: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, The
  • Journal Number: Vol. 37, No. 1
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

This paper extends research on rural crime beyond North America by analysing associations between census measures of community structures and officially reported crime in rural New South Wales (Australia). It employs social disorganisation theory to examine variations in crime rates between different kinds of rural communities. A t ....

Access to rural general practice and primary care: time now for more equitable and sustainable solutions?

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: Heard, Sam
  • Journal Name: Australian Journal of Primary Health
  • Journal Number: Vol.10, No.3
  • Country: Australia

Australia has the resources to provide reasonable primary medical and health care to all of its population. It is a particularly worthwhile expense, with positive social and biophysical outcomes. In many aspects of health care, primary care provides most of the benefit and almost all of the value. Why then don't we provide this basic service to&n ....

Accounting for housing costs in regional income comparisons

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: Siminski, Peter; Saunders, Peter
  • Publisher: Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales
  • Published Location: Sydney, NSW
  • ISBN: 0733421598
  • Country: Australia

This paper discusses a series of methodological issues that arise when assessing regional differences in the propensity of households to be relatively poor, focusing specifically on whether it is better to base such comparisons on measures of income that are defined before or after deducting housing costs. It is argued on conceptua ....

Aunty Jean's Good Health Team: listening to the voices of the elders to create an Aboriginal chronic and complex care program : participatory evaluation of the Illawarra Health, Aboriginal Chronic and Complex Care, Pilot Program

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: Curtis, Sue.
  • Publisher: Illawarra Health
  • Published Location: Wollongong, NSW
  • ISBN: 0646436619
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

Aunty Jean's Good Health Team began as a pilot program that aimed to develop a combined model of health promotion, education and self management that could be supportive of and sustain the development of good health behaviours and strategies for Aboriginal people with chronic and complex care needs. This report explains how the pro ....

Australia online: how Australians are using computers and the Internet, 2001

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: Lloyd, Rachel; Bill, Anthea
  • Publisher: National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 0642479321
  • Country: Australia

The 2001 Australian Census included questions about the use of home computers and the Internet. This paper analyses the socioeconomic and regional distributional characteristics of computer and Internet users across Australia, examining correlations between socioeconomic variables and rates of use and identifying inequality of home ....

Back to the Basics: Improved Property Rights can Help Save Ecuador's Rainforests

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: Hite, Kristen
  • Journal Name: Georgetown International Environmental Law Review
  • Journal Number: Vol.16, No.4
  • Publisher: Georgetown University Law Center
  • Published Location: Washington, United States
  • Country: Ecuador

Conservation is a long-term investment, and strong property rights are the principal means by which this investment is secured. This paper seeks to illustrate how insecure property rights lead to unsustainable land management, while more secure property rights allow local users to capture the benefits of conservation-minded sustainable ....

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