Sandpit to Seed
The TNQ Drought Hub is excited to be working with James Cook University researchers to help them move their research ideas that could improve agricultural adaption, sustainability and resilience towar...
Professor Allan Dale has led the Clean Growth Choices project which partnered with USQ, CSIRO and the Eco-Efficiency Group (the Clean Growth Choices Consortium) with funding from Queensland Government Communities in Transition Program.
The Queensland Government-funded Communities in Transition (CiT) Program was established as a pilot to help facilitate economic change at the local government level in response to major economic and social challenges and opportunities shaping the future of Queensland’s regional communities. The pilot program has identified opportunities to support communities to identify and strengthen their economic development pathways and resilience, while charting locally-driven future development opportunities. The project brought together the Mayors from Goondiwindi, Barcaldine, Central Highlands, Rockhampton, Charters Towers and the Cook Shire, who have elected to work together to actively achieve sustainable economic transition for our communities in the face of significant change.
The Clean Growth Choices Consortium has facilitated the CiT program, delivered in close partnership with the councils of each regions. Phase 1 of the CiT program ran between June 2018 and December 2019. The Consortium worked with each of the six Councils and communities to develop economic development and resilience building roadmap with priority business cases to kick start investment in our economic future.
Phase 2 of the CiT program, running to August 2020, was focused on securing co-investment and partnerships from government and non-government sources to implement some 18 priority business cases. The business cases have been packaged into two strategic investment packages across the six communities to attract targeted investment from the Queensland and Commonwealth Governments and other investors, including potential industry and philanthropic, partners.
The Mayors and the project now seek to build strong ongoing partnerships to help implement two programs of work, focused on: (i) next generation agriculture and; (ii) cross-sector business and industry development. These two programs will deliver a significant post-COVID-19 economic recovery response in our regions. They are also essential to drive high quality private and public sector investment that will drive economic growth and job creation.
In a joint statement the Mayors stated that “The issues we face are so similar across our communities and crucial to other communities across Queensland that we want to work closely with our CGC Consortia partners and the Queensland Government in ensuring cohesive investment, facilitated implementation and impact monitoring of these programs. This can create a meaningful and cost-effective model for future sustainable economic development and transition efforts across the whole State.”
The TNQ Drought Hub is excited to be working with James Cook University researchers to help them move their research ideas that could improve agricultural adaption, sustainability and resilience towar...
The TNQ Drought Hub recently hosted the National Soils Advocate, the Honourable Penelope Wensley AC for a whirlwind 2-day field trip visiting numerous soils restoration and rehabilitation sites to lea...
On 1 August, The Cairns Institute hosted a small, informal symposium for HDR students working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Far North Queensland. It brought together Indigenous...
The Cairns Institute Fellow Dr Kearrin Sims coordinates the JCU Research Ethical Development Symposium, now in its second year. It will be held 27-29 September at The Cairns Institute. This year will ...
The Developing Northern Australia Conference returned to Darwin this year in 2023. In 2021, the conference converted to an online event an hour before the program was due to begin due to a sudden NT C...
The Cairns Institute will host an informal symposium for HDR students working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Far North Queensland. This symposium will explore if and how post-gr...
TNQ Drought Hub’s Professor Allan Dale, Doctor Jane Oorschot and Ms Kara Worth were invited to speak at the Science to Practice Forum and share their experience on innovative tools and practices...
Congratulations to the TNQ Drought Hub drought resilience scholarship recipients. The hub recently offered scholarship opportunities to JCU students who were interested in undertaking an Honours or Ma...
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