Economic Growth

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 ....

RDA Whyalla and Eyre Peninsula Annual Report 2012-13. Report Locationhttp://www.eyreregion.com.au/images/stories/PDFs/RDAWEP%20Annual%20Report201213Final%20with%20cover.pdf ....

Australian farmers operate in a volatile business environment, subject to the vagaries of the Australian climate and fully exposed to capricious international agricultural commodity markets. Periodically, a combination of climate and market factors create particularly challenging periods for farm businesses, during which time there are inevitable ....

Economic 'development' driven by global economic forces produces specific expressions of 'community' in places where large new economic projects are to be located. This paper draws on contemporary geopolitical literature to theorise community identity as partly formulated in response to external 'threats'. A comparative study of community mobilis ....

Both the Federal and the State Governments have been developing policies to encourage immigrants and refugees to settle in regional areas, to assist the newcomers in gaining employment and to build regional economies. However, the policy objectives associated with regional settlement of refugees, namely humanitarian goals and oblig ....

A Brotherhood of St. Laurence study of the settlement experiences of 55 Iraqi and Sudanese refugees and 22 community leaders in Shepparton, Colac and Warrnambool, Victoria aimed to identify factors that promote successful settlement in regional areas. These include availability of employment, education and training, housing, adequa ....

Whilst steps have been taken by the Federal Government to address the needs of regional Australia, the Final Report of the Regional Summit Steering Committee shows that the regional agenda is far from complete. Much more remains to be done. It is also clear from the Report that, of the remaining priorities, investment and enterprise growth are th ....

This framework provides guidance for those involved in implementing Regional Centres Development Plans (SuperTowns). It details: • the background and rationale to SuperTowns policy • linkages to the statutory land use planning, regional development framework and approval processes • a local and community focus • the wider sub-regional, ....

Over the past ten years the concept of regional clustering has gained much popularity in business, government and the academic world. In general, geographically concentrated cooperation is viewed as an organisational survival strategy in today’s intensely competitive business environment. Some authors even suggest that regional clustering is pa ....

There is now widespread agreement that we are witnessing the ‘resurgence’ of regions as key loci in the organization and governance of economic growth and wealth creation. A previous special issue of this journal (‘Rethinking the Regions’, Regional Studies (2003) 37(6/7)) was devoted to recent developments and debates in regional developm ....

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 first decade of the twenty-first century was one of the most prosperous in Australia's history. The boom was led by a buoyant minerals and energy resource sector, contributing to high levels of economic growth, rising real wages and low unemployment. Yet, as with the nation's previous resources booms, there were marginal transformations in th ....

Australia’s regions are vital to the national economy, cultural identity and environmental amenity. They produce the bulk of our exports and are home to roughly a third of our population. Importantly, the economies of our regions and cities are co-dependent and linked through economic, cultural and social ties. Therefore, the performance of a s ....

The Plan focuses on the following levers that government can influence to facilitate economic development: • Infrastructure• Skills• Business enabling environment• Access to finance• Investment attraction, facilitation and retention• Trade promotion, branding and marketing• Business development services• Facilitation, information ....