Australian cities accounts 2015-16

Australian cities are orphans. Responsibilities for management of their economy (in terms of taxation, planning, infrastructure provision, regulation and economic development) fall between all tiers of government. Official statistics tend not to recognise the importance of cities, with economic data often not published at that level, or when published given secondary importance. This is despite the fact that even during the recent mineral exploration boom, Australian cities have provided the bulk of growth in Australia’s economy. For the past eight years SGS Economics & Planning have produced estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for each major capital city and region across Australia. This is the sixth year the estimates have been published in this format. Our research into understanding the distribution of economic growth has filled a key void in economic policy. The remainder of this document is set out as follows: Section One provides a summary of results, comparing the economic outcomes for each region; Section Two provides a de.tailed discussion of the economic performance of each capital city; and Section Three provides a detailed description of the methodology

Australian cities accounts 2014-15

This report highlights that Sydney and Melbourne are driving the national economy. Summary Australian cities are orphans. Responsibilities for their economic management falls between all tiers of government. Official statistics do not publish economic data at city level, and when published, are given a secondary importance. This is despite the fact that even during the recent mineral exploration boom, Australian cities have provided the bulk of growth in Australia’s economy. For the past five years SGS has published the estimates in this format. Our research into understanding the distribution of economic growth has filled a key void in economic policy. The 2014-15 Australian Cities Accounts highlight that Sydney and Melbourne are driving the national economy. Sydney contributed 30.3 per cent of all Australian Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in 2014-15. While driven by Financial services, its growth was broad based with a range of industries contributing to growth. The city’s role as a global financial hub has allowed it to tap into the benefits of stimulus programs undertaken by central banks around the world. Melbourne contributed 24.0 per cent of all Australian GDP growth in 2014-15. Its 3.1 per cent increase in GDP was the strongest since 2010-11 with a broad range of industries contributing to growth Increased mineral production drove the economy of Regional Western Australia which contributed 23.7 per cent to GDP growth. The end of the mining boom has been brutal on Perth’s economy, with GDP growth diving to 0.3 per cent in 2014-15. This is the lowest level of growth recorded for Perth since 1990-91. Half of Australia’s population were living in a region with falling income per capita during 2014-15, with Regional New South Wales, Regional Victoria, all of Queensland, Regional South Australia and Perth experiencing a fall in GDP per capita. While the national growth figure is around long term trend, it is being driven by two sectors - mining production in remote parts of the country and Financial services concentrated in inner cities. This is far removed from where the bulk of the business and households are located. The large divergence in growth rates is presenting a challenge for the Reserve Bank of Australia when it sets the interest rate. To highlight the economic divergence, a hypothetical situation where each region has its own central bank setting local interest rates was created. In this hypothetical situation, had there been a Reserve Bank of Sydney over the past year they would have set rates 3.5 per cent during 2014-15. A Reserve Bank of Melbourne would have set rates at 2.0 per cent. Perth would have seen interest rates cut from 2.5 per cent in 2012-13 to 1.25 per cent in in 2014-15. Over the same time the Reserve Bank of Brisbane would have cut rates by 1.5 percentage points to 1.0 per cent. &nbsp

Valuing Australia's Creative Industries - Final Report - December 2013.pdf

Reports on the value of Australia's Creative Industries, giving an overview of the current sector, best practice, and the Nesta method. Profiles the Australian sector, with specific information on the creative industries workforce, employment, embedded creatives, and different enterprises and locations in Australia. Further to this, each segment of the creative industries is profiled (e.g.music, design, architecture, etc.)

Background report CBD parking

Made available by the Northern Territory Library via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).This Parking Strategy establishes the strategic framework and direction for the future supply and management of on and off street parking with the Darwin CBD. The Strategy is based on an overall AIM for the management of parking supported by three GOALS that broadly respond to the following themes: ? Statutory Obligations and Funding ? Functionality Liveability and Sustainability ? Asset Management and Pricing. A series of POLICY STATEMENTS provide further detail on the direction required for each of the Goals.Introduction -- Aim - Goal 1 Statutory obligations and funding of off-street parking -- Goal 2 Functionality, liveability and sustainability -- Goal 3 Asset Management and pricing of off-street parking. Implementation Plan - Introduction -- Implementation plan - by action number - by priority. Background Report: Introduction -- Strategic policy review -- Darwin in the future -- Data Review and analysis -- Car parking technologies -- Current parking: supply and demand -- Consultation -- Summary and conclusions -- Tables -- Figures -- Appendices A-JThis document contains the parking strategy dated June 2013, the Implementation Plan dated October 2013, Background report dated June 201

Social living labs for digital participation

This chapter explores how social living labs can be used to foster digital participation through harnessing the principles of co-investigation with citizens to solve problems and to take advantage of opportunities with digital technologies. It also considers the importance of digital engagement for social inclusion, well being, economic prosperity and social cohesion. The chapter considers the complexity of overcoming the barriers to digital participation and some of ways digital participation might be facilitated in news ways. The move from living labs to social living labs as a research methodology is presented as a robust set of practices that create 'spaces of encounter' to enable opportunities for valuing local knowledge and enhancing citizen's participation in research. It suggests communities are best placed to foster digital inclusion when they create digital learning ecologies promoting connected learning opportunities across physical and virtual spaces that harness the expertise of a broad range of people for the widest possible range of citizens