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What is sustainability? Sustainability as a paradigm. Sustainable development as an innovation process and a transformational social challenge. The principles and practices of sustainable development. Drivers and barriers to sustainability. Cases studies good and bad.

Posted on June 19, 2018June 20, 2018

Clean Growth Choices for communities in transition –

A prosperous and thriving future for regional Australians will depend on how imaginatively we exploit opportunity and manage the risks that come with change. It will depend on the choices communities make.

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Posted on November 13, 2017November 14, 2017

Why big projects like the Adani coal mine won’t transform regional Queensland

Queensland should rethink its big projects for a big country approach. Regional jobs that depend on project investment without generating local income are not sustainable. Small business and community must be restored to centre stage in development strategy.

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Posted on October 15, 2017October 16, 2017

Health, regional Australians and research

What should be the priorities for research seeking to reduce the health disparities between city and country? If there was a clear message to come out of Resilient Regions Week this year, it was the complex regional health and well-being issues of Australia will not be solved simply by throwing more money at them.

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Posted on September 29, 2017October 4, 2017

Factors shaping regional development in Australia

Forced decentralisation of government agencies out of Canberra is unlikely to be a viable strategy for regional development. Stronger long term partnerships between the Commonwealth and the regions is a better alternative.

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Posted on March 16, 2017October 4, 2017

Australia’s energy schmozzle

The setting of accelerated mandatory renewable energy targets is killing off the possibility of a gas fuelled lower emissions transition and locking in longer lives for coal fired power stations.

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Posted on March 3, 2017October 4, 2017

Smart planning can shape a better SEQ

How to double an already significant urban population of 3.4 million and not turn a region renowned for its mix of amenity and lifestyle qualities into a massive commuter grid-lock is the challenge faced by the South-East Queensland Regional Plan.

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Posted on December 13, 2015October 4, 2017

End of the beginning of global climate change response

The Paris Accord 2015 was the ”end of the beginning” in humanity’s quest to mount an effective response to man-made climate change

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Posted on August 1, 2015October 26, 2017

Time to rebuild cooperative culture in regional Australia

Cooperation between family owned farmers is the in-between alternative between the corporate farming model and individual struggle.

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  • What’s behind the Queensland vote in the 2019 federal election? August 31, 2019
  • Clean Growth Choices for communities in transition – June 19, 2018
  • Why big projects like the Adani coal mine won’t transform regional Queensland November 13, 2017
  • Making a user-friendly regional health care system October 26, 2017
  • Can regional health care be more regional? October 17, 2017
  • Health, regional Australians and research October 15, 2017
  • Factors shaping regional development in Australia September 29, 2017
  • Can regional development policy be rational? July 31, 2017
  • Australia’s energy schmozzle March 16, 2017
  • Smart planning can shape a better SEQ March 3, 2017

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