PHOTO: One of Bourke’s famous sunsets. Image: Western Plains App.
In the era of worker shortages and a loneliness epidemic, new research shows why people who move to new towns often find themselves struggling to fit in.
“This often means people leave their town” researcher Saleena Ham, a Sociologist with the University of Southern Queensland told the Western Plains App.
She says her findings show a lack of acceptance of new people “inhibits progress, resilience and acceptance of change in rural communities.”
However councils and volunteer groups across the western plains have made long-standing efforts to welcome and help integrate new residents into local towns…