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2006

Population and diversity: policy implications of emerging Indigenous demographic trends

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Taylor, John
  • Publisher: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 0731556585
  • Country: Australia

The paper argues that there is a compelling need for fresh perspective on the policy implications of Indigenous demographic trends. Current frameworks for considering the structural situation of Indigenous peoples are increasingly focused on State and Territory jurisdictional levels and provide little guidance regarding the spatial ....

Poverty and disadvantage among Australian children: a spatial perspective

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Harding, Ann; McNamara, Justine; Tanton, Robert; Daly, Anne; Yap, Mandy
  • Publisher: National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • Country: Australia

Much research about child poverty and disadvantage provides national estimates of child wellbeing, due to the ready availability of microdata at the national level. However, an increasing body of evidence suggests that there can be major differences in well-being between children living in different geographic areas. In addition, m ....

Preparing Entrants to Farming - Scoping Programs and Strategies

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Ian Reeve, Richard Stayner
  • Publisher: Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation
  • Published Location: Barton, ACT
  • ISBN: 1741513049
  • Country: Australia

The report describes the entry paths by which people commonly take up a career in farming and discusses some of the problems which may compromise a successful entry into farming. Programs and policy approaches used overseas to deal with these problems are reviewed, and the implications for Australian educational provision discussed. Report Loca ....

Profit Contingent Loans for Social and Community Investments in Economically Disadvantaged Regions

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Chapman, Bruce; Simes, Ric
  • Journal Name: Public Policy
  • Journal Number: Vol. 1, No. 2
  • Country: Australia

It is argued in this paper that an externality might exist for economically disadvantaged areas, and this might take various forms. If this is the case, it is argued in the paper that public sector intervention of various types could be required. The important contribution of the paper lies in the outlining of a different approach for&n ....

Providing social and economic data to support regional natural resource management in the Burnett Mary

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Byron I; Curtis A; MacKay J
  • Publisher: Australian Bureau of Rural Sciences
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland

This report presents a summary of key findings from a mailed survey to 1,000 landholders in the Burnett Mary region in 2004. The final response rate for this survey was 60%. The survey gathered baseline information regarding the key social and economic factors affecting landholder decision-making about the adoption of practices exp ....

Regional Development Policy and Small Medium Enterprise Financial Performance

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Stuart Locke
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: All Regions

This paper reports on an investigation into the potential to use the financial ratios of New Zealand small businesses to discriminate their location as an aid in the accurate targeting of regional economic development programs. To the extent that there are clearly identifiable differences in performance and financial structure for ....

Regional Economic Development: Analysis and Planning Strategy

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Stimson, Robert J.; Stough, Roger R.; Roberts, Brian H.
  • Publisher: Springer-Verlag
  • Published Location: Berlin Heidelberg
  • ISBN: 9783540348269
  • Country: Australia

The book is about the analysis of regional economic performance and change, and how analysis integrates with strategies for local and regional economic development policy and planning. First, the book provides the reader with an overview of key theoretical and conceptual contexts within which the economic development process takes place. However, ....

Report on Government Services 2006

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Productivity Commission
  • Journal Name: Report on Government Services
  • Publisher: Productivity Commission
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 1740371917
  • Country: Australia

This review, established by heads of government, provides information on the efficiency and effectiveness of government services in Australia. The review was established to provide ongoing comparisons of the performance of government services and report on service provision reforms that governments have implemented or are under consideration. R ....

Rethinking Federal Policy for Regional Economic Development

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Mark Drabenstott
  • Journal Name: Economic Review
  • Journal Number: First Quarter 2006
  • Publisher: Federal Reserve of Kansas City
  • Published Location: Kansas City, MO
  • Country: United States

This article examines how federal policy might shift to align with the new global economy. Three steps are essential in framing those shifts. 1. Federal programs are highly fragmented today, programs largely assume that all regions grow the same way, and that federal spending is focused heavily on physical infrastructure for an industrial econo ....

Rethinking the nonmetropolitan turnaround: Renewed rural growth or expanded urbanization?

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Wang, Xiaodong
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: Texas A&M University
  • Published Location: United States -- Texas
  • Country: China

This dissertation proposes a new, synthesized perspective for explaining the "Nonmetropolitan Turnaround" in the 1970s and 1990s. By studying the definition of urbanization carefully, using the human ecological perspective, many processes happening during the "Nonmetropolitan Turnaround" in the 1970s and 1990s, such as suburbanization, ....

Rural and regional Australia: change, challenge and capacity

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Mission Australia. Research and Social Policy Unit
  • Publisher: Mission Australia
  • Published Location: Sydney, NSW
  • ISBN: 1875357203
  • Country: Australia

This paper examines non-metropolitan disadvantage in the framework of five key areas: economic capital; institutional capital; social capital; human capital; and natural capital. Through analysis of a range of issues including population, health, education, employment and environment, the report identifies and describes some of the ....

Rural councils and the prosperity of rural Victoria

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Manning, Ian
  • Journal Name: National Economic Review
  • Journal Number: 60
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Victoria

This report is part of the Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV) response to an MAV State Council motion requesting the MAV to lobby the State Government to prepare a Rural 2030 strategy, and a request by the Rural Councils Network for the MAV to take up the financial sustainability issues of small rural councils with other tiers of Government. ....

Rural health's demographic destiny

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Larson, Ann
  • Journal Name: Rural and Remote Health
  • Journal Number: Vol.6, No.2
  • Country: Australia

This article describes how current demographic trends will affect future health service delivery in rural areas of Australia. Age-sex pyramids in particular reveal the changing population distribution - whilst individual towns vary, there is a trend for increased numbers of older people, decreasing numbers of young adults dueto migratio ....

Rural parents, teenagers and alcohol: what are parents thinking?

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Graham, Melissa L; Ward, Bernadette; Munro, Geoffrey; Snow, Pamela; Ellis, Julie
  • Journal Name: Rural and Remote Health
  • Journal Number: Vol.6, No.1
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Victoria

This article explores the attitudes, beliefs, and concerns of rural parents about teenage alcohol drinking. Focus groups were conducted with 26 parents in north and north-western rural Victoria, which discussed drunkenness and drinking patterns, age of initiation into drinking in the home, where and when alcohol is consumed, and th ....

Schools, Vocational Education and Training and Partnerships: Capacity-Building in Rural and Regional Communities

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Stokes, Helen; Stacey, Kathleen; Lake, Murray
  • Publisher: National Centre for Vocational Education Research
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 1921169958
  • Country: Australia

Using case studies from seven rural and regional areas, this report examines the impact of schools and vocational education and training (VET) on community capacity. Focusing on successful examples of school- VET partnerships it found that communities have developed at least three different models to organise school- VET partnershi ....

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