摘要: AbstractIn Australia, as in the rest of industrialised world, social capital has been identified a key element rural regeneration. For example, Prime Minister, John Howard, speaks openly need for ‘social coalition’ between communities, governments and businesses that will build cohesion trust at community level. two decades successive Australian have followed world-wide trend nations to devolve responsibility welfare programs local areas nongovernment agencies, stated rationale being break down dependency promote individual responsibility. The dismantling state triumph capitalism defining features landscape recent years.