Welcoming Reception: Why a 'beyond periphery' symposium?
Daniela Stehlik, Director, The Northern Institute
Jennifer Price, Northern Territory Treasury
Welcome to Country
Sponsored by the Northern Institute

Opening ceremonies
Sponsor acknowledgements
Housekeeping

Opening Plenary: Demographic change and economic development in remote areas – where the future lies

Dean Carson, Charles Darwin University
The seven Ds of remote deography (pdf, 1.31MB)

Graeme Hugo, Adelaide University
A population policy for Australia: implications for remote areas (pdf, 957KB)

Lee Huskey, University of Alaska Anchorage
The complicated relationship between the economy and migration in Alaskan communities (pdf, 1.25MB)

Prescott Ensign, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa
Demographic and economic futures for Canada's north (pdf, 7.43MB)

Rasmus Ole Rasmussen, Nordic Centre for Spatial Development
Challenges in Europe's Northern Sparsely Populated Areas (pdf, 7.86MB)

Panel 1: Economic development policy – the future for small settlements

Sarah Skerratt, Scottish Agricultural College
Widening the frame around rural community leadership – from 'projects' to 'resilience' (pdf, 1.07MB)

Andy Varner, South West Alaska Municipal Conference
Economic Development Policy in Rural Alaska: What’s Worked, What Hasn’t, and What’s Needed (pdf, 1.55MB)

Mathew Fagan, Northern Territory Department of Local Government Housing and Regional Services, Service Delivery Coordination Unit
The Northern Territory's 'Growth Towns' strategy (pdf, 730KB)

Juliet Balfour, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, Canada
The Sustainable Communities strategy for Northern Canada (pdf, 235KB)

Sharon Harwood, Planning Places
Community based approaches to strategic regional planning (pdf, 866KB)

Panel 2: Workforce Recruitment and Retention – managing mobility
Chaired by Clare Martin, Charles Darwin University

Greg Rickard, Principal Nursing Advisor, Northern Territory Department of Health
Sustaining the remote nursing/ midwifery workforce in the Northern Territory (pdf, 2.15MB)

Prescott Ensign, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa
Mobile entrepreneurs in Canada's north (pdf, 1.61MB)

Gertrude Eilmsteiner-Saxinger, Vienna University
Inter-regional long distance commute (LDC) workers in the Russian oil and gas industries – the family and community perspective (pdf, 5.18MB)

Catherine Martel, Charles Darwin University
Late career workers in remote areas (pdf, 1.71MB)

Kalotina Halkitis, Charles Darwin University
Knowledge management strategies when labour instability is high (pdf, 468KB)

Focus issue 1:The Gender Challenge

Rasmus Ole Rasmussen, Nordic Centre for Spatial Development
Gender and generation aspects of demographic changes – the case of Greenland (pdf, 1.75MB)

Lia Bryant, University of South Australia
Spatial intersections: Marriage, intimacy and farming (pdf, 40.4KB)

Daniela Stehlik, Charles Darwin University
A new colonisation? Remote communities and the resources sector – the case of Ravensthorpe (pdf, 37.2KB)

Focus issue 2: Transporting People

Jonathan Pilbrow, Northern Territory Council of Social Services
Transport as a key to social inclusion in Central Australia (pdf, 1MB)

Bruce Prideaux, James Cook University
Transport challenges for outback tourism (pdf, 651KB)

Duncan Beggs, Inpex
Transporting workers – some Northern Territory experiences

Welcoming tea and coffee
Registration desk

Panel 3: Indigenous development policy

Marianne Lien, University of Oslo
Indigeneity and user rights - Experiences from the far North (pdf, 391KB)

Damien Jacobsen, Southern Cross University
Desert Aboriginal people and tourism: Indicators from recent research (pdf, 5.82MB)

Andrew Taylor, Charles Darwin University
Indigenous migration in the interventionist policy era (1.44MB)

Kelvin Costello, Darwin Regional Indigenous Development and CDEP Inc.
Indigenous development in Darwin – challenges and successes (pdf, 1.28MB)

Break
Beyond Periphery Research Snapshots
Poster display hosted by the University of Applied Sciences, Krems, Austria
Introduced by Wolfgang Vrzal, Head of Tourism and Leisure Management

Focus issue 3: Wellbeing

Stephanie Martin, University of Alaska, Anchorage
Understanding the well-being of indigenous people in the Arctic (pdf, 1.22MB)

Lisa Slater, University of South Australia
Indigenous cultural festivals: Fostering alternative performances of healthy subject-citizens (pdf, 500KB)

Stephen Garnett, Charles Darwin University
The human geography of sustainability (pdf, 679KB)

Panel 4: Grow your own – innovative approaches to skills development

Janelle Allison, University of Tasmania
How regional universities can engage with their remote communities (pdf, 200KB)

Rhonda Koster, Lakehead University, Canada
Reaching out to Indigenous students – the Lakehead University experience (pdf, 655KB)

Fred McConnell, Charles Darwin University/ Flinders University
Putting all the ducks in a row for a sustainable local health industry contributing to economic growth in very remote communities of the Northern Territory (pdf, 171KB)

Alicia Boyle, Charles Darwin University
An ePortfolio framework for the career and professional development of the Northern Territory’s Indigenous education workforce (pdf, 1.78MB)

Mark Ashley, CRC Remote Economic Participation
The Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation – why and how? (pdf, 1.76MB)

Focus Issue 4: Measurement and monitoring – getting the data right

Paul Peters, Statistics Canada
Getting the data right in remote Canada (pdf, 1.7MB)

Tony Barnes, Charles Darwin University/ Northern Territory Treasury
Small errors and big impacts in measuring life events in remote Australia (pdf, 87.1 KB)

Celia Moss, Australian Bureau of Statistics
The 2011 Census – remote area strategies (pdf, 217KB)

Closing thoughts: Connecting research and practice
Dean Carson

Welcoming reception: Research, policy and inclusive remote societies
Sponsored by The Hawke Research Institute

• Professor Elspeth Probyn, the Hawke Research Institute
• Peter Hoj, Vice Chancellor, University of South Australia

Welcoming tea and coffee
Registration desk

Opening ceremonies
Welcome to Country
Sponsor acknowledgements
Housekeeping

Opening Plenary: Demographic change and economic development in remote areas – where the future lies

Dean Carson, Charles Darwin University
The seven Ds of remote demography - an Australian perspective (pdf, 1.45MB)

Lee Huskey, University of Alaska Anchorage
The complicated relationship between the economy and migration in Alaskan communities (pdf, 1.09MB)

Paul Peters, Statistics Canada
Demographic and economic futures for Canada's north (pdf, 2.01MB)

Rasmus Ole Rasmussen, Nordic Centre for Spatial Development
Challenges in Europe's Northern Sparsely Populated Areas(pdf, 2.12MB)

Panel 1: Economic development policy – the importance of history and society

Marianne Lien, University of Oslo
On being peripheral; Salmon aquaculture at the ‘world’s ends’ (pdf, 1.86MB)

Andy Varner, South West Alaska Municpal Conference
Social approaches to regional development in Alaska (pdf, 1.19MB)

Mike Sinkunas, South Australia Department of Trade and Economic Development
The Regional Development Policy Environment in South Australia – new challenges and new opportunities (pdf, 463KB)

Karen Cosgrove, University of South Australia
Walking Ooldea Road (pdf, 3.53MB)

Focus issue 1: Making tourism work

Rhonda Koster, Lakehead University
“Experiencing the Periphery”: Challenges and opportunities for regional tourism development (pdf, 2.59MB)

Doris Schmallegger, James Cook University
Understanding the prospects for tourism in resource frontiers (pdf, 3.4MB)

Elspeth Probyn, University of South Australia
Following fish on the tourist trail: A regional comparison (pdf, 2.34MB)

Focus issue 2: Water and changing climates

Andrew Johnson, South Australia Department for Water
Water security and remote communities in South Australia (pdf, 1.45MB)

Dean Carson, Charles Darwin University
Climate change and black swans in remote Australia (pdf, 436KB)

Summary, questions and housekeeping

Welcoming coffee
Registration desk

Panel 3: The future of mining towns

Gertrude Eilmsteiner-Saxinger, Vienna University
Intra-regional Vakhtoviki in the Russian 'Gas Capital' Novyj Urengoj (pdf, 3.08MB)

Sharon Harwood, James Cook University
Mitigating social impacts and managing consequences: the LNG industry in Gladstone (pdf, 1.47MB)

Ross Sawers, Oz Minerals
Mining towns and workforce management (pdf, 1.58MB)

Alison Taylor, Queensland Treasury
Measuring the population impact of mining activity in Queensland's resource communities (pdf, 1.64MB)

Panel 4: Count people – using the data well

Paul Peters, Statistics Canada
Understanding remote demography in Canada (pdf, 1.24MB)

Lee Huskey, University of Alaska, Anchorage
Economic modelling in Alaska – innovative approaches (pdf, 1.01MB)

Andrea Woods, Australian Bureau of Statistics
A better data infrastructure for remote Australia (pdf, 685KB)

Panel 2: People count

Stephanie Martin, University of Alaska
Industrial enclaves on the edge – making mobile workers count (pdf, 291KB)

Katharina Voit, Charles Darwin University
Older workers count – engaging older nurses in remote Australia (pdf, 2.24MB)

Mark Sutton, Outback Communities Authority
Volunteers count (pdf, 258KB)

Rob Gibb, Regional Development Australia, Far North South Australia
Skilled migrants count – recruitment and retention challenges (pdf, 1.02MB)

Focus issue 3: Aboriginal/Indigenous Populations in Transition

Rasmus Ole Rasmussen, Nordic Centre for Spatial Development
Indigenous populations in transition – the case Greenland (pdf, 3.72MB)

Juliet Balfour, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, Canada
The Sustainable Communities strategy for Northern Canada

Colin Weetra, Tauondi College, Port Adelaide
Education, health and employment changes in Aboriginal Australia (pdf, 2.00MB)

Andrew Taylor, Charles Darwin University
Technologies of change in Aboriginal Northern Territory (ppt, 3.63MB)

Focus issue 4: Grow your own – research beyond periphery

Sarah Skerratt, Scottish Agricultural College
Leaders count – making leadership a focus of development policy (pdf, 1.14MB)

Scott Bowman, Central Queensland University
Providing leadership beyond the periphery (pdf, 1.13MB)

Jen Cleary, University of South Australia
A strategy for research beyond our periphery – the Spina Australis collaboration (pdf, 320KB)