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2005

A new way of doing justice business? Community justice mechanisms and sustainable governance in Western Australia

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Blagg, Harry
  • Publisher: Law Reform Commission of Western Australia
  • Published Location: Perth, WA
  • ISBN: 1740350456
  • Country: Australia

With a main focus on developments in remote regions, this paper explores the current and potential contribution of Aboriginal community justice mechanisms to the goal of improving security and safety in Aboriginal communities and ensuring the maximum possible ownership of justice and justice related processes by Aboriginal communit ....

A review of salt mobilisation and management in irrigated areas of the Murray Darling Basin

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Duncan R; Bethune M; Christen E; Hornbuckle J
  • Publisher: Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology
  • Published Location: Clayton, Vic
  • ISBN: 1920813195
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

Previous studies of salt mobilisation processes and management strategies in the irrigation areas of the Murray-Darling Basin are reviewed to facilitate the identification of effective options for reducing the impact of drainage from irrigation areas on river water salinity. The report concludes that salt mobilisation and export is  ....

A Typology of Socio-Economic Advantage and Disadvantage in Australia's Large Non-Metropolitan Cities, Towns and Regions

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Baum, S
  • Journal Name: Australian Geographer
  • Journal Number: Vol 37.2
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
  • ISBN: 1465-3311
  • Country: Australia

Australia's large regional cities and towns display a wide variation in their adjustment to the socio-economic transitions that have occurred over the past decade. In terms of socio-economic advantage and disadvantage, these changes, often associated with globalisation, wider economic and technological restructuring, the changing demographics of ....

Affordable housing and regional growth: a challenge for planners and policy makers

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Howe, Brian; Jope, Sally
  • Journal Name: Brotherhood Comment
  • Journal Number: 12
  • Country: Australia

The following issues in regional housing markets are discussed in this article: changed demand for housing; housing market response; and impact on low income households. Report Locationhttp://www.bsl.org.au/pdfs/commentnov05.pdf ....

Agricultural resource priorities and recommendations for the Avon River Basin Natural Resource Management Strategy

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: McConnell, C. E. Western Australian Department of Agriculture, Northam); Cummins, D. W. (Western Australian Department of Agriculture, Northam); Galloway, P. D. (Western Australia Department of Agriculture, Narrogin); Ohlsen, K. (Western Australian Depart
  • Publisher: Dept of Agriculture
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Western Australia

This report for the Avon Natural Resource Management Strategy provides an assessment of the current status of land resources throughout the Avon River Basin in Western Australia. It identifies the sub-regions and landscape components of the area and the land resource as sets. The greatest threats are salinity, soil acidification, s ....

Analysis of Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage in Australia's Large Non-metropolitan Regions

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Baum, Scott; Stimson, Robert
  • Journal Name: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, The
  • Journal Number: Vol. 11, No. 3
  • Country: Australia

Australia's large regional cities and towns display wide variation in how they are adjusting to the socioeconomic transitions that have occurred over the past decade. In terms of socio-economic advantage and disadvantage these changes, which are often associated with globalization, wider economic and technological restructuring, ch ....

Arrangements to enhance effective use of incentive mechanisms for regional NRM

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Social and Institutional Research Program (SIRP), Canberra
  • Publisher: Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • Country: Australia

This policy sheet outlines a framework of principles to guide the design and delivery of incentive mechanisms that will maximise the links between regional natural resource management (NRM) targets and local action. The principles take into account community aspirations, social and economic capacity and current constraints to the a ....

Australia's farmers: past and present

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Social and Institutional Research Program (SIRP), Canberra
  • Publisher: Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • Country: Australia

This policy sheet provides a brief overview of demographic research on farmers in Australia's agricultural sectors that can be used to inform natural resource management (NRM) policy. The research outcome provides detailed statistical information on age, income and occupation trends in the rural sector, and dominant land use practi ....

Australia's farmers: past, present and future

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Barr N; Karunaratne K; Wilkinson R
  • Publisher: Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation
  • ISBN: 1741463904
  • Country: Australia

An examination of the trends in the demographic structure of the Australian farmer population between 1976 and 2001 highlights a number of changes in recent years. The long term decline in farmer numbers which was evident through much of the 20th century has slowed and almost stopped. Since 1981 the average farmer age has increased ....

Australia's forests at a glance 2005

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Gerrand A (Australian Bureau of Rural Sciences)
  • Publisher: Australian Bureau of Rural Sciences
  • ISBN: 0642475164
  • Country: Australia

Forests hold many values. They supply the resource base for one of Australia's largest manufacturing industries and are important for biodiversity conservation, water quality and carbon storage. They also provide a magnificent setting for a host of recreational activities. Our forests provide housing, furniture, paper and food, as ....

Australia's health workforce

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Australia. Productivity Commission
  • Publisher: Productivity Commission
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 1740371895
  • Country: Australia

This research report is the final report of a study commissioned by COAG to examines issues impacting on the health workforce including the supply of, and demand for, health workforce professionals, and to propose solutions to ensure the continued delivery of quality health care over the next 10 years. It reviews a range of workfor ....

Australians on the move: trends and emerging issues

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Graeme Hugo
  • Journal Name: Dialogue
  • Journal Number: Vol.24, No.2
  • Country: Australia

Australians are a very mobile population, showing high levels of permanent movement and nonpermanent circulation within Australia and an increasing level of emigration. This article describes some of the major patterns of Australian internal migration and examines the factors shaping them and the emerging social, economic, politica ....

Between Conservation and Development: Concretizing the First World Natural Heritage Site in the Alps Through Participatory Processes

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Wiesmann, Urs; Liechti, Karina; Rist, Stephan
  • Journal Name: Mountain Research and Development
  • Journal Number: Vol.25, No.2
  • Publisher: Centre for Development and Environment Institute of Geography, University of Bern
  • Published Location: Boulder, Switzerland
  • Country: Switzerland

This article presents an empirical interdisciplinary study of an extensive participatory process that was carried out in 2004 in the recently established World Natural Heritage Site "Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn" in the Swiss Alps. The study used qualitative and quantitative empirical methods of social science to address the question of success f ....

Beyond the resource enclave: regional development challenges in northern remote Australia.

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Pritchard, Bill
  • Journal Name: Journal of Australian Political Economy
  • Journal Number: 55
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Northern Australia

This paper calls for heightened attention to the question of how economic interests interact with one another at a regional scale. All too often in northern remote Australia, the paucity of local private sector activity and the minimal capital base of regions encourage the view that large-scale external investment (usually associated with resourc ....

Breaking the cycle of family violence in the Riverina

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Parker, Ann; Ingram, Tangerene; Lyons, Bronwyn; Malone, Tania
  • Journal Name: Program and papers: 8th National Rural Health Conference
  • Publisher: National Rural Health Alliance
  • Published Location: Deakin, ACT
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

In 2004 the Riverina Medical and Dental Aboriginal Corporation set out to develop a Regional Family Violence Model for the southern part of the Binaal Billa Region in NSW. This paper describes the development process. The aim was to: develop community action plans; provide capacity building for implementing actions; provide educati ....

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