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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 …


Creative Arts, People And Places: Which Policy Directions?, Christopher Gibson Sep 2012

Creative Arts, People And Places: Which Policy Directions?, Christopher Gibson

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