Using economic, social and ecological spatial patterns to guide policy development in the Pilbara and Southern Rangelands of Western Australia

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodney Safstrom ◽  
Peter-Jon Waddell
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Landscape Patterns ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Ecological Sustainability ◽  
Economic Decline ◽  
Ecological Patterns ◽  
Buy Back ◽  
Ecological Landscape

The pastoral industry in the Pilbara and Southern Rangelands of Western Australia continues to face very difficult economic, social and ecological situations due to decline in terms of trade and ongoing decline in range condition. Land administration by State government for the pastoral industry has a strong focus on environmental and ecological sustainability but these goals have largely not been achieved. Regional planning and incentive-based approaches have either failed or only been partly successful at pastoral lease scale. This paper identifies four broad economic, social and ecological landscape patterns ranging from economic, social and ecological sustainability to failure across all three dimensions. Some lessees are adapting to economic decline by obtaining work off station or diversification in the limited locations where these opportunities are available, in some cases facilitating landscape restoration. Market-based incentives may be effective where economic viability is attainable but lease buy-back may be required where leaseholders are locked into a poverty cycle. Carbon-based income is problematic until governance and economic parameters are resolved. Mapping the economic, social and ecological patterns in the landscape is a basis for policy and special purpose initiatives to resolve the current very difficult economic, social and environmental situation in the Pilbara and Southern Rangelands.

Decolonising the health and well-being of Aboriginal men in Australia

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Prehn ◽  
Douglas Ezzy
Keyword(s):  
Health Outcomes ◽  
State Government ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Men’S Health ◽  
Men's Health ◽  
Adventure Therapy ◽  
Male Health ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Effective Models

Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander men have the worst health of any group in Australia. Despite this, relevant policies do not specifically explain how the issue will be improved. Existing research demonstrates the complexity of the problems facing Australian Indigenous men. The intersection of masculinity and Indigeneity, compounded by colonisation, historical policies, stigma, marginalisation, trauma, grief and loss of identity are key factors that shape these poor health outcomes. These outcomes are acknowledged in federal and some state government policies but not implemented. The article argues for a holistic and decolonised approach to Australian Aboriginal men’s health. Effective models of intervention to improve men’s health outcomes include men’s health clinics, men’s groups, Men’s Sheds, men’s health camps/bush adventure therapy, fathering groups and mentoring programs. Further research needs to be undertaken, with a greater emphasis on preventative health measures, adequate specific funding, culturally and gender appropriate responses to health, and government policy development and implementation covering Aboriginal male health.

scholarly journals The Yannarie Solar Project: Design of a Solar Saltfield in Western Australia to Safeguard the Natural Environment

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-18
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
State Government ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Migratory Bird ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Gulf Region ◽  
Marine Fauna ◽  
Solar Salt ◽  
Exmouth Gulf ◽  
Salt Industry

The Northwest Coast of Western Australia is the location for a number of large solar saltfields. More than 10 million tonnes of high grade solar salt is exported annually from these saltfields; predominantly servicing the chloralkali industries of Northern and Southeast Asia. Straits Resources Limited is a mining company with operations in Australia and Indonesia. It has identified the solar salt industry as an opportunity to diversify its resource portfolio and build a longer-term position within the resource sector. Access has been approved by the Government of Western Australia to a large area in the eastern Exmouth Gulf region of Western Australia suitable for a solar saltfield with an ultimate capacity as high as 10 million tonnes per annum. All new resources projects in Australia must proceed through a rigorous environmental approval process at both the Federal (Commonwealth) and State Government levels. Straits commissioned a team of saltfield design, environmental and engineering consultants to design an economically viable saltfield that minimises impacts to the environment. There has been a series of iterative changes in its design based on feedback from environmental and cultural heritage studies. This has enabled the saltfield to be specifically located within a defined footprint to avoid sensitive areas such as mangroves, tidal creeks and algal mats. Comprehensive studies have been undertaken on the local marine and terrestrial flora and fauna (including migratory bird and marine fauna), together with surveys for cultural heritage, soils, hydrology and a sweep of other parameters including hydrodynamic modelling of the marine environment. A commercial trawling fishing industry operates in the waters of Exmouth Gulf that is also the permanent home or on the migratory path of a number of significant marine fauna, including whales, turtles, and dugongs. The project, known as the Yannarie Solar Project, is progressing through the environmental approval processes of the Australian Commonwealth and Western Australian Governments. The conclusion is that the technical findings of the suite of studies that examined the environmental aspects of the engineering requirements of the saltfield provide a sound basis for project approval. Assuming that approval is given, and the current schedule maintained, construction would commence in 2008 and shipments of salt in 2011.

Goolarabooloo Futures: Mining and Aborigines in Northwest Australia

2018 ◽  
pp. 208-223
Author(s):  
Stephen Muecke
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
The State ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Mining Companies ◽  
The World ◽  
Multinational Mining Companies ◽  
Liquefied Gas ◽  
Northwest Australia

In our apparently postcolonial age, colonization is proceeding apace in Goolarabooloo country near Broome in Western Australia where sovereignty has never been ceded, and no treaty ratified. The colonial ‘settler’ economy was established in the late 19th century with the pearling and pastoral industries, but today it is multinational mining companies (‘extraction colonialism’) that are extending their reach with the urging of the State government and even some Aboriginal agencies. This ethnographic study describes two ‘worlds’: Those (the ‘Moderns’) who like to see themselves as ‘naturally’ extending the territory of a universalist modernity via their institutions of science and technology, governmental organisation, the law and the economy. Under scrutiny, this world turns out to be less robust institutionally and conceptually than it pretends to be; it operates with fantasies, blunders, poor planning, little negotiation and waste. Often it works, but in the instance of the four-year struggle between Woodside Energy and the Goolarabooloo, the latter was able to resist the former’s desire to build a liquefied gas plant on their traditional land. Woodside and its partners left with billions of dollars wasted in the effort. The ‘world’ of the Indigenous Goolarabooloo is the second group of institutions my extended ethnography will describe.

scholarly journals A frontier functions approach to optimal scales of sustainable production

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 566-584
Author(s):  
Viet-Ngu Hoang
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Production ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Ecological Sustainability ◽  
Economic Optimization ◽  
Negative Externalities ◽  
Input Output ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
Ecological Optimization

AbstractThis paper translates the concepts of sustainable production to three dimensions of economic, environmental and ecological sustainability to analyze optimal production scales by solving optimizing problems. Economic optimization seeks input-output combinations to maximize profits. Environmental optimization searches for input-output combinations that minimize the polluting effects of materials balance on the surrounding environment. Ecological optimization looks for input-output combinations that minimize the cumulative destruction of the entire ecosystem. Using an aggregate space, the framework illustrates that these optimal scales are often not identical because markets fail to account for all negative externalities. Profit-maximizing firms normally operate at the scales which are larger than optimal scales from the viewpoints of environmental and ecological sustainability; hence policy interventions are favoured. The framework offers a useful tool for efficiency studies and policy implication analysis. The paper provides an empirical investigation using a data set of rice farms in South Korea.

School Leadership Development in Western Australia: An Impact Study

1995 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 248-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Wildy ◽  
John Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
State Government ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Design Feature ◽  
Impact Study ◽  
Government Schools ◽  
Innovative Leadership ◽  
The People

This paper reports an impact study of the Western Australian School Leadership Program, an innovative leadership development program for principals, deputy principals and heads of department of elementary and secondary government schools in the state of Western Australia. Approximately half of the people in promotional positions in state government schools had participated in the program at the time of the study. Perceptions of the nature and extent of change in leader practice as a result of involvement in the program were sought from all program participants using a questionnaire and a series of case studies. A design feature of the study was that participants were asked to select a colleague with whom they worked closely to give their perceptions of the nature and extent of change. It was found that the program was perceived to have an impact on leader behavior in schools. This effect was enhanced when a number of leaders from the same school participated in the program.

scholarly journals Quantitative Analysis of Policy Transfer among China’s National Innovation Independent Demonstration Zones

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Feng Feng ◽  
Qing Li
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Evaluation ◽  
Index System ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Policy Transfer ◽  
Policy Innovation ◽  
Evaluation Index System ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Evaluation Index ◽  
Independent Innovation

Policy transfer is a process in which different organizations learn from each other to achieve policy innovation. It is also considered as an important channel of policy issuance. In China, national independent innovation demonstration zones serve as carriers of not only technological development, but also technological policies issued by China. Along with development of these national independent innovation demonstration zones, policy exchange and cooperation has become increasingly frequent among them. This paper attempts to find out different paths for policy transfer through a textual analysis of policies among China’s national independent innovation demonstration zones. First, quantitative connotation and characteristics of policy transfer are analyzed. Then, a policy transfer quantitative evaluation index system is built based on three dimensions of policy transfer, namely intensity, breadth and speed. Following that, the quantitative evaluation index system is used to analyze policy transfer among national independent innovation demonstration zones. The paper tries to explore favorable policy categories for transfer, and learn the policy development status in these national independent innovation demonstration zones as well as the policy transfer trend from different perspectives. To sum up, this research can provide not only data support for policy innovation of China’s independent innovational demonstration zones and accelerate their in-depth cooperation in terms of policy transfer, but also a new methodological research paradigm for quantitative analysis of policy transfer among parallel organizations.

scholarly journals MENGUAK RELASI PATRIOTISME, REVOLUSI DAN NEGARA DALAM FILM INDONESIA

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eka Nada Sofa Alkhajar
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
The State ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Practice Level ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Frame Work ◽  
Discourse Practice

The research aims to know how Pagar Kawat Berduri film describe about patriotism discourse, how the audiences interprete this film and what factors that make it produced by using critical discourse analaysis technique from Norman Fairclough model. This research uses qualitative approach with critical paradigm. Fairclough model analysis uses three dimensions as frame work: text, discourse practice (production and consumption) and socioculture practice. In text level, used semiotic analysis, then in discourse practice level, used documentary study and literature study to analize production matter and in other hand used indepth interview to analize consumption matter and also used documentary study and literature study for analizing in socioculture practice level. The research shows that Pagar Kawat Berduri film carried patriotism discourse in the scenes, attitudes, and dialogues by the actors. And also including the simbolizations that showed both from visual and picture languages: mimics, gestures, lighting, costumes etc. In the production side of discource practice level, the values of life from the director influenced very strong the film of Pagar Kawat Berduri. Then in the consumption side, audiences catch well about the messages in this film similar as that researcher had analized it in text analysis. At last in socioculture practice level, although Asrul Sani as the director gived great influence in his film but the authorize still limited by social structure where he lived. It’s means that the power of the state (government) in the era giving the greatest influence in this film because if there is a film didn’t match with the state (government) policy such as contributing in reinforced the revolution spirit, it will be band immediately

scholarly journals Determinants of length of stay:implications on differential funding for rural and metropolitan hospitals

2000 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy H Lee ◽  
Jim Codde
Keyword(s):  
Length Of Stay ◽  
State Government ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Diagnosis Related Groups ◽  
Patient Discharge ◽  
Inpatient Stay ◽  
Discharge Data ◽  
Patient Transfers ◽  
Adjustment Strategy ◽  
Government Perspective

This study analysed and compared the determinants of length of inpatient stay between the rural and metropolitanpublic hospitals. The investigation was based on the 1998/99 Western Australia patient discharge data. A Coxregression model was used due to the high proportion of patient transfers in the rural hospitals. It was found thatseveral variables were associated with length of stay (LOS) variations within Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG). Themethod provides additional insights to hospital management and clinicians in assessing the risk of prolongedhospitalisation. From a state government perspective, a DRG payment adjustment strategy may be developed fordifferent categories of admitted patient episodes. The analysis has implications on the formulation of differentialfunding rates between rural and metropolitan hospitals.

The Impact of School-Community Involvement on Students, Teachers, and the Community

2015 ◽  
pp. 221-239
Author(s):  
Carolyn Gregoric ◽  
Laurence Owens
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
South Australia ◽  
School Community ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Grounded Theory Research ◽  
Government Education ◽  
History Of ◽  
Future Policy

Business and community groups have a long history of involvement in schools. Although their role in schools is gaining prominence and recognition in national and state government education policies, few Australian studies have investigated this phenomenon from the perspectives and experiences of all the stakeholders: students, teachers, and the community. This chapter seeks to increase understanding of school-community involvement by reporting on a study conducted within two high schools in Adelaide, South Australia. Drawing on interviews with students, staff, and the community, and inductive grounded theory research techniques, this chapter examines current perspectives and experiences with a view to informing future policy development. Findings indicate that while many positive outcomes occur when schools and the community work together, the potential of school-community involvement is not always fully realised. The recommendations aim to redress this by enhancing opportunities, reviewing policies, and building capacity within schools and the community.

Australian post-election fiscal conservatism is likely

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Wage Growth ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Reserve Bank ◽  
Fiscal Conservatism ◽  
Commodities Prices

Significance As Australia seeks to manage slower demand from China and depressed commodities prices, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has called a 'double dissolution' election for July 2, whereby all lower and upper house seats are contested, seeking an electoral mandate for his 'Innovation Agenda'. Both Turnbull and Shorten are endeavouring to campaign on a promise of steady economic stewardship. Impacts The unpopularity of the Liberal-led state government of Western Australia is likely to cost the Coalition federal seats in July. Strong January-March 2016 growth figures -- an annualised 3.1% -- belie tepid wage growth. Weak inflation figures to be released in July may prompt the Reserve Bank of Australia to cut its overnight rate in August.

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