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Governance Challenges for Northern Australia

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Allan Dale
  • Publisher: James Cook University, The Cairns Institute
  • Published Location: Cairns, QLD
  • ISBN: 978-0-9875922-1-7
  • Country: Australia

This paper outlines first why good governance for northern Australia is important to the nation. It details how things actually function in a pan-tropical sense, in northern Western Australia (WA), the Northern Territory (NT) and northern Queensland, and at regional and local scales. It then looks at how the north has been governed through the lens of major conflict themes from our recent history. It also looks at the outcomes that might emerge from a business-as-usual scenario; what happens if the flaws in the governance of the north continue unabated into the future? Finally, it explores (or perhaps dreams) of some of the alternative possibilities for northern governance.

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