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Remote Australia is a vast and complex area. To create opportunity, foster social inclusion and drive economic development in this region, you need a comprehensive knowledge base to drive change.
Remote Australia Online is exactly that. It’s an online platform that delivers authoritative research on topics that impact this region and its people, including education and its pathways, policy, business, social and cultural welfare, infrastructure, communication and natural resource management.
Remote Australia Online is for those who want to delve deeper into the complexities of remote Australia: its intricate and interconnected networks, the geographical, social, cultural and environmental influences, its opportunities, challenges, and to understand just what makes this unique region tick.
Action research as a both-ways curriculum development approach: Supporting self-determination in the remote Indigenous child care workforce in the Northern Territory of Australia
- Authors: Melodie Bat, Lyn Fasoli
- Published: 2013
This article gives a detailed example of how action research theory can inform an innovative approach to education and training through its use as a curriculum design device within the…
Improving chronic lung disease management in rural and remote Australia: The Breathe Easy Walk Easy programme
- Authors: Catherine L. Johnston, Lyndal J. Maxwell, Eileen Boyle, Graeme P. Maguire, Jennifer A. Alison
- Published: 2013
Background and objective: To evaluate the impact of a chronic lung disease management training programme, Breathe Easy Walk Easy (BEWE), for rural and remote health-care practitioners. Methods: Quasi-experimental, before and…
Regional and remote occupational therapy: A preliminary exploration of private occupational therapy practice
- Authors: Judith Merritt, David Perkins, Frances Boreland
- Published: 2013
Background/aim Private providers of Medicare funded services are an integral part of the Australian primary health-care system. Evidence on private occupational therapy practice in rural and remote Australian settings is…
Negotiating and navigating doing research in remote communities: a contemporary experience
- Authors: Townsend, P, Halsey, J, Guenther, J
- Published: 2013
The aim of this paper is to explore the self-reflexivity required to be a researcher in very remote communities. Specifically, the current experiences of a non-indigenous PhD candidate working with…
Red dirt thinking on curriculum in remote Aboriginal education; what do remote Aboriginal educators say we need to know and why?
- Authors: Osborne, Sam, Lester, Karina, Tjitayi, Katrina, Minutjukur, Makinti, Burton, Rueben, Alice, Teresa Alice
- Publisher: Australian Association for Research in Education
- Published: 2013
The Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation’s Remote Education Systems project is midway through a five year research program. The focus of the research has been firstly on understanding…
Effective and efficient: Using patient-led appointment scheduling in routine mental health practice in remote Australia
- Authors: Carey, Timothy A., Tai, SJ, Stiles, WB
- Published: 2013
Patient-led appointment scheduling is a form of responsive regulation in which patients schedule their own psychotherapy appointments within the constraints of available resources. Of 92 patients referred to a clinical…
Principals in remote New South Wales, Australia: The work lives of central school principals in the context of devolution reforms of the New South Wales Department of Education and Training, and social and economic changes in remote Australia
- Author: Pietsch, B
- Publisher: University of Tasmania
- Published: 2013
This thesis investigated the work lives of principals of central schools situated in remote inland areas of the state of New South Wales (NSW), Australia. This research considered how the…
Housing market failure in a mining boom economy
- Authors: McKenzie, FH., Rowley, S.
- Published: 2013
This paper presents national data and two case studies investigating the links between housing market failure and the context of Australia's recent resource mining boom. It demonstrates how unprecedented international…
Building knowledge for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander remote tourism - Lessons from comparable tourism initiatives around the world
- Authors: Jacobsen, D. , Addinsall, C.
- Publisher: Ninti One Limited
- Published: 2013
This report was developed as part of the CRC for Remote Economic Participation Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Tourism Product Project. The report aims to build knowledge for Aboriginal and…
Literature review of the interplay between education, employment, health and wellbeing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in remote areas: Working towards an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander wellbeing framework
- Authors: Nguyen, O.K., Cairney, S.
- Publisher: Ninti One Limited
- Published: 2013
The objective of the Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation (CRC-REP) is to deliver solutions to the economic challenges in remote locations and to contribute to the Australian Government’s…
Indigenous Economic Development Strategy 2013 - 2020
- Author: Northern Territory Government
- Published: 2013
The Northern Territory Government is committed to strengthening the Territory’s economic base through growing a three hub economy based on mining and energy, education and tourism, and food exports. Opportunities…
Law for Country: the Structure of Warlpiri Ecological Knowledge and Its Application to Natural Resource Management and Ecosystem Stewardship
- Authors: Holmes, Miles C. C., Jampijinpa, Wanta
- Publisher: The Resilience Alliance
- Published: 2013
Indigenous Ecological Knowledge (IEK) is deeply encoded in social processes. Our research shows that from an Indigenous perspective, IEK is a way of living whose core aim is to sustain…
Living Texts: A Perspective on Published Sources, Indigenous Research Methodologies and Indigenous Worldviews
- Authors: Ambelin Kwaymullina, Blaze Kwaymullina, Lauren Butterly
- Published: 2013
This article explores and extends one aspect of the research theories and methods defined by Lester-Irabinna Rigney (1999) as ‘Indigenist research’, namely, published sources. We view published sources broadly as…
Demand and Supply Issues in Indigenous Tourism: A Gap Analysis - Final Report: Mapping Australia’s International and Domestic Visitor Markets against Indigenous Tourism Operators
- Authors: Lisa Ruhanen, Michelle Whitford, Char-lee McLennan
- Publisher: University of Queensland School of Tourism & Griffith University
- Published: 2013
Indigenous tourism is an integral part of Australia’s tourism product offering; Indigenous tourism is one of the key experiences which underpin Tourism Australia’s global marketing activities. Yet participation in Indigenous…
Editorial – Intellectual Property Law and Indigenous Traditional Knowledge
- Authors: Christopher Sexton, Natalie Stoianoff
- Published: 2013
Indigenous peoples throughout the world have lived through various eras and forms of European colonisation. It is arguable that, on the international stage in the past decade, a new era…
Analysis of the Long Distance Commuter Workforce Across Australia
- Authors: Bernard Salt, Liesl Verwoert, Sally Mikkelsen, Ashima Bist, Ben Willison
- Publisher: KPMG for Minerals Council of Australia
- Published: 2013
The objective of this Report, ‘Analysis of the Long Distance Commuter Workforce Across Australia’, is to provide baseline data to understand where LDC workers live and work and how these…
Managing the impacts of feral camels across remote Australia: Overview of the Australian Feral Camel Management Project
- Author: Ninti One Limited
- Published: 2013
In 2009, the Australian Feral Camel Management Project was established with support from the Australian Government to manage the impacts of feral camels on: • nominated environmental sites, which are…
The Subjective Wellbeing of Indigenous Australian Adolescents: Validating the Personal Wellbeing Index-School Children
- Authors: Tomyn, Adrian J., Norrish, Jacolyn M., Cummins, Robert A.
- Published: 2013
By almost all measures of objective life quality, Indigenous Australians are disadvantaged relative to the general population. However, no measures of their Subjective Wellbeing (SWB) have been published. This paper…
The dreams of mobile young Aboriginal Australian people
- Author: Parkes, Amy
- Publisher: University of South Australia
- Published: 2013
Despite growing interest in mobility patterns and quantification, little is known about the lived experiences of mobile young Aboriginal Australian people. Mobility research to date has focused primarily on remote…
The attractiveness of Australia’s rural and remote spine for health professionals 2001–11
- Authors: Dean Carson, Rob Porter
- Published: 2013
The purpose of this paper is to examine the characteristics of health professionals who migrated to rural and remote South Australia and the Northern Territory (Australia’s ‘spine’) between 2001 and…