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Australian Alternatives to Local Government Consolidation

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Dollery, Brian; Grant, Bligh
  • Journal Name: Public Policy
  • Journal Number: Vol. 4, No. 2
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Western Australia

In its 'The Journey: Sustainability into the Future', the Western Australian Local Government Association (WALGA) proposed a program of self-initiated reform for local government, with its centrepiece comprising a Regional Model of local governance based on constellations of local councils in the existing Zone groupings. The Region ....

Australian Crime Statistics

  • Year: Various
  • Author: World Criminal Justice Library Network
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: All

A variety of statistics on crime in Australia, including for each state. This resource provides a library of crime statistics in Australia, including specific reports relating to state specific statistics, social trends as well as a statistical profile of crime in Australia. As a collection, these publications provide valuable information on s ....

Australian Higher Education: Regional universities under a coalition government

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Dominic O'Sullivan
  • Journal Name: The Australian Universities' Review
  • Journal Number: Vol. 55, Issue. 1
  • Publisher: National Tertiary Education Union
  • Published Location: South Melbourne
  • ISBN: 0818-8068
  • Country: Australia

Projected student enrolment growth places the Australian higher education system on the precipice of significant change, leading to philosophical debates about how the system should respond. One suggested policy change is that resources be redirected from non-research intensive regional universities to other providers.   The Liberal Party ....

Australian Rural Development: Multiple Problems, Bespoke Solutions, the Abdication of Central Governments, and the Ghost of Friedrich Nietzsche

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Sorensen, Tony
  • Journal Name: Sustaining Regions
  • Journal Number: Vol. 7, No. 1
  • Country: Australia

The numerous political, economic, environmental and other problems that surround the regional development of the rural areas of Australia are discussed. The various measures that can be taken or are being taken to overcome these barriers are also analyzed. Report Locationhttp://www.anzrsai.org/system/files/f8/f9/f48/f49/o273//SRO11-19 ....

Australian urban planning: new challenges, new agendas

  • Year: 2000
  • Author: Gleeson, Brendan; Low, Nicholas
  • Publisher: Allen &​ Unwin
  • Published Location: St Leonards, NSW
  • ISBN: 1865082384
  • Country: Australia

How should Australia's cities be managed in the new millennium? How can planning respond to the new political challenges which confront every level of government? Does planning complement or inhibit environmental sustainability? Australian Urban Planning addresses these questions by describing and analysing the various theoretical, political and ....

Barriers to collaboration in mental health services for older people: external agency views

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: M Crotty, J Henderson, L Martinez, J Fuller
  • Journal Name: Australian Journal of Primary Health
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: South Australia

The need for mental health services for older people living in rural areas is increasing in South Australia. Providing such care requires coordination between several types of services across government, hospital and non-government sectors. The purpose of this study was to identify barriers to collaboration from the perspective of external aged c ....

Boardroom Revelations - Board Members Making Meaning of Regional Development Governance

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Conway, Mary-Louise
  • Journal Name: Sustaining Regions
  • Journal Number: Vol. 5, No. 3
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales, Western Australia

This paper brings to the surface a number of issues about the experience of being a board member of a RDA in NSW and WA. It seems that board members are drawn to this involvement as an act of goodwill and in the effort to make positive contributions to their communities. Involvement is often a reflection of their own personal and w ....

Building Capacity for Local Governance: An Application of Interactional Theory to Developing a Community of Interest

  • Year: 2007
  • Author: Pavey, Jamey L; Muth, Allyson B; Ostermeier, David; Miriam L E Steiner Davis
  • Journal Name: Rural Sociology
  • Journal Number: Vol.72, No.1
  • Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
  • Published Location: Columbia, United Kingdom
  • Country: United States
  • State/Region: Tennessee

The Emory-Obed Watershed in Tennessee, like many other rural areas throughout the United States, is experiencing changes in economic activities and social values associated with natural resources. Informed by the interactional approach to community development, this effort strove to build community capacity so community members could mo ....

Building Competitive Regions: Strategies and Governance

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
  • Publisher: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
  • Published Location: Paris, France
  • ISBN: 9789264009462

In recent years, the main focus of territorial policy has been on sustaining growth, not only to address relative decline, but also to make regions more competitive. Putting this in practice is complicated because different regions have different characteristics (urban, intermediate, industrial, rural, etc.), which imply specific policy and inves ....

Building partnerships to promote economic and social wellbeing and learning

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Wilson, Bruce; Osborne, M; Doyle, L
  • Journal Name: International Conference on Engaging Communities
  • Country: Australia, United Kingdom
  • State/Region: Victoria, Scotland

The PASCAL Observatory is a UK / Australian collaboration that shares research on social capital, learning regions and place management. The observatory recognises the necessity of partnerships for the successful implementation of policy. Three initiatives that illustrate ways in which governments can intervene to promote social ob ....

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 ....

Capacity of the governance structure of Palestine to undertake local economic development

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Salameh, Estephan Anton
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Published Location: United States -- Illinois
  • ISBN: 9781109609899
  • Country: Palestine

This dissertation titled: "Capacity of the Governance Structure of Palestine to Undertake Local Economic Development" focused on two main areas of research, (1) the central-local government relationship (centralization vs. decentralization) and how this relationship affects the capacity of local governments to undertake local economic d ....

Changing Governance of Australian Regional Development: Systems and Effectiveness

  • Year: 2007
  • Author: Tony Sorensen; Neil Marshall; Brian Dollery
  • Journal Name: Space and Polity
  • Journal Number: Vol.11, No.3
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

Regional economic and social development is an important public issue in most countries, yet among the least successful. In Australia, some 40 years of trial and error regional strategy appear to have had limited success in securing long-range economic and social development leading to more diversified economies, population growth and converging ....

City-Region Governance, Policy Variation and Economic Performance

  • Year: 2010
  • Author: Paul Steeples
  • Country: United Kingdom

Advocates for devolution of responsibility for economic development have frequently made a link between the governance of city-regions and their economic performance. The evidence they adduce for this does not clearly bear this out, since there are problems in defining the scale of the cities under consideration, the scope of the powers involved ....

Coal Sector Revitalization, Community Memory, and the Land Question in Nigeria: A Paradox of Economic Diversification?

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Umejesi, Ikechukwu
  • Journal Name: African Studies Quarterly
  • Journal Number: Vol.12, No.3
  • Publisher: African Studies Quarterly
  • Published Location: Gainesville, United States
  • Country: Nigeria

In 1999, the Nigerian government unveiled new policies aimed at revitalizing the mining, agricultural, tourism, financial services, and manufacturing sectors in a broader effort to diversify the national economy. While this was a response to the reality of underdevelopment in the country, it was also a response to research that has attr ....

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