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2012

Renewal of Local Infrastructure in Regional Australia

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

A new national organisation dedicated to catalysing renewal in local infrastructure represents the most promising public policy for tackling the local government infrastructure shortfall. To effectively address the policy problem, this organisation must fulfill three main functions: - Provide Australian local government with access to private s ....

Report on Government Services 2012

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Productivity Commission
  • Journal Name: Report on Government Services
  • Publisher: Productivity Commission
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 9781740373852
  • Country: Australia

Report Locationhttp://www.pc.gov.au/gsp/rogs/2012 ....

Rockhampton Regional Industry Profile: identifying opportunities for innovation clustering

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Kinnear, Susan; Tucker, Gail
  • Publisher: Central Queensland University
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland

Regional business and industry are critical players in regional innovation systems, yet there is currently no reliable way to assess the actual makeup of these entities in regional Australia. This project set out to provide a comprehensive and current business audit for the Rockhampton region, and then to use that information to identify the pote ....

Role of local institutions in formulating climate change adaptation strategies for a low water future: A public policy perspective

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Ananda, Jayanath
  • Journal Name: The Australasian Journal of Regional Studies
  • Journal Number: Vol. 18 No. 3
  • Publisher: Australian and New Zealand Regional Science Association
  • Published Location: Armidale, NSW
  • ISBN: 1324-0935
  • Country: Australia

This paper examines the role of local institutions in supporting climate change adaptation action from a public policy perspective. While certain adaptation actions will provide public benefits, many others will offer private benefits. The paper argues that adaptation investments and assigning the adaptation responsibility across various actors s ....

Rural Futures Workshop

  • Year: 2012
  • Publisher: RDA Mackay Whitsunday
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland

Engage with key stakeholders in the region to develop a Rural Futures Statement that articulates the importance of rural communities as strong and viable sustainable economies, contributing to the health, character, liveability and wealth of the region. Rural Futures aims to balance regional growth and land use change with increased rural produc ....

Science Engagement and Tropical Australia: building a prosperous and sustainable future for the north

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Expert Working Group on Science Engagement Into and For Australia’s Tropical Region
  • Publisher: Department of Industry, Australian Government
  • ISBN: 978-0-9873109-2-7
  • Country: Australia

The Inspiring Australia strategy is a high-level national strategy for public engagement with the sciences and a key element of Australia’s innovation agenda. The Australian government believes that, in order to help the nation ‘unlock its full potential’, it is necessary to examine those areas which, due to location, may have been disadvan ....

SCOPING A VISION FOR THE FUTURE OF RURAL AND REGIONAL AUSTRALIA

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Hogan, Anthony; Young, Michelle; Cannon, Pele
  • Publisher: The National Institute for Rural and Regional Australia, Australian National University
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • Country: Australia

For the past 6 months NIRRA has been undertaking a scoping projecton Visioning the Future of Rural and Regional Australia. A discussion paper has now been completed , which provides a broad overview of many of the issues relating to, and the concerns facing, rural and regional Australia. The project report draws on a number of articles contribute ....

Scoping Study: Impact of Fly-In Fly-Out/ Drive-In Drive-Out Work Practices on Local Government

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

This research identifies potential gaps in the literature, provides a greater understanding of the impacts of Fly-In Fly-Out/ Drive-In Drive-Out work practices within the local government context, and suggests areas to focus upon for future research. Report Locationhttp://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCs ....

Search Conference Background Paper: Strengthening Local Government Revenue

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Comrie, John
  • Publisher: Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government
  • Published Location: Sydney, NSW
  • Country: Australia

Over the past decade or so there has been considerable attention given to the state of Australian local governments' finances, the capacity of local governments to fund reasonable and appropriate service levels, why local governments may have financial challenges and what if anything should be done about these matters. There have ....

Service Delivery Reviews in Australian Local Government

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Walker G.; Gray M.
  • Publisher: Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government
  • Published Location: Sydney, NSW
  • Country: Australia

The Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government (ACELG) has commissioned this research project to profile Service Delivery Reviews within Australian Local Government. In particular, the research examines a number of councils that have successfully undertaken a formal review of the services that they provide, both internally and to their ....

Signs of Countrymindedness: A Survey of Attitudes to Rural Industries and People

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Cockfield, Geoff; Botterill, Linda Courtenay
  • Journal Name: Australian Journal of Political Science
  • Journal Number: 47.4
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Published Location: United Kingdom
  • ISBN: 10361146
  • Country: Australia

Some political scientists have argued that 'countrymindedness', a set of tenets about the importance of agriculture and rural life, is of decreasing political and social importance. There has been little empirical research to test this, so the authors conducted an exploratory survey of attitudes to rural industries and people. The results reveal ....

Social determinants and regional disparity of unemployment duration in Australia: A multilevel approach

  • Author: Haynes, Michele A.; Higginson, Angela; Probert, William J. M.; Boreham, Paul
  • Journal Name: 2011 HILDA Survey Research Conference
  • Publisher: The University of Melbourne
  • Published Location: Melbourne, Victoria
  • ISBN: 9780734042538
  • Country: Australia

The economic and social costs associated with unproductive time spent in labour market transitions between jobs and between unemployment and employment have been the subject of recent policy debate. There is now broad support for policies that provide both positive and negative incentives to those on unemployment benefits to influence relocation ....

Socio-economic wellbeing in Australian mining towns: A comparative analysis

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Tonts, M., Plummer, P., Lawrie, M.
  • Journal Name: Journal of Rural Studies
  • Journal Number: 28(3)
  • Country: Australia

Understanding the links between resource dependence and socio-economic wellbeing has long been a subject of interest amongst social scientists in North America. By contrast, relatively few Australian studies exist on this topic. This is despite the significant role of resource industries in shaping Australia's economic and social geography. Where ....

Solving challenges in regional Australia: can localism work? [Video]

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Stoker, Gerry; Lancaster, Megan; Evans, Mark
  • Publisher: ANZSOG Institute for Governance
  • Country: Australia

Commonwealth politicians are increasingly presenting the concept of localism as the panacea to all our wicked problems yet there remains considerable puzzlement across levels of government as to what it really means in practice. Indeed a recent survey of Commonwealth departments and agencies identified several approaches to localism coexisting in ....

Spatial analysis of suicide mortality in Australia: investigation of metropolitan-rural-remote differentials of suicide risk across states/territories.

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Cheung, Yee Tak Derek; Spittal, Matthew J.; Pirkis, Jane; Yip, Paul Siu Fai
  • Journal Name: Social Science & Medicine
  • Journal Number: 75.8
  • Publisher: Elsevier Science
  • Published Location: Netherlands
  • ISBN: 0277-9536
  • Country: Australia

Studies of suicide epidemiology in regions of Australia have been conducted, but the spatial pattern in the whole country has not been fully investigated. This study aimed at visualizing the sex-specific suicide pattern over the country from 2004 to 2008, and studying the metropolitan-rural-remote differentials of suicide across all states/territ ....

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