However, the surge of urban to rural migration has seen house prices in Australia's regions surge by 23.9 percent in the year to April 2022, outpacing even Australia's capital cities which grew by 14.6 percent. Rynski said the shift would help promote a more even and balanced Australia, as...
There is growing acceptance that the fortunes of the non-metropolitan Australian ecumene are increasingly dependent on the interchanges of population, capital and ideas between cities and rural towns and regions. Yet we know relatively little about the push and pull forces drawing city residents into...
Gender differentials in migration propensity between women and men are evident even at quite local scales. Young people are also more likely to search out capital cities than the rest of the population. Most inland areas still continue to experience heavy losses of local youth. A more precise ...
The study covers the period from 1981 to 2006, and includes the rural areas of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, excluding major cities, peri-urban areas and the remote rangelands. It examines demographic change and differential ageing in a selection of the rural settlement ...
Life changes along a variety of dimensions, moving from the most remote forest outpost through fields and pastures, past tiny hamlets, through small towns with weekly farm markets, into intensively cultivated areas near large towns and small cities, eventually reaching the center of a megacity. ...
They are currently being targeted as centres for rural service provision and growth to compete with larger cities. Although it has been generally acknowledged that small towns play an important role in servicing their rural hinterlands (Courtney et al., 2007; Miller and Kean, 1997; Powe and ...
"These rural houses are an excellent retreat for people who are bored living in cities and desire a more rural lifestyle," Xiao said. Under the company's scheme, each investor puts in around 30,000 to 150,000 dollars to turn vacant houses into hotel rooms. The three parties divide the ...
CANBERRA, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- Drug use in rural Australia far exceeds that in capital cities, according to the latest testing figures. Wastewater samples from across the nation showed that regional Australians used more cannabis, prescription opioids, alcohol and methamphetamine than those who lived...
"To date, this has been the responsibility of GPs trained in the bush, but specialists are trained in capital cities with very little exposure or opportunity to live, work and train in rural andremote areas," he said. "Digital platforms such as Telehealth that have been implemented to addres...
RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION IN CHINA AND INDONESIA: PATTERNS, CONSEQUENCES, AND POLICY INTERVENTIONS Aims and Background Economic growth almost inevitably leads to substantial movement of labour from the rural agricultural sector to secondary and tertiary industries in cities. This movement is thought to benefi...