Thursday, September 8, 2011

4.1

1. When people from rural areas move away from the country and into urban areas in order to find work
2. Gulargambone is situated 115km north of Dubbo and 500km north west of Sydney.
4. The soldier settler blocks where given to soldiers who had come back from the war and were given land in the country
5. The main economic activities in Gulargambone are the farming industry. This involves cattle, sheep and other animals
6. 447 people live in the town. 1072 people live in the surrounding area
7. The CDP is the community development employment and it provides activities for unemployed indigenous people around the community.

Gulargambone- an Australian community facing change

4.2
1) Drought causes hardship for the agricultural population, which has an effect on businesses, jobs and the local economy of the town.
2) this resulted in farm areas increasing but the number of farms decreasing.
3) Mechanism and technology, better transport and roads, and lifestyle expectations.
4) many jobs that were once manual are now mechanised.
5) it has allowed people of the community to access larger centres and they begin to bypass the smaller cntres of gulargambone
6) Population decline, an ageing population, and a loss of services for the people who remain in the community.
8) it had declined dramatically in 1961 and has staid at that population for a while.
9) the ages of people living there is older than usual.
10) the trend in school enrolments has declined as well and is still falling.
11) all this information shows that the population of Gulargambone has been effected in size and that not many new people are coming to live there.

Monday, September 5, 2011

Go back to where you cam from reflection

1) My initial reaction to the show was that they were just going to be introduced to people who had been refugees. also that the people who were on the show were all racist.
2) 70%
3) because they are a different culture and we dont understand what they are escaping from
4) 18th
5) we could use some money to help people seek life in Australia. we could make foundations that could support refugees
6) very little to nearly nothing
7) 11
8) it means that they are illegally living there and that if they get caught they could exiled or sent to prison