Regional airlines can be a lifeline in remote parts of Australia. Competitiveness is an important issue in the regional aviation industry.

This report presents the results of a Bureau of Transport Economics project on the regional impact of ports.

This paper presents the results of a Bureau of Transport Economics study of the regional impact of the Port of Mackay located on the central coast of Queensland. The port is an important component of the transport chain for sugar and agriculture.

This report presents the economic impact of the Port of Gladstone on the Fitzroy region in Queensland. At the time of writing, Gladstone Port was the fourth largest in Australia.

The agriculture-based Atherton Tablelands region of Far North Queensland experienced major change after the deregulation of the tobacco industry, and more recently, the dairy industry.

Regional public transport plays an important role in meeting the needs of Australians living in regional and remote areas for access to essential services and for mobility.

Regional public transport plays an important role in meeting the needs of Australians living in regional and remote areas for access to essential services and for mobility.

The questions of why regions grow or fail to grow, and what, if anything, governments can do about it have attracted considerable interest and debate for many years.

This paper looks at differing investment and growth patterns of irrigation dependent regions along the course of the Murray River.

Australia, like many other developed countries, has experienced a decline in the importance of the manufacturing and agriculture sectors over recent decades, and strong growth in the services sector.