This plan guides the NSW government’s land use planning priorities and decisions over the next twenty years. It represents a collaborative approach that closely integrates and aligns with the strategic planning for Canberra.

This paper investigates how opportunities for improving resilience and adaptation to natural hazards can be optimised through bottom-up collaborative planning approaches by focusing on the coastal local government area of Shoalhaven.

The issue of skills shortages in South East NSW affects business activity, consumer costs and other important community factors, such as health and education services. A review of the most recent literature on skill shortages in Australia may help to refine the nature and extent of the problem, and to focus on responses. In turn...