Population and Migration

Discusses the changes in population and economy of rural regions in Australia. Status of urban and rural populations in Australia; Factors that contribute to changes in rural populations; Overview of the disparity in incomes between urban and rural areas; Analysis of the future of farming communities in the country . Report Locationhttp://conne ....

Settling migrants and refugees in regional Australia has become a major policy purpose for Australian governments, both Commonwealth and state. Policies to attract migrants and humanitarian settlers to regional areas have been in place since the 1990s and are currently being refined and extended. Regional settlement serves a range ....

Regional economic and social development is an important public issue in most countries, yet among the least successful. In Australia, some 40 years of trial and error regional strategy appear to have had limited success in securing long-range economic and social development leading to more diversified economies, population growth and converging ....

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 ....

Background: Anthropogenic climate change will affect global food production, with uncertain consequences for human health in developed countries. Objectives: We investigated the potential impact of climate change on food security (nutrition and food safety) and the implications for human health in developed countries. Methods: Expert input and s ....

In the past few years there has been renewed emphasis on the challenge of achieving food security for all. Policy initiatives that build on the theme of flexibility in coping with market instability, first introduced in Food Policy Analysis (Timmer CP, Falcon W and Pearson S, The World Bank, 1983), are an important element in meeting that challen ....

Statistical methods of dimension reduction and classification are used to obtain homogeneous local-area clustering with regard to the most relevant demographic parameters. The dimension reduction is conducted in two stages using Principal Component Analysis and a modified k-mean procedure is proposed to determine the final clusters. This clusteri ....

In May 2002, the Minister for Immigration, Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs announced an increase in the number of non- humanitarian migrants entering Australia, from 93,000 per annum to between 100,000 and 110,000 annually for the next three years. New South Wales accepts a larger proportion of migrants than its share of the n ....

Information on the expenditure patterns of farmers was collected as part of the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics' 1999 Australian agricultural and grazing industries survey. Farmers were asked to estimate the proportion of their expenditure on certain farm and household goods and services that was spent in t ....

Australia's population in 2051 is projected to be approximately 26.4 million. This report considers where the increased population will reside. Living in some areas of Australia is impossible, so population dispersal must capitalise on where people want to settle and there are economic opportunities. Research into population settle ....

Decline has caused anxiety for Australian country towns. Since World War II, the newspaper press has firmly established that country towns were threatened by decline. Yet media images of decline are not always negative. In fact, many advantages traditionally identified with the ideal country life are ironically dependent on the ver ....

It is widely noted that rural populations have poor health status and are ageing. In Australia, state and national policies and programs have been instigated to redress this, but few rural residents would agree that their town is the same as an apparently similar sized one nearby or across the country. This article reports a projec ....

Although the multiple economic, environmental and social challenges threatening the viability of rural and regional communities in Australia are well-known, little research has explored how community leaders conceptualise the impact and opportunities associated with economic diversification from agriculture into alternative industries, such as to ....

A Review of Re-Settlement Services for Migrants and Humanitarian Entrants by the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, May 2003, recommended seeking further opportunities to settle humanitarian entrants in regional Australia. Key recommendations of this and other reports included: While deemed structurally correct, t ....