The policy focuses on the identification and appropriate zoning of highly productive agricultural land throughout the state. It also outlines the requirements for local government in the preparation of town planning schemes and local planning strategies and is to be applied to all rural land in the state. The four key objectives of the policy...

In this report, Dr Jo Barraket identifies a range of contexts in which co-operative solutions have led, or contributed significantly to, successful rural community efforts to meet sustainability objectives. These objectives include the expansion - both in numbers and type - of employment and educational opportunities, the development of innovative enterprise and industrial activity, the...

This book of case studies pays tribute to rural and regional women taking action in their communities and across the wider society.

Rural medical workforce shortage it is critical to have recruitment and retention strategies in place in NSW to suit the diversity of medical practitioners, male and female. During 2000 the NSW Rural Doctors Network (RDN) surveyed female and male general practitioners and female specialists working and residing in rural and remote NSW to determine if...

A range of social measures is examined in this paper in order to provide an insight into the relative outcomes of communities in different parts of Australia. It reviews all regions of the nation, and the characteristics of the location with respect to its urban form and its relationship with the state capital.