The growing use of the Internet is providing rural, regional and remote areas with new opportunities to communicate, purchase goods and services and make use of applications that can reduce transaction costs, generate revenue and/or provide access to new forms of entertainment. The development of more data-intensive applications is stimulating demand for higher-speed access and...

New information and communications technologies increasingly allow a wide range of business services to be delivered electronically from distant offices, a practice known as eWork. Noting that the increasing use of eWork in a globalising economy may have significant implications for employment in regional and rural Australia as existing jobs are lost and new opportunities...

Provides a summary and analysis of income and other tax laws that are likely to affect investment and management of NRM and options to improve NRM outcomes. -landcare provision and provisions related to water facilities could be better defined. Notes inequities in capital gains tax application and discussed FMDs. - Encouragement of large profitable farm...

This report examines the socio-economic impacts of changing farm business structures in five case study communities. It highlights the positive and negative impacts of changing farm business structures, and makes a number of recommendations about how to maximise the benefits and minimise the potential problems. One of the key conclusions of the report is that...

Although long term economic, technological and social factors have resulted in the decline of many small inland towns in Australia, other such towns have successfully implemented a range of survival and revival strategies. This has resulted in positive outcomes for residents in terms of quality of life and economic opportunities. This publication is designed to...