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Australian regional policy and its critics

  • Year: 2002
  • Author: Collits, Paul
  • Journal Name: 2020 vision: Australia's demographic future: Australian Population Association 11th Biennial Conference
  • Publisher: Australian Population Association
  • Published Location: Acton, ACT
  • Country: Australia

This paper describes the principles of regional policy in Australia, focusing on Commonwealth policy in New South Wales. The author discusses how a consensus in policy approach has developed across Australia, sharing policy characteristics such as strategic intervention, decentralised partnership development, and 'local solutions t ....

Boosting regional settlement of migrants and refugees in Australia: policy initiatives and challenges

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Brian Galligan; Martina Boese; Melissa Phillips; Annika Kearton
  • Journal Name: Australian Political Science Association Conference
  • Country: Australia

Settling migrants and refugees in regional Australia has become a major policy purpose for Australian governments, both Commonwealth and state. Policies to attract migrants and humanitarian settlers to regional areas have been in place since the 1990s and are currently being refined and extended. Regional settlement serves a range ....

Broadband Adoption by Agriculture and Local Government Councils - Australia and the USA

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: Wondu Business & Technology Services
  • Publisher: Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation
  • Published Location: Barton, ACT
  • ISBN: 174151035X
  • Country: Australia, United States

The growing use of the Internet is providing rural, regional and remote areas with new opportunities to communicate, purchase goods and services and make use of applications that can reduce transaction costs, generate revenue and/or provide access to new forms of entertainment. The development of more data-intensive applications is stimulating de ....

Brooking no favorites: a new approach to regional development in Atlantic Canada

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: Mintz, Jack M; Smart, Michael
  • Journal Name: Commentary - C.D. Howe Institute
  • Journal Number: 193
  • Publisher: C.D. Howe Institute
  • Published Location: Canada
  • Country: Canada
  • State/Region: Atlantic Canada

Since 1988, the federal government has transferred nearly $4 billion to businesses, governments and non-governmental organizations in the Atlantic provinces through the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA). Recently, a number of critics have called for a re-examination of the agency's mandate and a fundamental reform in the way t ....

Building regional adaptive capability through a local government insider-researcher network

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Sense, Andrew
  • Journal Name: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, The
  • Journal Number: Vol. 18, No. 1
  • Country: Australia

This paper reports on the development and early deployment stages of an on-going local government 'insider-researcher' network. This represents a new model for research engagement and development between regional universities and local councils. It serves as an infrastructure to generate multi-level benefits to the parties involved ....

Building Urban Local Governance Fiscal Autonomy through Property Taxation Financing Option

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Bioye Tajudeen Aluko
  • Journal Name: International Journal of Strategic Property Management
  • Journal Number: Vol.9, No.4
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Published Location: Abingdon, United Kingdom
  • Country: Africa

The continued productivity of urban economies depends upon the provision of urban infrastructure and social services. And, a large share of the service-provision role is conventionally assigned to local government as tastes and preferences vary among individuals and communities. This requires financing the public expenditures and, altho ....

Bureaucratic Ego and Aboriginal Unemployment

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Cutcliffe, Tony
  • Journal Name: Institute of Public Affairs Review: A Quarterly Review of Politics and Public Affairs, The
  • Journal Number: Vol. 58, No. 2
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Victoria

This article argues that the failure of policy from all shades and levels of government is obvious in relation to Aboriginal unemployment. It is manifest in the Federal Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) regarding Aboriginal employment initiatives. The example is provided of the Department's handling of Aborigi ....

Canadian health system reforms: lessons for Australia?

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Marchildon, GP
  • Journal Name: Australian Health Review
  • Journal Number: Vol. 29, No. 1
  • Country: Canada, Australia

This paper analyses recent health reform agenda in Canada. From 1988 until 1997, the first phase of reforms focused on service integration through regionalisation and a rebalancing of services from illness care to prevention and wellness. The second phase, which has been layered onto the ongoing first phase, is concerned with fisca ....

CDEP [Community Development Employment Projects] as a stepping stone to employment: the Port Augusta case

  • Year: 2000
  • Author: Gray, Matthew; Thacker, Elaine
  • Journal Name: Australian Journal of Labour Economics
  • Journal Number: Vol.4, No.2
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: South Australia

Indigenous Australians in the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme have been working for welfare payments since 1977. One of the objectives of the scheme is to assist Indigenous Australians develop work skills which lead to 'mainstream' employment. This paper uses a case study of a CDEP scheme in Port Augusta, a regional centre ....

Central Queensland Economic and Infrastructure Framework

  • Year: 2013
  • Publisher: Queensland Government Department of State Development, Infrastructure and Planning
  • Published Location: Brisbane Qld
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland

This Economic and Infrastructure Framework (the framework) identifies opportunities for the Central Queensland economy to grow with the support of strategic infrastructure planning. By highlighting the economic potential of Central Queensland, the framework aims to encourage private sector investment in the region, as well as inform infrastructur ....

Coal Contestations: Learning from a long, broad view.

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Sonya Duus
  • Journal Name: Rural Society
  • Journal Number: Vol. 22, No. 2
  • Publisher: eContent Management Pty Ltd
  • Published Location: Maleny, Qld.
  • ISBN: 9781921980053
  • Country: Australia

Tensions between the agriculture and mining sectors in Australia have increased in recent years, with the coal and CSG industries coming to loggerheads with agricultural communities in many areas across the country. Various attempts have been made to address the conflict, often initiated through government regulation where a 'balance' is sought b ....

Community engagement: putting people first in building sustainable community futures: three case studies of innovative engagement practice

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Martin, Amanda; Stewart, R
  • Journal Name: International Conference on Engaging Communities
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland

Three communities, the small rural shire of Nebo Shire in Central Queensland, the remote area council of Lockhart River in Cape York and the large, urban Ipswich City Council in South East Queensland, used various strategies to engage councillors, council staff and the community. These case studies highlight the challenges of desig ....

Community, Sustainability and Participation: Form-function Dilemmas in Tasmanian State-local Partnerships

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: Crowley, Kate
  • Journal Name: Public Policy
  • Journal Number: Vol. 3, No. 1
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Tasmania

The Tasmanian state-local partnership agreements program, instituted in 1998 by the late Premier Jim Bacon, is proving an innovation in the reorientation of inter-governmental affairs. The partnerships established thus far have totally transformed state-local relations. Indeed the program has been so successfully implemented that i ....

Comparative perspectives on regional development policy in Australia and Ireland

  • Year: 2000
  • Author: Duff, John; Tonts, Matthew
  • Journal Name: Rural Society
  • Journal Number: Vol.10, No.3
  • Country: Australia, Ireland

Australia and Ireland are two countries in which the economic importance of agriculture has been steadily declining. There are few similarities in the form of agriculture in the two countries, with greater diversity of produce and larger scale evident in Australia. Despite these differences, there are similarities in the social and economic probl ....

Competitive Regional Clusters: National Policy Approaches

  • Year: 2007
  • Author: OECD
  • Publisher: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
  • Published Location: Paris, France
  • ISBN: 9789264031821

Many nations and regions are struggling to maintain their competitive edge in the context of globalisation. The regional specialisations built up over decades are transforming rapidly. Many regions that were historically production centres in a given sector are losing out to lower-cost locations and reorienting to higher value-added niches. Yet e ....

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