{"id":1433,"date":"2011-06-06T10:29:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T00:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2011-06-06T10:29:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T00:29:40","slug":"depopulation-of-the-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/depopulation-of-the-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Depopulation of the bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian cities and coastal towns have been growing at a rate of knots.\u00a0 Some towns in mining areas are growing, but most are still diminishing despite the plethora of well-paid local employment, due to fly-in fly-out mining workforce arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>It has been sad to see the reduction in population in the vast majority of rural and regional Australia (more than 90% of the continent).<\/p>\n<p>A classic illustration of rural de-population\u00a0is the sale of a number of\u00a0on-property\u00a0<a title=\"Twynam's houses for sale\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twynam.com\/news.php\" target=\"_blank\">houses<\/a>by John Kahlbetzer&#8217;s Twynham Group.\u00a0 These are houses and facilities on Collymongle Station near Collarenebri in NSW.\u00a0 14 houses are listed, plus 2 other accommodation buildings and other facilities.\u00a0 The reason for sale is given as being changed land usage and reduced labour requirements.<\/p>\n<p>On many other farms and stations, houses are either moved or left to fall into disrepair &#8211; the Australian bush is littered with the remnants of what used to be homes.\u00a0 Often all that remains is a struggling bush lemon tree, rusty pieces of corrugated iron\u00a0and a set of house stumps.<\/p>\n<p>It is of course better that houses are sold and moved into nearby towns or onto other properties and used, than left to rot, but it is sad to see nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian cities and coastal towns have been growing at a rate of knots.\u00a0 Some towns in mining areas are growing, but most are still diminishing despite the plethora of well-paid local employment, due to fly-in fly-out mining workforce arrangements. It has been sad to see the reduction in population in the vast majority of rural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,68],"tags":[82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1436,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions\/1436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}