The notion of ‘new regionalism’ is used widely in the discussion of metropolitan economic and spatial development in North America, Western Europe and Australia today. This paper suggests to distinguish more clearly between the different 'new regionalisms', not only to avoid confusion within the planning literature, but also to distinguish the discussion from other ‘new...

This paper outlines efforts throughout 2011 by the Victorian Department of Health’s North and West Metropolitan Region to implement a Regional Health and Wellbeing Implementation Strategy. The Strategy provides regional expression to the Victorian Public Health and Wellbeing Plan 2011-2015 (Department of Health, 2011a), and the many opportunities identified within it.

This paper attempts to explore short-distance and long-distance migration in Australia. Typically short distance moves are regarded as motivated by housing preference while longer-distance migration primarily by employment considerations.

This paper discusses the periodic emergence of regional Australia as a focus of policy and action, the development of a network of regional centres in Australia, the difficulties and shortcomings in confining a national urban policy to only the very large cities and how regional policy and an urban policy agenda relates to Australia's 'non-urban'...

RDA Sydney's Regional Plan is an informative tool providing important perspectives on the economic, environmental and social status of Sydney's Regions.