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’.
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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…
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Director, The Cairns Institute, James Cook University
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Associate Professor, Western Sydney 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 (Curriculum Inquiry / Rural Education), University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Co-director of the Centre for Rural Criminology, University of New England
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