CHANGING AUSTRALIAN COMMUNITIES

KEY QUESTIONS

• What makes communities change?
• What kind of changes have occurred?
• How much change has occurred?

WORK

• Type of work - manufacturing decline, service increase
• Growth in part time work (18% to 29% since thr 1980s)
• More women working - 47% to 57% since the 1980s)
• Working from home - 31% employed mainly at home
• Less workers eith technical skills - e.g. Trades, nurses

DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE

• ATSIC - European - Multicultural
• One in five Australians born overseas
• Changes the way we eat, our entertainment and our cultural life
• More programs to support arrivals from developing or wartorn countries
• New community groups or religious organisations

CULTURAL INTEGRATION

• Cultures becoming more alike
• Foods from different culturee
• Cultural festivals
• Sports played
• Entertainment

AGEING POPULATION

• Increased life expectancy, drop in fertility rates
• More retirement years, need to focus more on super
• Governments need to provide more healthcare and support
• Aged care industry grows
• More people acting as carers for family members

GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF POPULATION

• Decline in rural populations
• Growth in urban areas and coastal cities
• Particularly high growth in inner city areas
• Abandonment of suburban ideals, new lifestyles
• Coastal areas grow due to sea changers

GLOBALISATION

• Increasing integration of the economies of different countries
• As a result, some jobs have been outsourced overseas
• Free trade agreements have affected imports and exports
• More Australians are working overseas
• More internationally-owned food brands

LIFESTYLE EXPECTATIONS

• Incomes have grown significantly
• However, people are expecting better lifestyles
• Emulating lifestyles of wealthier people
• House, travel, food, clothing, technology

SHRINKING HOUSEHOLD, EXPANDING HOME

• Average number of people in household has shrunk
• 3.3 in 1970s to 2.6 today
• However, average house size has increased
• 115 square metres in 1950s, now 221

NEW TECHNOLOGIES

• Name five new technologies in the last ten years
• Changed the way we shop, access info, entertainment, communication
• Possibly decreased interpersonal time, face to face
• Financial pressures of keeping up with technologirs
• Peer pressure to keep up to dste

NATIVE TITLE

• Overturned terra nullius in 1992
• Claims have been increasingly simplified
• Some traditional lands now shared with Indigenous owners
• Does not apply to privately owned land
• Some Indigenous communities have moved back to their land

DEPLETED RESOURCES

• We have the fourth largest ecological footprint per capita of any nation
• New forms of energy
• Less access to local fresh food and produce
• New forms of transport - less reliance on cars
• Replanting or reforestation programs