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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.
Demand Responsive Services: An analytical framework for improved administrative practice in Indigenous settlements
- Author: Moran, M
- Published: 2008
Demand responsiveness is an established principle in the efficient operation of markets. The principle has been applied to government services in international development overseas, and mainstream government service delivery in…
Relationships in remote communities: Implications for living in remote Australia
- Authors: Guerin, B, Guerin, P
- Published: 2008
There are issues with living in remote regions of Australia that arise from the different forms of social relationships. In this paper we outline three forms of relationships that are…
Worro Downs Water Supply Manual
- Authors: Grey-Gardner, R, Skabe, D
- Publisher: Desert Knowledge CRC and FaCSIA
- Published: 2008
Worro Downs System Schematic July 2006 Worro Downs System Hazards and Rectifications Worro Downs Water Supply Weekly to Monthly Checks Worro Downs Water Supply Monthly to Yearly Checks Worro Downs…
Yappala Water Supply Manual
- Authors: Grey-Gardner, R, Skabe, D
- Publisher: Desert Knowledge CRC and FaCSIA
- Published: 2008
Yappala System Schematic July 2006 Yappala Water Supply Hazards and Rectifications Yappala Water Supply Weekly and Monthly Checks Yappala Water Supply Monthly and Yearly Checks Yappala Water Supply Special Events…
Implementing risk management for water supplies: a catalyst and incentive for change
- Author: Grey-Gardner, R
- Published: 2008
Water management in small Aboriginal settlements in remote Australia is typified by technology-driven approaches where knowledge, decision-making and responsibility reside with organisations and agencies outside the settlement. This conventional approach…
Walking an epistemological tightrope – the challenges of conducting funded indigenous tourism enterprise research
- Author: Gale, D
- Publisher: Council of Australian Tourism and Hospitality Education
- Published: 2008
This paper is about how I and why I came to conduct the research the way I did. As a non-Indigenous person conducting funded research to identify the factors that…
Chapter 8: Review of non-commercial control methods for feral camels in Australia
- Authors: Saalfeld, WK, Zeng, B
- Publisher: Desert Knowledge CRC
- Published: 2008
Current management of feral camels falls far short of an integrated management approach, with limited integration of different control methods or across jurisdictions (Edwards et al. 2004, Norris & Low…
A national approach to the management of feral camels
- Authors: Edwards, GP, McGregor, MJ, Zeng, B , Vaarzon-Morel, P
- Published: 2008
The management of feral camels in Australia presents many challenges. Camels are widely distributed across the rangelands of Western Australia, South Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland and currently occupy…
Modelling management options for management of feral camels in central Australia
- Authors: McLeod, SR, Pople, AR
- Publisher: Desert Knowledge CRC
- Published: 2008
The objectives of this study are to: Determine the impact of harvesting on camel population dynamics. This includes a sensitivity analysis to determine the relative importance of age-specific mortality and…
Chapter 10: Economics of feral camel control in the central region of the Northern Territory (summary)
- Author: Drucker, AG
- Publisher: Desert Knowledge CRC
- Published: 2008
A cost-benefit analysis based on a bio-economic model was carried out to evaluate specific feral camel control strategies in the central region of the Northern Territory (NT). Based on expert…
The housing careers of Indigenous urban households
- Authors: Birdsall-Jones, C. L., Corunna, V.
- Publisher: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
- Published: 2008
The AHURI research agenda item that this research stems from called for an analysis of the Indigenous housing experience conceptualised as housing careers. The agenda linked this research to National…
Solving Poverty for Yourself: Microenterprise Development, Microfinance and Migration
- Author: Eversole, Robyn
- Publisher: Icfai University Press
- Published: 2008
Microenterprise development and microfinance have been widely adopted as anti-poverty strategies internationally. They are popular because they provide a meeting-point between neo-liberal advocates of private enterprise and the market as…
Justice as Healing: Going Outside the Colonizers' Cage
- Authors: McCaslin, Wanda D, Breton, Denise C
- Publisher: Sage Publications
- Published: 2008
Justice as Healing: Going Outside the Colonizers' Cage
The Need to Extend Beyond the Knowledge Gained in Cross-Cultural Awareness Training
- Author: Fredericks, Bronwyn
- Published: 2008
In the Health sector, Cross-Cultural Awareness Training has been seen as a way to improve knowledge and understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to therefore improve service delivery…
Neo-liberalism, risk and regional development in the Western Australia: The case of the Pilbara
- Authors: Pick, D., Dayaram, K., Butler, B.
- Published: 2008
Purpose – This paper aims to present the case of the Pilbara as an illustration of how neo-liberalism and globalisation affect a natural resource region. Design/methodology/approach – A primary data…
Educational attainment and the (growing) importance of age structure: Indigenous and non-indigenous Australians
- Author: Jackson, Natalie
- Publisher: Springer Netherlands
- Published: 2008
Australia’s Indigenous population has a markedly younger age structure than its non-Indigenous counterpart. As a result, greater proportions of the Indigenous population are presently at school and approaching tertiary education…
Addressing social determinants of health inequities: what can the state and civil society do?
- Authors: Blas, Erik, Gilson, Lucy, Kelly, Michael P., Labonté, Ronald, Lapitan, Jostacio, Muntaner, Carles, Östlin, Piroska, Popay, Jennie, Sadana, Ritu, Sen, Gita, Schrecker, Ted, Vaghri, Ziba
- Published: 2008
In this Health Policy article, we selected and reviewed evidence synthesised by nine knowledge networks established by WHO to support the Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. We have…
Indigenous Peoples and Indicators of Well-being: Australian Perspectives on United Nations Global Frameworks
- Author: Taylor, John
- Publisher: Springer Netherlands
- Published: 2008
One of the major tasks of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) following its establishment in 2000 has been to establish statistical profiles of the world’s Indigenous…
Let's hear it from the Board ....: An analysis of regional development governance in Western Australia and New South Wales
- Author: Conway, M.
- Publisher: University of New England
- Published: 2008
This research examines how board members of regional development agencies in Australia interpret and perform their governance role, and considers what this tells us about the nature of regional development…
The feasibility of a new horticultural precinct on the Gnangara Mound
- Authors: Science Matters, Economics Consulting Services
- Publisher: Department of the Agriculture and Food
- Published: 2008
Historically horticultural land has been developed on the fringes of the urban area of Perth. Land for horticulture has been taken up as freehold broadacre agriculture land and in time…