Beyond the Resource Enclave: Regional Development Challenges in Northern Remote Australia Download

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Regional economic analysts have struggled with the issue of how to account for the distinctive economic geographies of northern remote Australia. Mirroring the stark climatic dichotomy of ‘wet’ and ‘dry’ seasons in the region, analyses of economic performance and opportunity tend to portray these areas either as ‘resource regions’ with substantial growth prospects, or depict them as ‘problem regions’, emphasising the low socio-economic status of many inhabitants (especially Indigenous people). Both these characterisations have elements of truth, but they also represent partial interpretations of the regional ‘whole’. They fail to capture the dynamics of the relationship between resource industries and the regions in which they operate, and thereby perpetuate a misleading model for regional economic development.

 

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27 Mar 2007

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27 Mar 2007

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Bill Pritchard

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