Remote Western Australia

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Remote Western Australia is a designation of areas of Western Australia that are either isolated, or well away from the main concentrations of population and services found in the south west of the state.

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The usage of the phrase remote Western Australia is considered synonymous with the term outback Western Australia. [1] [2] [3]

Designated "remote areas" are found in the regions of the north and north east of the state.

Communities

Considerable efforts have been made to provide services and facilities in isolated and remote communities in Western Australia. [4] [5]

Pastoral Industry

Almost all of the existing pastoral leases of Western Australia exist within the region considered as the "remote" or "outback".

Telecommunications

There are specific designations as to locations and areas in "remote Western Australia" for services. [6]

Department of Transport definition

The Department of Transport has a very clear definition: [7]

All that portion of Western Australia not included in the South West Land Division nor that area south of the 30th degree parallel south latitude and west of the 123rd meridian. This also includes the area further than 80km radius from Esperance bounded on the northern side by a line drawn in a north-east direction from Esperance on the eastern side by the 123 meridian and on the southern side by the coast

Health facilities

Frequently, communities in the remote area are referred to as being in the category of "remote communities". [8] and in the University of Western Australia there is a centre specifically related to the practice of remote and rural medicine. [9]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Year of the Outback 2002, Western Australia, Year of the Outback 2002 (WA), 2002, retrieved 20 May 2015
  2. ↑ "OUTBACK SCENES IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA". Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885 - 1954) . Perth, WA: National Library of Australia. 17 September 1925. p. 1 Supplement: Regular supplement - Pictorial Section. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
  3. ↑ Johnson, Marael (1992), Outback Australia handbook : South Australia, Western Australia, Northern Territory (1st ed.), Moon Publications, ISBN   978-0-918373-79-3
  4. ↑ Taylor, John (2009), "Social Engineering and Indigenous Settlement: Policy and Demography in Remote Australia", Australian Aboriginal Studies (1): 4–15, ISSN   0729-4352
  5. ↑ Peter Alexander and Associates; Western Australia. Aboriginal Affairs Planning Authority (1991), Summary of the final report : Inquiry into service and resource provision to remote Aboriginal communities in Western Australia (Peter Alexander et al, May 1991), Aboriginal Affairs Planning Authority, retrieved 17 May 2015
  6. ↑ Australian Broadcasting Authority; Australian Broadcasting Authority. Planning Branch (1995), Remote Western Australia : (excluding Esperance, Kalgoorlie, and Merredin regions) : licence area planning for radio and television broadcasting services, Planning Branch, Australian Broadcasting Authority, retrieved 17 May 2015
  7. ↑ http://www.transport.wa.gov.au/mediaFiles/about-us/DOT_M_DRA.pdf - see the map for a good reference to the region of "remote"
  8. ↑ Delane, Margaret; Western Australian Centre for Remote and Rural Medicine (2005), Practising medicine in rural and remote Western Australia, Western Australian Centre for Remote and Rural Medicine, ISBN   978-0-9757175-1-6
  9. ↑ Welch, Rosalind; Power, Ray; Western Australian Centre for Remote and Rural Medicine (1994), General practitioner obstetric practice in rural and remote Western Australia, Western Australian Centre for Remote and Rural Medicine, Dept. of General Practice, University of Western Australia, ISBN   978-0-86422-373-9

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