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10 out of 10 deadly health stories: nutrition and physical activity : successful program from NSW Aboriginal community controlled health services

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council of New South Wales
  • Publisher: Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council of New South Wales
  • Published Location: Sunny Hills, N.S.W.
  • ISBN: 9780980515916
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

This booklet presents the stories of ten nutrition and physical activity programs for Indigenous people in New South Wales, demonstrating the potential and effectiveness of community initiatives. The programs were all delivered by Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (aCCHSs), in rural, urban, or regional areas, and were ....

A half-hearted defence of the CDEP scheme

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Hunter, Boyd
  • Journal Name: Family Matters
  • Journal Number: 81
  • Country: Australia

The Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme was developed as a response to the perceived social threat of 'sit-down money' to Indigenous communities in the 1970s. Ironically, the scheme is now being criticised as being one of the main factors driving the social effects of prolonged welfare dependence. This article u ....

A longitudinal study of the use of the web by regional tourism organisations

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Lois Burgess, Belinda Parrish, Joan Cooper and Carole Alcock
  • Country: Australia

The information-intensive nature of the tourism and travel industry suggests an important role for Web technology in the promotion and marketing of tourist destinations. The rapid development of the Internet is also having profound impacts on the industry. In fact, travel and tourism has become the single largest category of products sold over th ....

A model for regional technology-based economic development

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Savoie, Robert (Bobby) A.
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: University of New Orleans
  • Published Location: United States -- Louisiana
  • ISBN: 9781109200010
  • Country: United States

Technology-based economic development has been a highly sought-after objective for regions in developed and developing countries alike. The wealth created by regional knowledge-based economies like Silicon Valley is an attractive outcome. Without understanding cluster-based economic strategy, the different types of technology-based econ ....

A Place for the Arts in Rural Revitalisation and the Social Wellbeing of Australian Rural Communities

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: McHenry, Julia Anwar
  • Journal Name: Rural Society
  • Journal Number: Vol. 19, No. 1
  • Country: Australia

Despite the significance of rural Australia to national identity, many commentators claim that rural Australia is in crisis and suffering from decline as a consequence of economic restructuring and policy reform (Gray and Lawrence, 2001; Sonn, Drew, and Kasat, 2002; Baum, O'Connor, and Stimson, 2005; Tonts and Atherley, 2005). As a ....

A sunburnt country: The economic and financial impact of drought on rural and regional families in Australia in an era of climate change

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Edwards, B, Gray M, Hunter B
  • Journal Name: Australian Journal of Labour Economics
  • Journal Number: Vol.12, No.1
  • Country: Australia

Australia is indeed a sunburnt country, and is arguably becoming increasingly sunburnt. If most climate predictions are correct, much of Australia will experience droughts even more often. This paper uses the Rural and Regional Families Survey to explore the economic and financial implications of drought in regional Australia. Drought has signifi ....

A unique rurality: Exploring the role of the horse farm in the post-productivist rural landscape

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Wilton, Bronwynne Leigh
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: University of Guelph (Canada)
  • Published Location: Canada
  • ISBN: 9780494476246
  • Country: Canada
  • State/Region: Ontario

This thesis explores the role of the horse farm in the post-productivist rural landscape of Ontario, Canada. As agricultural landscapes in developed nations around the world evolve to an increasingly consumptive focus as opposed to a productivist landscape, there is an increased demand for recreational and lifestyle land uses in rural r ....

A World First in Cancer Data Collection Trial

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Hopgood, Nicole
  • Journal Name: Health Information Management Journal
  • Journal Number: Vol. 38, No. 2
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Victoria

An innovative study to collect comprehensive cancer data is underway in the Barwon South Western region of Victoria. The Evaluation of Cancer Outcomes (ECO) Trial involves the collection of a nationally developed and agreed set of clinical cancer data items across the region. Cancer is the leading cause of death in Australia and ca ....

Abra-Cadastre - Now You See Them - Now You Don't: Improving Statistical Data and Geography in the Northern Territory of Australia

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Griffith, Dennis
  • Journal Name: Sustaining Regions
  • Journal Number: Vol. 7, No. 1
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Northern Territory

The paper describes how some of the existing statistical classifications and definitions used by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) hide or minimise the extent of disadvantage experienced in remote and sparsely populated areas of Australia. The ASGC Remoteness Classification, SEIFA Indices and definition of Unemployed person ....

Accommodation needs for carers of and adults with intellectual disability in regional Australia : their hopes for and perceptions of the future

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Eley, Diann S; Boyes, J; Young, L; Hegney, Desley G
  • Journal Name: Rural and Remote Health
  • Journal Number: Vol.9, No.3
  • Country: Australia

This article provides an in-depth investigation of the accommodation circumstances of a population of aging adults with intellectual disability living at home with parents or in supported accommodation in an Australian regional centre. Given the ageing of both the carer and adult population with intellectual disability our research ....

Achieving Safety Change on Australian Farms – using new and established pathways to improve adoption

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Lyn Fragar, John Temperley, Julie Depczynski, Kirrily Pollock
  • Publisher: Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation
  • Published Location: Barton, ACT
  • ISBN: 1741518563
  • Country: Australia

This research report is about factors that will improve adoption of safety practice and systems on Australian farms. The review describes approaches and evaluation reports of Australian farm safety programs and other relevant studies that provide information about individual safety behaviour change and community/organisation factors associated wi ....

ADF's Role in the Front Line of Emergency Services

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: National Emergency Response
  • Journal Name: National Emergency Response
  • Journal Number: Vol. 22, No. 3
  • Country: Australia

The 2009 Defence White Paper describes the role of Australian Defence Force (ADF) in maintaining national security, and security and stability of the region. The several means of action through which the ADF would be also involved in domestic security and emergency response services, as highlighted in the White Paper, are discussed ....

Agricultural intensification: food insecurity to income security in a mid-hill watershed of Nepal

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Dahal, Bed Mani; Nyborg, Ingrid; Sitaula, Bishal Kumar; Bajracharya, Roshan Man
  • Journal Name: International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability
  • Journal Number: Vol.7, No.4
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Published Location: London, United Kingdom
  • Country: Nepal
  • State/Region: Kavre

A shift from cultivating cereal crops towards vegetables and other cash crops has evolved through the process of agricultural intensification in the hills of the Himalayan region. Agricultural intensification has attracted the attention of researchers in Nepalese agriculture due to its potential impacts on the environment and socio-econ ....

An analysis of amenity-led rural economic development in northeast region: A spatial simultaneous equations approach

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Kahsai, Mulugeta Saare
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: West Virginia University
  • Published Location: United States -- West Virginia
  • ISBN: 9781109440652
  • Country: United States

In a matter of just a few decades, the economic landscape of rural America has changed in fundamental ways. Industries onceconsidered the backbone of rural economies have been  transformed by globalization and marketing. Others, such as tourism and amenity-based economies or the service sector, have emerged to replace the traditional na ....

An Assessment of Silvipasture Potential in Southeast Queensland, Australia

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Maraseni, Tek N; Cockfield, Geoff; Maroulis, Jerry
  • Journal Name: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, The
  • Journal Number: Vol. 15, No. 3
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland

The Queensland State Government provides incentives for landholders to establish hardwood plantations on former pasture and cropping areas; however the long-term viability of the timber plantation program in medium to low rainfall areas remains questionable. In order to make hardwood plantations viable, some value adding is necessa ....

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