FED: Inquiry finds success stories of rural resilience

AAP General News (Australia)
02-26-1999
FED: Inquiry finds success stories of rural resilience

A new Human Rights Commission into rural decline has found a few success stories of
innovation and resilience.

The inquiry report, Bush Talks, highlights Australia Post's withdrawal of services from the
South Australian country town of Cockburn, and its threat to demolish the building.

Volunteers from the local progress association now deliver all mail in the area.

In Yeoval, New South Wales, a community hospital cooperative was formed after the district
hospital shut its …