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Beating Around the Bush

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Matt Grudnoff
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: All Regions

Since the beginning of the mining boom Australia's rural sector has lost $43.5 billion in export income. This includes $14.9 billion in 2010-11 alone. These losses have occurred because the mining boom has forced the Australian dollar to historic highs. The damage the mining boom is doing to other sectors has created what has been dubbed the 'tw ....

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 ....

Boomtowns, Resource Dependence and Socio-economic Well-being

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Lawrie, M., Tonts, M.
  • Journal Name: Australian Geographer
  • Journal Number: 42(2)
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Western Australia

The issue of socio-economic well-being in resource-dependent communities has been one of ongoing interest for geographers, rural sociologists and economists. While much research focuses on the impacts of industry downturn and closure on well-being, this paper is focused on the implications of large-scale resource development and rapid growth in b ....

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- ....

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 ....

Climate adaptation in regional mining value chains: A case-study of the Goldfields-Esperance Region, Western Australia

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Barton Loechel, Jane Hodgkinson, Suzanne Prober and Kieren Moffat
  • Publisher: CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Goldfields-Esperance Region, Western Australia

Climate change poses a potential range of threats and opportunities for mining regions around Australia. Recent studies have suggested that mine operations as well as the related infrastructure, businesses and communities associated with mining, may be affected by flooding, drought, bushfires, storms and sea level rise. Report LocationClick her ....

Climate adaption in regional mining values chains: A case-study of the Goldfields-Esperance Region, Western Australia

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Barton Loechel, Jane Hodgkinson, Suzanne Prober and Kieren Moffatt
  • Publisher: CSIRO, Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia, Goldfields Environmental Management Group
  • Published Location: Pullenvale, Western Australia
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Western Australia

Climate change poses a potential range of threats and opportunities for mining regions around Australia. Recent studies have suggested that mine operations as well as the related infrastructure, businesses and communities associated with mining, may be affected by flooding, drought, bushfires, storms, and sea level rise.  This case study so ....

Coal Contestations: Learning from a long, broad view.

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Sonya Duus
  • Journal Name: Rural Society
  • Journal Number: Vol. 22, No. 2
  • Publisher: eContent Management Pty Ltd
  • Published Location: Maleny, Qld.
  • ISBN: 9781921980053
  • Country: Australia

Tensions between the agriculture and mining sectors in Australia have increased in recent years, with the coal and CSG industries coming to loggerheads with agricultural communities in many areas across the country. Various attempts have been made to address the conflict, often initiated through government regulation where a 'balance' is sought b ....

Coal Sector Revitalization, Community Memory, and the Land Question in Nigeria: A Paradox of Economic Diversification?

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Umejesi, Ikechukwu
  • Journal Name: African Studies Quarterly
  • Journal Number: Vol.12, No.3
  • Publisher: African Studies Quarterly
  • Published Location: Gainesville, United States
  • Country: Nigeria

In 1999, the Nigerian government unveiled new policies aimed at revitalizing the mining, agricultural, tourism, financial services, and manufacturing sectors in a broader effort to diversify the national economy. While this was a response to the reality of underdevelopment in the country, it was also a response to research that has attr ....

Contemporary rural change : the complex case of Jerdacuttup, Western Australia

  • Year: 2007
  • Author: Mayes, Robyn
  • Editors: Curtis, B.; Matthewman, S.; McIntosh, T.
  • Journal Name: TASA and SAANZ Joint Conference 2007 : public sociologies - lessons and trans-Tasman comparisons
  • Publisher: Dept. of Sociology, University of Auckland
  • Published Location: Auckland, N.Z.
  • ISBN: 9782868691145
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Western Australia

n 2004, BHP Billiton announced it would open what has since become a US$2.2 billion nickel mine in the rural Shire of Ravensthorpe, Western Australia. The arrival of this mine exemplifies profound and rapid rural economic change. Taking the position that economic change cannot be understood separately from local social aspects and ....

Domestic violence in regional Australia: a literature review

  • Year: 2000
  • Author: Women's Services Network (WESNET)
  • Publisher: Partnerships Against Domestic Violence, Office of the Status of Women, and Department of Transport and Regional Services
  • ISBN: 0642396981
  • Country: Australia

Aiming to consolidate and enhance the understanding of domestic violence in regional, rural and remote communities, this report reviews existing national and international research on the issue, including some analysis of data from the Supported Accommodation Assistance Programs. Issues discussed include: measuring the extent of na ....

Employment outcomes for Aboriginal people: An exploration of experiences and challenges in the Australian minerals industry

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Barker, Tanuja
  • Publisher: Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining
  • Published Location: Brisbane, Qld
  • Country: Australia

There has been a resurgence of interest in Indigenous employment within the Australian minerals industry. This has mainly been driven by legal developments in Indigenous relations, coupled with increased recognition by Governments and leading companies of the need to address persistent poor socio-economic conditions in Aboriginal&n ....

Extractive Industry and Sustainable Regional Development

  • Year: 2010
  • Author: Syme Marmion & Co.
  • Publisher: Pilbara Development Commission
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Pilbara, Western Australia

This study into the relationship between community sustainability and the extractive industries has been prepared for the Regional Development Council at an interesting point in Western Australia’s resource development. The growth of the Western Australian resources industry from 1998 to 2008 barely paused with the impact of the global financia ....

Far West Regional Action Plan

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: NSW Government, Department of Premier and Cabinet
  • Publisher: New South Wales Government
  • Published Location: Sydney, NSW
  • ISBN: 978-0-7313-5435-5
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

The NSW Government is fulfilling a new agenda to deliver integrated strategic planning for land use, transport and infrastructure investment, backed up by rigorous financial management and is committed to partnering with communities, including aboriginal communities to improve social and economic outcomes. The long term strategies will align to N ....

Farmers, mining and mental health: the impact on a farming community when a mine is proposed

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Jennifer Moffatt, Peter Baker
  • Journal Name: Rural Society
  • Journal Number: Vol. 23 No.1
  • Publisher: eContent Management Pty Ltd
  • Published Location: Maleny, Qld.
  • ISBN: 1037-1656
  • Country: Australia

In Australia where the economic benefits of minerals resources development accrue at the national and regional levels, it is farming communities that are at the forefront of the challenges resulting from competing land use. This paper maps the mental health impacts on a farming community in the Clarence-Moreton coal basin, Queensland, after a min ....

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