Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Page 113 Questions

  1. Drought causes economic hardship for the agricultural population which has an effect on jobs, business and the local economy of the town
  2. Farm area's increased, but the number of farms decreased
  3. Rural recession, Soldier Settler blocks unable to turn a profit, Less farms
  4. A lot of jobs that were previously manual are now mechanised and have been replaced by robots or machines instead of people
  5. With better roads and the comfort of today's cars, more people tend to pass the smaller towns like Gulargambone in exchange for the larger cities like Dubbo.
  6. Population Decline, The Number of farmers and farms have decreased and less school enrolments
     8. The population has certainly dipped since the rural recession in the late 1960's and the town has never                 fully recovered
     9. More young  people are being born, but as they get older are leaving for better parts (mainly males)
     10. School enrolments were at their peak at 1961 and declined as the rural recession started so more kids were kept out of school to work on the farm with their parents.
     11. Social - Less people wanting to come through or visit Gulargambone
           Economic - Rural Decline
           Environmental - Droughts and extreme weather

Monday, September 5, 2011

Page 109 questions

  1. Rural decline occurs when people from rural areas move into urban areas and leave the rural areas with less population
  2. Gulargambone is a small town north of Dubbo, halfway between Gilgandra and Coonamble. It lies in the Coonamble Shire Council area. It has extremes of heat in the summer, up to 45 degrees, and extreme cold in winter, around -5 degrees.
  3. The atmosphere is very dry and humid. The hydrosphere is also very dry, getting little rain. The Lithosphere of the town is pretty good. Although the town is usually dry it lies next to a river which is also usually dry but flows underground.
  4. Blocks of land allocated to veterans.
  5. Gulargambone Cypress timber mill, Sheep wool, beef cattle and the production of cereal crops and oilseeds
  6. 477 people lived in the town. 1072 live in farms and property around it.
  7. The Community Development Employment Program
  8.   B) 5km north

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Mapping Skills: Geography Preliminary - 2006

  1. 0.7%
  2. 60 million
  3. Africa
  4. 4.1 million
  5. 3.6 million
  6. As seen in source C, African nations are having more of a population growth, while European countries are starting to die down.
  7. Dicks Hill
  8. Camden Haven
  9. 1 kilometre
  10. Hanleys Point Bridge
  11. 1 km
  12. GR831001
  13. GR845992 Height 100m

Go Back To Where You Came From Reflection


  • My initial reaction to the show is that of shock. My mother always tells me that immigrants are too well off and we are giving them everything and they are just taking our money and they should go back to where they came from, and for a while I believed that too. My view changed when I saw this film. After seeing the trials that these people go through, I can have some sympathy for the people coming here and what they had to do to get it.
  • 1.5%
  • Because the government is giving them housing, benefits and healthcare for nothing and after they have entered our country legally, while if you want to migrate to Australia legally it is a $60,000 fee, and that is very angering to a lot of people.
  • Eighteenth
  • Not much, if they want to come to our country legally we should welcome them, but if they want to come illegally then their boat can sink for all I care, they need to do the appropriate way, not illegally.
  • None
  • 11
  • This means that refugees are stuck there and cannot seek refuge from Malaysia except by illegal methods