4.2 Questions

1. It causes economic hardship for agricultural population and effects on businesses and jobs,more welfare paid to unemployed.

2. It means less farms running and more available

3. The soldiers settler blocks being sold, collapse in the wool industry, rising costs in the agricultural industry with fuel, machinery and wages.

4. more advanced and more powerful machinery, able to harvest bigger areas of land --> the farmers job a lot easier, less employees

5. The improvement in the roads and cars it gave better access and eaiser access to Dubbo and Cooamble which means they are able to avoid the smaller towns making them isolated 

6. People have left the town to search for employment and education, the age median is increasing which means there is a greater need for age services.

8) The population dramatically declined from 1954 to the mid 1960's, from then and on the population has been volitile. Gulargambone has lost 500 people from the original 900 people in the town.
9) It is shown through a pyramid to indicate the difference in the population and the age of the population.
10)
a- The school enrolments slowly rose in the 1950's than has been declining ever since.
b- The trends are like this because there has been a decline (slow) in the population. The amount of children and young people (15-29) have left the town in search of education and employment. The median age is increasing meaning that there are more older people and less younger people.
11)
Social- The median age is increasing because of the young people leaving
Economic- People are leaving the town therefore less money
Environmental- Drought and rural decline