Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Australian state proposes student debt relief for lawyers willing to practice in rural places

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" Bold new plan to get more lawyers to go to the bush ," is the headline for this radio story by the Australian Broadcasting Corpo...
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Thursday, October 26, 2023

Whose land is it anyway? Why South Australian farmland has no protection against mining.

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As it currently stands within the 1971 Mining Act of South Australia , farmers have no right to veto mining activities over their land. When...
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Saturday, October 14, 2023

Moving backwards - Australia votes no for the indigenous voice to parliament

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On Saturday 14 October, Australia was faced with a monumental opportunity to amend their Constitution with the nation's 45th referendum ...
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Saturday, September 30, 2023

Is this the end of an era? Live sheep exports expected to conclude in Australia (Part 2)

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Picture this : You live in rolling paddocks of greenery with room to graze and freely roam. You live in family groups and have easy access t...
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Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Is this the end of an era? Sheep exports expected to conclude in Australia (Part 1)

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At its peak in 2017-2018, the Australian live sheep export industry was worth over $160 million USD, exporting a total of 2 million sheep . ...
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Wednesday, March 29, 2023

New Zealand study finds rural elderly face "latent precarity"

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 This piece, titled "Rurality and latent precarity: Growing older in a small rural New Zealand town" was recently published by the...
Monday, November 28, 2022

States steering more money to rural roads

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That's from a Pew Report published earlier this month. An excerpt follows:  [A] growing number of states have been focusing their attent...
Friday, April 1, 2022

Ag crime on two continents--and an interesting rural crime reporting network in the UK

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First out of New Zealand, a story about systematic slashing of plastic coverings on large hay bales in the Otago region of the South Island,...
Monday, October 5, 2020

Citizen science in rural Australia

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  Here's a charming report out of remote South Australia by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation:   When rainfall strikes, the first ...
Thursday, April 16, 2020

Coronavirus in rural Australia: Resistance from remote Queensland

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From the Australian Broadcasting Corporation comes t his headline , "Coronavirus rules need to be relaxed in remote areas, pubs should ...
Friday, January 17, 2020

My Rural Travelogue (Part XXVIII): New Zealand

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Secondary road between Rotorua and Taupo Sign for passenger ferry on Waiheke Island (c) Lisa R. Pruitt 2019 I spent the winter bre...
Thursday, September 19, 2019

Rural news out of Australia

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I've been collecting these stories and am just going to roll them into a single post, with "Australia" as the common theme: ...
Sunday, February 3, 2019

Literary Ruralism (Part XIV): A thriller from down under

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I read a review of The Lost Man in today's New York Times .  The new novel, by Jane Harper, is being published this week in the United ...
Monday, May 21, 2018

Farmer suicides in Australia, old news down under but now in the New York Times

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The New York Times today includes a long-ish feature  story on farmer suicides in Australia .  The headline is "A Booming Economy with...
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Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Trump's trade policies hard on farmers (or at least on agribusiness)

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While some political commentary suggested that many rural Americans were drawn to Donald Trump's candidacy because of his tough stance o...
Sunday, November 15, 2015

Finding the balance between rural tourism and transforming the rural into urban enclaves.

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Introduction At the root of the myriad challenges facing rural dwellers is an anemic economy.  Whether local economic activity is focuse...
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Sunday, November 1, 2015

Indigenous Australians: the brutal cycle of subpar education, healthcare, and poverty for a rural population

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Introduction In many respects the story of Indigenous Australians and Torres Strait Islanders (hereinafter referred to as Indigenous ...