The pathway to a low-carbon economy in regional Australia’s key industries
17/05/2024
Some industries will face a more difficult pathway in the transition to net zero, particularly in regional Australia, where there is a heavy reliance on fossil fuels.
Budget 2024-2025: Nation’s Future To Be Made In Regional Australia
15/05/2024
Regional Australia is at the epicentre of the Federal Government’s Future Made in Australia ambitions, with plans to attract global investment in the development of home-grown critical minerals, low emission liquid fuels, and green hydrogen.
The timber town that’s proven efficiency and renewable energy work hand in hand
13/05/2024
Yarram is a small town of around 2000 people, in a prosperous farming district with a history of timber harvesting and milling in the Shire of Wellington, just over 200km east of Melbourne, in Gippsland, Victoria.
The finance broker who can see the potential in modular homes
2/05/2024
Teressa Fisk, a finance broker on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, has spent the past two years with a strong focus on assisting clients to finance modular homes.
Why population shouldn’t be a dirty word
26/04/2024
Transition, transition, transition. It seems to be the word of 2024, positioned alongside big ideas, big investment, and big infrastructure.
How a residential subdivision led to the regeneration of a western Victorian town
22/04/2024
Ten years ago, the Pyrenees Shire Council in regional Victoria took a calculated risk and bought a tranche of land in Beaufort, a town of about 1,700 people on the Western Highway midway between Ararat and Ballarat.
Rates roads rubbish and real estate
18/04/2024
Council Chief Executive Anne Champness recounts a story of a local professional recently being forced to live in a tent during winter due to the lack of rentals in the local government area’s biggest community.
Katanning – the little town that’s carving its own path on the journey to net zero
10/04/2024
Katanning Energy in south-west WA is a community-focussed organisation with a vision to see Katanning living and supported by a reliable, clean and cheap renewable electricity supply.
The regional Australia advantage when it comes to the transition
26/03/2024
Net zero. Whether you love it, are wary of it, or ambivalent to it, it’s here. Both in Australia and across the globe, the transition to low-carbon economies is underway.
Welcome to Dubbo, where the appetite for apartment living is sky high
20/03/2024
When the first residents move into the modernist No. 1 Church Street in the bustling centre of western New South Wales city Dubbo next year, they will be making history. Inland Australia isn’t known for its high-rise properties, but Dubbo-based devel
Seniors and families on the Surf Coast to benefit from Community Bank social enterprise
13/03/2024
Winchelsea, VIC has a shortage of appropriate housing for older people looking to downsize, forcing some residents to move from their hometown into the nearby city of Geelong, or even further afield.
My Bella Casa on a mission to make modular mainstream
6/03/2024
My Bella Casa is an offsite construction business, working to deliver new, quality, long-term homes to regional, rural and remote communities across Australia.
My Bella Casa is the brainchild of Tamika Smith.
Key workers and community betterment at the heart of unique Griffin Green collaboration
28/02/2024
Partnerships between multiple levels of government and the not-for-profit sector are often discussed, but rarely do they experience the success of the Griffin Green project.
On Your Terms - Why regional Australia is at the heart of the net zero conversation
27/02/2024
Throughout the latter part of 2022 and much of 2023 the nation’s job market exploded, even more so in regional Australia where online vacancies were reaching about 90,000 month-on-month.
Spare Rooms Across Central NSW
22/02/2024
The significant shortage of housing in regional NSW is well evidenced. It is also accepted that addressing this shortage will require innovative approaches in the short to medium term.
Cash grants and new builds: Quilpie Shire leads by example when tackling housing challenges
16/02/2024
Quilpie Shire Council made international headlines in 2021 when it launched a scheme offering $12,500 grants for people to buy and build new residential dwellings across its townships.
2024: The year of capturing and cultivating our regional capability
30/01/2024
I like to start each year goal setting and dreaming about what’s possible and to date this manifestation of ideas, innovation and aspiration has stood us in good stead.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Wave of Launceston migrations subside
5/06/2023
The wave of Australians moving to Launceston has subsided.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Regional Australia Institute survey insights revealed
26/05/2023
ALEX Holt dropped city life for the vast and sparsely populated outback with no expectations.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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'.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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‘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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.