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Tom Rohde

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Small towns 'village model' unlikely to survive into the future

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By Angela Smallacombe Verified, Tom Rohde
| ABC News (Australia) Verified
A leading social commentator says small country towns are unlikely to survive into the future. Demographics Group's managing director, Bernard Salt, said the small-town model was fit for the 20th century, but did not fit modern regional economies. "These areas were required in the 1920s and 30s, where there was intensive cropping, and where people went to school and church in a very localised area," he said.
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