Regional Development Processes

The objectives of the 2004-05 State of the Regions report (SOR) are to explore the case for the use of infrastructure development to assist regions to improve their performance and to update and extend the SOR regional performance indicators. Report Locationhttp://alga.asn.au/?ID=357&Menu=44,68,330 ....

This year's Report is timely given that it examines the future of regional development in light of the ongoing impacts of the patchwork economy, ever tightening fiscal budgets at both the national and jurisdictional levels, the darkening economic clouds in the United States of America and Europe. Consequently, the Report raises several questions ....

Set within a general discussion of the characteristics of sub-regional planning and development, this paper reports the results of recent research on the proposed arrangements for strategic planning at regional and sub-regional levels in the English regions. It also examines the characteristics of strategic planning at regional and sub- ....

This document provides a summary of the key Commonwealth government and Western Australian government policies and government commitments that inform the way the WA Country Health Service plans for and delivers services to rural and remote areas of Western Australia. This document is a reference for WA Country Health Service plans and business c ....

Contains three technical reports commissioned by the RDA Grampians Committee to consider energy use in the Grampians region. These technical reports include: Grampians Energy Infrastructure; Economic Implications of Changes in Energy for the Grampians; Social Implications of Changes in Energy for the Grampians.  Report Locationhttp://www.r ....

Northern Australia is a unique part of our country and integral to our national identity. It is home to the oldest living culture in the world. Its natural and cultural landscapes underpin multibillion dollar tourism, fishing and conservation industries. Its enormous reserves of minerals and resources are essential to Australia's nation ....

Talking point: Returning to regional Australia looks at the influx of Australians aged 25-44 into regional areas. There are now more people in this age group migrating from metropolitan to regional areas than vice versa. Many of these are regional 'Returners', people who have left in their younger years but come back later in life to resettle t ....

While modern telecommunications infrastructure and services have been recognised as important in stimulating regional economic development, significant disparities in their provision have been observed between metropolitan and regional areas. Some of the identified advantages of telecommunications services include the diversificati ....

This Telecommunications Infrastructure Review has been prepared to assist RDA Townsville & North-West Queensland to facilitate and expedite the development of broadband infrastructure throughout its region. This project was funded by the Queensland Government, Regional Development Australia Townsville and North West Queensland Inc, Charters T ....

Whilst a number of statutory instruments have been designed by policy makers to address the problem of unplanned residential development in rural or environmentally sensitive areas, little academic research has been conducted on their performance within the Australian context. One such instrument is the tenement control. Tenement controls were hi ....

Territory 2030 sets the Territory Government’s direction for the next 20 years. It is a long-term plan with clear targets that provide a framework for the government’s strategic plans and policy initiatives. With education at its core, Territory 2030 sets priorities for society, economic sustainability, health and wellbeing, the environment a ....

The ANAO is undertaking three audits of key aspects of the NPA's signed with Queensland and Victoria in relation to natural disasters over the 2010-2011 spring and summer seasons.   The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Inspectorate, supported by the taskforce, in providing assurance that value for money is bei ....

The research presented in this article employed a deliberate intervention to mobilize social capital and then studied the dynamics of the way in which it influenced community development. Whether or not social capital is able to facilitate development depends on the specific context in which it occurs. Although the general context of this study w ....

The costs of doing business in the Pilbara are far higher than the rest of WA and most of Australia. This is a constraint to starting new businesses, operating successfully as an existing enterprise and it discourages diversification.  The RDA study is viewed as an important contribution to analysing the cost of doing business in the Pilbar ....