Dear RDA Wheatbelt stakeholder, You are invited to complete the 2019 RDA survey. The survey is short, and should only take a few minutes to complete. Closing date is the 16th of December.
Download our November 2019 edition. To subscribe please contact admin@rdawheatbelt.com.au
We invite you to download the RDA Wheatbelt’s Annual Report for 2018-2019, providing a brief look at key programmes, activities and initiatives that we have been involved in throughout the past year.
The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development, the Hon Michael McCormack MP, has announced the opening of Round Four of the Building Better Regions Fund (BBRF).
Update provided by Katrina Crute. - Last Friday night Garrick and I (along with Phillip & Tenille) represented Wheatbelt Secondary Freight at the WA Regional Achievement & Community Awards where WSF was one of three Finalists in the Dept Loca…
RDA Wheatbelt - The Need for Reform: Aged Care in the Wheatbelt Region. Download the full report
For more on the RDA Wheatbelt NEDS initiatives please go to http://www.rdawheatbelt.com.au/initiatives/noongar-enterprise-development-support
For the project websites please follow the links - Ballardong Moorditj Yaakiny (Standing Strong) and - Yued Ngala Wele Karla (Our Dream on Fire)
Congratulations to the 'Wheatbelt Secondary Freight Route' Group with $70 Million Federal Funding Announced.
Read more: Building Better Regions Fund (BBRF) Round 3 Success
The April 2019 Federal Budget announced funding for Round 4 of the BBRF. When released, information will be available at www.business.gov.au/bbrf
Potential Wheatbelt applicants are advised to contact RDA Wheatbelt for assistance prior to any fu…
RDA Wheatbelt’s research articulates the indisputable importance reliable digital telecommunications has for the Wheatbelt’s ongoing economic development and supporting population growth in the region.
The RDAW 2017 survey responses could be seen as…
Read more: RDA Wheatbelt Telecommunications Submission - Aug 2018
The evaluation has shown that the Enterprising Communities program has delivered in terms of outputs and beneficial outcomes and there is a strong impression that it will also deliver positive impacts. The program has been a catalyst in bringing comm…
Read more: RDAW Submission Regional Rural Remote Education Inquiry
RDA Wheatbelt Executive Officer, Juliet Grist, presented at the Productivity Commission Telecommunications USO public hearing on the 14th February.
The full speech can be read here.
Comments include -
"Regional Development Australia Wheatbelt, a…
Read more: RDAW Second Response to PC Telecommunications Draft
Read more: Entrepreneurial Innovation in the Wheatbelt Report
RDA Wheatbelt recently prepared a submission to the Productivity Commission for the Issues Paper on the ‘Telecommunications Universal Service Obligation’. RDA Wheatbelt submitted a number of recommendations including, that the scope and objectives of the Universal Service Obligation should be extended to include internet and mobile phone services and that there is a need for continued Government intervention in wholesale pricing and subsidisation of services to the disadvantage sectors of the Wheatbelt population and the business sector. Download the RDA Wheatbelt Telecommunications Submission.