2012

Is growth possible in all OECD regions? Evidence suggests that it is. Helping underdeveloped regions to catch up with more developed ones will have a positive impact on a country’s national growth overall, and such growth helps to build a fairer society, in which no region’s citizens are left behind. This publication draws on case studies ....

The Regional Australia Institute (RAI) invited non-metropolitan RDAs to provide input to the development of RAI through an on-line survey in April 2012. The results confirm that most RDAs are focused on increasing and sustaining economic activity in their region. This manifests itself in a range of industry and workforce development priorities t ....

Australians face severe challenges in accessing and understanding the diversity of data that is available to explain where our regions are now and where they could be in the future. This report describes the Regional Australia Institute's (RAI) proposed approach to assessing the competitiveness of Australia's regions. ....

The purpose of this short audit was to discover what skills were currently missing on the NSW South Coast; what skills would be needed to manage and generate future growth in the region and what factors were constraining the development or attraction of these skills to the region. This snapshot would provide a baseline for further, more strategi ....

The term 'amenity migration' describes a broad diversity of patterns of human movement to rural places in search of particular lifestyle attributes. This review of international literature, drawn from the authors' own prior research and searches on relevant databases, synthesises findings on the implications of amenity migration for the creation ....

This paper provides background information about the committee's inquiry into Queensland's Agriculture and Resources Industries and flags issues that the committee invites comment on. The paper also provides guidelines to assist submitters. Report Locationhttp://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/documents/committees/AREC/2012/QldARI ....

Regional areas are key building blocks of society in many countries. This compilation uses Australian case study examples to demonstrate how regional areas are uniquely well-placed to contribute to national goals in innovation, infrastructure provision, water and food security, environmental sustainability, industry diversification, healthy and l ....

Regional development and local government often exist in a state of tension, especially where efforts to foster regional development are channelled through proposals to consolidate existing local councils into larger 'regional councils', and where this follows from the view that larger government authorities are more efficient than ....

Integral to the social and economic growth of all regional communities is its infrastructure. Regional South Australia is confronted with challenges with regard to the maintenance of its existing infrastructure and also gaining the necessary private/ government investment into large scale infrastructure improvements and new infrastructure initia ....

The authors were responsible for leading the preparation of the Canterbury Regional Economic Development Strategy (CREDS) in September 2009, twelve months before a series of three devastating earthquakes destroyed large parts of the central business district of the region's largest city, Christchurch. The authors were commissioned ....

There are several characteristics of this regional economic development plan: To develop it, a whole-of-government approach was adopted, drawing on economic development programs, initiatives and actions being undertaken in Tasmania and, in particular, in the northern region, by the three levels of government. The Plan acknowledges that commun ....

There are several characteristics of this regional economic development plan: To develop it, a whole-of-government approach wasadopted, drawing on economic development programs, initiatives and actions being undertaken in Tasmania and, in particular, in the southern region, by the three levels of government. The Plan acknowledg ....

Tourism is one of Australia's major industries accounting for more than 2.5% of Australia's gross domestic product in 2010 (Tourism Research Australia, 2011). In the same year tourism directly employed 4.5% of Australia's workforce with a significant proportion more relying indirectly on tourism for their employment. While capital ....

Increasing communities' participation in development processes has been the subject of both policy aspiration and scholarly critique. This paper explores the implications of a critical perspective on the 'elusive goal' of participation for community development practitioners. Drawing on insights from a range of scholars, this paper poses a practi ....