Fiona Haslam-Mckenzie
Biographic Data
| ID | 2336640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fiona Haslam-Mckenzie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fiona |
| FAMILY NAME | Haslam-Mckenzie |
| SIGNATURE | HASLAM-MCKENZIE F |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7223-7731 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 172 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Sticky places for immigrants in regional Australia – a correlational analysis
Since 1996, migration-related schemes have directed new immigrants and refugees to regional Australia to mitigate the need for skills and people in these locations. Therefore, the long-term settlement of immigrants and refugees in regional Australia is an important issue. Existing research has examined settlement patterns, processes, and internal dispersal; however, the reasons why immigrants arrive at, remain at, or leave these locations after t…
Sticky places for regional immigrant settlement
Since 1996, migration‐related schemes have directed new immigrants, refugees and humanitarian entrants to regional Australia to mitigate the need for skills and declining population growth in these locations. However, a key concern of these schemes is the uncertainty of long‐term immigrant retention in regional locations beyond the stipulated visa category period. We draw on the metaphor of stickiness : the ability of geographic clusters to attra…
Future-proofing a local government authority for a post-mining future
The inevitable mine lifecycle sequences of the mining industry and the eventual closure of mines has dramatic impacts on mining communities. The complexities of mine closure and planning for a different future beyond mining demand prescient preparation, preferably long before mines close, to optimise community participation in planning and enhance change management opportunities. Convincing others of the usefulness of imagining a future that is s…
Be careful what you wish for
Political Centralization, Federalism, and Urbanization
The dominance of capital cities (urban primacy) is an enduring characteristic of Australian states. There has been limited empirical research examining the drivers of primacy in states despite some being extreme examples of the phenomenon, both in magnitude and scale. In light of institutional theories of settlement patterns, we developed a profile of Australian urbanization using a century of time-series data, descriptive statistics, and an empi…
The socio-spatial politics of royalties and their distribution
This paper is concerned with the socio-spatial and ethical politics of redistribution, specifically the allocation of natural resources rents from political and economic cores to the economic and geographical peripheries whence the resource originated. Based on a case study of the coal seam gas sector in Queensland's Surat Basin, this paper focuses on the operation of the Queensland State Government's regional development fund for mining and ener…
Padrón peppers or peppers from Herbón? Discussing the controversial attainment of a geographical indication in light of food (re)localisation approaches
Globally, Padrón peppers are a widely known vegetable. Unknown to most, its origin lies in a small village, Herbón, located on the outskirts of the town of Padrón (Galicia, North-West Spain). Local farmers have faced serious problems due to competition with producers from elsewhere commercialising peppers as 'Padron'. In response, local farmers sought to protect the specificities of the place of origin, a claim leading to the achievement of a geo…
Neither prepared nor transformed
Why does Perth stand alone? Interviews with subject matter experts about the drivers of settlement in Western Australia
Australian non-capital cities are overshadowed by their state capitals. High state-level urban primacy is especially true of Western Australia. Various theories in economic geography might explain the west Australian settlement pattern. Few are grounded in the experience of those with power over and/or knowledge of development. To study this experience and compare it with theory we conducted 37 in-depth interviews with decision-makers and subject…
Assessing the efficacy of state interventionist policies on population growth in small Western Australian regional locales
In 2008, the Western Australian State Government initiated its Royalties for Regions Program to fund its regional development mandate. The program, an outcome of an electoral commitment, reallocated 25% of the state’s prodigious mineral royalties to non-metropolitan regions, with supporters applauding the improved regional conditions and critics claiming fiscal irresponsibility. Numerous reviews, mostly qualitative, were undertaken, but the state…
Describing and mapping diversity and accessibility of the urban food environment with open data and tools
Long distance commuting
The invention of a mountain tourism destination
The literature on the development of tourism destinations neglects to question their precise origins. Thus, it makes sense to research the when, how and why a particular place attracts tourists to the point of being considered an up-and-coming destination. The case of Trevinca-A Veiga (Galicia, Spain), a mountain area which is emerging as a tourism destination, is analysed through 28 semi-structured interviews with stakeholders regarding the init…
Comparing contemporary regional development in Western Australia with international trends
In most developed countries, intervention in regional development is declining due to non-interventionist policies and increasing local responsibility for development. Western Australia, however, has embarked on a different route – a unique version of the ‘new’ paradigm, or place-based development – that departs from these broader neo-liberal trends. This paper examines Australian and Western Australian policies and compares them with those of Ca…
Western Australia 's Royalties for Regions program
Under the right conditions, compounding socio‐political and economic change can dramatically alter government policy. From 2000, Western Australia, a resource‐rich jurisdiction, experienced significant change owing to a once‐in‐a‐generation resources boom, which forced a break with earlier development approaches. In 2008, regional interventionism returned to the State via the State Government's Royalties for Regions program. Departing from the ne…
The changing nature of mining towns
The evolution of regional capitals in Western Australia
There is an emerging international academic and policy-oriented literature that draws on economic evolutionary concepts and resilience thinking. Thus far, the design and implementation of resilience thinking appears to run ahead of clarity and rigorous empirical testing. In this article, we attempt to redress this imbalance by employing contemporary economic models and methods to explore the dynamics of four local economies from diverse locations…
Long-distance commuting and dispersed socio-economic benefits of connectivity
Long-distance commuting (LDC) in Australia has become an entrenched workforce practice. Work force mobility is not limited to the mining sector although for more than a decade, the scale of LDC in the resources industries has been contentious. A diverse range of workforce supply, logistical and employee preference reasons have contributed to the existence of LDC arrangements throughout Australia across many industry sectors. The economic and soci…
Recruiting CEOs in Local Government
This article focusses on leadership in local government and the attributes valued in a CEO. It draws on a series of interviews with both Mayors/Shire Presidents and incumbent CEOs undertaken as the local government sector is faced with a number of complex challenges that is expanding the traditional role and responsibilities from the regulated organisational delivery of ‘rates, roads, and rubbish’, to one that is involved in long‐term more market…
About Time the Regions Were Recognised’
The region-building process in Western Australia is examined using Paasi's theoretical framework of ‘regional institutionalisation’. The paper examines the formalisation of the regions in Western Australia from the 1940s with the first attempts to regionalise the State, through to the recent political and policy shifts. A particular focus is given to the pivotal legislation passed in 1993 which created nine Regional Development Commissions, and t…
Leadership in Local Government
This article explores the under‐representation of women at the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) levels of Western Australian (WA) local government. It draws on data collected from 21 second tier senior women managers about their perceptions and experiences of leadership within the sector, as well as their aspirations for CEO appointment. By applying critical gender analysis to the data, gender and specifically masculinity emerges as a significant an…
Fly-In/Fly-Out, Flexibility and the Future
The resources boom in Australia has resulted in considerable competition for labour, particularly in remote mining areas. Shortage of skilled labour has led mining companies to source workers from far afield, while the high incomes created by a tight labour market draw labour from across the country through long-distance commuting arrangements such as fly-in/fly-out (FIFO). While much recent literature has focused on the impacts on receiving comm…
An expanded role for the mining sector in Australian society
Questions over the role of mining in the Australian economy and society have gained increasing public scrutiny in recent years. In this paper we consider whether the role of mining in Australian society has changed with the recent mining boom. The paper draws attention to four key areas. The first is the economics of mining, where a rise in commodity values has made mining more profitable. Mining now dominates Australian exports more than in prev…
Housing Market Failure in a Booming Economy
This paper presents national data and two case studies investigating the links between housing market failure and the context of Australia's recent resource mining boom. It demonstrates how unprecedented international demand for mineral resources resulted in critical, local housing issues in mining communities. We conclude that without careful strategic planning and understanding of the economic and social role of housing, international market dy…
Peri-urban farmland conservation and development of alternative food networks
Peri-urban farmland conservation and development of alternative food networks
The changing nature of mining towns
Q Methodology and Rural Research
Traditionally, rural scholarship has been limited in its methodological approach. This has begun to change in recent years as rural researchers have embraced a range of different methodological tools. The aim of this article is to contribute to greater methodological pluralism in rural sociology by introducing readers to a method of research that is rarely engaged in the field, that is, Q methodology. The article describes the defining features o…
An expanded role for the mining sector in Australian society
Questions over the role of mining in the Australian economy and society have gained increasing public scrutiny in recent years. In this paper we consider whether the role of mining in Australian society has changed with the recent mining boom. The paper draws attention to four key areas. The first is the economics of mining, where a rise in commodity values has made mining more profitable. Mining now dominates Australian exports more than in prev…
A monastic tourist experience
This paper outlines the transformation occurring in New Norcia, a small rural town in Western Australia. Initially a self-sufficient mission settlement of Benedictine monks concentrating on ministering to the indigenous population while living an ecclesiastical lifestyle, the town is now developing as an experiential tourist commodity. The conservation of the monks’ unique habitus is achieved by a carefully constructed tourism strategy, which all…
Comparing contemporary regional development in Western Australia with international trends
In most developed countries, intervention in regional development is declining due to non-interventionist policies and increasing local responsibility for development. Western Australia, however, has embarked on a different route – a unique version of the ‘new’ paradigm, or place-based development – that departs from these broader neo-liberal trends. This paper examines Australian and Western Australian policies and compares them with those of Ca…
Housing Market Failure in a Booming Economy
This paper presents national data and two case studies investigating the links between housing market failure and the context of Australia's recent resource mining boom. It demonstrates how unprecedented international demand for mineral resources resulted in critical, local housing issues in mining communities. We conclude that without careful strategic planning and understanding of the economic and social role of housing, international market dy…
Delivering Enduring Benefits from a Gas Development
This paper reviews the complex and multifaceted adjustment pressures being experienced by Onslow, a small, remote town in Western Australia's Pilbara, as a result of a large gas development. Some members of the community are enthusiastic about the opportunities that the gas industry will bring, although the majority are wary of the negative impacts of rapid growth and corporate dominance observed in other Pilbara towns during the mining boom. The…
Fly-In/Fly-Out, Flexibility and the Future
The resources boom in Australia has resulted in considerable competition for labour, particularly in remote mining areas. Shortage of skilled labour has led mining companies to source workers from far afield, while the high incomes created by a tight labour market draw labour from across the country through long-distance commuting arrangements such as fly-in/fly-out (FIFO). While much recent literature has focused on the impacts on receiving comm…
Stakeholders, natural resource management and Australian rural local governments
This paper reports on a Q methodological study of stakeholder perceptions of rural local government management of natural resources. Data analysis of the Q sorts revealed that there are five distinct stakeholder perspectives relating to rural local government and natural resource management. In terms of natural resource management at the local level rural stakeholders perceive local government as an unwilling participant, an inconsequential parti…
Making visible the ‘space of betweenness’
In this article we proffer the metaphor of a ‘space of betweenness’ to explain women's limited access to leadership roles in Australian peak agricultural industry and regional governance boards. In reviewing the statistics around women's leadership roles in regional Australia, and women's own stories of their activities, we argue that despite women's contribution to their local communities through their diverse roles in paid work, it seems the tr…
Factors Inhibiting Local Government Engagement in Environmental Sustainability
The literature on local government management of the environment in Australia has been limited in that it has typically focused on the urban sphere. In contrast, this paper places rurality at the centre of its inquiry. It uses data from 15 case studies of rural local governments in Australia to identify the main factors that inhibit natural resource management by rural councils. These barriers mobilise around four key themes: capacity, commitment…
Leadership in Local Government
This article explores the under‐representation of women at the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) levels of Western Australian (WA) local government. It draws on data collected from 21 second tier senior women managers about their perceptions and experiences of leadership within the sector, as well as their aspirations for CEO appointment. By applying critical gender analysis to the data, gender and specifically masculinity emerges as a significant an…
About Time the Regions Were Recognised’
The region-building process in Western Australia is examined using Paasi's theoretical framework of ‘regional institutionalisation’. The paper examines the formalisation of the regions in Western Australia from the 1940s with the first attempts to regionalise the State, through to the recent political and policy shifts. A particular focus is given to the pivotal legislation passed in 1993 which created nine Regional Development Commissions, and t…
Neither prepared nor transformed
Assessing the efficacy of state interventionist policies on population growth in small Western Australian regional locales
In 2008, the Western Australian State Government initiated its Royalties for Regions Program to fund its regional development mandate. The program, an outcome of an electoral commitment, reallocated 25% of the state’s prodigious mineral royalties to non-metropolitan regions, with supporters applauding the improved regional conditions and critics claiming fiscal irresponsibility. Numerous reviews, mostly qualitative, were undertaken, but the state…
Western Australia 's Royalties for Regions program
Under the right conditions, compounding socio‐political and economic change can dramatically alter government policy. From 2000, Western Australia, a resource‐rich jurisdiction, experienced significant change owing to a once‐in‐a‐generation resources boom, which forced a break with earlier development approaches. In 2008, regional interventionism returned to the State via the State Government's Royalties for Regions program. Departing from the ne…
Case Studies of Rural Business Women in Western Australia and their Contribution to the Region
(1998). Case Studies of Rural Business Women in Western Australia and their Contribution to the Region. Rural Society: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 257-268
Future-proofing a local government authority for a post-mining future
The inevitable mine lifecycle sequences of the mining industry and the eventual closure of mines has dramatic impacts on mining communities. The complexities of mine closure and planning for a different future beyond mining demand prescient preparation, preferably long before mines close, to optimise community participation in planning and enhance change management opportunities. Convincing others of the usefulness of imagining a future that is s…
Long distance commuting
Long-distance commuting and dispersed socio-economic benefits of connectivity
Long-distance commuting (LDC) in Australia has become an entrenched workforce practice. Work force mobility is not limited to the mining sector although for more than a decade, the scale of LDC in the resources industries has been contentious. A diverse range of workforce supply, logistical and employee preference reasons have contributed to the existence of LDC arrangements throughout Australia across many industry sectors. The economic and soci…
Recruiting CEOs in Local Government
This article focusses on leadership in local government and the attributes valued in a CEO. It draws on a series of interviews with both Mayors/Shire Presidents and incumbent CEOs undertaken as the local government sector is faced with a number of complex challenges that is expanding the traditional role and responsibilities from the regulated organisational delivery of ‘rates, roads, and rubbish’, to one that is involved in long‐term more market…
Complex and Contradictory
Recognizing gender as a social construction, in this article we explore the complex, and in many ways contradictory, ‘doing’ of gender on regional development boards in Australia. While the number of women on these boards has risen over the past decade, the overwhelming sense of these organizations is one of homogeneity. The individuals on these ministerially appointed boards are awarded institutional privilege. Their roles provide them with stat…
Be careful what you wish for
Political Centralization, Federalism, and Urbanization
The dominance of capital cities (urban primacy) is an enduring characteristic of Australian states. There has been limited empirical research examining the drivers of primacy in states despite some being extreme examples of the phenomenon, both in magnitude and scale. In light of institutional theories of settlement patterns, we developed a profile of Australian urbanization using a century of time-series data, descriptive statistics, and an empi…
Case Studies of Rural Business Women in Western Australia and their Contribution to the Region
(1998). Case Studies of Rural Business Women in Western Australia and their Contribution to the Region. Rural Society: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 257-268
A monastic tourist experience
This paper outlines the transformation occurring in New Norcia, a small rural town in Western Australia. Initially a self-sufficient mission settlement of Benedictine monks concentrating on ministering to the indigenous population while living an ecclesiastical lifestyle, the town is now developing as an experiential tourist commodity. The conservation of the monks’ unique habitus is achieved by a carefully constructed tourism strategy, which all…
The re-emergence of regional policy and planning in Western Australia
A Companion to Political Geography
Factors Inhibiting Local Government Engagement in Environmental Sustainability
The literature on local government management of the environment in Australia has been limited in that it has typically focused on the urban sphere. In contrast, this paper places rurality at the centre of its inquiry. It uses data from 15 case studies of rural local governments in Australia to identify the main factors that inhibit natural resource management by rural councils. These barriers mobilise around four key themes: capacity, commitment…
Stakeholders, natural resource management and Australian rural local governments
This paper reports on a Q methodological study of stakeholder perceptions of rural local government management of natural resources. Data analysis of the Q sorts revealed that there are five distinct stakeholder perspectives relating to rural local government and natural resource management. In terms of natural resource management at the local level rural stakeholders perceive local government as an unwilling participant, an inconsequential parti…
Q Methodology and Rural Research
Traditionally, rural scholarship has been limited in its methodological approach. This has begun to change in recent years as rural researchers have embraced a range of different methodological tools. The aim of this article is to contribute to greater methodological pluralism in rural sociology by introducing readers to a method of research that is rarely engaged in the field, that is, Q methodology. The article describes the defining features o…
Complex and Contradictory
Recognizing gender as a social construction, in this article we explore the complex, and in many ways contradictory, ‘doing’ of gender on regional development boards in Australia. While the number of women on these boards has risen over the past decade, the overwhelming sense of these organizations is one of homogeneity. The individuals on these ministerially appointed boards are awarded institutional privilege. Their roles provide them with stat…
Making visible the ‘space of betweenness’
In this article we proffer the metaphor of a ‘space of betweenness’ to explain women's limited access to leadership roles in Australian peak agricultural industry and regional governance boards. In reviewing the statistics around women's leadership roles in regional Australia, and women's own stories of their activities, we argue that despite women's contribution to their local communities through their diverse roles in paid work, it seems the tr…
An Expanded Role for the Mining Sector in Australian Society
An expanded role for the mining sector in Australian society
Questions over the role of mining in the Australian economy and society have gained increasing public scrutiny in recent years. In this paper we consider whether the role of mining in Australian society has changed with the recent mining boom. The paper draws attention to four key areas. The first is the economics of mining, where a rise in commodity values has made mining more profitable. Mining now dominates Australian exports more than in prev…
Housing Market Failure in a Booming Economy
This paper presents national data and two case studies investigating the links between housing market failure and the context of Australia's recent resource mining boom. It demonstrates how unprecedented international demand for mineral resources resulted in critical, local housing issues in mining communities. We conclude that without careful strategic planning and understanding of the economic and social role of housing, international market dy…
Peri-urban farmland conservation and development of alternative food networks
Delivering Enduring Benefits from a Gas Development
This paper reviews the complex and multifaceted adjustment pressures being experienced by Onslow, a small, remote town in Western Australia's Pilbara, as a result of a large gas development. Some members of the community are enthusiastic about the opportunities that the gas industry will bring, although the majority are wary of the negative impacts of rapid growth and corporate dominance observed in other Pilbara towns during the mining boom. The…
Leadership in Local Government
This article explores the under‐representation of women at the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) levels of Western Australian (WA) local government. It draws on data collected from 21 second tier senior women managers about their perceptions and experiences of leadership within the sector, as well as their aspirations for CEO appointment. By applying critical gender analysis to the data, gender and specifically masculinity emerges as a significant an…
Fly-In/Fly-Out, Flexibility and the Future
The resources boom in Australia has resulted in considerable competition for labour, particularly in remote mining areas. Shortage of skilled labour has led mining companies to source workers from far afield, while the high incomes created by a tight labour market draw labour from across the country through long-distance commuting arrangements such as fly-in/fly-out (FIFO). While much recent literature has focused on the impacts on receiving comm…
About Time the Regions Were Recognised’
The region-building process in Western Australia is examined using Paasi's theoretical framework of ‘regional institutionalisation’. The paper examines the formalisation of the regions in Western Australia from the 1940s with the first attempts to regionalise the State, through to the recent political and policy shifts. A particular focus is given to the pivotal legislation passed in 1993 which created nine Regional Development Commissions, and t…
Recruiting CEOs in Local Government
This article focusses on leadership in local government and the attributes valued in a CEO. It draws on a series of interviews with both Mayors/Shire Presidents and incumbent CEOs undertaken as the local government sector is faced with a number of complex challenges that is expanding the traditional role and responsibilities from the regulated organisational delivery of ‘rates, roads, and rubbish’, to one that is involved in long‐term more market…
The evolution of regional capitals in Western Australia
There is an emerging international academic and policy-oriented literature that draws on economic evolutionary concepts and resilience thinking. Thus far, the design and implementation of resilience thinking appears to run ahead of clarity and rigorous empirical testing. In this article, we attempt to redress this imbalance by employing contemporary economic models and methods to explore the dynamics of four local economies from diverse locations…
Long-distance commuting and dispersed socio-economic benefits of connectivity
Long-distance commuting (LDC) in Australia has become an entrenched workforce practice. Work force mobility is not limited to the mining sector although for more than a decade, the scale of LDC in the resources industries has been contentious. A diverse range of workforce supply, logistical and employee preference reasons have contributed to the existence of LDC arrangements throughout Australia across many industry sectors. The economic and soci…
The changing nature of mining towns
The invention of a mountain tourism destination
The literature on the development of tourism destinations neglects to question their precise origins. Thus, it makes sense to research the when, how and why a particular place attracts tourists to the point of being considered an up-and-coming destination. The case of Trevinca-A Veiga (Galicia, Spain), a mountain area which is emerging as a tourism destination, is analysed through 28 semi-structured interviews with stakeholders regarding the init…
Comparing contemporary regional development in Western Australia with international trends
In most developed countries, intervention in regional development is declining due to non-interventionist policies and increasing local responsibility for development. Western Australia, however, has embarked on a different route – a unique version of the ‘new’ paradigm, or place-based development – that departs from these broader neo-liberal trends. This paper examines Australian and Western Australian policies and compares them with those of Ca…
Western Australia 's Royalties for Regions program
Under the right conditions, compounding socio‐political and economic change can dramatically alter government policy. From 2000, Western Australia, a resource‐rich jurisdiction, experienced significant change owing to a once‐in‐a‐generation resources boom, which forced a break with earlier development approaches. In 2008, regional interventionism returned to the State via the State Government's Royalties for Regions program. Departing from the ne…
Describing and mapping diversity and accessibility of the urban food environment with open data and tools
Political science (31 works) · Economics (24 works) · Geography (24 works) · Business (17 works) · Law (14 works) · Rural development and sustainability (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Economic growth (13 works) · Mining and Resource Management (13 works) · Politics (11 works)