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Regional Development Australia 2011 (September 2011)

Created 12/05/2013

Updated 02/09/2025

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

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

Notes

The RD Regions (2011) were built from the ABS LG 2011 boundary dataset.

The RDAA spatial dataA is updatedA as new LG boundaries as released by ABS or as RD regional boundaries move.AA

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

NT, Tas and ACT

These states and territories are defined as single RD regions.

SA

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

NSW

RD South Coast includes the external territory of Jervis Bay.A In previous data releases, Lord Howe Island (part of the ABS Unincorporated NSW) was part ofA RD 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 RD Mid West Gascoyne.

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

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Title Regional Development Australia 2011 (September 2011)
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/c920b915-2b0b-4c5c-8dfe-5f73e403349e
Contact Point
Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts
Land_Management@agriculture.gov.au
Reference Period 12/05/2013
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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