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Drivers of change inDarwins hinterland

Jan Salmon

Masters CandidateResearch Institute for the Environment and

Livelihoods

Charles Darwin University

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March 2012

Research Aims

Analysis of development of

Darwin and its hinterland

Litchfield = hinterland

Analysis of changes in landtenure

Darwins development was

different

Rural residential was thekey driver of development

LitchfieldDarwin

Palmerston

20km


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Why did counter-urbanism occur?Counter-urbanism

Migration of people into

rural areas from the city

(seachange/treechange)

Holmes (2010) counter-

urbanism only occurred in

Darwins tropical savannas

low productive potential ...

in pastoral lands

urban population growth


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Theoretical Framework

Multifunctionality

Production

Consumption

Protection

ProductionPrimary production

Faming

Mining

ConsumptionRural residential

ProtectionConservation

Parks

Modes ofoccupance


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Method

ArcGIS of Northern

Territory cadastral data

base

Archival documents

Census data

Face to face interviews

of long term residents


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First survey

Goyder survey 1869

Town lots and plantation

lots (320 acres)

Small farmer was locked out

Sold to speculators but not

occupied


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1958 Cadastre


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Darwin 1958

Arrested

growth

Hinterlandnot altered


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Subdivisions 1950-1974Extent of urban Darwin 1958

Mainly 2 ha lots

Rural

residential

Development

not contiguous

with the city

Aligned to road

access


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Subdivisions 1950-1974

Compulsory acquisition 1946

All land within 144 square kilometers became leasehold

Housing crisis

Shortage of materials

Shortage of surveyed land

Non-public servants had limited

access to land

Counter-urbanism occurred


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Post Tracy

Opportunity to rebuild Darwin

To remedy past planning

mistakes

Planned from Canberra and

Melbourne

Indifference to local housing

needs

Promoted an exodus into the

hinterland


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Subdivisions 1975-1990 Again counter-urbanism

Emergence of horticulture

Conservation

Aboriginal Land Rights Act

Rural

Other

Commonwwealth

Conservation

Future development

Rural residential

Water Management

Aboriginal Land


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Conclusions

So why counter-urbanism in Darwin and not the other savannas? Absence of pastoral industry

Absence of agriculture

BUT subdivided freehold land

Commonwealths control of land

201225 salmon, jan driver's of change in darwin's hinterland

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