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Are immigrants really the backbone of rural Australia’s health and education services?
Tuesday, 30th April
For a decade it was my job to worry about the health workforce in rural and remote Australia. Our university department of rural health, like 11 others through the country, did our part to promote regional centres, country towns and …
/No Comments Yet/Who are rural Australian immigrants?
Thursday, 4th April
Airplanes and immigration policies have brought a rich mix of people from all over the globe to live in Australia. Melbourne and Sydney are global cities, but outside of the capitals the population does not look or sound so diverse. …
/No Comments Yet/Immigrants in the country: torturing the numbers
Tuesday, 26th March
Statisticians have an expression: torture the data until they confess. Tickle tables of census results and you are likely to reveal deeper or more nuanced truths. In my first post on immigrants in regional Australia I showed that the proportion …
/No Comments Yet/The surprising lack of immigrants in regional Australia
Thursday, 21st March
Australia is a population of migrants. In the 2011 census, thirty per cent of usual residents reported they were born outside of Australia and its external territories. But disproportionately Australia’s immigrants live in the capital cities. In New South Wales, …
/No Comments Yet/Measure what you treasure
Wednesday, 13th March
India-based evaluator Katherine Hay gave a recent talk exhorting international development agencies to think about what is most important and make that the measure of success. She challenged her audience to consider if India’s phenomenal economic growth was really more …
/No Comments Yet/Videoconferencing between rural patients and urban specialists finally here
Tuesday, 5th March
It started with a passing comment. My GP told me to wait in another office because the usual one was being used for a SKYPE consult between a local patient and a Perth specialist. ‘Really? How long have you being …
/4 Comments /A population perspective on obesity
Wednesday, 27th February
Here is a new perspective on the obesity question–one that brings in population. A study from the UK calculated the total weight of each population in the world and then calculated its total biomass and amount due to obesity (BMI …
/No Comments Yet/Where in the world people live
Tuesday, 26th February
This stunning map of population density around the world made the rounds of demographers on twitter this month. As far as I can tell, it originated from the National Geographic. They are doing a series of stories about the world’s …
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