Rural and remote communities
Report
2011 census papers: Residential segregation - income and housing dimensions
This paper demonstrates that, even within an urban area, there is a large degree of residential segregation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
Thesis
Struggles of Rural Youth: Factors that Empower and Disempower Youth in Rural Villages – Central Province, PNG
This research explores the multifaceted issues affecting youth who come from dysfunctional families and live in rural villages in the Central Province of PNG. The discourse of such rural youth accentuates the focus on institutional power relationships between the young and the older people of the village community.
Report
The tyrannies of distance and disadvantage: factors related to children's development in regional and disadvantaged areas of Australia
This research report investigates whether children in regional areas experience a "tyranny of distance" or a "tyranny of disadvantage". In other words, are the gaps in children's development in regional areas compared to children living in the major cities explained by their distance from the major cities (remoteness), or is it because many regional areas...
Conference paper
A new way of living with nature? Zones of friction and traction in Nangari Vineyard Estate, South West Sydney
Responding to concerns about adverse environmental impacts of amenity migration on the rural-urban fringe (Abrams et al., 2012), this paper poses the question: is the rural residential estate (RRE) a settlement space where humans can improve ways of living with nonhuman nature?
Report
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' labour force outcomes
Using data from the 2011 Census of Population and Housing, this article explores labour force outcomes for the working aged Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population.