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Barwon South West Regional Strategic Plan 2012-2015

  • Year: 2013
  • Publisher: Regional Development Australia Barwon South West
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Victoria

Second release of the Barwon South West Regional Plan produced by Regional Development Australia Barwon South West. The plan has been developed following consultation with Australian, Victorian and Local governments, education and health providers, industry and business networks, environmental and community groups. The consultation largely occurs ....

Barwon South West: Victoria's Region of Opportunity

  • Year: 2013
  • Publisher: Regional Development Australia Barwon South West
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Victoria

Paper presents and overview of the Barwon South West Regional Strategic Plan 2012-2015. The plan explored the strengths, weaknesses and opportunities that affect the entire Barwon South West Region. It also identifies the common goals and objectives of the G21 AND gREAT South Coast sub-regional plans. Report Locationhttp://www.rdv.vic.gov.au/__ ....

Benchmarking Agricultural Research Indicators Across Asia–Pacific

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Kathleen Flaherty, Gert-Jan Stads, Attaluri Srinivasacharyulu
  • Publisher: International Food Policy Research Institute

New quantitative evidence presented in this report demonstrates that total public agricultural R&D spending in Asia–Pacific increased by 50 percent, from $8.2 billion in 1996 to $12.3 billion in 2008 (in 2005 PPP prices). Most of this growth was driven by the region’s low- and middle-income countries, whereas growth in the region’s high-inc ....

Breaking My Country's Heart

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Charmaine Green
  • Journal Name: Artlink
  • Journal Number: Vol. 33 No. 3
  • Publisher: Artlink Australia
  • Published Location: Semaphore
  • ISBN: 0727-1239
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Western Australia

Yamaji writer and painter Charmaine Green explores the impact of mining on the Aboriginal arts industry in a Western Australia rural coastal community with particular emphasis on tensions created from a mining-initiated Aboriginal art exhibition held in Perth called Good Heart. Report Locationhttp://www.artlink.com.au/articles/4038/breaking-my- ....

Bruce Highway Action Plan

  • Year: 2013
  • Publisher: Queensland Government Department of Transport and Main Roads

The Bruce Highway Action Plan sets out a detailed program of works which will improve the safety, flood immunity and capacity of the Bruce Highway, over the next 10 years. Proposed projects include: $5.2 billion worth of safety improvements, including wide centre line and shoulder seals, audible edge lines, more overtaking lanes, safety bar ....

Building scale and sustaining growth: The surprising drivers of job creation

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Gary Kunkle
  • Publisher: Institute for Exceptional Growth Companies
  • Published Location: Cassopolis, MI
  • Country: United States

The past decade generated an abundance of headline events — the bursting dot-com bubble, 9-11, the banking crises, the home building meltdown, endless war, budget deficits, election cycles — the list goes on. Yet while most of us were looking the other way, a major shift occurred in the structure of the U.S. economy. From 2000 to 2010 the U.S ....

Can you see me? Experiences of nurses working night shift in Australian regional hospitals: a qualitative case study

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Powell, Idona, RN, RM, MHthSc
  • Journal Name: Journal of Advanced Nursing
  • Journal Number: 69.10
  • Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
  • Published Location: United Kingdom
  • ISBN: 03092402
  • Country: Australia

To report a study that explored the experiences of night-shift nurses, focusing on employee interrelationships and work satisfaction. Night-shift nurses are a critical component in hospital care making it essential to understand the experiences that give meaning to their work and understand how these nurses and the organization can benefit from t ....

Cancer of the Bush or Salvation for our Cities?: Fly-in, Fly-out and drive-in, drive-out workforce practices in Regional Australia

  • Year: 2013
  • Publisher: House of Representatives Standing Committee on Regional Australia
  • Published Location: Canberra ACT
  • ISBN: 978-0-642-79850-3
  • Country: Australia

On Wednesday 13 February 2013, the House Standing Committee on Regional Australia tabled its report on the inquiry into the use of ‘fly-in, fly-out’ (FIFO) workforce practices in regional Australia entitled Cancer of the bush or salvation for our cities? Fly-in, fly-out and drive-in, drive-out workforce practices in Regional Australia. Repo ....

Carbon, biodiversity and regional natural resource planning: towards high impact next generation plans

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Allan Dale, James McKee, Karen Vella & Ruth Potts
  • Journal Name: Australian Planner
  • Journal Number: 50.4
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Published Location: United Kingdom
  • ISBN: 2150-6841
  • Country: Australia

Given the increased importance of adaptation debates in global climate negotiations, pressure to achieve biodiversity, food and water security through managed landscape-scale adaptation will likely increase across the globe over the coming decade. In parallel, emerging market-based, terrestrial greenhouse gas abatement programs present a real opp ....

Caring for the Country: Fatigue, Sleep and Mental Health in Australian Rural Paramedic Shiftworkers

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Courtney, James A; Francis, Andrew J; P; Paxton, Susan J
  • Journal Name: Journal of Community Health
  • Journal Number: 38.1
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • ISBN: 00945145
  • Country: Australia

This study investigated sleep quality, fatigue, mental health and physical activity in rural paramedic shiftworkers. Although limited, previous studies have associated high fatigue levels and poorer health in this sector with shiftwork rostering and occupational demands. A modified version of the Standard Shiftwork Index was completed by 150 para ....

Central Queensland Economic and Infrastructure Framework

  • Year: 2013
  • Publisher: Queensland Government Department of State Development, Infrastructure and Planning
  • Published Location: Brisbane Qld
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland

This Economic and Infrastructure Framework (the framework) identifies opportunities for the Central Queensland economy to grow with the support of strategic infrastructure planning. By highlighting the economic potential of Central Queensland, the framework aims to encourage private sector investment in the region, as well as inform infrastructur ....

Challenges for rural and remote road safety

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Sheehan, M
  • Journal Name: Journal of the Australasian College of Road Safety
  • Journal Number: Volume 23 Issue 4 (Dec 2012)
  • Publisher: Australasian College of Road Safety
  • Published Location: Mawson, A.C.T.
  • ISBN: 1832-9497
  • Country: Australia

The growing national and international awareness of the increased representation of serious injuries and fatalities in rural and remote areas is the focus of this paper. Australia was one of the earliest countries to try to address this issue with a targeted national action plan in 1996. This was an important document but the most recent national ....

Challenging homogenous representations of rural youth through a reconceptualisation of young rural Tasmanian's sexual health strategies

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Emily Caroline Bishop
  • Journal Name: Health Sociology Review
  • Journal Number: Vol. 22, No. 2
  • Publisher: eContent Management Pty Ltd
  • Published Location: Maleny, Qld.
  • Country: Australia

Dominant explanations of young people’s health risk behaviours echo essentialist notions of perceived invulnerability and risk misperception. Rural youth, however, are considered particularly ‘at-risk’. In this paper I argue for a need to challenge rural youth discourses, as they can have counterproductive implications.   To evidence ....

Changing patterns of migration to Australia's Northern Territory: Evidence of new forms of escalator migration to frontier regions?

  • Author: Catherine Martel, Dean Carson, Andrew Taylor
  • Journal Name: Migration Letters
  • Journal Number: 10.1
  • Publisher: Transnational Press London
  • ISBN: 1741-8984
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Northern Territory

Building on Fielding's idea of escalator regions as places where young people migrate (often temporarily) to get rapid career advancement, this paper proposes a new perspective on ‘escalator migration’ as it applies to frontier or remote regions in particular. Life events, their timing and iterations have changed in the thirty years since Fie ....

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