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The Grouping And Prioritizing Of Driving Forces For Ict Adoption By Medical Practitioners: Do These Differ Between Rural And Urban Gps In Australia?, Robert Macgregor, Charles Harvie, Peter Hyland Nov 2012

The Grouping And Prioritizing Of Driving Forces For Ict Adoption By Medical Practitioners: Do These Differ Between Rural And Urban Gps In Australia?, Robert Macgregor, Charles Harvie, Peter Hyland

Associate Professor Peter Hyland

Increasing use of ICT technologies in medical practices has led to a number of studies examining their use in rural as well as urban settings. The purpose of this study is to examine how GPs in rural and urban practice group and prioritise the driving forces for ICT adoption. Correlation and factor analysis was performed on the data sets (198 GPs, 122 Rural - 76 urban) obtained by means of a survey questionnaire. Not only do the results show that the drivers can be 'simplified' from 16 to 2 or 3, but they also show that there are differences both …


The Grouping And Prioritising Of Driving Forces For Ict Adoption By Medical Practitioners: Do These Differ Between Rural And Urban Gps In Australia, Peter Hyland, Charles Harvie, Robert Macgregor Nov 2012

The Grouping And Prioritising Of Driving Forces For Ict Adoption By Medical Practitioners: Do These Differ Between Rural And Urban Gps In Australia, Peter Hyland, Charles Harvie, Robert Macgregor

Associate Professor Peter Hyland

No abstract provided.


Investing In Australia: A Cultural And Practical Guide, John Glynn, Martin O'Shannessy, Rob Goodfellow Oct 2012

Investing In Australia: A Cultural And Practical Guide, John Glynn, Martin O'Shannessy, Rob Goodfellow

John J Glynn

This practical guide for overseas investors and visitors to Australia who want to consider setting up a new business operation or investing in business there provides the background to the country's business culture. It also includes a directory listing agencies and selected resources.


Decolonising, Multiplicities And Mining In The Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia, Leah Gibbs Sep 2012

Decolonising, Multiplicities And Mining In The Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia, Leah Gibbs

Leah Maree Gibbs

In this 'postcolonial' era, peoples and places around the globe continue to face ongoing colonisation. Indigenous peoples in particular experience colonisation in numerous forms. Despite recent attempts to 'decolonise' indigenous spaces, hegemonic systems of production, governance and thinking often perpetuate colonial structures and relationships, resulting in further entrenched colonisation or 'deep colonising' (Rose, 1999). The interface between indigenous communities and the mining industry provides fertile ground for the tensions emerging between decolonising and deep colonising. Gold mining operations at Placer Dome's Granny Smith mine in the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia present a valuable case study for examining this tension. …


The Cultural Research Network: Opportunities For A Rhizomic Future For Geography In Australia?, Christopher Gibson Sep 2012

The Cultural Research Network: Opportunities For A Rhizomic Future For Geography In Australia?, Christopher Gibson

Chris Gibson

No abstract provided.


Counter-Geographies: The Campaign Against Rationalisation Of Agricultural Research Stations In New South Wales, Australia, Christopher Gibson, S Phillips, R. Dufty, Heather Smith Sep 2012

Counter-Geographies: The Campaign Against Rationalisation Of Agricultural Research Stations In New South Wales, Australia, Christopher Gibson, S Phillips, R. Dufty, Heather Smith

Chris Gibson

No abstract provided.


Shifting Welfare, Shifting People: Rural Development, Housing And Population Mobility In Australia, Rae Dufty, Christopher Gibson Sep 2012

Shifting Welfare, Shifting People: Rural Development, Housing And Population Mobility In Australia, Rae Dufty, Christopher Gibson

Chris Gibson

Rural welfare is more than addressing problems of ‘poverty’. As we argue here, social policy initiatives are also conceived by governments as solutions to geographical problems about uneven regional development and population distribution. What these problems were, and how welfare provision could solve them, has varied from generation to generation and takes shape in place-specific ways. That welfare provision has operated as de facto geographical development and population policy is particularly the case in Australia, in its context of massive continental size and heterogeneous rural places. In Australia, the ‘rural’ means much more than just the ‘countryside’ surrounding or between …


Geography In Higher Education In Australia, Christopher Gibson Sep 2012

Geography In Higher Education In Australia, Christopher Gibson

Chris Gibson

No abstract provided.


Music Festivals And Regional Development In Australia, Christopher Gibson, John Connell Sep 2012

Music Festivals And Regional Development In Australia, Christopher Gibson, John Connell

Chris Gibson

No abstract provided.


Ambient Australia: Music, Meditation And Tourist Places, Christopher Gibson, John Connell Sep 2012

Ambient Australia: Music, Meditation And Tourist Places, Christopher Gibson, John Connell

Chris Gibson

This chapter examines how music informs the creation of tourist places in Australia. It discusses one genre-ambient music-and the way it is related to geography both symbolically (in terms of cultural representations), and literally (in terms of links to musical and touristic activities in particular towns). The rise of ambient music has contributed to the imaginative representation of a touristic Australia of "natural" physical and cultural landscapes, where indigenous people are particularly significant. Designed to encourage relaxation and even sleep, in its cover art, its sounds and lyrics (where they exist), ambient music has emphasized "special" places both generic and …


Evolution Of Australian Government Industry Statement: Building A Competitive Australia, Robert Castle Jun 2012

Evolution Of Australian Government Industry Statement: Building A Competitive Australia, Robert Castle

Robert G. Castle

No abstract provided.


Regional Problems In The Implementation Of Labout Market Programs: Aboriginal Employment Programs In Australia, Robert Castle Jun 2012

Regional Problems In The Implementation Of Labout Market Programs: Aboriginal Employment Programs In Australia, Robert Castle

Robert G. Castle

No abstract provided.


The Economic Imperative For Restructuring In Australia And New Zealand, Robert Castle, Nigel Haworth Jun 2012

The Economic Imperative For Restructuring In Australia And New Zealand, Robert Castle, Nigel Haworth

Robert G. Castle

No abstract provided.


Government Sector And The Private Sector: An Input-Output Analysis For Australia, Robert Castle, J Guest Jun 2012

Government Sector And The Private Sector: An Input-Output Analysis For Australia, Robert Castle, J Guest

Robert G. Castle

No abstract provided.


“Unfree" Labour On The Cattle Stations Of Northern Australia, The Tea Gardens Of Assam, And The Rubber Plantations Of Indo-China, 1920–50, Robert Castle, James Hagan, Andrew Wells Jun 2012

“Unfree" Labour On The Cattle Stations Of Northern Australia, The Tea Gardens Of Assam, And The Rubber Plantations Of Indo-China, 1920–50, Robert Castle, James Hagan, Andrew Wells

Robert G. Castle

This chapter examines unfree labour in three industries in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It focuses on the forms and consequences of protest which arose amongst workers in these industries in response to the conditions under which they were employed. The Assamese tea industry, Vietnamese rubber plantations and Northern Australian cattle ranching used differing means of production, technology and investment but all relied on colonial governments to enable them to recruit and retain a 'contracted' labour force. The forms of the labour relationship varied but led to protests which often took on a wider meaning in struggles for liberation.


Australia And The World In The Twentieth Century, Josephine Castle, Robert Castle, Chris Fisher, Allan Healy, Jim Hagan Jun 2012

Australia And The World In The Twentieth Century, Josephine Castle, Robert Castle, Chris Fisher, Allan Healy, Jim Hagan

Robert G. Castle

No abstract provided.


Economic Imperatives For Restructuring In Australia, Robert Castle Jun 2012

Economic Imperatives For Restructuring In Australia, Robert Castle

Robert G. Castle

No abstract provided.


Social And Economic Change In Australia In World War Ii, Robert Castle Jun 2012

Social And Economic Change In Australia In World War Ii, Robert Castle

Robert G. Castle

No abstract provided.


Australia Since 1945, Robert Castle, James Hagan Jun 2012

Australia Since 1945, Robert Castle, James Hagan

Robert G. Castle

No abstract provided.