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Michael Visner, Sara Shirowzhan and Chris Pettit
The 2019?2020 bushfire season is estimated to be one of the worst fire seasons on record in Australia, especially in New South Wales (NSW). The devastating fire season ignited a heated public debate on whether prescribed burning is an effective tool for ...
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Veronica Matthews, Jo Longman, James Bennett-Levy, Maddy Braddon, Megan Passey, Ross S. Bailie and Helen L. Berry
In 2017, marginalised groups were disproportionately impacted by extensive flooding in a rural community in Northern New South Wales, Australia, with greater risk of home inundation, displacement and poor mental health. While social capital has been link...
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Johanna Guth, Sven Wursthorn and Sina Keller
Average speed is crucial for calculating link travel time to find the fastest path in a road network. However, readily available data sources like OpenStreetMap (OSM) often lack information about the average speed of a road. However, OSM contains other r...
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Sina Keller, Raoul Gabriel and Johanna Guth
Average speed information, which is essential for routing applications, is often missing in the freely available OpenStreetMap (OSM) road network. In this contribution, we propose an estimation framework, including different machine learning (ML) models ...
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Matthew R. McGrail, Belinda G. O?Sullivan and Deborah J. Russell
Almost 500 international students graduate from Australian medical schools annually, with around 70% commencing medical work in Australia. If these Foreign Graduates of Accredited Medical Schools (FGAMS) wish to access Medicare benefits, they must initia...
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Jill Whelan, Lynne Millar, Colin Bell, Cherie Russell, Felicity Grainger, Steven Allender and Penelope Love
In high-income countries, obesity disproportionately affects those from disadvantaged and rural areas. Poor diet is a modifiable risk factor for obesity and the food environment a primary driver of poor diet. In rural and disadvantaged communities, it is...
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Guy M. Robinson, Douglas K. Bardsley, Christopher M. Raymond, Tegan Underwood, Emily Moskwa, Delene Weber, Nicolette Waschl and Annette M. Bardsley
This paper reports on results from two major research projects conducted in South Australia. The first investigates adaptation to climate change in two of the state?s major grain and sheep farming regions, using semi-structured interviews and focus group...
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Marilyn Lyford, Margaret M. Haigh, Siddhartha Baxi, Shelley Cheetham, Shaouli Shahid and Sandra C. Thompson
Travel logistics impede Aboriginal patients? uptake of cancer treatments and is one reason for the poorer outcomes of Aboriginal people with cancer. This research examined benefits of a newly established rurally based radiotherapy unit in southwest Weste...
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Philip Dobson,Paul Jackson
Australia is conducting a substantial nationwide provision of broadband. It is primarily a fixed line network but includes wireless and satellite networks in more remote areas. The rollout is under the control of the NBN Co, whose goal is ensuring access...
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Roger Attwater and Chris Derry
Pressures on urban, peri-urban and rural water and agricultural systems are increasingly complex with multiple interacting stresses and impacts. As a way of addressing these issues there has been increasing consideration as to how to build and manage res...
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