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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.
The impact of the Medical Specialist Outreach Assistance Program on improved access to specialist services for regional and remote Australia
- Authors: Jim Pearse, Deniza Mazevska
- Published: 2013
People living in rural and remote populations tend to have poorer health care status, and thus have higher health care needs. However, they have less access to health care services,…
Red dirt thinking on educational disadvantage
- Authors: John Guenther, Melodie Bat, Sam Osborne
- Published: 2013
When people talk about education of remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, the language used is often replete with messages of failure and deficit, of disparity and problems. This…
Red dirt thinking on education: A people-based system
- Authors: Melodie Bat, John Guenther
- Published: 2013
In Australia, the ‘remote education system’ presents itself as a simple system where the right inputs, such as quality teachers and leaders will engender the outputs that have been set…
Are We Making Education Count in Remote Australian Communities or Just Counting Education?
- Author: John Guenther
- Published: 2013
For quite some time the achievements of students in remote Australian schools have been lamented. There is not necessarily anything new about the relative difference between the results of Aboriginal…
Learning Versus Education: Rethinking Learning in Anangu Schools
- Author: Sam Osborne
- Published: 2013
In the remote schooling context, much recent media attention has been directed to issues of poor attendance, low attainment rates of minimal benchmarks in literacy and numeracy, poor retention and…
The art of online marketing: linking remote Aboriginal artists with global markets.
- Author: Acker T.
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Published: 2013
The art of online marketing: linking remote Aboriginal artists with global markets.
Marketing in unstable times: new Aboriginal art and enterprise.
- Author: Acker T.
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Published: 2013
Marketing in unstable times: new Aboriginal art and enterprise.
Population distribution, environment and development in Australia
- Author: Graeme Hugo
- Publisher: Australian Population & Migration Research Centre, University of Adelaide
- Published: 2013
The recent debate about Australia’s future population has focused squarely on issues of the size of the national population, yet there is a long standing discussion about the distribution of…
Red dirt thinking on educational disadvantage
- Authors: Guenther J., Osborne S., Bat M.
- Published: 2013
The discourse of remote education is often characterised by a rhetoric of disadvantage. This is reflected in statistics that on the surface seem unambiguous in their demonstration of poor outcomes…
Foundations for employment and full participation in remote areas
- Author: Ferguson, J.
- Published: 2013
• Need holistic approach to address health inequity: • improving education • employment • infrastructure • climate change adaptation strategies • ‘One size fits all’ policies and programs don’t work…
Developing a consumer-based brand equity model in an Aboriginal tourism context
- Author: Janine Ashwell
- Published: 2013
This paper reports results from an exploratory study, which forms part of a larger multi-method project investigating the drivers of destination choice in Aboriginal tourism within Australia. Utilising Trip Advisor…
Towards educational advantage in very remote Australia: An analysis of 2012 NAPLAN data: what does it tell us about remote education in the last five years?
- Author: John Guenther
- Publisher: Australian Association for Research in Education
- Published: 2013
For five years now, a national testing program has been conducted in Australia. While there has been much agitation and concern about the merit of this program, particularly for students…
Rural Allied Health Scholarship (RAHUS) & Nursing and Allied Health Scholarship and Support Scheme (NAHSSS) Undergraduate (Entry-Level) Scholarship: Completed Scholar Survey Results
- Author: Services for Australian Rural and Remote Allied Health (SARRAH)
- Publisher: Services for Australian Rural and Remote Allied Health
- Published: 2013
This report examines whether the financial support provided under the Nursing and Allied Health Scholarship and Support Scheme (NAHSSS) Undergraduate (Entry-Level) Scholarship, formerly known as the Rural Allied Health Undergraduate…
Mental Health in Rural and Remote South Australian Communities
- Author: Health Performance Council of South Australia
- Published: 2013
In preparation for its 2014 four yearly review of the health system, the Health Performance Council (HPC) held a series of consultation forums, including with Health Advisory Councils (HACs). From…
Reporting of non-prescribed medication usage in remote Australia: health-seeking habits in Port Headland
- Authors: Ellis, Isabelle, Deacon-Crouch, Melissa, Bhana, Ashwin, Longley, Kieran, Voon, Nicholas, Skinner, Timothy
- Published: 2013
Studies have indicated that the emergency department is the third most common site of hospital adverse events –many attributed to negligence. Because the emergency department is their first point of…
Processes and outcomes for a successful engagement between a medical school and a remote Indigenous community in North Queensland, Australia
- Authors: Duffy G, Ross SJ, Woolley TS, Sivamalai S, Whaleboat D, Miller A
- Published: 2013
Introduction: Medical students should be equipped with the necessary knowledge, skills and attitudes to engage with local communities on placement, and later act as agents of change in addressing health…
Using economic, social and ecological spatial patterns to guide policy development in the Pilbara and Southern Rangelands of Western Australia
- Authors: Safstrom, Rodney D., Waddell, Peter-Jon
- Published: 2013
The pastoral industry in the Pilbara and Southern Rangelands of Western Australia continues to face very difficult economic, social and ecological situations due to decline in terms of trade and…
Impacts of level of utilisation by grazing on an Astrebla (Mitchell grass) grassland in north-western Queensland between 1984 and 2010. 2. Plant species richness and abundance
- Authors: Orr, D. M., Phelps, D. G.
- Published: 2013
The occurrence of interstitial species in Astrebla grasslands in Australia are influenced by grazing and seasonal rainfall but the interactions of these two influences are complex. This paper describes three…
University Student Mental Health - Rural and Remote Settings
- Authors: John Coombs, Zahra Tasha Wahid
- Publisher: Australian Medical Students’ Association Student Mental Health and Wellbeing Committee
- Published: 2013
Only relatively recently has the extent of the mental health burden in Australia been truly appreciated. The beginning of this change was seen in the 1993 report of the Human…
Seed bank dynamics of Acacia farnesiana (L.) Willd. and its encroachment potential in sub-humid grasslands of eastern Australia
- Authors: Erkovan, H. Ibrahim, Clarke, Peter J., Whalley, Ralph D. B.
- Published: 2013
Shrub encroachment involves abiotic and biotic factors that regulate demographic factors influencing seed production, storage, germination, and subsequent recruitment. In the rangelands of semi-arid and arid Australia, the thorny acacia,…