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Over several months in 2009, the Buloke Times was scanned across 24 editions to identify 68 drought- and water-related articles, then examined for frequency over time, distribution within issues, prominence, and unusual events. 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This paper considers how a local newspaper has aneducative function in a small community in advising people of specific issues and learning how to deal with changing resources. Across the period of several months in 2009, the Buloke Times, a local newspaper in the Wimmera-Mallee region of Victoria, Australia, was scanned for articles relating to the issue of water scarcity. In the 24 editions ofthe paper, 68 articles of various themes were found. The articles/themes were analysed along a number of lines: frequency across time, frequency within each issue, prominence of articles and unusual events. This research paper develops an overview of the role of the newspaper and its capacity to influence and educate the people who constitute its readership.  \nKey words: adult education, rural education, water scarcity, community newspapers  \n270 Coral Campbell, Erica Smith and Emma Siesmaa  \nIntroduction  \nAcross the globe, governments, institutions, business enterprisesand ordinary people are struggling to comprehend and manage the impact of global warming. How do people in rural areas develop understanding of issues which may affect them, either directly (as in a drought) or indirectly (as a global citizen)? Australia is only one country which is affected by drier conditions in many ways, but the issue of water availability has been impacting strongly in Victoria, particularly in the Wimmera-Mallee region. Traditionally, this area has been reliant on rainfall and the delivery of water from the catchment areas via open channels. However, a ‘drought’, lasting for 13 years, caused members of the small rural communities in this region to re-think the way they managed their water supplies, both in their farming practices and in their daily life.  \nThis paper reports on an analysis of a regional newspaper’s coverage of the drought and ways of coping with it, during the early part of 2009. The research was part of a larger project which examined the nature of ‘learning to be drier’ in four case study areas within Australia’s Murray-Darling basin (Golding et al. 2009) . In each case study, a number of participants were interviewed including suppliers of water, farmers, community centre workers, agronomists and education providers. The Wimmera-Mallee area was an area which had always had limited water availability, relying primarily on precipitation rather than irrigation. The case study of the region (Smith & Campbell 2009) showed that a range of‘learning to be drier’ strategies were utilised, including individual learning from newspapers.  \nIt was decided to supplement the qualitative fieldwork with an analysis of the local newspaper’s coverage findings ofthe newspaper analysis during the period of the fieldwork. Accordingly, three months’ issues of the twice-weekly paper, the Buloke Times, were  \nThe educative role ofa regional newspaper 271  \nanalysed to investigate how the paper covered the issue of drought and coping with it, and what contribution the newspaper might make to people’s learning about the issue.  \nThankfully, a prolonged period of rainfall during 2010 ended immediate drought conditions in the Wimmera-Mallee, which has traditionally been a ‘wheat and sheep’ region. In the nature of Australian climatic extremes, this period created its own difficulties for the farmers and other residents of the region, causing flooding, a locust plague and a downgrading of the quality of the wheat crop. Despite these difficulties, the rain was extremely welcome, prompting front-page headlines in the Buloke Times such as ‘Jumping for joy in the rain’(13 August 2010) and ‘All the rivers","cbCaioBbFOD1gMUm","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaioBbFOD1gMUm","pdf",265977,33,"English","# Introduction\n## Background and literature review\n## Educational role of regional newspapers","[{\"question\":\"What newspaper and time period were analyzed in the study?\",\"answer\":\"The Buloke Times, a local newspaper in the Wimmera-Mallee region of Victoria, Australia, was scanned across 24 editions during several months in 2009.\"},{\"question\":\"How were the drought-related articles evaluated?\",\"answer\":\"Articles/themes were analyzed by frequency across time, frequency within each issue, prominence of articles, and unusual events.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the paper consider the topic still relevant?\",\"answer\":\"Long-term climate predictions indicate drier weather is now the norm, making the newspaper’s educational role important for the region and other farming areas and countries.\"}]","Australian Journal of Adult Learning - The Educative Role of a Regional Newspaper: Learning to be Drier | PDF",1792077324,83]