RDA Wheatbelt E News - May 2019
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Noongar Enterprise Development Support Projects
The Ballardong Moorditj Yaakiny and Yued Ngala Wele Karla projects are officially "Open for Business"
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)
$70 Million Funding Announced for WSFR Project
Congratulations to the 'Wheatbelt Secondary Freight Route' Group with $70 Million Federal Funding Announced.
Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack, announced today in Mooliabeenie (Bindoon) that $70 million of funding will be allocated to Wh…
Building Better Regions Fund (BBRF) Round 3 Success
RDA Wheatbelt congratulates the Wheatbelt BBRF Round 3 recipients
Infrastructure stream
Shire of Chittering - Lower Chittering Sport & Recreation Facility. Grant $4,710,000 total project cost $9,710,000 This project will deliver a sport and recre…
Read more: Building Better Regions Fund (BBRF) Round 3 Success
RDA Wheatbelt Annual Report 2018
The Regional Development Australia (RDA) Wheatbelt Inc Annual Report 2017-18 provides an overview of activities and programs from the past year.
Highlights include -
- New Committee Members and Staff
- The new 'Noongar Enterprise Development Support' Projects
- Secondary Freight Route Network
- Implementing Lithium & Rare Minerals Study
- Enterprising Communties
- Wheatbelt Digital Action Plan
- NEWROC Telecommunications project
- Bruce Rock P&C True Blue Dreaming Mentoring Program
- Federal funding with BBRF and Regional Growth Fund
- Regional Priorities update
- Wheatbelt emerging issues
Download the 2017-18 Annual Report
For more information on any of the initiatives please contact the office on 9575 1888 or admin@rdawheatbelt.com.au
Building Better Regions Fund (BBRF)
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 Telecommunications Submission - Aug 2018
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
RDA Wheatbelt Enterprising Communities Report
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…
Wheatbelt Digital Action Plan - 2017 Revision
The results of the RDA Wheatbelt 2017 survey illustrated, people’s utilisation of digital technology has become more gradually nuanced and sophisticated as specialised technologies have become available or more user friendly. An indication of this is…
RDAW Submission Regional Rural Remote Education Inquiry
Download the final RDA Wheatbelt Submission to the Regional, Rural, Remote Education Inquiry.
The Commonwealth Minister for Education and Training has called for a review into regional, rural and remote education with a view to consideri…
Read more: RDAW Submission Regional Rural Remote Education Inquiry
RDA Wheatbelt Telecommunications PC Presentation
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…
RDAW Second Response to PC Telecommunications Draft
RDA Wheatbelt has made a second submission as a stakeholder, and on behalf of the rural, remote and outer remote locations of the WA Wheatbelt.
RDA Wheatbelt has reviewed the Productivity Commission’s Telecommunications Draft Report…
Read more: RDAW Second Response to PC Telecommunications Draft
Entrepreneurial Innovation in the Wheatbelt Report
The Wheatbelt region is home to high levels of innovation with Chittering, Toodyay and Northam Shires identified as innovation hotspots, according to a new report commissioned by Regional Development Australia Wheatbelt.
The Entrepreneurial In…
Read more: Entrepreneurial Innovation in the Wheatbelt Report
RDA Wheatbelt Telecommunications Submission
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.