A new parliamentary report has taken an informed and sensible approach to developing regional Australia, without simply focusing on the contentious issue of decentralisation.
Articles on Rural Australia
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Volunteers have long been the lifeblood of rural communities. But as their numbers shrink, remote towns are at a loss for how to replace them.
A government review of regional, rural and remote education tells us we need to recognise the uniqueness of and understand successes in these communities to improve outcomes for these students.
A culture of male dominance in rural Australia is a key explainer for the high rate of sexual harassment in rural workplaces.
The big cities are still magnets for tourists, but often they find the smaller towns offer a more satisfying taste of local life. It’s why rural tourism can be ‘the perfect small town business idea’.
If we fail to recognise that standardised tests are metro-centric, we will continue to produce disadvantage for rural students.
It’s not the first time Australia has grappled with concerns about affordable housing. History offers insights that can help inform contemporary debates and policies.
Outside the capital cities and the coastal fringes, the towns and people of rural and regional Australia have had to be inventive to get through the tough times.
On the big national policies affecting non-metropolitan Australia, such as agriculture and trade, the major party differences are minor. That’s why the election focus turns to local projects.
What are the issues facing rural and regional Australia? The challenges are many and varied – and only some have made the national political agenda – but these areas deserve better than neglect.
Growing population, growing demand for food, climate change: Australia’s rural lands are facing a number of pressures. So how can we sustainably use them in the future?
Current incentives used to recruit more teachers to work in rural and regional schools aren’t working. But could the health sector offer up some possible solutions?
nbn is set to launch two satellites to bring high speed broadband to rural Australia. Here’s how they work.
Gina Rinehart’s purchase of the Fossil Downs cattle station comes as beef prices are headed for new highs.
Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull reiterated the importance of the National Broadband Network (NBN) for regional and rural Australia in an address to the NBN Rebooted conference in Sydney last week…
The recent multiple homicide in a small Victorian township, coming barely a month after a mass shooting in rural New South Wales, may give the impression that firearm-related murders in rural Australia…
Top contributors
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Director, The Cairns Institute, James Cook University
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Associate professor in Criminology, University of New England
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Professor (Curriculum Inquiry / Rural Education), University of Canberra
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, University of Sydney
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Executive Dean, UniSA Business, Adelaide University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Co-Director of the Centre for Rural Criminology, University of New England
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Associate professor in Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Deputy Dean Research at Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Regional Economic Development, School of Business and Law, CQUniversity Australia
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Professor, Griffith University
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Professor of Social Economics, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, School of Management and Marketing, Curtin University
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Professor and Head of School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Human Geography, University of New England