Regional economics
Alternative labels
Regional business
Report
The geography of Australia’s digital industries
Australia’s digital technology clusters have been mapped and analysed on a national scale for the first time. This report brings together rich data from across the nation for the first time to map and describe the range of digital technology clusters currently developing.
Report
Making our way: adaptive capacity and climate transition in Australia’s regional economies
This report proposes a framework to identify priority areas for investment and policy action, based on the levels of adaptive capacity in fossil-fuel exposed areas of regional Australia.
Policy report
Fostering agricultural and rural policy dialogue
This paper seeks to make a broad review of interlinkages and to provide some ideas for an overarching framing to clarify the synergies, complementarities and trade-offs between agricultural and rural policy approaches, with a view to enabling further suggestions for learning through dialogue.
Report
State of the nation’s housing 2022–23
This report provides a snapshot of housing demand and supply across Australia, with a view to identifying supply shortfalls that could over time exacerbate affordability problems.
Working paper
How do mass lay-offs affect regional economies?
Mass lay-offs from firms and plant restructuring occur regularly, and can have potentially large consequences on places and communities. This paper estimates the impact of mass lay-offs between 2008-18 across small regions in Europe on regional employment and productivity.