Sentences with phrase «australian rural city»

Maybe you recall the post about the Australian rural city, Bendigo, that will possibly run out of drinking water within a year?

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Potvin recorded male birds in seven Australian cities and corresponding rural areas: for example, in cosmopolitan Melbourne and the nearby Lerderderg State Park.

Instead, our hero is Sheriff Kyle Williams (Matthew LeNevez), the new sheriff in a rural Louisiana town — only the film was made in Australia so much of the cast is Australian, including Rachael Taylor («Transformers»), who repeatedly calls the new sheriff «city boy» in a thick Aussie accent.

It is a culturally diverse society with a population of more than 22 million.21 Australia's population includes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) peoples and migrants from some 200 countries with Indigenous Australian peoples representing 2.5 % of the total population.22 In over 60 years of planned post-war migration, Australia has accepted more than 6.5 million migrants and in the most recent census (2006), 3.1 million people (16 % of the population) were reported to speak a language other than English at home.23 The majority of the population lives in the cities mainly located around the coast; however, many live in rural and remote areas ranging from dry arid land to tropical and a few live in what are arguably some of the most remote and untouched areas of the world.

Recent studies indicate that rural and regional Australians have a higher likelihood of suffering a mental disorder throughout their lifetime than people living in major cities (AIHW, 2010), although the reasons underlying this imbalance are yet to be well defined.