From state paternalism to neoliberalism in Australian rural policy: Perspectives from the Western Australian wheatbelt

Space and Polity

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 171-190

  Tonts, Matthew ^a   Jones, Roy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RURAL POLICY;

AUSTRALIA, WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0031419581     PISSN: 13562576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13562579708721762     Document Type: Article

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