Rural and remote communities
Strategy
Barkly Regional Deal
The 10 year Barkly Regional Deal aims to improve the productivity and liveability of the Barkly region by stimulating economic growth, improving social outcomes and supporting local Aboriginal leadership.
Briefing paper
APO Digital Inclusion Collection brief: April 2019
As part of APO's Digital Inclusion Collection, expert curator Chris K Wilson discusses ACMA’s Communication Report for 2018 as well as the digital inclusion component of the Regional Telecommunications Independent Review Committee’s 2018 report and the government’s response to the digital inclusion recommendations posed in this report.
Working paper
The application of income support obligations and penalties to remote Indigenous Australians, 2013–18
This paper analyses the pattern of income support penalties applied to people participating in remote employment services from 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2018. Between 30 000 and 37 000 unemployed Australians were participating in these services at any given time during this period. More than 80% were identified as Indigenous. Although remote program...
Report
The future of regional jobs
The face of regional jobs across the country is changing rapidly and a plan to meet demand is needed now – according to the Regional Australia Institute.
Report
Integrating art production and economic development in the Central Desert (NT) and the APY Lands (SA)
This report presents the results of a study that forms one component of a major National Survey of Remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Artists. The Survey was undertaken in the Department of Economics at Macquarie University progressively across six regions in remote Australia. This Report relates the Survey in Region 4: Central Desert NT...