The word "rural" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to rural areas or a rural lifestyle. For example: "The rural landscape was beautiful, with rolling hills and fields of wildflowers."
In a presentation to the national rural health conference in Darwin last week, Chalmers and Smith reflected on the personal toll the last year took on them and their patients who are primarily from the Rio Tinto community.
But while rural dwellers in particular chafe at restrictions and heavy-handed enforcement – which has included forced abortions – many in cities are used to the policy and seem largely indifferent, or like the idea of increasing their families but worry about the financial impact.
If rural settlements today are, in the main, Potemkin villages, perhaps they are skirted by Potemkin hunts.
For all the optimism, church insiders privately acknowledge the decline of what are often already tiny rural churches means something will have to change.
Singh believes that instead of discouraging urbanisation, "economic opportunities and modern amenities should be promoted in rural areas.
According to the piece, papers were often read aloud in rural houses in Ireland to family groups, usually by priests or schoolteachers, thus enabling "the illiterate to keep abreast of current affairs".
McGowan said she was "very relieved and very proud" to have won the closely-fought contest for the rural Victorian electorate, following Mirabella's concession on Wednesday morning.
"The idea, visually, is to be light skin and dark skin, urban, rural and remote from all different parts of Australia, so there is a balanced visualisation of what Aboriginal women look like," Quilliam tells Guardian Australia on the road from Ntaria to Alice Springs.
One potential solution is to make the buildings themselves work harder, says Canon Dr Jill Hopkinson, the Church of England's national rural officer.
That has implications enough for the church in the inner city, but what are the ramifications in the countryside where, for a thousand years, the Church of England has often been the institution that holds rural communities together?
Rev Canon Jim Mynors, vicar of six rural parishes (two of them Grade I-listed) in Northamptonshire, similarly says it is a mixed picture.
