Remote Western Australia is a designation of areas of
Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...
that are either isolated or well away from the main concentrations of population and services found in the south west of the state.
The usage of the phrase ''remote Western Australia'' is considered synonymous with the term ''outback Western Australia''.
Designated "remote areas" are found in the regions of the north and north east of the state.
Communities
Considerable efforts have been made to provide services and facilities in isolated and remote communities in Western Australia.
Pastoral industry
Almost all of the existing
pastoral leases of Western Australia exist within the region considered as the "remote" or "outback".
Telecommunications
There are specific designations as to locations and areas in remote Western Australia for services.
Department of Transport definition
The
Department of Transport
The Department for Transport (DfT) is a department of His Majesty's Government responsible for the English transport network and a limited number of transport matters in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland that have not been devolved. The d ...
has a very clear definition:
All that portion of Western Australia not included in the South West Land Division nor that area south of the 30th degree parallel south latitude and west of the 123rd meridian. This also includes the area further than 80km radius from Esperance bounded on the northern side by a line drawn in a north-east direction from Esperance on the eastern side by the 123 meridian and on the southern side by the coast.
Health facilities
Frequently, communities in the remote area are referred to as being in the category of "remote communities", and in the
University of Western Australia
The University of Western Australia (UWA) is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia. The university's main campus is in Perth, the state capital, with a secondary campus in Albany, Western Australia, Albany an ...
there is a centre specifically related to the practice of remote and rural medicine.
See also
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Aboriginal communities in Western Australia
Aboriginal communities in Western Australia are communities for Aboriginal Australians within their ancestral country; the communities comprise families with continuous links to country that extend before the European settlement of Australia.
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List of pastoral leases in Western Australia
Pastoral leases in Western Australia are increasingly known as "stations", and more particular – as either sheep stations or cattle stations. They are usually found in country that is designated as rangeland. In 2013 there were a total of 527 ...
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Outback Australia
The Outback is a remote, vast, sparsely populated area of Australia. The Outback is more remote than the bush. While often envisaged as being arid, the Outback regions extend from the northern to southern Australian coastlines and encompass a ...
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Regions of Western Australia
Western Australia (WA) is divided into regions according to a number of systems.
The most common system is the WA Government division of the state into regions for economic development purposes, which comprises nine defined regions; however, t ...
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Regions of Western Australia