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New community governance in small rural towns: the Australian experience

O'Toole, Kevin and Burdess, Neil 2004, New community governance in small rural towns: the Australian experience, Journal of rural studies, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 433-443.

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Title New community governance in small rural towns: the Australian experience
Author(s) O'Toole, Kevin
Burdess, Neil
Journal name Journal of rural studies
Volume number 20
Issue number 4
Start page 433
End page 443
Publisher Pergamon
Place of publication Oxford, England
Publication date 2004-10
ISSN 0743-0167
1873-1392
Keyword(s) governance
rural
community
Summary State and federal governments in Australia have developed a range of policy instruments for rural areas in Australia that are infused with a new sense of ‘community’, employing leading concepts like social capital, social enterprise, community development, partnerships and community building. This has encouraged local people and organisations to play a greater role in the provision of their local services and has led to the development of a variety of ‘community’ organisations aimed at stemming social and economic decline. In Victoria, local decision-making, before municipal amalgamations, gave small towns some sense of autonomy and some discretion over their affairs. However, following municipal amalgamations these small towns lost many of the resources—legal, financial, political, informational and organisational—associated with their former municipal status. This left a vacuum in these communities and the outcome was the emergence of local development groups. Some of these groups are new but many of them are organisations that have been reconstituted as groups with a broader community focus. The outcomes have varied from place to place but overall there has been a significant shift in governance processes at community level. This paper looks at the processes of ‘community governance’ and how it applies in a number of case studies in Victoria.
Language eng
Field of Research 160404 Urban and Regional Studies (excl Planning)
HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice ©2004, Elsevier Ltd.
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30002531

Document type: Journal Article
Collection: School of Social and International Studies
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