This paper uses data from the 2011 Census to look at the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the Indigenous population in 43 regional centres.

On 27 November 2012 the Senate referred the matter of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC) commitment to reflecting and representing regional diversity in Australia to the Environment and Communications References Committee (the committee) for inquiry and report. The terms of reference for the inquiry were: (a) the commitment by the ABC to reflecting and representing...

This presentation explains a new complexity in the Asia-Pacific region which portends a greater range of strategic choices, and suggests measures Australia could take to respond to future challenges. Outline: Strategic outlook for the region in the framework of the assessments made in Strong and Secure: A Strategy for Australia’s National Security Australian dominance in...

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 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'...