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Partnerships in action: addressing the health challenge for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: Mackean, Tamara; Adams, Mick; Goold, Sally; Bourke, Christopher; Calma, Tom
  • Journal Name: Medical Journal of Australia
  • Journal Number: Vol.188, No.10
  • Country: Australia

Over the past year, the Indigenous Health Campaign, or Close the Gap, coalition has been working with non Indigenous organisations to reverse the entrenched disparity and poor outcomes in Indigenous health. The campaign has been led by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health leaders and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islande ....

Past, Present and Future Landscapes: Understanding Alternative Futures for Climate Change Adaptation of Coastal Settlements and Communities

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Morley, P., Trammell, J., Reeve, I., McNeill, J., Brunckhorst, D., Bassett, S.
  • Publisher: National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility
  • Published Location: Gold Coast
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

Though shaped by past elements, history demonstrates that future landscapes will be very different from those of the present. This is particularly so in coastal areas of rapid urban growth. The effects of climate change in the future will therefore be impacting on these quite different landscapes, not on those we see today. To gauge the severity ....

Peel Regional Plan 2013-2016

  • Year: 2013
  • Publisher: RDA PEEL, Western Australia
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Western Australia

Plan outlines areas for improvement of the Peel region, outlining issues such as increasing local employment, educational outcomes, maintaining and preserving the environmental assets of the region, improving social outcomes for the region, and ensuring the ongoing sustainability of the region. The plan also outlines flagship projects such as the ....

Place-based strategies, Collingwood and Fitzroy public housing estates

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: Holland, Jacki; Bruinhout, Sherri; Malavisi, Aldo
  • Journal Name: VCOSS Congress 2004: strategies for equality and inclusion
  • Publisher: Victorian Council of Social Service
  • Published Location: Melbourne, Vic
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Victoria

The Victorian government's Neighbourhood Renewal initiative addresses place based disadvantage by fostering community engagement and development, through partnerships and cooperation between government, local service providers, business and community. The Collingwood and Fitzroy public housing estates are two Neighbourhood Renewal ....

Population and Settlement along the Victorian Coast: Background Research Paper to inform the Victorian Coastal Strategy 2013

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: DTPLI Spatial Analysis and Research Branch
  • Publisher: Victorian Coastal Council
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Victoria

This background paper provides information on the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the Victorian coast. It aims to provide and up to date evidence base for informing the Victorian Coastal Strategy 2013.  Report Locationhttp://www.vcc.vic.gov.au/assets/media/files/Final_report_population_and_settlements_Aug_2013.pdf ....

Providing accommodation services for rural cancer patients: the experience in South Australia

  • Year: 2007
  • Author: Beckmann, K; Abell, L; Edwards, D; Leone, L; Kerrins, E; Strange, C; Lee, S; Abram, L
  • Journal Name: Cancer Forum
  • Journal Number: Vol. 31, No. 2
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: South Australia

People from rural and remote areas face additional psychological and financial burdens associated with the need to travel for cancer treatment and follow up. To reduce these burdens, The Cancer Council South Australia has established an affordable accommodation service that provides a friendly, homely, supportive environment, where ....

Ranking Regions - Revisiting an Index of Relative Indigenous Socio-economic Outcomes

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Biddle, Nicholas
  • Journal Name: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, The
  • Journal Number: Vol. 15, No. 3
  • Country: Australia

For any chance of success in achieving targets for improvement in Indigenous socio-economic outcomes, policy makers need to understand where relative and absolute need is greatest. To summarise the distribution of relative need a single index can be used to rank regions or areas within regions. In this paper nine outcomes across em ....

Remote Indigenous housing and infrastructure: factors affecting successful regional governance

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: Jardine-Orr, Andrea; Spring, Frederick; Anda, Martin
  • Journal Name: Housing futures: National Housing Conference
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Western Australia, Northern Territory

A wide range of housing and housing related programs in remote Indigenous communities has been developed, and the provision of adequate remote Indigenous housing has long been needed. There is a move from an external program-driven approach for housing to a focus on sustainable local and regional systems of governance in Indigenous ....

Report on Government Services 2000

  • Year: 2000
  • Author: Productivity Commission
  • Journal Name: Report on Government Services
  • Publisher: Productivity Commission
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 174037150X
  • Country: Australia

Report Locationhttp://www.pc.gov.au/gsp/rogs/2000 ....

Report on Government Services 2001

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Productivity Commission
  • Journal Name: Report on Government Services
  • Publisher: Productivity Commission
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 1740370325
  • Country: Australia

Report Locationhttp://www.pc.gov.au/gsp/rogs/2001 ....

Report on Government Services 2002

  • Year: 2002
  • Author: Productivity Commission
  • Journal Name: Report on Government Services
  • Publisher: Productivity Commission
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 1740370716
  • Country: Australia

Report Locationhttp://www.pc.gov.au/gsp/rogs/2002 ....

Report on Government Services 2003

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: Productivity Commission
  • Journal Name: Report on Government Services
  • Publisher: Productivity Commission
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 1740371100
  • Country: Australia

Report Locationhttp://www.pc.gov.au/gsp/rogs/2003 ....

Report on Government Services 2004

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: Productivity Commission
  • Journal Name: Report on Government Services
  • Publisher: Productivity Commission
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 1740371356
  • Country: Australia

Report Locationhttp://www.pc.gov.au/gsp/rogs/2004 ....

Report on Government Services 2005

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Productivity Commission
  • Journal Name: Report on Government Services
  • Publisher: Productivity Commission
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 1740371607
  • Country: Australia

Report Locationhttp://www.pc.gov.au/gsp/rogs/2005 ....

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 ....

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