Building on the success of Pathfinders 2010 in Alice Springs, the Cooperative Research Centres Association of Australia invites you to join us in Brisbane from 17-19 May 2011, for our next annual conference, CRCA 2011.
Aboriginal people living in remote communities across Australia stand to benefit significantly from a proposed national research effort enabling them to participate more fully in the economy, a study by Access Economics has found. Indeed the whole of Australia will be nearly $3 billion better off if the Indigenous gap in remote and very remote Australia is closed, the report says.
Much of Australia's wealth is created in our remote regions, yet many of the people who live there are excluded from the economy. The impact of this on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population in particular is acknowledged by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) as a national policy priority through the National Indigenous Reform Agreement (Closing the Gap).
The Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation (CRC-REP) is focused on delivering solutions to the economic disadvantage that affects remote Australia. Through our research, CRC-REP provides practical responses to the complex issues that can restrict full economic participation.
