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dc.contributor.authorArgent, Neilen
dc.contributor.authorRolley, Francesen
local.source.editorEditor(s): Paul Cloke and Paul Milbourneen
dc.date.accessioned2009-10-19T11:16:00Z-
dc.date.issued2006-
dc.identifier.citationInternational Perspectives on Rural Homelessness, p. 208-230en
dc.identifier.isbn0415343720en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/2539-
dc.description.abstractLittle is known about the extent, pattern and nature of homelessness in rural Australia, a situation echoed by other authors in this volume in relation to other countries in North America, Europe and the UK. While acknowledging that homelessness does have a spatial or locational dimension, the conventional wisdom is that homelessness is spatially concentrated in 'large cities rather than rural towns and cities; in central city areas rather than suburbs' (Burke, 1994: 33), where numbers are largest and the homeless population more visible. Homelessness in Australia has been typically represented as a metropolitan phenomenon and, as such, rural homelessness has received little specific attention from academics, policy makers or the media. Perhaps this is not surprising in one of the most urbanized countries in the world. Despite this situation, the rural homeless occupy a very special and highly visible role in Australian folklore and mythology. The de facto national anthem, 'Waltzing Matilda' tells the tale of a homeless male sleeping rough by the famed billabong who meets his demise at the hands of the colonial authorities for sheep stealing. Similarly, some of the nation's most famous poetry and painting of the colonial era is centrally concerned with itinerant male labourers (e.g. Lawson's Clancy of the Overflow') and nomadic older homeless men (commonly known as 'swaggies') (e.g.) Fredderick McCubbin's 'Down on His Luck').en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Perspectives on Rural Homelessnessen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesHousing, planning and design seriesen
dc.relation.isversionof1en
dc.titleInhabiting the margins: A geography of rural homelessness in Australiaen
dc.typeBook Chapteren
dc.subject.keywordsHuman Geographyen
local.contributor.firstnameNeilen
local.contributor.firstnameFrancesen
local.subject.for2008160499 Human Geography not elsewhere classifieden
local.subject.seo2008970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Societyen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciencesen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciencesen
local.profile.emailnargent@une.edu.auen
local.profile.emailfrolley@une.edu.auen
local.output.categoryB1en
local.record.placeauen
local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordpes:3340en
local.publisher.placeLondon, United Kingdomen
local.identifier.totalchapters15en
local.format.startpage208en
local.format.endpage230en
local.title.subtitleA geography of rural homelessness in Australiaen
local.contributor.lastnameArgenten
local.contributor.lastnameRolleyen
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dc.identifier.staffune-id:frolleyen
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local.identifier.unepublicationidune:2613en
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitleInhabiting the marginsen
local.output.categorydescriptionB1 Chapter in a Scholarly Booken
local.relation.urlhttp://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an40028850en
local.relation.urlhttp://books.google.com.au/books?id=FPZEAAAAYAAJen
local.search.authorArgent, Neilen
local.search.authorRolley, Francesen
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local.year.published2006en
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