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The Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) is a scheme where working age Indigenous people forgo their welfare payments to take up employment in their local Aboriginal community organisation. This case study discusses a corporate or regional CEDP scheme called Worn Gundidj, located in Warrnambool, Victoria. Attitudes of p ....

The Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) program is one of largest schemes implemented in Australia to address the economic and social situation of Indigenous Australians. In 1997/98, the federal government spent over $374 million on the scheme and more than 30,000 Indigenous people were involved in CDEP projects - more ....

Over the five year period between 1991 and 1996, more than 6.5 million Australians - 43 per cent of the total population - changed their place of usual residence. This represents one of the highest levels of mobility in the world. While the broad structure of internal migration in Australia remained similar to the 1980s, a number of subtle but i ....

Bridging the digital divide is a key social challenge for the 21st century, state the authors. Young people who do not have access to the Internet and communication technologies will be left further behind, with fewer educational and employment opportunities. This will ultimately affect their social, mental and physical health. The ....

The Committee's brief was to review parliamentary, government and commission reports on Indigenous education and training during the past ten years, to assess the recommendations made in these reports and to investigate the extent to which they had been implemented; in the year of the tenth anniversary of the National Aboriginal an ....

This book explores the dynamics of change in contemporary rural and regional Australia. Each of the book's ten thematic chapters highlights and critiques a particular debate associated with recent discourse on the futures of rural and regional Australia. Chapters include an Introduction by Phil McManus and Bill Pritchard; The myths of modern agri ....

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In 1994, a research and development national program was established by the Australian Nature Conservation Agency (now part of the Biodiversity Group of Environment Australia (EA)) and Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation (LWRRDC) to devise improved methods of managing bushland. The EA and LWRRDC National R ....

Issues raised by the Productivity Commission's national public inquiry into the impact of Competition Policy Reforms on Rural and Regional Australia are addressed in this paper which discusses: demographic trends and population movement in rural and coastal areas of Australia; globalisation and The World Trade Organisation; nationa ....

The main objective in this article is to examine the extent to which long distance commuting has been adopted in nonenergy mining industries across Australia. Some implications of long distance commuting for regional economic growth are discussed.  Report Locationhttp://adl.brs.gov.au/data/warehouse/pe_abare99000465/PR11769.pdf ....

Health care is one of the major issues facing people in rural, regional and remote areas. Throughout much of rural and regional Australia there is a shortage of health care providers, high turnover in the health workforce, and major problems in gaining access to services. These problems are worse in remote communities. This documen ....

A blueprint for sustainable management in Australia outlines the challenges and opportunities faced, and provides a strategic framework for using the environment to drive the economy. The key initiatives explored include development of a national approach to sustainability reform, a long term commitment to land and water repair, en ....

This paper describes the process and outcomes of a project aimed at promoting community based multidisciplinary coordinated palliative care services in rural Australia. In preliminary health service needs assessment in rural Tasmania, key health workers appealed for additional information, support and education in palliative care. ....

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