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Welcome to the first of a regular update on the activities and achievements of RDA Wheatbelt. The aim of this publication is to introduce new activities, update on ongoing projects and to answer some of the questions as to what RDA Wheatbelt does.
For more information on any of the activities please contact the Administration Office on 08 9575 1888 or admin@rdawheatbelt.com.au
Download the Quarterly Activities Report Jan-Mar 2018.
Read more: RDA Wheatbelt Quarterly Activities Report Jan-Mar 2018
RDA Wheatbelt is pleased to have secured funding over three years to support Aboriginal Enterprise Development in the Yued (Moora) and Ballardong Nyungar (Noongar) regions of the Wheatbelt (covering initially Northam, Brookton, Cunderdin, Dowerin, Me…
Read more: Aboriginal Enterprise Development Support Projects
Please download our April 2018 Edition. To subscribe please contact admin@rdawheatbelt.com.au
RDA Wheatbelt is pleased at the recent announcement by the Minister for Regional Development, Territories and Local Government, the Hon. John McVeigh MP, on the appointment of Mr Terry (T…
Please download our March 2018 Edition. To subscribe please contact admin@rdawheatbelt.com.au
Stage 1 applications for funding support of $10m and above are now open.
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…
The Regional Development Australia (RDA) Wheatbelt’s, Annual Report for 2016-17 provides an opportunity to highlight some of the programmes, activities and initiatives that we have been involved in throughout the past year. New to this year has been…
The Building Better Regions Fund (round 2) opened on the 7th November and closed on the19th December. Outcomes to this round are pending. There are two streams of funding under the program:
Read more: Building Better Regions Fund - Wheatbelt Resources.
Read more: RDA Wheatbelt Submission National Freight Inquiry
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.