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Rural mainstreaming reviews policies to ensure people in all parts of a country receive comparable policy treatment. Rural proofing is the method used to ensure that rural mainstreaming is correctly carried out. This article offers a critical analysis of rural proofing. It examines English policies in this area and questions how applicable similar policies might be in an Australian context. We argue that while rural proofing intuitively feels like a positive development for a country rich in rural and remote areas, there are many complexities to importing a policy designed for a different social and spatial context. In Australia, this is almost certain to render attempts to implement the English rural proofing concept futile. Indeed, we contend that this concept can potentially lead to the marginalization of rural issues. We conclude by identifying some of the complex questions our argument identifies which should be addressed by Australian policy makers before designing specific policies.Related Articles

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This paper examines the provision of distance education to young people studying from their isolated properties in remote areas of Australia. While Australia's innovative approach to remote education is well established, this paper challenges the gender and structural assumptions underpinning this approach. A sustained period of rural restructuring and a long period of drought have changed the social relations of agriculture in a number of significant ways that ultimately undermine distance education as it is currently constructed. The assumption that mothers are available to provide home tutoring is no longer valid given the pressures on them to work on properties due to staff cutbacks and off properties to earn additional income. Further, the trend for farm family properties to be amalgamated into larger holdings and for these holdings to be run by farm workers also undermines the assumption that parents are willing, able and resourced to home tutor their children for long periods. This paper raises significant questions about the adequacy of current distance education provisions in remote areas.

This paper discusses the lack of women in leadership positions in Australian agriculture. Using a feminist framework, it examines the gendered nature of power and organizations and analyses the processes that operate to exclude women. The role of the state in supporting male dominance of agriculture is discussed, as is the role of Australian femocrats in seeking to overcome women's disadvantage. The paper draws on the results of a 1997 survey of the chairs of 140 Australian boards associated with agriculture to demonstrate that those with the power to effect change are insensitive to the barriers women face when seeking leadership. Most choose to locate the reasons for women's exclusion in real or imagined inadequacies of women ignoring gendered organizational structures and processes. The paper calls for action on the part of governments, industry leaders and women's groups to address the lack of women in decision‐making positions in agriculture.

Disasters are increasing in frequency and intensity across the world, causing significant destruction to individuals and communities. Yet many social workers are ill-prepared for the demands of this field of practice. This book discusses the role of social workers in disaster work, including in disaster-preparedness, during the disaster and in post-disaster practice. It addresses the complexities of social work disaster practice, noting the need for social workers to understand the language of trauma and to respond effectively. The authors discuss disaster theory and practice, drawing out elements of practice at macro-, meso- and micro-levels and at various stages of the disaster. They examine the factors that shape vulnerability in disasters and draw out the possibility of post-traumatic growth. The final section discusses strategies for self-care in disaster practice, noting the organisational and personal strategies that can be adopted to facilitate the wellbeing of workers in the field. With real-life case studies from top scholars in the field, this book is essential reading for social work practitioners working in the field of disaster practice, as well as social work students and academics. It will also be useful to other health professionals who wish to understand this field of practice.

Context of contemporary social work practice /Margaret Alston, Samone McCurdy and Jennifer McKinnon --Working with women: gender-sensitive social work practice /Margaret Alston --Working with LGBTI people and communities /Mark Hughes --Social work and people with disabilities /Marie Sheahan and Wendy Bowles --Social work and indigenous Australians: Ngurambang Yanhambulanha ('Walking Country') /Sue Green and Bindi Bennett --Social work practice with ethnically and culturally diverse clients /Linda Briskman --Working with young people /Karen Healy --Working with older people (gerontological social work) /Mark Hughes and Karen Heycox --Social work in healthcare settings /Glenda Bawden and Fiona McDermott --Social work in educational settings /Louise Oliaro --Social work practice in mental health settings /Melissa Petrakis and Rosemary Sheehan --Social work in the field of income maintenance and employment /Philip Mendes and Desley Hargreaves --Social work in child protection settings /Clare Tilbury --Criminal justice: extending the social work focus /Chris Trotter --Social work in the domestic violence sector /Donna Chung --Social work in regional, rural and remote Australia /Sarah Wendt --Social work in palliative care /Carole Quayle --International social work: the quest for common practice in a globalised world continues /Samone McCurdy --Social work, sustainability and the environment /Heather Boetto and Jennifer McKinnon --Social work in post-natural disaster sites /Tricia Hazeleger, Margaret Alston and Desley Hargreaves --Understanding trauma and resilience /Louise Harms --The changing face of social work in China /Zhaoen Pan and Kerri Whittenbury.