Regional Development Australia 2011 (September 2011)

Description

Regional Development Australia (RDA) is an Australian Government initiative that brings together all levels of government to enhance the growth and development of Australia’s regions. A national network of RDA committees has been established to achieve this objective.

RDA Regions are created and maintained by the Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport to support this initiative.

Notes

The RDA Regions (2011) were built from the ABS LGA 2011 boundary dataset.

The RDA spatial data is updated as new LGA boundaries as released by ABS or as RDA regional boundaries move. 

On the 16th of August 2011, the RDA representation of Lord Howe Island, previously RDA Northern Rivers was changed to RDA Mid North Coast.  The 2011 dataset has been updated to reflect this change.

NT, Tas and ACT

These states and territories are defined as single RDA regions.

SA

RDA regions are not completely defined with SA LGA boundaries, with some RDA regions being defined from the previously existing 2007 South Australia Government Region boundaries.  Thus, the large unincorporated SA LGA (Outback Communities Authority) is divided between 3 RDAs (see SA Government Regions for more information).

NSW

RDA South Coast includes the external territory of Jervis Bay.  In previous data releases, Lord Howe Island (part of the ABS Unincorporated NSW) was part of  RDA Northern Rivers. On the 16 of August 2011, Lord Howe Island declared to be represented by Mid North Coast

Norfolk Island IS NOT part of any RDA

VIC

Unincorporated VIC (Snow fields and Islands) have been combined into their surrounding RDAs

WA

The external territories of Christmas Island and Cocos/Keeling Islands are part of RDA Mid West Gascoyne.

There was also an amalgamation between the City of Geraldton-Greenough and Shire of Mullewa on the 1st of July 2011 to form the City of Greater Geraldton.  The LGA code for Geraldton-Greenough (53520) was retained for the new City of Greater Geraldton.

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Date Published

21 September 2011

Date Updated

21 September 2011

Update Frequency

Yearly or as required

Dataset Information

data.gov.au Category

Community, Government

Keywords / Tags

geospatial information, RDA, Regional Australia

Licence

Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY 3.0)

Permalink

http://data.gov.au/5025

Contributing Agency Information

Agency

Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport (View all datasets from Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport)

Jurisdiction

Commonwealth of Australia

Agency Program

Regional Development Australia

Dataset Coverage

Temporal Coverage

September 2011

Geospatial Coverage

Australia

Granularity

Not specified