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1. Drought has a massive impact on the community. Drought causes economic hardship for the agricultural population, which has an effect on businesses, jobs and the local economy of the town.

2. When the soldier settlement was sold no profit was made when started a recession

3. The selling of the soldier settlements, the collapse of the wool industry, and the cost of living has increased.

4. Machines have replaced many employed people making them unemployed because they work faster and eventually cheaper.

5. Better roads have made the decline of Gulargambone even worse. New roads have connected the bigger towns/cities together and now cut out small country towns making the tourism worse. Most people don't want to live in small country towns for many reasons such as facilities and particularly entertainment.

6. Population, Ageing population and a loss of services for the people who remain in the community.

8. In 1954 the population was 900 and it declined very fast in the net 10 years down to 400. It has stayed steady until now.

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10. a. The school enrollments raised to 325 in 1960 but it has slowing gone downhill since then and how less then 100 people go to the school.

b. This has probably happened because of rural decline and families wanting their children to have better education and better living.

11. Social: Rural decline has cause lots of families to leave to go to the cities and major country towns.

Economic: Lots of machines have taken over the employed people.

Environment: The drought has caused lots of businesses to lose money and jobs have been lost.