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Regional Development

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ACCI Stands For:
Strong & prosperous Industries In
rural &  regional Australia

With private enterprise driving economic growth
& employment central to thriving regional communities

Policy Objectives:

  • The development by the Commonwealth and the States of a comprehensive statement
    of nationally agreed principles as a framework for communities and businesses to plan
    confidently for medium and longer-term regional development initiatives and identify
    investment opportunities, as well as impediments, for growth
  • Recognition and understanding of the role of business and industry in creating prosperity
    and employment in the regions
  • Ensuring regional policy principles are consistent with ACCI’s overarching economic
    aims of sustainable improvements in Australia’s standard of living, an acceptable
    distribution of income and wealth across the community, full employment, low rates
    of inflation and a sustainable external balance
  • Multiple use of natural resources, infrastructure, government resources and other
    community facilities as a means to open up new opportunities for business and investment,
    more flexibly deliver services and avoid unnecessary and costly duplication
  • Flexibility in the design and delivery of policy initiatives and services to best meet the
    needs of businesses and communities
  • Enhancement of the competitive market, including ongoing microeconomic reform, to
    improve economic efficiency and create opportunities for enterprise and greater user
    choice
  • Identification of excess capacity or the potential for capacity building in regional
    communities and the dissemination of information on profitable opportunities for
    business and the community
  • The dissemination of timely, up-to-date and tailored information for business and
    the community on programs and services available from government
  • Universal service obligations should reflect the true cost of providing a service and
    should be funded from publicly accountable fiscal allocations, not by the imposition
    of price-based cross subsidies
  • Wherever possible, services provided by government should be subject to competitive
    tendering processes
  • Single business entry points that are best managed and operated by business associations,
    should be maintained.
  • Information for regional businesses to access urban market
  • Information for all businesses about infrastructure in existence and planned in regional
    locations
  • Information for larger organisations and government departments about supply conditions
    in regional areas