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[In]Sight Results Guide

  • Year: 2014
  • Author: Regional Australia Institute
  • Country: Australia

Australia’s regional areas are developing at different paces. They have different potential for  positive growth and change.    The Regional Australia Institute(RAI) has developed [In]Sight: Australia’s regional competitiveness  index to provide a consistent, comprehensive and accessible view of the status of Australia ....

[In]Sight: Economic diversification and the competitiveness of regional Australia

  • Year: 2014
  • Author: Regional Australia Institute
  • Country: Australia

[In]Sight is an online index and interactive map tracking the competitiveness of Australia’s 560 Local Government Areas (LGA) and 55 Regional Development Australia (RDA) regions, unlocking thousands of insights into regional Australia.     [In]Sight’s economic diversification indicator (within the Business Sophistic ....

[In]Sight: Snapshot of Major Findings for 2013

  • Author: Regional Australia Institute
  • Country: Australia

[In]Sight is an online index and interactive map tracking the competitiveness of Australia’s 560 Local  Government Areas (LGA) and 55 Regional Development Australia (RDA) regions, unlocking  thousands of insights into regional Australia.    [In]Sight consists of 59 measurable indicators of competitiveness w ....

A Tale of Two Regionalisms: Improving the Measurement of Regionalism in Australia and Beyond

  • Year: 2014
  • Author: A. J. Browna & Jacob Deem
  • Journal Name: Regional Studies
  • Country: Australia

Studies of regional identification are integral to the role of regionalism in political development, but how does one study regionalism when subnational political scales and regional political culture may be out of alignment? This question is tackled using Australia, a federation theorized as having possibly hit a regionalization 'ceiling effect' ....

Access to education for rural students

  • Year: 2014
  • Author: Victorian Auditor-General's Office
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Rural Victoria

Students in rural Victoria make up 30 per cent of the student population. In rural Victoria levels of disadvantage are higher and educational aspirations and outcomes are lower than for metropolitan areas. This creates unique and complex challenges for government agencies. This audit assessed the effectiveness of the Department of Education and ....

Ageing Australia: changing location patterns of older people in South East Queensland

  • Year: 2014
  • Author: Jung Hoon Han & Jonathan Corcoran
  • Journal Name: Australian Planner
  • Journal Number: 51.1
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Published Location: United Kingdom
  • ISBN: 0729-3682
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland

This paper investigates a decade of changes in the location patterns of older people in the ‘sunbelt’ region of South East Queensland (SEQ). Despite the accentuation of public policies to better cater for older people in an ageing Australia, little attention has been directed towards exploration of the changing spatial distributions of older ....

An exploration of labour mobility in mining and construction: who moves and why

  • Year: 2014
  • Author: Georgina Atkinson and Jo Hargreaves
  • Publisher: National Centre for Vocational Education Research

Labour mobility is a complex concept because people change jobs for a variety of reasons, in different ways and with different outcomes for their lives and careers. This study explores what motivates people to change jobs and examines the influence of their employer, occupation or industry, and investigates their geographic mobility on either a p ....

Bringing Business into Australian Regional Development

  • Year: 2014
  • Author: Regional Australia Institute
  • Country: Australia

Much of Australia's insight into business conditions is dominated by metropolitan perspectives, particularly at the national level. However, we also know that regional businesses operate in a different context to those in our major cities and play an important role in many of the nation's most important industries.To bridge the gap between r ....

Closing the motor vehicle industry: the impact on Australia

  • Year: 2014
  • Author: Bianca Barbaro, John Spoehr
  • Country: Australia

The Australian Workplace Innovation & Social Research Centre (WISeR) commissioned a study by the National Institute of Economic and Industry Research (NIEIR) to assess the impact of the closure of the motor vehicle industry in Australia following announcements by General Motors Holden (GMH), Ford and Toyota that they will be ceasing product ....

East Coast regional economic potential study

  • Year: 2014
  • Author: Nick Hill, Stephen Knuckey
  • Country: Australia

The East Coast Regional Economic Potential Study provides an overview of economic development issues and opportunities facing the East Coast study area - which covers Gisborne, Wairoa, Napier and Hastings. This study looks at both economic performance to date as well as modelling future scenarios.  Report LocationClick here to view the ful ....

Economic contribution of Deakin University’s Geelong Waurn Ponds and Waterfront campuses

  • Year: 2014
  • Author: Deloitte Access Economics
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Greater Geelong

This study quantifies the economic contribution of the Geelong campuses' ongoing operations and student expenditure to the local community in the Greater Geelong LGA. Report LocationClick here to view the full report ....

Economic vulnerability in Australia, 2002-12: an employment perspective

  • Year: 2014
  • Author: Michelle Circelli, John Stanwick
  • Publisher: National Centre for Vocational Education Research

Concerned with ways to characterise economic vulnerability in labour market regions (including metropolitan regions) that are susceptible to structural economic change, the authors look at five indicators of economic vulnerability which were developed to rank regions from the most to the least vulnerable. These are: the change in average hours wo ....

Endogenous Growth, Local Competitiveness and Regional Development: Western Australia ’ s Regional Cities, 2001-2011

  • Year: 2014
  • Author: Paul Plummer, Matthew Tonts and Kirsten Martinus
  • Journal Name: Journal of Economic and Social Policy
  • Journal Number: Vol. 16 Issue 1
  • State/Region: Western Australia

Recent policy discourse on the dynamics of regional development has centred on growing levels of uneven development – the patchwork economy – and the importance of local competitiveness as a driver of growth. In this paper,we examine both of these issues in the context of the state's regional capital cities. Drawing on recent work in endogeno ....

Fly-in fly-out/ drive-in drive-out practices and health service delivery in rural areas of Australia

  • Year: 2014
  • Author: Katrina Erny-Albrecht, Lynsey Brown, Melissa Raven, Petra Bywood
  • Country: Australia

This Policy Issue Review investigates claims that Fly-in Fly-out/ Drive-in Drive-out (FIFO/DIDO) groups are placing a burden on Australian rural health care services. Based on a rapid review of current literature, and including mining and seasonal workers, as well as grey nomads, the size and health profiles of these FIFO/DIDO groups are reviewed ....

Geographic Labour Mobility: Productivity Commission Research Report

  • Year: 2014
  • Author: Productivity Commission
  • Country: Australia

This study contributes to understanding of why people move. Commissioner Alison McClelland said: "For individuals, life events and family circumstances appear to be the most important factors in decisions whether to relocate for work. Factors related to housing, employment, local infrastructure and a person's level of education also play a promin ....

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