2003

This document is a blueprint for action for regional Indigenous homelessness projects in Mt Isa, Cairns, and Townsville / Thuringowa. The blueprint details strategies to be implemented in cooperation with all stakeholders in each of the communities. Five strategic areas underpin the direction of the blueprint and will guide future ....

This paper examines 'sustainable development' in a contemporary remote Aboriginal rural community. The author argues that sustainability in Indigenous development in the central Cape York region involves an ongoing compromise between often incommensurable forms of social, political, and economic organisation. Drawing on material ga ....

The A Just Australia campaign is managed by the Refugee Council of Australia. The core mission of the campaign is to campaign for positive changes to government policy on refugee and asylum seekers. By working together with prominent Australians and community groups and thousands of concerned individuals, A Just Australia aims ....

In 2001, FPA Health, whose primary goal is to improve access to a range of reproductive and sexual health services for regional, rural and remote areas in New South Wales, conducted a reproductive and sexual health needs assessment of the Macquarie area. Community consultations were conducted with students, adolescent mothers, men, ....

The Northern East Kimberley region of Western Australia is facing a development crossroads with the need to make a decision on either the extension or closure of Argyle Diamond Mine. This region also has a major economic development problem in that half of its adult population is almost entirely Aboriginal, is highly dependent on w ....

This article reports on a subset of results from a field-based research project that interviewed rural women community leaders in Atlantic Canada about their experiences and perceptions of leadership, public life and running for elected office. The project is motivated in part by an effort to understand why relatively few women are elec ....

This July 2000 report from the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research to the Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business describes the strengths and limitations of the data collected in the Longitudinal Survey of Indigenous Job Seekers, and provides an overview of how Indigenous labour market behaviour ....

Regional areas of Australia face particular challenges related to changes in Australia's demographic profile and need to take proactive measures now if they are to remain socially and economically viable in the future. South Australia (SA) is already beginning to feel the effects of population ageing and population decline as a res ....

During the past three years NATSEM has developed path-breaking spatial microsimulation techniques, involving the creation of synthetic data about the socioeconomic characteristics of households at a detailed regional level. The data are potentially available at any level of geographic aggregation, down to the level of the Census Co ....

A study of the hydrogeological factors influencing salinity in the Kyeamba catchment, NSW, was conducted to describe the physical setting and condition of the catchment and aquifer system, to examine various data interpretations on the conceptual model of flow processes for recharge and discharge, to model the historical and presen ....

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 ....

An overview of Australia's demographic trends highlights the potential adverse impacts of declining population growth and population ageing on the long-term social and economic viability of regional areas. On current trends, South Australia (SA) and Tasmania are at greatest risk of a reduction in services and contraction of local e ....

This paper presents some findings from research undertaken for a Masters of Social Work at La Trobe University. The research used qualitative methods to develop an understanding of the meaning, experiences, and perceptions people give to their civic engagement. In a rural town, in twenty indepth interviews, partipants were asked to ....

Since 1988, the federal government has transferred nearly $4 billion to businesses, governments and non-governmental organizations in the Atlantic provinces through the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA). Recently, a number of critics have called for a re-examination of the agency's mandate and a fundamental reform in the way t ....