Skip to main content

Latest news

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/november alliance meeting.png

National Alliance for Regionalisation Sets 2024 Agenda

15/11/2023

The CEOs of some of the country’s most influential peak bodies have met with three government ministers in Canberra today, to help set the National Alliance for Regionalisation’s key goals for the coming year.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/rai_2023_ mattbeaver_sa904316_final.jpg

Unveiling the Regionalisation Ambition 2032 - Year 1 Progress Report

21/09/2023

Last week in Canberra, the Regional Australia Institute (RAI) unveiled the first-year progress report of the Regionalisation Ambition 2032.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/frame 47.png

New grant scheme launched for regional communities

14/09/2023

The Regional Australia Institute’s (RAI) Regionalisation Ambition 2032 and goal to ‘Rebalance the Nation’ is at the heart of a new philanthropic initiative, aimed at promoting sustainable, focused, long-term change in country communities.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/frame 46.png

Shifting our Gaze – Inaugural report of Regionalisation Ambition 2032: A Framework to Rebalance the

13/09/2023

We all know the only certainty in life is change. Change is inevitable but transformation is a conscious choice. Transformation requires choice.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/2023 report card/leaders image.png

Systems-thinking in local leadership

1/09/2023

The Future Shapers leadership program, delivered by the Committee for Ballarat, highlights how non-government organisations are creating impact from the Ambition.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/2023 report card/20230329_091035.jpg

Recap of RAI’s Thrive Together Workshops in 2023

1/09/2023

Reflecting on this year's local workshops, where we talked community wins, opportunities and actions for regional areas to thrive into the future.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/wd - thumbnail.png

Leveraging the Ambition to guide local strategic planning

7/07/2023

The Regional Australia Institute (RAI) were thrilled to learn that the Western Downs Regional Council were leveraging the Framework to communicate their own refresh of their 5-year Economic Development Strategy.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/frame 44.png

Bendigo Bank expands investment in tomorrow’s leaders, delivers on jobs and skills pledge

26/06/2023

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank is a founding member of the Regional Australia Council (RAC), a group of forward-thinking and influential Australian businesses committed to elevating and prioritising regional Australia.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/frame 41.png

Regions remain popular for tree-changers escaping the cities

5/06/2023

It’s not really breaking news to report that people continue to move from Australia’s major cities to its regions, including Greater Shepparton and the wider Goulburn Valley, but it would seem people have also begun returning to the cities.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/frame 42.png

Wave of Launceston migrations subside

5/06/2023

The wave of Australians moving to Launceston has subsided.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/frame 43.png

Jobs market driving record internal migration

31/05/2023

Employment and business opportunities are driving record levels of people moving from major cities to regional areas.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/20230329_150118.jpg

Learnings from the road with Bryce Ives

30/05/2023

There is something truly exhilarating about zooming up and zooming down, diving headfirst into the compelling issues and themes that weave through the tapestry of rural and regional Australia.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/frame 40.png

More jobs than people

29/05/2023

Regional job ads are surging, new research from the Regional Australia Institute (RAI) has shown, with the number of early childhood education and care (ECEC) roles in the Riverina and Murray area increasing.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/frame 39.png

Regional Australia Institute survey insights revealed

26/05/2023

ALEX Holt dropped city life for the vast and sparsely populated outback with no expectations.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/frame 38.png

Rural and regional health and workforce discussed this week

25/05/2023

Updates from AMA Council of Rural Doctors and a report on regional skills in the National Press Club this week.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/frame 37.png

Housing and childcare squeeze behind bush worker gap

24/05/2023

While the job market booms in country Australia, workers are hard to find amid chronic shortages of housing and childcare.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/frame 34.png

New push to fire up the nation’s engine room

21/03/2023

Many of Australia’s peak advocacy organisations are backing a new push to improve life and work in regional Australia

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/frame 36.png

Regional alliance to foster new wave of tree-changers

21/03/2023

Leaders from the health, education, agriculture and arts sectors have formed a new alliance to help regional Australia become home to 11 million people by the end of the decade.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/frame 35.png

Bush poised to accelerate Australia’s productivity ambitions

21/03/2023

Today marks a historic day for hashtag#RegionalAustralia with the launch of the National Alliance for Regionalisation (established by the Regional Australia Institute) at Parliament House in Canberra.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/regionalisation alliance tn.png

Powerful new Alliance champions regional Australia

21/03/2023

More than 30 CEOs from the most influential peak bodies in the country have today joined forces in Canberra, for the historic launch of the National Alliance for Regionalisation.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/frame 32.png

Regionalisation Ambition Moves West

16/03/2023

The Regional Australia Institute (RAI) has unveiled its bold ambition to ‘rebalance the nation’ at the Regions Rising Event in Bunbury today - and what it means for regional Western Australia (WA).

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/frame 30.png

nbn - Jobs & Skills Pledge

7/03/2023

We will continue to engage and build relationships with regional businesses and communities to help them achieve local solutions and also encourage the right skills and capabilities across our workforce.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/frame 31.png

Liz Ritchie - Address to the National Press Club of Australia

3/03/2023

Liz Ritchie, Chief Executive Officer Regional Australia Institute, will make her Address to the National Press Club of Australia on 'Rebalancing the nation – empowering regional Australia for growth'.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/frame 28.png

Young families fuel rural renaissance as inland migration boosts regional towns

1/03/2023

Morgan Williams believes he struck gold when he and his young family packed up their beachfront home in Perth and moved 100 kilometres inland to York.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/frame 27.png

Australia’s biggest internal migration magnets revealed

1/03/2023

Australia’s top regions for internal migration have been revealed, with five regions recording growth of more than 200 per cent. And it is bad news for Sydney and Melbourne.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/frame 29.png

A rural renaissance is underway but not in the places you'd expect

1/03/2023

Australians are migrating further inland and further away from coastal capital cities, according to the latest snapshot of regional movement, driving a population rebound in towns with historically low growth.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/frame 26.png

Records tumble in regional job market - outstripping metro figures

23/02/2023

The picture that December's national job vacancies painted was of slowing job growth and a stabilising unemployment figure, which many commentators speculated will rise as Australia faces rising interest rates and economic headwinds.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/forget sydney or melbourne.png

Forget Sydney or Melbourne and you’ll be happier

22/02/2023

Regional Australia Institute Liz Ritchie is interviewed about skilled job opportunities in the regions for Australian expats returning from living and working overseas. Addressing job shortages is part of the new ‘rebalancing the nation’ campaign.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/frame 25.png

Albury City - Jobs & Skills Pledge

21/02/2023

We pledge to deliver increased capability of the Live Albury Wodonga skills board to make it easier to search for skilled professionals over the next 12 months.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/frame 24.png

State of the nation

6/02/2023

A deep dive into recently released statistics from the latest nationwide census highlights the changes occurring in rural and regional Australia.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/frame 23.png

Engineers are finding big potential outside the big smoke

30/01/2023

It was in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic that Angela Durston-Ryan decided to pack up and leave her lifelong hometown of Melbourne.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/migrants can rebalance nation.png

Migrants can rebalance nation

13/01/2023

With nearly 100,000 jobs currently unfilled across Australia’s regions, the push is on for regional areas to secure a greater share of the national migration intake

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/country life.png

Country Life

12/01/2023

While the population drift has highlighted significant challenges for many local economies, it has also presented an unprecedented opportunity — what not-for-profit think tank Regional Australia Institute describes as a “rebalancing of the nation.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/migrants key image.png

Migrants key to booming regional Australia

10/01/2023

The 2022 Population Statement by centre for population projects in 2022-23 less than 17 per cent of net overseas migration will flow to regional Australia.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/regional australia institute callsl.png

Regional Australia Institute calls for national population strategy for regions

10/01/2023

The chief economist of the Regional Australia Institute says the federal government needs to ensure enough overseas migrant populations are flowing into non-metropolitan areas.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/call for a national population plan.png

Call for a national population plan to encourage more overseas arrivals

10/01/2023

The Regional Australia Institute calls on the federal government to double the number of migrants settling in rural communities to help fill job shortages.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/regional australia institute calls.png

Regional Australia Institute calls for migration policy change to fill job shortages

10/01/2023

The Regional Australia Institute calls on the federal government to double the number of migrants settling in rural communities to help fill job shortages.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/migrants key.png

Migrants key to growth and sustainability of regional Australia over the next decade

9/01/2023

The Regional Australia Institute (RAI) says increasing overseas migration will be vital to the growth and sustainability of regional Australia following the release of the 2022 Population Statement last Friday from the Centre for Population.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/regional australia’s jobs.png

Regional Australia’s jobs problem needs more than a jobs solution

14/12/2022

The Regional Australia Institute (RAI) has highlighted the need for a multi-faceted and long-term approach to solving the jobs and skills crisis in regional Australia in their recent submission to Treasury’s Employment White Paper.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/empowering our regions to thrive.png

Regional action plan welcomed

9/12/2022

The Regional Australia Institute has welcomed the NSW Government's Vision for Regional Communities and Action Plan 2023-2035.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/renewable energy.png

Renewable energy will be at the heart of regional growth

8/11/2022

The regional Australia of the future will be home to more millennials and migrants, with economies bolstered by a boom in jobs in the renewable energy sector, experts say.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/climate change to spark.png

Climate change to spark internal migration wave as Australians chase jobs

3/11/2022

Climate Council research director Dr Simon Bradshaw said as global temperatures rise so will the frequency and intensity of extreme weather in Australia.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/rai pushes.png

RAI pushes for regional population to grow

18/10/2022

Without taking any action regional Australian towns and cities will grow by more than one million people over the next 10 years, but a major national body wants to push that number up higher.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/the age.png

‘We’ll be happier’: Push to increase population in regional Australia

13/10/2022

The Commonwealth and National Australia banks, Woolworths and Australia Post are among the businesses supporting the Regional Australia Institute's target of 11 million people living outside capital cities by 2032.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/empowering our regions to thrive.png

Regionalisation – empowering our regions to thrive

28/09/2022

Through the RAI’s continued dedication to regional Australia, the RAI has highlighted the boundless potential of our regions which, if unlocked, would lead to a strong regional Australia and a stronger, more balanced nation.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/regional growth.png

Regional growth ‘a boon for the nation’

21/09/2022

A blueprint to lock in prosperity for regional Australia and close the divide between cities and the bush has forecast national output could grow to $2.3 trillion over the next decade.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/plans to lure more to the bush.png

Plans to lure more to the bush

14/09/2022

The Regional Australia Institute is hoping its plan to get more people into the regions will be widely supported. It has set a target of 11 million people living prosperously outside the capital cities by 2032 in its Regionalisation Ambition.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/push to boost population.png

Push to boost population of regional Australia

13/09/2022

In the next decade, the number of people living outside major cities is projected to grow from 9.5 million people to 10.5 million. A new report out this morning is attempting to tackle the issues head-on.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/nff welcomes ambitious.png

NFF welcomes ambitious target for the bush

13/09/2022

The National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) welcomes the “Regionalisation Ambition 2032 – a Framework to Rebalance the Nation” launched today by the Regional Australia Institute.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/time to pivot.png

Time to pivot from Australia's major cities to regions

13/09/2022

If Australia wants to fast track to a more productive and prosperous nation, we need to pivot attention away from Sydney and Melbourne and towards our regions.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/regionalisation is the key.png

Regionalisation is the key to building a productive and liveable Australia

7/09/2022

As a passionate Deni girl and CEO of the Regional Australia Institute, no one is surprised to hear me say that people who make a move to the regions are happier and more productive.

~/images/regionalisation-framework/latest news/thumbnails/city living shunned.png

City living shunned

18/03/2022

City living shunned as nationwide campaign urges Australians to move to the regions One-in-five Australians are keen to make a tree change as a nationwide advertising blitz promotes the benefits of regional living.