Family, Community and Disability
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Year: 2003
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Author: Al-Yaman, Fadwa; Sargeant, Hilary; Bryant, Meredith
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Publisher: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
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Published Location: Canberra, ACT
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ISBN: 1740241827
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Country: Australia
This second national report on the health and wellbeing of young people in Australia provides information about the current health and well being status of young people and illustrates the many factors that influence health and well being. Part 1 provides background information, including population characteristics. Part two provid ....
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Year: 2008
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Author: Graeme Hugo
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Journal Name: Journal of International Migration and Integration
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Journal Number: 9.2
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Publisher: Springer
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ISBN: 1488-3473
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: South Australia
In post-demographic transition societies, the impacts of low fertility and aging are most strongly felt in peripheral areas where they are exacerbated by youth outmigration. International migration is increasingly seen to have the potential to offset these demographic constraints on economic development. In Australia, immigration policy has been ....
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Year: 2006
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Author: Eacott, Chelsea; Sonn, Christopher C
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Journal Name: Rural Society
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Journal Number: Vol. 16, No. 2
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: Victoria
The population in rural areas of Australia has been declining for many decades and it has become common practice to blame this decline on the migration of young people due to structural limitations (e.g. education and employment). This study explores factors associated with migration of youth from rural Victoria looking at their ex ....
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Year: 2004
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Author: Victoria. Department of Premier and Cabinet. Policy and Strategy Projects
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Publisher: Department of Premier and Cabinet. Policy and Strategy Projects
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Published Location: Melbourne, Vic
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ISBN: 1920921362
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: Victoria
The Victorian Government's population policy outlines the government's visions for 'growing' Victoria's population in an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable manner. The policy focuses on six key strategies. These are addressing low fertility rates by reducing obstacles to raising a family and providing more suppo ....
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Year: 2005
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Author: Parker, Ann; Ingram, Tangerene; Lyons, Bronwyn; Malone, Tania
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Journal Name: Program and papers: 8th National Rural Health Conference
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Publisher: National Rural Health Alliance
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Published Location: Deakin, ACT
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Country: Australia
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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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Year: 2005
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Author: Eversole, Robyn; Martin, John
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Journal Name: Sustaining Regions
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Journal Number: Vol. 5, No. 1
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Country: Australia
Discusses the 'development gap' that is both pervasive and counter-productive for any pursuit of economic and social equity. As long as this gap persists, economic goals are seen in isolation from other community goals, and non-economic community needs and aspirations remain disconnected from sources of economic prosperity.
Repor ....
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Year: 2008
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Author: McFarlland, Laura; Lord, Allison
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Journal Name: Education in Rural Australia
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Journal Number: Vol. 18, No. 1
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: New South Wales
This pilot study examined the experiences of 24 teacher education students and nine caregivers who participated in a weekly community play session on a rural University campus in NSW, Australia. Students completed a questionnaire at the beginning of the 13 week semester and at the end of the semester and were asked about confidence ....
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Year: 2007
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Author: Kilpatrick, Sue
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Journal Name: Rural Society
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Journal Number: Vol. 17, No. 3
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Country: Australia
Analysis of the experiences of four farmer groups set up to learn how to jointly manage local natural resource issues shows that the groups are going though two simultaneous processes. One builds technical competency in natural resource management and the other is the underpinning social process that allows the groups to make decis ....
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Year: 2005
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Author: Cassells, Rebecca; Taylor, Elizabeth; McNamara, Justine; Lloyd, Rachel
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Journal Name: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, The
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Journal Number: Vol. 11, No. 3
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Country: Australia
This paper presents the results of work undertaken to develop small area indexes of community capacity and need, and apply these indexes to identify those regions in Australia with a combination of reasonably high need and good levels of community capacity. These regions form possible suggested areas for the targeting of The Smith ....
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Year: 2005
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Author: Pulling, Katie
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Journal Name: Parity
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Journal Number: Vol. 18, No. 6
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: Victoria
Young people living in the Shire of Yarra Ranges experience many of the issues faced by young people across Victoria. However, for young people living on the urban fringe these issues are compounded by environmental and social factors unique to these areas. As a result of many factors impacting on young people living in the urban f ....
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Year: 2003
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Author: National Rural Health Alliance (Australia)
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Publisher: National Rural Health Alliance
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Published Location: Deakin West, ACT
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ISBN: 0975122010
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Country: Australia
Much of the pattern of health and well being for an individual is determined by the health of their mother during pregnancy and in their infancy. As an organisation working to improve the health of people in rural and remote Australia, the National Rural Health Alliance is concerned with the health of children in country areas. The ....
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Year: 2008
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Author: McNamara, Justine; Harding, Ann; Daly, Anne; Tanton,
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Publisher: Australian Institute of Family Studies
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Published Location: Melbourne, Vic
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Country: Australia
The development of regional measures of child social exclusion for Australia are underpinned by increasing research and policy interest in indicators of child wellbeing, multidimensional measures of poverty, and spatial differences in disadvantage. The National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling at the University of Canberra ....
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Year: 2010
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Author: Ingamells, Ann
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Journal Name: Journal of Social Inclusion
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Journal Number: Vol.1, No.1
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: Queensland
Australian governments are committed to closing the gap between Indigenous and other Australians, yet progress is slow. This paper draws links between these policy efforts and a study of a remote shire in Western Queensland where indicators suggest better than usual socioeconomic outcomes for Aboriginal people. The study conducted ....
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Year: 2011
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Author: Umejesi, Ikechukwu
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Journal Name: African Studies Quarterly
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Journal Number: Vol.12, No.3
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Publisher: African Studies Quarterly
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Published Location: Gainesville, United States
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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 ....
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Year: 2004
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Journal Name: Building stronger families: Conference on International Research Perspectives on Child and Family Welfare
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Publisher: Centre for Research on Community and Children's Services
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Published Location: Mackay, Qld
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Country: Australia
Children living with domestic violence are at high risk of abuse and death, yet state child protection responses to children living with domestic violence have remained largely uncoordinated. This collaborative project between non government organisations and the statutory child protection authorities in the Mackay and Whitsunday R ....
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