This is a report on the responses of 82 employers in Campbelltown, Fairfield, Narellan, Camden and Smeaton Grange, to a 2013-2014 survey designed to gather employers’ views of their skilled labour needs, in order to remain competitive and grow through innovation. Overall recommendation A lighthouse Regional Manufacturing Innovation and Workforce Development Partnership be piloted, to...

Abstract: This study investigates changes to the workplace that are leading to ‘anywhere working’. It explores the potential demand for smart work centres in the local government areas of Liverpool, Blacktown and Penrith in Western Sydney and the public and private benefits that would accrue from their use. Smart work centres are differentiated from other...

Through a mixed-methods retrospective case study of an ‘extreme’ instance of community opposition to affordable housing development in the Western Sydney LGA of Parramatta, this paper looks at how and why community opposition to affordable housing escalated between 2009 and 2011, addressing this gap in knowledge.

This paper explores economic and employment development in outer metropolitan areas of Australian major cities

This paper presents findings from a grounded child/youth centred study exploring the issue of independent mobility through semi-structured interviews with children aged 9 to 12 years and young people aged 13 to 15 years living in five different neighbourhoods in Blacktown, Western Sydney.