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.
17/05/2024
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.
15/05/2024
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.
13/05/2024
The Regional Australia Institute (RAI) is calling on the Federal Government to maintain its focus on developing and supporting the regions, by prioritising long-term investment in the planning, infrastructure and services.
8/05/2024
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.
2/05/2024
Transition, transition, transition. It seems to be the word of 2024, positioned alongside big ideas, big investment, and big infrastructure.
26/04/2024
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.
22/04/2024
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.
18/04/2024
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.
10/04/2024
Regional local governments are urged to take a new survey by the Regional Australia Institute (RAI) in response to the Federal Government’s Inquiry into the sustainability of regional, rural, and remote councils.
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.
26/03/2024
Regional leaders stand ready to benefit from the transition to net zero by 2050, but more information is needed to help communities navigate the way forward, according to the Regional Australia Institute (RAI).
The RAI has a dedicated and enthusiastic team and through the ‘Faces of the RAI’ series, we want to introduce you to the people undertaking this work. This week we profile our Education and Regional Impact Director, Anna Stephenson.
22/03/2024
Regional job vacancies remained unchanged at 76,000 in February 2024, with just a slight dip of 0.6 per cent from the previous month. This minor monthly decline in job ads largely reflects seasonal hiring patterns. The latest number of job ads is 6.3
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
20/03/2024
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.
13/03/2024
The RAI has a dedicated and enthusiastic team and through the ‘Faces of the RAI’ series, we want to introduce you to the people undertaking this work. This week we profile our Director of Corporate Affairs - Amanda Barwick.
7/03/2024
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.
6/03/2024
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.
28/02/2024
The Sunshine Coast has surged ahead as Australia’s most coveted region for movers, capturing a record share of net internal migration over the last year according to the latest Regional Movers Index (RMI).
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.
27/02/2024
Regional Australia Institute
P: (02) 6260 3733
E: [email protected]