This is an overview of five reports describing disadvantage in Victoria’s regions of Barwon South West, Grampians, Loddon Mallee, Hume and Gippsland. It compiles data from across the reports to describe disadvantage across regional Victoria as a whole.

This study addresses the question posed in the 2009 AHURI Research Agenda: how do the drivers of supply and demand for housing in regional and rural centres affect the supply of affordable housing?

This brief begins by describing the conceptual framework for existing place-based typologies and our rationale for creating a new typology built upon a human service needs profile. We then detail our data and methods for our typology, including a discussion of the relative trade-offs in using different geographic units of analysis. We show the results...

How have the regions weathered the GFC? Robert Tanton looks at the data.

This report focuses on a comprehensive range of health issues concerning people living in rural, regional and remote Australia.