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2012

Literature Review Theme 3: Successful Transitions

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: RAI
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: All Regions

The Regional Australia Institute (RAI) has undertaken a Stocktake of Regional Research project. One component of the project requires a literature review to be prepared for each of RAI's four themes, namely: Theme 1 – Position and Potential: potential for new growth and prosperity in each region; Theme 2 – Realising Opportunities: understan ....

Literature Review Theme 4: Better Services and Engagement

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: RAI
  • Published Location: Canberra
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: All Regions

The Regional Australia Institute (RAI) has undertaken a Stocktake of Regional Research project. One component of the project requires a literature review to be prepared for each of RAI's four themes, namely: Theme 1 – Position and Potential: potential for new growth and prosperity in each region; Theme 2 – Realising Opportunities: underst ....

Local and regional government in remote and unincorporated Australia: Sui Generis?

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Blackwell, Boyd D
  • Journal Name: Public Policy
  • Journal Number: Vol. 7, No. 1
  • Country: Australia

Most of Australia's geographical area is remote or very remote. Many parts of remote Australia are not incorporated into the area of a local government. For people in these areas, democratically elected and accountable local representation does not exist. How then are the local views of these people heard without bias and acted upo ....

Local government and regional development Australia committees in New South Wales: Why tensions exist and how they might be resolved - an insider's perspective

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Tiley, Ian
  • Journal Name: Public Policy
  • Journal Number: Vol. 7, No. 1
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

In June 2009 and August 2009 respectively, the Commonwealth, in partnership with the NSW Government, commenced the operation of Regional Development Australia (RDA) Committees with the appointment of Chairpersons and members. Minister Crean confirmed broad roles for the Committees, including preparation of Regional Plans and signif ....

Local Government Service Delivery to Remote Indigenous Communities

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Limerick, Michael; Morris, Robyn; Sutton, Melissa
  • Publisher: Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government
  • Published Location: Sydney, NSW
  • Country: Australia

This report presents the findings of the first phase of an investigation into models for the funding and delivery of local government services in remote Indigenous communities in Australia. A set of guiding principles critical to the design of any model for funding and delivering local government services to remote Indigenous communities was for ....

Local government, mining companies and resource development in regional Australia

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Barclay, M.A.; Everingham, J.; Cheshire, L.; Brereton, D.; Pattenden, C.; Lawrence, G.
  • Publisher: Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining
  • Published Location: Brisbane, Qld
  • Country: Australia

This report summarises the findings from a two-year research project into the governance challenges posed by large scale resource development in mining-intensive regions of Australia. Unlike the narrower term government, governance applies in situations where authority and responsibility for the tasks of governing – including planning, allocat ....

Locally constructed regionalism: The city of greater Geraldton, Western Australia

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Grant, Bligh; Dollery, Brian; van der Westhuizen, Gert
  • Journal Name: Public Policy
  • Journal Number: Vol. 7, No. 1
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Western Australia

Since 2007, the Rudd and Gillard Labor governments have demonstrated a heightened interest in both local government and regional governance arrangements. However, previous attempts at reinforcing the legitimacy of Australian local government and engendering regionalism across the Australian polity have faltered, (see, for example, ....

Lost in transition: Secondary school students' understanding of landscapes and natural resource management

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Kruger, Tarnya; Beilin, Ruth
  • Journal Name: Youth Studies Australia
  • Journal Number: Vol. 31, No. 1
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Victoria

In 2007, a study titled 'Living in the landscapes of the 21st century' was conducted in 11 high schools in metropolitan and rural Victoria. The research team investigated Year 10 students' conceptions of landscapes in order to explore their understandings of natural resource management (NRM), including agriculture, food, land and w ....

Managing Central-Local Government Relationships: The Case of New Zealand

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Michael Reid
  • Journal Name: Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance
  • Country: New Zealand

The manner in which central and local governments engage has taken on extra salience in recent years as governments seek to address wicked issues and begin to appreciate the role of place as a key contributor of economic growth. Different approaches exist, ranging from formal and constitutional to informal and political, but none represents a mag ....

Managing conflicts over land and natural resources through collective action

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Clifford Ajayi, Oluyede; Akinnifesi, Festus Kehinde; Sileshi, Gudeta; Mn'gomba, Simon; Ajayi, Olubunmi Adeola; Kanjipite, Webstar; Ngulube, John Madalitso
  • Publisher: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
  • Country: Zambia

Seasonal changes and ambiguity in property rights over land and natural resources create conflicts in rural communities in eastern Zambia. This study describes how rural households have minimized such conflicts and protect the economic interests of the poor members of the community through collective agreements on how to manage access to land and ....

Map and Gap Analysis: Pilbara Non Government Organisations

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Jill Cameron, Catriona Cameron, Kirsten Bate
  • Publisher: RDA Pilbara, Government of Western Australia, Pilbara Development Commission, West Pilbara Communities for Children, The Australian Government
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Western Australia

The NGO sector has an integral role in building liveable and healthy communities, and it is widely acknowledged that the sector makes a significant contribution to the social and economic wellbeing of communities and reducing economic and social disadvantage.  RDA Pilbara and the Pilbara Development Commission are working together to suppor ....

Marker validation in recombinant inbred lines and random varieties of rice for drought tolerance

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Singh, Sanjay; Pradhan, SK; Singh, AK; Singh, ON
  • Journal Name: Australian Journal of Crop Science
  • Journal Number: Vol. 6, No. 4
  • Country: Australia

Water stress, one of the devastating abiotic stresses in rainfed rice ecosystems causes huge loss to rice yields. Enhancement of production as well as productivity in rainfed areas requires development of improved varieties for such regions. Slow progress in drought breeding is an impediment in this way. Marker assisted approach is ....

Maximizing the Impact of Telepractice Through a Multifaceted Service Delivery Model at The Shepherd Centre, Australia

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Davis, Aleisha; Hopkins, Tracy; Abrahams, Yetta
  • Journal Name: The Volta Review
  • Journal Number: 112.3
  • Publisher: Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, Incorporated
  • Published Location: United States
  • ISBN: 00428639
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

The Shepherd Centre is a nonprofit early intervention program in New South Wales, Australia, providing listening and spoken language services through an interdisciplinary team approach to children with hearing loss and their families. Advances in communication technology and the global push towards telepractice and e-health service delivery model ....

Meeting the needs of an ageing rural and regional population

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Schmidt, Anthony T
  • Journal Name: Municipal Engineering Australia
  • Journal Number: Volume 39 Issue 3 (Oct 2012)
  • Publisher: EPC Media Group
  • Published Location: Greensborough, Vic.
  • ISBN: 0211-354X
  • Country: Australia

Report Locationhttp://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=993965460536770;res=IELENG ....

Misconceiving regional/local tensions: Two case studies from Tasmania

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Dollery, Brian; Kortt, Michael; Wijeweera, Albert
  • Journal Name: Public Policy
  • Journal Number: Vol. 7, No. 1
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Tasmania

While tensions between the imperatives of regional, state and national development and local autonomy are common, there is no necessary trade-off between the two since regional development can co-exist with a vibrant system of local government. However, this is often not readily appreciated in Australian policy debates, which frequ ....

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