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Provide details of the investment (in dollar terms), jobs (number), local procurement opportunities (in dollar terms) and other regional development outcomes that your RDA will facilitate (for planning purposes) or has facilitated (for reporting purposes) for your region during this financial year. [AR p.22]", "activities": [ "Deliver Employment Facilitator Services for the Broome Employment Region as part of the Investments $8,783 ex GST", "Update and advocate for recommendations outlined in the RDA Kimberley Strategic Investments Regional Plan 2022-25", "Advocate for priority projects identified by peak organisations (e.g Kimberley Regional Group of Councils); such as sealing Tanami Road, Kununurra Airport expansion, upgrade of Walmanyjun / Cable Beach Foreshore Redevelopment, achieve First Point of Entry determination for Ports of Broome and Wyndham, Deed of Variation request for the East Kimberley DAMA.", "Coordinate ongoing regional input to the design of Census 2026 implementation plan for the Kimberley with the Australian Bureau of Statistics and Kimberley stakeholders.", "Promote RDA Kimberley’s id.Economy data resource to Kimberley organisations which provides free up-to-date economic and community statistics to facilitate project planning and support grant submissions.", "Engage with West and East Kimberley Employment roundtable discussions to improve employment outcomes in the region and Government understanding of the Kimberley’s challenges in this space.", "Promote access to RDA Kimberley and Kimberley Small Business Support’s free Kimberley Way Assured Quality Service training program.", "Promote access to RDA Kimberley free online Grant Application Master Class to Kimberley organisations.", "Provision of RDA Kimberley Sponsorship support to regional and economic development initiatives (e.g. Kimberley Economic Forum, Showcase WA)." ], "source_url": "", "source_page": 22, "source_deep_url": "" }, { "name": "Outcome 2: Promote greater regional awareness of and engagement with Australian Government policies, grant programs and research.", "description": "Provide details of where you have supported awareness raising and/or engagement b. 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Number of instances information / feedback was provided.", "activities": [ "Engage and contribute to the refresh of the White Paper on Developing Northern Australia to ensure Kimberley priorities, challenges, and opportunities are shared.", "Investigate and advocate for Australian Government policy reform options to address key Kimberley issues including escalating crime, lack of housing affordability / availability, and childcare shortages.", "Engage with East Kimberley Leadership Forum to support East Kimberley stakeholders and the Department of Social Services transition the Cashless Debit Card program to a new Income Management system.", "Provide evidence-based updates on issues and activities to the Minister for Regional Development, Local Government and Territories and the Department.", "Attend national and regional events as an advocate for the Kimberley (e.g. RDA National Forum, Developing Northern Australia Conference, Showcase WA).", "Encourage and host regional visits by 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regional development, underpinned by local engagement. [CP p.5] [CP p.5]\n\n## How we deliver\n\n> RDAs use their local, cross-sector expertise and regional voice to: collaborate with integrity, transparency, respect and accountability; engage with diverse communities, especially First Nations people; support the Government’s ambition of ‘no one held back and no one left behind’, and support gender equality opportunities in their regions. [CP p.5] [CP p.5]\n\n## Government priorities for this department\n\n- Fostering Sustainable Communities. [CP p.14]\n- Secure investment, industry growth and diversification. [CP p.14]\n- Progress skills and workforce capability, entrepreneurship, and innovation. [CP p.14]\n- Advance connected and resilient built, natural and knowledge infrastructure. [CP p.14]\n- Build regional leadership and organisational capacity. [CP p.14]\n\n## Outcomes\n\n### Outcome 1: Facilitate regional economic development outcomes, investment, jobs and local procurement.\nProvide details and/or a copy of a suitable existing strategic Regional Plan that your RDA is contributing to or that your RDA is developing in accordance with the Charter and the RDA Better Practice Guide. Provide details of the investment (in dollar terms), jobs (number), local procurement opportunities (in dollar terms) and other regional development outcomes that your RDA will facilitate (for planning purposes) or has facilitated (for reporting purposes) for your region during this financial year. [AR p.22](https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2023-24-FINAL.pdf#page=22) [CP p.22]\n\n**Key activities:**\n- Deliver Employment Facilitator Services for the Broome Employment Region as part of the Investments $8,783 ex GST\n- Update and advocate for recommendations outlined in the RDA Kimberley Strategic Investments Regional Plan 2022-25\n- Advocate for priority projects identified by peak organisations (e.g Kimberley Regional Group of Councils); such as sealing Tanami Road, Kununurra Airport expansion, upgrade of Walmanyjun / Cable Beach Foreshore Redevelopment, achieve First Point of Entry determination for Ports of Broome and Wyndham, Deed of Variation request for the East Kimberley DAMA.\n- Coordinate ongoing regional input to the design of Census 2026 implementation plan for the Kimberley with the Australian Bureau of Statistics and Kimberley stakeholders.\n- Promote RDA Kimberley’s id.Economy data resource to Kimberley organisations which provides free up-to-date economic and community statistics to facilitate project planning and support grant submissions.\n- Engage with West and East Kimberley Employment roundtable discussions to improve employment outcomes in the region and Government understanding of the Kimberley’s challenges in this space.\n- Promote access to RDA Kimberley and Kimberley Small Business Support’s free Kimberley Way Assured Quality Service training program.\n- Promote access to RDA Kimberley free online Grant Application Master Class to Kimberley organisations.\n- Provision of RDA Kimberley Sponsorship support to regional and economic development initiatives (e.g. Kimberley Economic Forum, Showcase WA).\n\n### Outcome 2: Promote greater regional awareness of and engagement with Australian Government policies, grant programs and research.\nProvide details of where you have supported awareness raising and/or engagement b. Number of submissions supported. [CP p.28]\n\n**Key activities:**\n- Support and facilitate strong applications for Kimberley projects for grant and investment programs (e.g. Growing Regions Program, Regional Precincts and Partnerships Program, Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF)).\n- Assist business, community, and local government groups access Australian Government programs, grants, and advice (e.g. AusIndustry; ONA; Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; Department of Home Affairs).\n- Provide fortnightly grants information and Quarterly Update to stakeholders.\n- Offer on-ground capability for Australian Government program delivery.\n\n### Outcome 3: Contribute to Commonwealth regional policy making by providing intelligence and evidence-based advice to the Australian Government on regional development issues.\nOutline instances where you have provided intelligence and evidence-based advice to the Australian Government b. Number of instances information / feedback was provided. [CP p.30]\n\n**Key activities:**\n- Engage and contribute to the refresh of the White Paper on Developing Northern Australia to ensure Kimberley priorities, challenges, and opportunities are shared.\n- Investigate and advocate for Australian Government policy reform options to address key Kimberley issues including escalating crime, lack of housing affordability / availability, and childcare shortages.\n- Engage with East Kimberley Leadership Forum to support East Kimberley stakeholders and the Department of Social Services transition the Cashless Debit Card program to a new Income Management system.\n- Provide evidence-based updates on issues and activities to the Minister for Regional Development, Local Government and Territories and the Department.\n- Attend national and regional events as an advocate for the Kimberley (e.g. RDA National Forum, Developing Northern Australia Conference, Showcase WA).\n- Encourage and host regional visits by Members of Parliament to raise awareness of the Kimberley’s economic development opportunities and challenges.\n- Provide submissions to policy impacting the Kimberley region.\n- Engage with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to contribute to the Australian Government Insurance Monitoring of cyclone reinsurance pool.\n\n## Values and principles\n\n- integrity\n- transparency\n- respect\n- accountability\n- engagement\n- support\n- gender equality\n\n## What they will measure themselves on this year (targets from 2025-26 corporate plan)\n\n| Code | Measure | Target | Source |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| CCE01 | Infrastructure resilience | Investing in projects prioritised by the Kimberley Regional Group of Local Governments | CP p.24 |\n| CCE02 | Housing affordability | Addressing housing affordability and availability | CP p.24 |\n| CCE03 | Workforce capability | Progress skills and workforce capability, entrepreneurship, and innovation | CP p.24 |\n| CCE04 | Infrastructure development | Advance connected and resilient built, natural and knowledge infrastructure | CP p.24 |\n| CCE05 | Regional leadership | Build regional leadership and organisational capacity | CP p.24 |\n\n## How they performed last year (results from 2023-24 annual report)\n\n| Code | Measure | Result | Status | Source |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| CCE01 | Infrastructure resilience | Approved Kimberley DAMA | Achieved | [AR p.20](https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2023-24-FINAL.pdf#page=20)(https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2023-24-FINAL.pdf#page=20) |\n| CCE02 | Housing affordability | Approved increased border services for the Port of Broome | Achieved | [AR p.20](https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2023-24-FINAL.pdf#page=20)(https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2023-24-FINAL.pdf#page=20) |\n| CCE03 | Workforce capability | Approved increased border services for the Broome International Airport | Achieved | [AR p.20](https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2023-24-FINAL.pdf#page=20)(https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2023-24-FINAL.pdf#page=20) |\n| CCE04 | Infrastructure development | $26.4 million to the Shire of Broome for the Walmanyjun / Cable Beach Foreshore Redevelopment | Achieved | [AR p.20](https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2023-24-FINAL.pdf#page=20)(https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2023-24-FINAL.pdf#page=20) |\n| CCE05 | Regional leadership | $13.4 million to SWEK for the Goonoonoorram Project / East Kimberley Regional Airport Upgrades | Achieved | [AR p.20](https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2023-24-FINAL.pdf#page=20)(https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2023-24-FINAL.pdf#page=20) |", "strategy_overview_evidence_md": null, "internal_strategy_evidence_md": "# RDA WA Kimberley - Strategy, Performance, and Operating Profile\n\n**Generated at**: 2026-05-09T22:29:23.481822+00:00\n**Entity ID**: B-002727\n**Entity type**: Statutory Agreement Body\n**Jurisdiction**: Commonwealth\n**Portfolio**: Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, \n\nCommunications, Sport and the Arts\n**Website**: http://www.rdakimberley.com.au\n\n> Draft generated from scraped source material. Treat this as an evidence pack for editorial review, not a final judgement.\n\n## Source Coverage\n\n| Source type | Count |\n|---|---:|\n| annual-reports | 4 |\n| other-pdfs | 5 |\n| pages | 4 |\n| reviews | 4 |\n| strategies | 3 |\n\n## Executive Readout\n\n### Purpose\n\n- 2022. $14,000 RDAK Contribution)\n• RDA Kimberley Strategic Plan identified activities, projects, and programs to Jobs (number) 1\naddress outcome 1, and provided strategic themes and strategies to achieve Local procurement ($) $24,000.00\nobjectives.\n Source: `annual-reports/2021-22.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2021-22-FINAL.pdf)`\n- [Page 2]\nTable of Contents\nTable of Contents 2\nAcronyms 3\nAcknowledgement of Country 4\nFrom the Chair 4\nRegional Development Australia Charter 5\nMap of the Kimberley 6\nKey Insights 7\nRegional Development Australia Kimberley 8\nOrganisational Structure 8\nBoard and Staff 9\nRDA Kimberley Strategic Regional Plan 2022-25 13\nSummary of Achievements 2022-23 14\nCase Study 1: Kimberley Flooding 15\nCase Study 2: Broome Early Childhood Education and Care Skills Set Pilot 17\nCase Study 3: Census 2026 for the Kimberley 19\nTable of Outcomes 20\nAnnual Audit of Accounts 31\nAuthorisation 33\nRegional Development Australia Kimberley Annual Report 2\n Source: `annual-reports/2022-23.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2022-23-FINAL.pdf)`\n- [Page 22]\nTable of Outcomes\n• Presented regional priority projects and opportunities to Hon Kristy McBain MP, Cable Beach Foreshore Redevelopment: $10\nMinister for Regional Development, Local Government and Territories at the million leveraged grant funds secured from\nSeptember 2022 Perth meeting with WA RDAs. other sources.\n• Provided strategic input and letters of support to regional organisations for projects\nwhich facilitate economic growth and align with RDA Kimberley strategy, Australian East Kimberley Regional Airport Upgrade ($7.6\nGovernment regional priorities and Developing Northern Australia – Our North, Our million BBRF): 23 local operators with three\nFuture White Paper.\n Source: `annual-reports/2022-23.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2022-23-FINAL.pdf)`\n- [Page 2]\nTable of Contents\nAcknowledgement of Country 3\nAcronyms 3\nFrom the Chair 4\nRegional Development Australia Charter 5\nRegional Development Australia Kimberley 6\nOrganisational Structure 2023-24 6\nRDA Kimberley Board 7\nOutgoing RDA Kimberley Board Members 9\nRDA Kimberley Staff 10\nOutgoing RDA Kimberley Staff 10\nKimberley Strategic Context 12\nMap of the Kimberley 12\nKey Insights 13\nStrategic Priorities 14\nSummary of Achievements 2023-24 15\nCase Study 1: Broome Local Initiatives Fund 16\nCase Study 2: Showcase WA 2023 19\nCase Study 3: 2026 Census in the Kimberley 21\nTable of Outcomes 22\nAnnual Audit of Accounts 33\nAuthorisation 35\nAppendix 1: Regional Investment Framework 36\nCover Image: View of the Bastion, Wyndham.\n Source: `annual-reports/2023-24.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2023-24-FINAL.pdf)`\n\n### Role and Functions\n\n- This high rental\nenvironment has a strong impact on the region’s ability to retain workers at all levels where accommodation is\nnot heavily subsidised.\n• In 2011, of those earning $600-$799 per week in WA, 4% paid $550 or more in rent, compared to 18% in the\nKimberley.\n• Public housing entitlements are progressively lost once household income exceeds $35,000 per annum, an\namount that is still well beneath the actual cost of living, especially if self-sufficient accommodation is required.\n• Labour market functions such as the cost and availability of staff are distorted by housing availability and price.\n Source: `strategies/2036-and-Beyond-A-Regional-Investment-Blueprint-for-the-Kimberley-compressed.pdf (https://rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2036-and-Beyond-A-Regional-Investment-Blueprint-for-the-Kimberley-compressed.pdf)`\n- The Government recognises the important role\nof the north in achieving the national target to\nThe Australian Government is focused on working protect and conserve 30% of Australia’s landmass\nwith stakeholders to protect, conserve and and 30% of Australia’s marine areas by 2030 (the\npromote the north’s unique land and waterscapes, ‘30 by 30’ target).\n Source: `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)`\n- [pages 8,9,10,11]\nOfficer since March 2020, having Kim moved to the Kimberley in 2016 and has over ten years’ experience\npreviously held the role of Project Manager since 2015.\n Source: `annual-reports/2020-21.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2020-21-FINAL.pdf)`\n- 12 “Duncan Review” or Review of the Functions and Responsibilities of Regional Development Commissions, 14 December 2010, Western Australian Government.\n Source: `strategies/2036-and-Beyond-A-Regional-Investment-Blueprint-for-the-Kimberley-compressed.pdf (https://rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2036-and-Beyond-A-Regional-Investment-Blueprint-for-the-Kimberley-compressed.pdf)`\n- Northern Australia is ideally\nI am proud to unveil the Northern Australia\nplaced to benefit from this significant investment and\nAction Plan 2024–2029 — a comprehensive\nwill play a pivotal role in achieving our government’s\nplan that seeks to maximise new and emerging\ncommitment to reduce emissions to 43% below 2005\nopportunities for northern Australians and tackle\nlevels by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050.\npersistent challenges by prioritising sustainable\nand resilient development.\n Source: `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)`\n- For example, NAIF\ntransition to net zero. is playing a key role in supporting Australia’s\nemerging critical minerals sector, which will\nunderpin many technologies required for the net\nSnapshot of\nzero transition, including batteries, solar panels and\ngovernment action\nwind turbines.\n• $20 billion Rewiring the Nation program to Working in partnership with critical minerals project\nunlock investment in the electricity grid. proponents, international investors and other\n• $1.9 billion Powering the Regions Fund to government Specialist Investment Vehicles in 2024\nsupport the decarbonisation of existing to crowd investment into catalysing critical minerals\nindustries and creation of new clean projects in 2024 — providing $200 million apiece\nenergy industries. to Alpha HPA to develop its high-purity processing\nfacility at Gladstone and Arafura Rare Earths Ltd to\n Source: `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)`\n\n### Strategic Priorities\n\n- [Page 2]\nTable of Contents\nAcknowledgement of Country 3\nAcronyms 3\nFrom the Chair 4\nRegional Development Australia Charter 5\nRegional Development Australia Kimberley 6\nOrganisational Structure 2023-24 6\nRDA Kimberley Board 7\nOutgoing RDA Kimberley Board Members 9\nRDA Kimberley Staff 10\nOutgoing RDA Kimberley Staff 10\nKimberley Strategic Context 12\nMap of the Kimberley 12\nKey Insights 13\nStrategic Priorities 14\nSummary of Achievements 2023-24 15\nCase Study 1: Broome Local Initiatives Fund 16\nCase Study 2: Showcase WA 2023 19\nCase Study 3: 2026 Census in the Kimberley 21\nTable of Outcomes 22\nAnnual Audit of Accounts 33\nAuthorisation 35\nAppendix 1: Regional Investment Framework 36\nCover Image: View of the Bastion, Wyndham.\n Source: `annual-reports/2023-24.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2023-24-FINAL.pdf)`\n- [Page 14]\nStrategic Priorities\nThe RDA Kimberley Annual Report is guided by the:\n• Australian Government and RDA Kimberley’s Funding Agreement 2020-21 to 2024-25.\n• Australian Government’s RDA Charter\n• Australian Government’s RDA Better Practice Guide\n• Australian Government’s RIF (Appendix 1)\n• RDA Kimberley Strategic Regional Plan 2022-25.\n Source: `annual-reports/2023-24.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2023-24-FINAL.pdf)`\n- Number and value of successful Examples of Australian Government funded projects securing funding in the Kimberley include (but not limited to):\np roposals.\n• Co-funding secured through the Regional Connectivity Program for Halls Creek to transition to nbn’s Fibre to the\nPremise ($5,517,998 project value).\n• Regional and Remote Communities Reliability Funding secured for microgrid projects in the following Aboriginal\ncommunities (portion of $1.4 million total project funding):\n Yiyili\n Wangkatjungka\n Bawoorooga\n Yawuru-Broome\n Mowanjum\n• Priority infrastructure projects RDA Kimberley supported through advocacy, regional information, and advice on\nAustralian Government programs in 2020-21:\n Tanami Road upgrade (PART-FUNDED through State and Federal Government)\n Kununurra Airport Upgrade ($7.6 million FUNDED through BBRF Round 5)\n Source: `annual-reports/2020-21.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2020-21-FINAL.pdf)`\n- [Page 13]\nRDA KIMBERLEY ANNUAL REPORT 2021-22\nSummary\nSummary of top 5 strategic priorities for upcoming year:\n1.\n Source: `annual-reports/2021-22.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2021-22-FINAL.pdf)`\n- [Page 22]\nTable of Outcomes\n• Presented regional priority projects and opportunities to Hon Kristy McBain MP, Cable Beach Foreshore Redevelopment: $10\nMinister for Regional Development, Local Government and Territories at the million leveraged grant funds secured from\nSeptember 2022 Perth meeting with WA RDAs. other sources.\n• Provided strategic input and letters of support to regional organisations for projects\nwhich facilitate economic growth and align with RDA Kimberley strategy, Australian East Kimberley Regional Airport Upgrade ($7.6\nGovernment regional priorities and Developing Northern Australia – Our North, Our million BBRF): 23 local operators with three\nFuture White Paper.\n Source: `annual-reports/2022-23.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2022-23-FINAL.pdf)`\n- Activity 1.3\nProvide details of outcomes $ / Number\nAdvocate for priority projects identified by peak organisations (e.g Kimberley Regional Investments ($) $26.4 million to the Shire of Broome for the\nGroup of Councils); such as sealing Tanami Road, Kununurra Airport expansion, upgrade of Walmanyjun / Cable Beach Foreshore\nsingle-lane bridges along Great Northern Highway, Cable Beach Foreshore Redevelopment, Redevelopment (Stage 2 & 3) – rPPP.\nachieve First Point of Entry determination for Ports of Broome and Wyndham, Deed of\nVariation request for the East Kimberley DAMA. $13.4 million SWEK for the Goonoonoorram\n• See Case Study 2: Coordinated a Kimberley delegation to Canberra to meet with Project / East Kimberley Regional Airport\nMinisterial, Members of Parliament and Department representatives in August 2023 Upgrades (Stage 2) – GRP.\nin conjunction with Showcase WA.\n Source: `annual-reports/2023-24.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2023-24-FINAL.pdf)`\n- Challenges for the growth of Agriculture & Food\nThe major challenges to the realisation of the transformative potential of this industry for the Kimberley are:\n• Access to a reliable source of skilled labour within the region.\n• Limited domestic capital available to finance investment in the land and water infrastructure needed to unlock\nthe potential.\n• Managing the constraints surrounding natural resource and environmental management, climate, access to low\ncost transport and freight, barriers to agricultural trade through higher tariffs compared to other goods and\nservices and international policy making.\n• Identification and protection of priority agricultural land.\n• Getting the right kinds and balance of logistics infrastructure for efficiently moving produce around and out of\nthe region.\n Source: `strategies/2036-and-Beyond-A-Regional-Investment-Blueprint-for-the-Kimberley-compressed.pdf (https://rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2036-and-Beyond-A-Regional-Investment-Blueprint-for-the-Kimberley-compressed.pdf)`\n- [Page 87]\nRESPONDING TO\nTHE INFLUENCES\n• The 44% Aboriginal population (2011 ABS Census) of the Kimberley supports not only the product offering in\nthe area, but also the employment targets and needs of the industry.\n• The Kimberley is one of Australia’s 16 National Landscapes promoted by Tourism Australia.\n• Direct air services linking the Kimberley to Singapore is a priority for Tourism WA with much of the infrastructure\nto support this already in place.\n• Pearling and retailing of unique and high quality pink diamonds and pearls is a unique strength in attracting\nhigh-yield visitors (Tourism WA, State Government Strategy for Tourism in Western Australia 2020, 2013).\n Source: `strategies/2036-and-Beyond-A-Regional-Investment-Blueprint-for-the-Kimberley-compressed.pdf (https://rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2036-and-Beyond-A-Regional-Investment-Blueprint-for-the-Kimberley-compressed.pdf)`\n- [Page 2]\nContents\nMessage from the Chair 1\nAbout this Plan 2\nAcknowledgement of Country 2\nExecutive Summary 3\nAbout RDA Kimberley 4\nMap of the Kimberley 5\nKimberley Snapshot 6\nKimberley Local Government Areas 7\nLocal Government Areas Priority Projects 7\nKimberley Population Consideration 8\nEconomic Analysis 9\nKey Industry Sectors 10\nMegatrends - A Global Perspective 11\n12\nDeterminants of Regional Development\n13\nRegional Advantages and Challenges\n13\nStrategic Theme for Socio-economic Development\n14\nFostering Sustainable Communities\n15\nSecure investment, industry growth and diversification\n16\nProgress skills and workforce capability, entrepreneurship and innovation\n17\nAdvance connected and resilient built, natural and knowledge infrastructure\n18\nBuild regional leadership and organisational capacity\n19\nActivating this Plan\n19\nAcknowledgments and sources\n Source: `strategies/RDA-Kimberley-Strategic-Regional-Plan-2022-2025.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/RDA-Kimberley-Strategic-Regional-Plan-2022-2025.pdf)`\n- Significant investment and progress\nthe nation’s transition to a net zero economy;\nin this long-term agenda have been achieved\nencouraging investment in priority sectors to\nthrough implementing the White Paper’s\nsupport Australia’s national interest through the\nrecommendations and through subsequent\nGovernment’s Future Made in Australia agenda;\nAustralian Government budgets.\nthe national target to protect and conserve 30%\nof Australia’s landmass and 30% of Australia’s\nNorthern Australia encompasses 53%1 of\nmarine areas by 2030; implementation of the\nAustralia’s landmass but is home to only 5.1% of\nGovernment’s National Defence Strategy 2024;\nAustralia’s population.\n Source: `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)`\n\n## KPIs, Targets, and Where They Are At\n\n- Significant investment and progress\nthe nation’s transition to a net zero economy;\nin this long-term agenda have been achieved\nencouraging investment in priority sectors to\nthrough implementing the White Paper’s\nsupport Australia’s national interest through the\nrecommendations and through subsequent\nGovernment’s Future Made in Australia agenda;\nAustralian Government budgets.\nthe national target to protect and conserve 30%\nof Australia’s landmass and 30% of Australia’s\nNorthern Australia encompasses 53%1 of\nmarine areas by 2030; implementation of the\nAustralia’s landmass but is home to only 5.1% of\nGovernment’s National Defence Strategy 2024;\nAustralia’s population.\n Source: `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)`\n- If this growth is sustained, supported and achieved,\nthe region could be home to more than 93,000 people by 2036, an increase of nearly 148% on the 2011 population.\n“A future Kimberley population of more than 93,000 by 2036 is achievable,\npractical and sustainable.”\nPopulation growth at that scale will create three communities approaching, or above, the 15,000 person threshold\nthat has been identified as the population required to make a regional centre more resilient to economic downturn\nand adaptable to opportunity.\n Source: `strategies/2036-and-Beyond-A-Regional-Investment-Blueprint-for-the-Kimberley-compressed.pdf (https://rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2036-and-Beyond-A-Regional-Investment-Blueprint-for-the-Kimberley-compressed.pdf)`\n- [pages 8,9]\n’s Future Made in Australia agenda;\nAustralian Government budgets.\nthe national target to protect and conserve 30%\nof Australia’s landmass and 30% of Australia’s\nNorthern Australia encompasses 53%1 of\nmarine areas by 2030; implementation of the\nAustralia’s landmass but is home to only 5.1% of\nGovernment’s National Defence Strategy 2024;\nAustralia’s population.\n Source: `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)`\n- [Page 35]\n• Grow Australia’s visitor economy through • inefficiencies in transport due to\nthe THRIVE 2030 strategy — investing underdeveloped supply chain infrastructure\nalmost $48 million to help attract and weather conditions; and a stronger ‘first\nvisitors, upskill workers and grow visitor mover disadvantage’, where a first mover\nexpenditure.27,28 THRIVE 2030 aims to\nbears all of the capital costs of a new\nachieve total visitor expenditure of $166\nfacility that reduces the risk and costs to\nbillion by 2024 and $230 billion by 2030,\nother businesses.\nwith regional target of $100 billion by 2030.\n• Identification of new areas of cooperation A comparison of a ‘basket’ of common goods\nbetween First Nations communities and and services also demonstrates increased cost\nour international partners – including in of living in the north.\n Source: `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)`\n- As a result of increasing trade\nprecinct at Mackay Airport.\nopportunities, requests to support international\n• $50 million over 3 years from 2024–25 arrivals into Non-First Points of Entry Ports are\nto extend the Remote Airstrip Upgrade\nincreasing, and more accredited ports are\nProgram to improve the safety and\nneeded to ensure security and biosecurity risks\naccessibility of remote airstrips\nare managed.\nacross Australia.\n• $40 million over 3 years to extend the Government and industry are working to align\nRegional Airports Program grant funding to the various government approvals, budget and\nimprove safety and connectivity of regional associated border agency processes to support\nairports and support regional aerodromes the volume of infrastructure investment and\nto invest in the infrastructure required to development in northern Australia.\n Source: `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)`\n- Early childhood education and care\nremote communities to help close the gap in is a key ingredient of the liveability of a region,\nemployment outcomes in remote Australia. including the workforce participation of families.50\nIt will support remote communities to Year Before Schooling early childhood education\ndetermine local projects and job priorities enrolments for Aboriginal and Torres Strait\nto increase economic opportunities in\nIslander children are showing good improvement\ntheir areas.\nand are on track to meet Target 3 of the National\n• $76.2 million over 5 years from 2023–24 Agreement on Closing the Gap, but early\n(and $18.7 million per year ongoing) for a childhood development is worsening and not on\nnew First Nations Prison to Employment track.\n Source: `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)`\n- For First Nations\nPalmerston, Alice Springs, Cairns, Townsville\npeople living in the north, the differences in health\nand Rockhampton.\noutcomes as a result of these issues are stark.\n• $164.3 million from 2022–23 to 2025–26\nThe gap in life expectancy for First Nations people\nto deliver 17 election commitments for First\nis 8.8 years for males and 8.1 years for females\nNations health infrastructure projects.\n Source: `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)`\n- The Earth’s population was estimated to have exceeded 7 billion people in 2011, with\nexponential growth predicted to result in the planet reaching 8 billion by 2025 (UNESA, 2012).\n Source: `strategies/2036-and-Beyond-A-Regional-Investment-Blueprint-for-the-Kimberley-compressed.pdf (https://rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2036-and-Beyond-A-Regional-Investment-Blueprint-for-the-Kimberley-compressed.pdf)`\n- The Government recognises the important role\nof the north in achieving the national target to\nThe Australian Government is focused on working protect and conserve 30% of Australia’s landmass\nwith stakeholders to protect, conserve and and 30% of Australia’s marine areas by 2030 (the\npromote the north’s unique land and waterscapes, ‘30 by 30’ target).\n Source: `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)`\n- 24 The 2009 Pilbara Cities initiative sets a target of 5% Annual Average Growth Rate (AAGR) through to 2036.\n Source: `strategies/2036-and-Beyond-A-Regional-Investment-Blueprint-for-the-Kimberley-compressed.pdf (https://rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2036-and-Beyond-A-Regional-Investment-Blueprint-for-the-Kimberley-compressed.pdf)`\n- Distortion\nof the private rental market is the result.\n• 71% of State Government employees in the Kimberley earn over $1,000 per week compared to 55% in the private\nsector.\n Source: `strategies/2036-and-Beyond-A-Regional-Investment-Blueprint-for-the-Kimberley-compressed.pdf (https://rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2036-and-Beyond-A-Regional-Investment-Blueprint-for-the-Kimberley-compressed.pdf)`\n- Support northern Australia to\nGuarantee of Origin Scheme to measure and\ncapitalise on opportunities presented\ncertify emissions intensity across the supply\nunder the Future Made in Australia\nchain of key products including hydrogen\nagenda and other major government\nand providing $32.3 million to support the\ninvestment opportunities.\nexpansion of the program to green metals\nand low carbon liquid fuels and consultation\non additional incentives to support Net zero\nproduction in these industries.\n• $549 million over 8 years from 2023–24 to Northern Australia is uniquely placed to drive\nsupport battery manufacturing.\n Source: `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)`\n- From the $1.1 billion being spent from inclusion for First Nations people.\nthis investment on upgrades to services in\nregional areas, around 236,000 premises in\nWater\nnorthern Australia will be upgraded, enabling\ngigabit speed services as a result of the\nGovernment’s investments.\n Source: `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)`\n- This measure includes\nThis means the Commonwealth will increase\nan ongoing partnership funding of $12.5\nits share of funding from 20% to 40% of the\nmillion to the National Aboriginal and\nSchooling Resources Standard, contingent on Torres Strait Islander Education Corporation\nthe NT increasing its funding share to reach 60% and $16.65 million to National Voice for\nby 2029.\n Source: `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)`\n\n## Key Metrics\n\n| Values found | Evidence | Source |\n|---|---|---|\n| $0 , $0\n, $390,730 , $402,804 | [Page 31]\nAnnual Audit of Accounts\nAnnual Audit of Accounts\nRDA program funding\n(incl. all $ in FA and schedules)\nBudget Actual to\nGST exclusive amounts 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023 30 June 2023\nIncome\nSurplus funding carried forward from previous\n$0 $0\nfinancial year\nFunding for this period $390,730 ( 1 ) $402,804\nInterest on Commonwealth funds $0 $0\nSupplementary funding (if any) # $0 $0\nTotal RDA program income (A) $390,730 $402,804\nExpenditure | `annual-reports/2022-23.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2022-23-FINAL.pdf)` |\n| $5,600 , $5,600\n, $419,147\n, $4,000\n, $424,747 | [Page 33]\nAnnual Audit of Accounts\nRDA program funding\n(incl. all $ in FA and schedules)\nBudget Actual to\n1 July 2023 – 30 June 2024 30 June 2024\nGST exclusive amounts\nIncome\nSurplus funding carried forward from $5,600 $5,600\nprevious financial year\n(1) $419,147\nFunding for this period $419,147\nInterest on Commonwealth funds\nSupplementary funding (if any) # $4,000\nTotal RDA program income (A) $424,747 $428,747\nExpenditure - major budget items ^\nE | `annual-reports/2023-24.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2023-24-FINAL.pdf)` |\n| $300 million, $11.1 million, $2.8 million, 300 million, 11.1 million, 2.8 million | Four-year\nmultidisciplinary care, including allied health\nrolling funding agreements for ACCHOs are\nprofessionals, nurses, nurse practitioners\nbeing delivered from 1 July 2024, supported by\nand midwives, to provide services that\na $300 million funding boost to help services to\nfill an identified need in their region, as\nretain skilled staff and provide continuity of care.\npart of the Strengthening Medicare 2023\nBudget package $11.1 million over 5 | `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)` |\n| $2 , $6.7 billion, 6.7 billion | Australia and the world are\nto promote the development of battery undergoing the biggest and fastest economic\nmanufacturing capabilities. transformation since the industrial revolution.\n• Implementing a Hydrogen Production Tax Action to reduce emissions will help prevent the\nIncentive to provide a $2 incentive per worst impacts of climate change but will also\nkilogram of renewable hydrogen produced create a boom in new jobs and new industries.\nbe | `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)` |\n| $1 billion, $84.5 million, $48 million, $18.1 million, 1 billion, 84.5 million | Since\nStorage Hydro Project to deliver affordable, its establishment, the NAIF has committed more\nreliable electricity to north Qld. than $1 billion to critical minerals projects in total.\n• $84.5 million to establish the new vehicle\nThese investments demonstrate that NAIF is playing\nefficiency standard.\nits part to help the north seize the opportunity\n• $48 million over 4 years from 2024–25, in presented by the international move to net zero and | `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)` |\n| $6.2 billion, $32 billion, $10 billion, 6.2 billion, 32 billion, 10 billion | A further $6.2 billion was announced\nlower than for Australia as a whole.35 Only 43.4% as part of the 2024–25 Budget in specific housing\nof Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples initiatives, taking the Government’s total new\nliving in the NT were living in appropriately sized investment since 2022 to $32 billion.\nhousing (2021 Census), compared with 81.4%\nnationally.36 The Central Land Council estimates\nSnapshot of\nan additional 2,000 new | `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)` |\n| $16.5 billion, $10 billion, $1.3 billion, $777.7 million, $391.2 million, $141 million | In 2024, the Government will\n$16.5 billion invested across Australia,\ndevelop new actions to ensure the strategy\nthrough the 2024–25 Budget for new\nremains fit for purpose and is able to\nand existing projects.\nimprove the efficiency, effectiveness and\n• Key land transports infrastructure projects reliability of Australian supply chains.\nacross northern Australia, including:\n– $10 billion for the Bruce Highway in Qld Area for continued focus\n– $1. | `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)` |\n| $50 million, $40 million, 50 million, 40 million | As a result of increasing trade\nprecinct at Mackay Airport.\nopportunities, requests to support international\n• $50 million over 3 years from 2024–25 arrivals into Non-First Points of Entry Ports are\nto extend the Remote Airstrip Upgrade\nincreasing, and more accredited ports are\nProgram to improve the safety and\nneeded to ensure security and biosecurity risks\naccessibility of remote airstrips\nare managed.\nacross Australia.\n• $40 million over 3 yea | `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)` |\n| $15.9 million, 15.9 million | Area Climate Resilience Centre\nExpected discounts for consumers in\nnorthern Australia in the most recent ARPC\nTThe 2022–23 Budget allocated $15.9 million modelling are, on average, 13%, 15% and\nover 4 years to engage with First Nations 17% for home, strata and small business\npeople on climate adaptation and mitigation. properties respectively. | `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)` |\n| $227 million, $361 million, 227 million, 361 million | In the 2024–25 Budget,\nthe Government announced the allocation of\n$227 million for a further 29 Medicare Urgent\nCare Clinics to take pressure off emergency\ndepartments and make it easier for Australians\nto access free health care; and $361 million to\nstrengthen Australia’s mental health system. | `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)` |\n| $500 million, 500 million | Materially improving the lives of • the Qld Minister for Regional Development\nIndigenous people and communities. and Manufacturing and Minister for Water\n• the WA Minister for Regional Development\n*NAIF is also directed to notionally set aside\n$500 million of its appropriation to support • the NT Chief Minister.\nprojects which align with the Critical Minerals\nIn 2022, the NAMF agreed to 14 priorities\nStrategy 2023–2030.\nunder 3 high-level themes, | `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)` |\n| $506.63 million, 506.63 million | [Page 4]\nMining and Resource Industry\nThe Snapshot\nGenerates $506.63 million Employ 644 people or 4.2% of Low volume products of gold\ndollars3 9.84% jobs 16.6% are Indigenous4 and diamonds\nNew markets in Iron Emerging Markets Mineral\nOre, Oil & Gas Sands and Rare Earths\nIndustry is seeing steady Better infrastructure required for\ngrowth with an 18% increase in increasing product scale and\nrevenue 2017-2018 diversity infrastructure\nIndustry Overvi | `other-pdfs/Mining-Oil-Gas_web.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Mining-Oil-Gas_web.pdf)` |\n| $5,517,998 , $1.4 million, $7.6 million, 1.4 million, 7.6 million | Number and value of successful Examples of Australian Government funded projects securing funding in the Kimberley include (but not limited to):\np roposals.\n• Co-funding secured through the Regional Connectivity Program for Halls Creek to transition to nbn’s Fibre to the\nPremise ($5,517,998 project value).\n• Regional and Remote Communities Reliability Funding secured for microgrid projects in the following Aboriginal\ncommunities (portion of $1.4 | `annual-reports/2020-21.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2020-21-FINAL.pdf)` |\n| $26.4 million, $13.4 million, 26.4 million, 13.4 million | Activity 1.3\nProvide details of outcomes $ / Number\nAdvocate for priority projects identified by peak organisations (e.g Kimberley Regional Investments ($) $26.4 million to the Shire of Broome for the\nGroup of Councils); such as sealing Tanami Road, Kununurra Airport expansion, upgrade of Walmanyjun / Cable Beach Foreshore\nsingle-lane bridges along Great Northern Highway, Cable Beach Foreshore Redevelopment, Redevelopment (Stage 2 & 3) – rPPP.\nac | `annual-reports/2023-24.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2023-24-FINAL.pdf)` |\n| $600, $799 , $550 , $35,000 | This high rental\nenvironment has a strong impact on the region’s ability to retain workers at all levels where accommodation is\nnot heavily subsidised.\n• In 2011, of those earning $600-$799 per week in WA, 4% paid $550 or more in rent, compared to 18% in the\nKimberley.\n• Public housing entitlements are progressively lost once household income exceeds $35,000 per annum, an\namount that is still well beneath the actual cost of living, especially if | `strategies/2036-and-Beyond-A-Regional-Investment-Blueprint-for-the-Kimberley-compressed.pdf (https://rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2036-and-Beyond-A-Regional-Investment-Blueprint-for-the-Kimberley-compressed.pdf)` |\n| $48 million, $166\n, $230 billion, $100 billion, 48 million, 230 billion | [Page 35]\n• Grow Australia’s visitor economy through • inefficiencies in transport due to\nthe THRIVE 2030 strategy — investing underdeveloped supply chain infrastructure\nalmost $48 million to help attract and weather conditions; and a stronger ‘first\nvisitors, upskill workers and grow visitor mover disadvantage’, where a first mover\nexpenditure.27,28 THRIVE 2030 aims to\nbears all of the capital costs of a new\nachieve total visitor expenditure of | `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)` |\n| $22.5 million, 22.5 million | The Australian\nSprings and Tennant Creek and increase\nLogistics Council noted that the lack of adequate\ncapacity in the NT Rail network.\ntelecommunications across regional areas is\n• $22.5 million over 4 years from 2024–25 impeding the implementation of the National\nto maintain and repair essential assets in Freight and Supply Strategy and asked that\nAustralia’s non self governing territories. | `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)` |\n| $265.1 million, 265.1 million | [Page 55]\nAs noted in the Parliamentary Joint Select • An additional $265.1 million over 4\nCommittee on Northern Australia inquiry into years from 2024–25 to the Australian\nNorthern Australia Workforce development issues Apprenticeships Incentives System\npaper, broader trends impacting the Australian which supports both apprentices and\nemployers, focusing on priority occupations\nworkforce that may be especially exacerbated in\nto help train the fu | `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)` |\n| 53% | Significant investment and progress\nthe nation’s transition to a net zero economy;\nin this long-term agenda have been achieved\nencouraging investment in priority sectors to\nthrough implementing the White Paper’s\nsupport Australia’s national interest through the\nrecommendations and through subsequent\nGovernment’s Future Made in Australia agenda;\nAustralian Government budgets.\nthe national target to protect and conserve 30%\nof Australia’s landmass | `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)` |\n| 53% | [pages 8,9]\n’s Future Made in Australia agenda;\nAustralian Government budgets.\nthe national target to protect and conserve 30%\nof Australia’s landmass and 30% of Australia’s\nNorthern Australia encompasses 53%1 of\nmarine areas by 2030; implementation of the\nAustralia’s landmass but is home to only 5.1% of\nGovernment’s National Defence Strategy 2024;\nAustralia’s population. | `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)` |\n\n## Key Achievements\n\n- Timeframe: Completed by June 2022\nActivity 5\nPartner with Tourism WA and North Regional TAFE to deliver additional Kimberley Provide details of outcomes $ / Number\nHospitality Jobs Connect training in Broome building on the Kununurra pilot program Investments ($)\nfrom 2020-21 Jobs (number) 3\n• Delivered Kimberley Way Assured Quality Training as part of the Broome Local procurement ($)\nHospitality Jobs Connect course Nov 2021 Other regional development\noutcomes ($ / number)\nPage 15 of 24\n Source: `annual-reports/2021-22.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2021-22-FINAL.pdf)`\n- [Page 14]\nSummary of Achievements 2022-23\nSummary of Achievements 2022-23\nWe draw your attention to RDA Kimberley’s summary of achievements for 2022-23 which have been driven by\nregion-specific opportunities and challenges and delivered in partnership with our stakeholders.\n Source: `annual-reports/2022-23.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2022-23-FINAL.pdf)`\n- [Page 2]\nTable of Contents\nTable of Contents 2\nAcronyms 3\nAcknowledgement of Country 4\nFrom the Chair 4\nRegional Development Australia Charter 5\nMap of the Kimberley 6\nKey Insights 7\nRegional Development Australia Kimberley 8\nOrganisational Structure 8\nBoard and Staff 9\nRDA Kimberley Strategic Regional Plan 2022-25 13\nSummary of Achievements 2022-23 14\nCase Study 1: Kimberley Flooding 15\nCase Study 2: Broome Early Childhood Education and Care Skills Set Pilot 17\nCase Study 3: Census 2026 for the Kimberley 19\nTable of Outcomes 20\nAnnual Audit of Accounts 31\nAuthorisation 33\nRegional Development Australia Kimberley Annual Report 2\n Source: `annual-reports/2022-23.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2022-23-FINAL.pdf)`\n- [Page 2]\nTable of Contents\nAcknowledgement of Country 3\nAcronyms 3\nFrom the Chair 4\nRegional Development Australia Charter 5\nRegional Development Australia Kimberley 6\nOrganisational Structure 2023-24 6\nRDA Kimberley Board 7\nOutgoing RDA Kimberley Board Members 9\nRDA Kimberley Staff 10\nOutgoing RDA Kimberley Staff 10\nKimberley Strategic Context 12\nMap of the Kimberley 12\nKey Insights 13\nStrategic Priorities 14\nSummary of Achievements 2023-24 15\nCase Study 1: Broome Local Initiatives Fund 16\nCase Study 2: Showcase WA 2023 19\nCase Study 3: 2026 Census in the Kimberley 21\nTable of Outcomes 22\nAnnual Audit of Accounts 33\nAuthorisation 35\nAppendix 1: Regional Investment Framework 36\nCover Image: View of the Bastion, Wyndham.\n Source: `annual-reports/2023-24.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2023-24-FINAL.pdf)`\n- [Page 15]\nSummary of Achievements 2023-24\nWe draw your attention to RDA Kimberley’s summary of achievements for 2023-24 which have been driven by\nregion-specific opportunities and challenges and delivered in partnership with our stakeholders.\n Source: `annual-reports/2023-24.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2023-24-FINAL.pdf)`\n- [Page 2]\nContents\nMessage from the Chair 1\nAbout this Plan 2\nAcknowledgement of Country 2\nExecutive Summary 3\nAbout RDA Kimberley 4\nMap of the Kimberley 5\nKimberley Snapshot 6\nKimberley Local Government Areas 7\nLocal Government Areas Priority Projects 7\nKimberley Population Consideration 8\nEconomic Analysis 9\nKey Industry Sectors 10\nMegatrends - A Global Perspective 11\n12\nDeterminants of Regional Development\n13\nRegional Advantages and Challenges\n13\nStrategic Theme for Socio-economic Development\n14\nFostering Sustainable Communities\n15\nSecure investment, industry growth and diversification\n16\nProgress skills and workforce capability, entrepreneurship and innovation\n17\nAdvance connected and resilient built, natural and knowledge infrastructure\n18\nBuild regional leadership and organisational capacity\n19\nActivating this Plan\n19\nAcknowledgments and sources\n Source: `strategies/RDA-Kimberley-Strategic-Regional-Plan-2022-2025.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/RDA-Kimberley-Strategic-Regional-Plan-2022-2025.pdf)`\n- Significant investment and progress\nthe nation’s transition to a net zero economy;\nin this long-term agenda have been achieved\nencouraging investment in priority sectors to\nthrough implementing the White Paper’s\nsupport Australia’s national interest through the\nrecommendations and through subsequent\nGovernment’s Future Made in Australia agenda;\nAustralian Government budgets.\nthe national target to protect and conserve 30%\nof Australia’s landmass and 30% of Australia’s\nNorthern Australia encompasses 53%1 of\nmarine areas by 2030; implementation of the\nAustralia’s landmass but is home to only 5.1% of\nGovernment’s National Defence Strategy 2024;\nAustralia’s population.\n Source: `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)`\n- Four-year\nmultidisciplinary care, including allied health\nrolling funding agreements for ACCHOs are\nprofessionals, nurses, nurse practitioners\nbeing delivered from 1 July 2024, supported by\nand midwives, to provide services that\na $300 million funding boost to help services to\nfill an identified need in their region, as\nretain skilled staff and provide continuity of care.\npart of the Strengthening Medicare 2023\nBudget package $11.1 million over 5\nMore broadly, the 2020–2025 National Health\nyears from 2023–24 (and $2.8 million per\nReform Agreement commits to improving health\nyear ongoing) to expand coverage of the\noutcomes for all Australians by providing better\nNational Agreement on Closing the Gap\ncoordinated and joined up care in the community\nPharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) Co-\nand ensuring the future sustainability of Australia’s payment Program to all PBS medicines for\n Source: `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)`\n- To improve\nnational environmental goals. outcomes and confidence in the cultural heritage\nprotection system, the Government will provide\n• $24.5 million for better planning — working\nwith state and territory governments — in $17.7 million over 3 years from 2024–25 to reduce\n7 priority regions so that it is clearer to the backlog, support administration of complex\nbusiness where complying development applications under the ATSIHP Act and progress\ncan more easily occur and where the ‘no go’ the reform of Australia’s cultural heritage laws.\nareas are.\n Source: `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)`\n- [Page 10]\nRDA KIMBERLEY ANNUAL REPORT 2020-21\nCase Study 1: Kimberley Hospitality Jobs Connect Benefit (Outcome):\n• 21 of the 30 originally registered trainees completed the program.\n Source: `annual-reports/2020-21.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2020-21-FINAL.pdf)`\n- Outcomes include:\npotential and/or actual jobs\nc reated. • 21 of the 30 originally registered trainees completed the program (predominately Indigenous participants).\n• 4 – 5 participants were expected to be working at the 2021 Kimberly Moon Experience Event.\n• 10 participants gained employment.\n• 6 participants still employed as of September 2021.\n• Tourism WA used this as a pilot project and secured further State Government funding to deliver five future courses,\nincluding two in Broome in October and November 2021.\n Source: `annual-reports/2020-21.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2020-21-FINAL.pdf)`\n- [Page 17]\nRDA KIMBERLEY ANNUAL REPORT 2021-22\n• Directed over 30 Kimberley organisations to online Master Class through\nRDA Kimberley website – 19 participants enrolled and completed Master\nClass through online portal\nInvolvement: Lead/champion\nTimeframe: Ongoing\nActivity 9\nProvision of RDA Kimberley Sponsorship to support Kimberley regional and Provide details of outcomes $ / Number\neconomic development initiatives (e.g.\n Source: `annual-reports/2021-22.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2021-22-FINAL.pdf)`\n\n## Key Issues, Risks, and Recommendations\n\n- Challenges for the growth of Agriculture & Food\nThe major challenges to the realisation of the transformative potential of this industry for the Kimberley are:\n• Access to a reliable source of skilled labour within the region.\n• Limited domestic capital available to finance investment in the land and water infrastructure needed to unlock\nthe potential.\n• Managing the constraints surrounding natural resource and environmental management, climate, access to low\ncost transport and freight, barriers to agricultural trade through higher tariffs compared to other goods and\nservices and international policy making.\n• Identification and protection of priority agricultural land.\n• Getting the right kinds and balance of logistics infrastructure for efficiently moving produce around and out of\nthe region.\n Source: `strategies/2036-and-Beyond-A-Regional-Investment-Blueprint-for-the-Kimberley-compressed.pdf (https://rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2036-and-Beyond-A-Regional-Investment-Blueprint-for-the-Kimberley-compressed.pdf)`\n- For example, in relation to insurance\nRangers program. costs, the ACCC noted in its December 2023\nInsurance Monitoring report that average insurance\npremiums for a combined house and contents\nArea for continued focus\npolicy was most expensive in WA ($4,395),\nfollowed by the NT ($2,922) and Nth Qld ($2,918)\nGiven possible capacity and capability\ncompared with the rest of Australia which paid on\nconstraints for some northern Australian\naverage $1,779.54\norganisations, the competitive nature of\nmany Australian Government programs and\nIt is imperative to respond to the impacts of climate\nthe importance of infrastructure investment\nchange, extreme weather events and disasters\nin Australia’s north, the Australian\nby reducing risk and building adaptive capacity.\n Source: `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)`\n- [pages 63,64,65]\nllowed by the NT ($2,922) and Nth Qld ($2,918)\nGiven possible capacity and capability\ncompared with the rest of Australia which paid on\nconstraints for some northern Australian\naverage $1,779.54\norganisations, the competitive nature of\nmany Australian Government programs and\nIt is imperative to respond to the impacts of climate\nthe importance of infrastructure investment\nchange, extreme weather events and disasters\nin Australia’s north, the Australian\nby reducing risk and building adaptive capacity.\n Source: `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)`\n- [Page 12]\nRDA KIMBERLEY ANNUAL REPORT 2020-21\nCase Study 3: COVID-19 Funding for Visitor Centres and Chambers The funding also encouraged intra-regional collaboration to ensure common\nmessaging and connection with the ‘Complex Task Team – Remote Aboriginal\nof Commerce and Industry in the Kimberley\nCommunities’; Department of Biodiversity, Conservation, and Attractions; and\nMain Roads to keep abreast of changes to access roads, Aboriginal\nIssue:\ncommunities, and Kimberley attractions across the region as WA’s inter-\nVisitor Centres and Chambers of Commerce and Industry in the Kimberley\nregional borders opened for the 2020 tourist season.\nexperienced resource constraints (including low revenue opportunities) and\nheightened pressure at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions in\nThe partnership approach with the KDC for this initiative demonstrated\nWestern Australia in 2020.\n Source: `annual-reports/2020-21.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2020-21-FINAL.pdf)`\n- [Page 99]\nRESPONDING TO\nTHE INFLUENCES\nTable 11 Kimberley School types and student numbers 2011\nSchool type & numbers Total students Aboriginal % Aboriginal\nAgricultural Colleges & Schools 0 0 0 0\nDistrict High Schools 5 2256 1595 70.7%\nEducation Support 0 0 0 0\nPrimary Schools 4 1676 579 34.5%\nRemote Community Schools 12 916 897 97.9%\nSenior High Schools 1 619 241 38.9%\nSource: www.education.wa.gov.au\nChallenges for Education & Training\nThe specific challenges for education and training include:\n• A widely dispersed geography across which it can be difficult to deliver consistency in standards within\nprevailing existing resource constraints.\n• The lack of a clearly connected education pathway for the region from early childhood, through primary and\nsecondary school, to vocational education and training.\n• Limitations to existing education delivery models in the region.\n Source: `strategies/2036-and-Beyond-A-Regional-Investment-Blueprint-for-the-Kimberley-compressed.pdf (https://rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2036-and-Beyond-A-Regional-Investment-Blueprint-for-the-Kimberley-compressed.pdf)`\n- Tourism\nANALYSIS\nSTRENGTHS OPPORTUNITY BARRIERS RISKS\n• Unique natural • Position as key • Connectivity and cost • Competition for other\nenvironment region for indigenous of air access markets\n• Indigenous Tourism • Seasonal restriction • Impact of negative\nCultural values • Develop Business • Infrastructure social behaviors\n• Aspirational Events market underdeveloped • Increasing native title\ndestination • Develop Cruise market • Social issues Visitor Pass and other\n• Strong intrastate • Develop regional • Distance / services permits\nmarket reputation brand between attractions • Changing market\n• Activate National • Land tenure & preferences\nParks and Cable industry regulation • Natural or\nBeach • Poor experience environmental\ndensity disaster\n7 Tourism Perceptions – Tourism WA\n8 Tourism Research Australia 2018\n9 ATEA Kimberley Snapshot 2020\nBusiness in the Kimberley 7\n Source: `other-pdfs/Tourism-Industry_web.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Tourism-Industry_web.pdf)`\n- [Page 2]\nTable of Contents\nTable of Contents 2\nAcronyms 3\nAcknowledgement of Country 4\nFrom the Chair 4\nRegional Development Australia Charter 5\nMap of the Kimberley 6\nKey Insights 7\nRegional Development Australia Kimberley 8\nOrganisational Structure 8\nBoard and Staff 9\nRDA Kimberley Strategic Regional Plan 2022-25 13\nSummary of Achievements 2022-23 14\nCase Study 1: Kimberley Flooding 15\nCase Study 2: Broome Early Childhood Education and Care Skills Set Pilot 17\nCase Study 3: Census 2026 for the Kimberley 19\nTable of Outcomes 20\nAnnual Audit of Accounts 31\nAuthorisation 33\nRegional Development Australia Kimberley Annual Report 2\n Source: `annual-reports/2022-23.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2022-23-FINAL.pdf)`\n- [Page 31]\nAnnual Audit of Accounts\nAnnual Audit of Accounts\nRDA program funding\n(incl. all $ in FA and schedules)\nBudget Actual to\nGST exclusive amounts 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023 30 June 2023\nIncome\nSurplus funding carried forward from previous\n$0 $0\nfinancial year\nFunding for this period $390,730 ( 1 ) $402,804\nInterest on Commonwealth funds $0 $0\nSupplementary funding (if any) # $0 $0\nTotal RDA program income (A) $390,730 $402,804\nExpenditure - major budget items ^\nEmployee salaries $176,800 $190,752\nEmployee entitlements $0 $0\nOther employee expenses $7,000 $2,778\nOffice lease and outgoings $71,242 $68,247\nVehicle costs $17,284 $14,462\nOperational $61,240 $52,928\nFinancial, legal and professional $19,764 $18,565\nMarketing $2,400 $3,668\nAsset acquisition $2,000 $0\nCommittee costs $4,000 $6,554\nSupplementary funding (if any) $0 $0\nTravel Costs $29,000 $39,250\n Source: `annual-reports/2022-23.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2022-23-FINAL.pdf)`\n- [Page 2]\nTable of Contents\nAcknowledgement of Country 3\nAcronyms 3\nFrom the Chair 4\nRegional Development Australia Charter 5\nRegional Development Australia Kimberley 6\nOrganisational Structure 2023-24 6\nRDA Kimberley Board 7\nOutgoing RDA Kimberley Board Members 9\nRDA Kimberley Staff 10\nOutgoing RDA Kimberley Staff 10\nKimberley Strategic Context 12\nMap of the Kimberley 12\nKey Insights 13\nStrategic Priorities 14\nSummary of Achievements 2023-24 15\nCase Study 1: Broome Local Initiatives Fund 16\nCase Study 2: Showcase WA 2023 19\nCase Study 3: 2026 Census in the Kimberley 21\nTable of Outcomes 22\nAnnual Audit of Accounts 33\nAuthorisation 35\nAppendix 1: Regional Investment Framework 36\nCover Image: View of the Bastion, Wyndham.\n Source: `annual-reports/2023-24.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2023-24-FINAL.pdf)`\n- [Page 33]\nAnnual Audit of Accounts\nRDA program funding\n(incl. all $ in FA and schedules)\nBudget Actual to\n1 July 2023 – 30 June 2024 30 June 2024\nGST exclusive amounts\nIncome\nSurplus funding carried forward from $5,600 $5,600\nprevious financial year\n(1) $419,147\nFunding for this period $419,147\nInterest on Commonwealth funds\nSupplementary funding (if any) # $4,000\nTotal RDA program income (A) $424,747 $428,747\nExpenditure - major budget items ^\nEmployee salaries $188,700 $176,591\nEmployee entitlements $0 $0\nOther employee expenses $5,397 $2,645\nOffice lease and outgoings $69,642 $76,566\nVehicle costs $17,200 $16,480\nOperational $104,808 $94,506\nFinancial, legal and professional $21,400 $22,070\nMarketing $2,400 $2,725\nAsset acquisition $3,000 $3,000\nCommittee costs $6,600 $6,345\nOther supplementary funding (if any) $5,600 $2,819\nTotal RDA program funding expenditure (B) $424,747 $403,746\n Source: `annual-reports/2023-24.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2023-24-FINAL.pdf)`\n- [Page 96]\n4.0\nChallenges for growth of Housing\nThe under-supply of affordable housing is caused by a range of specific issues, including:\n• Limited residential land supply at appropriate price points and land tenure constraints, in some locations.\n• Physical land, utility and infrastructure constraints in some centres.\n• Failures in segments of the private housing market, notably affordable ‘entry-level’ accommodation.\n• Limitations to the scale of the private rental market.\n• Community and market acceptance of innovative housing typologies and density.\n• The high costs of construction.\n• The Department of Water has highlighted the potential for higher yields in the Canning Basin and the ability within\nan ‘early engagement model’ to facilitate growth at or above aspirational levels.\n Source: `strategies/2036-and-Beyond-A-Regional-Investment-Blueprint-for-the-Kimberley-compressed.pdf (https://rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2036-and-Beyond-A-Regional-Investment-Blueprint-for-the-Kimberley-compressed.pdf)`\n- [Page 2]\nContents\nMessage from the Chair 1\nAbout this Plan 2\nAcknowledgement of Country 2\nExecutive Summary 3\nAbout RDA Kimberley 4\nMap of the Kimberley 5\nKimberley Snapshot 6\nKimberley Local Government Areas 7\nLocal Government Areas Priority Projects 7\nKimberley Population Consideration 8\nEconomic Analysis 9\nKey Industry Sectors 10\nMegatrends - A Global Perspective 11\n12\nDeterminants of Regional Development\n13\nRegional Advantages and Challenges\n13\nStrategic Theme for Socio-economic Development\n14\nFostering Sustainable Communities\n15\nSecure investment, industry growth and diversification\n16\nProgress skills and workforce capability, entrepreneurship and innovation\n17\nAdvance connected and resilient built, natural and knowledge infrastructure\n18\nBuild regional leadership and organisational capacity\n19\nActivating this Plan\n19\nAcknowledgments and sources\n Source: `strategies/RDA-Kimberley-Strategic-Regional-Plan-2022-2025.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/RDA-Kimberley-Strategic-Regional-Plan-2022-2025.pdf)`\n- Significant investment and progress\nthe nation’s transition to a net zero economy;\nin this long-term agenda have been achieved\nencouraging investment in priority sectors to\nthrough implementing the White Paper’s\nsupport Australia’s national interest through the\nrecommendations and through subsequent\nGovernment’s Future Made in Australia agenda;\nAustralian Government budgets.\nthe national target to protect and conserve 30%\nof Australia’s landmass and 30% of Australia’s\nNorthern Australia encompasses 53%1 of\nmarine areas by 2030; implementation of the\nAustralia’s landmass but is home to only 5.1% of\nGovernment’s National Defence Strategy 2024;\nAustralia’s population.\n Source: `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)`\n- [Page 35]\n• Grow Australia’s visitor economy through • inefficiencies in transport due to\nthe THRIVE 2030 strategy — investing underdeveloped supply chain infrastructure\nalmost $48 million to help attract and weather conditions; and a stronger ‘first\nvisitors, upskill workers and grow visitor mover disadvantage’, where a first mover\nexpenditure.27,28 THRIVE 2030 aims to\nbears all of the capital costs of a new\nachieve total visitor expenditure of $166\nfacility that reduces the risk and costs to\nbillion by 2024 and $230 billion by 2030,\nother businesses.\nwith regional target of $100 billion by 2030.\n• Identification of new areas of cooperation A comparison of a ‘basket’ of common goods\nbetween First Nations communities and and services also demonstrates increased cost\nour international partners – including in of living in the north.\n Source: `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)`\n\n## Corporate Values and Operating Culture\n\n- Number and value of successful Examples of Australian Government funded projects securing funding in the Kimberley include (but not limited to):\np roposals.\n• Co-funding secured through the Regional Connectivity Program for Halls Creek to transition to nbn’s Fibre to the\nPremise ($5,517,998 project value).\n• Regional and Remote Communities Reliability Funding secured for microgrid projects in the following Aboriginal\ncommunities (portion of $1.4 million total project funding):\n Yiyili\n Wangkatjungka\n Bawoorooga\n Yawuru-Broome\n Mowanjum\n• Priority infrastructure projects RDA Kimberley supported through advocacy, regional information, and advice on\nAustralian Government programs in 2020-21:\n Tanami Road upgrade (PART-FUNDED through State and Federal Government)\n Kununurra Airport Upgrade ($7.6 million FUNDED through BBRF Round 5)\n Source: `annual-reports/2020-21.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2020-21-FINAL.pdf)`\n- [Page 31]\nAnnual Audit of Accounts\nAnnual Audit of Accounts\nRDA program funding\n(incl. all $ in FA and schedules)\nBudget Actual to\nGST exclusive amounts 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023 30 June 2023\nIncome\nSurplus funding carried forward from previous\n$0 $0\nfinancial year\nFunding for this period $390,730 ( 1 ) $402,804\nInterest on Commonwealth funds $0 $0\nSupplementary funding (if any) # $0 $0\nTotal RDA program income (A) $390,730 $402,804\nExpenditure - major budget items ^\nEmployee salaries $176,800 $190,752\nEmployee entitlements $0 $0\nOther employee expenses $7,000 $2,778\nOffice lease and outgoings $71,242 $68,247\nVehicle costs $17,284 $14,462\nOperational $61,240 $52,928\nFinancial, legal and professional $19,764 $18,565\nMarketing $2,400 $3,668\nAsset acquisition $2,000 $0\nCommittee costs $4,000 $6,554\nSupplementary funding (if any) $0 $0\nTravel Costs $29,000 $39,250\n Source: `annual-reports/2022-23.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2022-23-FINAL.pdf)`\n- [Page 33]\nAnnual Audit of Accounts\nRDA program funding\n(incl. all $ in FA and schedules)\nBudget Actual to\n1 July 2023 – 30 June 2024 30 June 2024\nGST exclusive amounts\nIncome\nSurplus funding carried forward from $5,600 $5,600\nprevious financial year\n(1) $419,147\nFunding for this period $419,147\nInterest on Commonwealth funds\nSupplementary funding (if any) # $4,000\nTotal RDA program income (A) $424,747 $428,747\nExpenditure - major budget items ^\nEmployee salaries $188,700 $176,591\nEmployee entitlements $0 $0\nOther employee expenses $5,397 $2,645\nOffice lease and outgoings $69,642 $76,566\nVehicle costs $17,200 $16,480\nOperational $104,808 $94,506\nFinancial, legal and professional $21,400 $22,070\nMarketing $2,400 $2,725\nAsset acquisition $3,000 $3,000\nCommittee costs $6,600 $6,345\nOther supplementary funding (if any) $5,600 $2,819\nTotal RDA program funding expenditure (B) $424,747 $403,746\n Source: `annual-reports/2023-24.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2023-24-FINAL.pdf)`\n- 41 T homas et al, Measuring Australia’s digital divide: 61 Australian Climate Service (ACS), Understanding\nAustralian Digital Inclusion Index: 2023. risk with the Heat-Health Index, ACS website, 2024,\naccessed 5 June 2024\n42 J Thomas, A McCosker, S Parkinson, K Hegarty,\nD Featherstone, J Kennedy, I Holcombe-James, L 62 National Emergency Management Agency (NIAA),\nOrmond-Parker and L Ganley, Case study: mapping Building Ministers back greater climate resilience for\nthe digital gap — digital inclusion in remote First Australian buildings [media release], 24 June 2024,\nNations communities, 2023, accessed 8 May 2024.\n Source: `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)`\n- [Page 24]\nRDA KIMBERLEY ANNUAL REPORT 2020-21\nAnnual Audit of Accounts\nOther Income: RDA Kimberley received income from from non-Department sources in 2020-21 consisting of:\n• Sub-leased rent;\n• Paid Parental Leave payments for staff;\n• Contribution from Kimberley Local Governments to the id.Economy Platform hosted by RDA Kimberley;\n• Telstra reimbursement for overcharged services; and\n• Reimbursement from the Department for professional ‘Director’ coaching for Board Member J.\n Source: `annual-reports/2020-21.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2020-21-FINAL.pdf)`\n- [Page 23]\nRDA KIMBERLEY ANNUAL REPORT 2021-22\nAnnual Audit of Accounts\nOther Income: RDA Kimberley received income from non-Department sources in 2021-22 consisting of:\n• Sub-leased rent;\n• Paid Parental Leave payments for staff;\n• Contribution from Kimberley Local Governments to the id.Economy Platform hosted by RDA Kimberley;\n# Examples of supplementary funding provided by the Australian Government include funding for professional\ncoaching and or for the development of a strategic regional plan.\n^ The department recognises that there may be no allocation against some items, as the Committee may pay\nfor these utilising funding from other sources.\n Source: `annual-reports/2021-22.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2021-22-FINAL.pdf)`\n- [Page 12]\nRDA KIMBERLEY ANNUAL REPORT 2020-21\nCase Study 3: COVID-19 Funding for Visitor Centres and Chambers The funding also encouraged intra-regional collaboration to ensure common\nmessaging and connection with the ‘Complex Task Team – Remote Aboriginal\nof Commerce and Industry in the Kimberley\nCommunities’; Department of Biodiversity, Conservation, and Attractions; and\nMain Roads to keep abreast of changes to access roads, Aboriginal\nIssue:\ncommunities, and Kimberley attractions across the region as WA’s inter-\nVisitor Centres and Chambers of Commerce and Industry in the Kimberley\nregional borders opened for the 2020 tourist season.\nexperienced resource constraints (including low revenue opportunities) and\nheightened pressure at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions in\nThe partnership approach with the KDC for this initiative demonstrated\nWestern Australia in 2020.\n Source: `annual-reports/2020-21.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2020-21-FINAL.pdf)`\n- RDAs use their local, cross-sector expertise and regional voice to:\n• collaborate with integrity, transparency, respect and accountability\n• engage with diverse communities, especially First Nations people\n• support the Government’s ambition of ‘no one held back and no one left behind’, and\n• support gender equality opportunities in their regions.\n Source: `annual-reports/2022-23.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2022-23-FINAL.pdf)`\n\n## Global Ideas and Case Study Inputs\n\n_No global-intelligence source text found yet. 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A mention does not always mean the department administers the legislation; high-confidence and official register links should be reviewed.\n\n## Summary\n\n- Source files scanned: 20\n- Unique legislation references found: 7\n\n| Type | Count |\n|---|---:|\n| Act | 7 |\n\n## Legislation References\n\n### Amendments Minister for Northern Australia to the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility Act 2016\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: medium\n**Mentions**: 1\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=Amendments+Minister+for+Northern+Australia+to+the+Northern+Australia+Infrastructure+Facility+Act+2016\n\n**Sources**:\n- `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- a Infrastructure Facility (NAIF)\nis the centrepiece of the northern Australia agenda. In\n2023, our government delivered on our commitment\nto provide the NAIF an additional $2 billion, bringing\nThe Hon Madeleine King MP\nthe NAIF’s total capacity to $7 billion. Amendments\nMinister for Northern Australia\nto the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility Act\n2016 (Cth) also broadened the definition of ‘northern\nAustralia’ to include the Indian Ocean Territories,\nMessage from enabling the NAIF to invest in eligible projects that\nsupport the development of Christmas Island and\nthe Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Since its esta\n Source: `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pages.jsonl`\n\n### NAIF to the Chichester Solar and Gas Hybrid Project Australia Infrastructure Facility Act 2016\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: medium\n**Mentions**: 1\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=NAIF+to+the+Chichester+Solar+and+Gas+Hybrid+Project+Australia+Infrastructure+Facility+Act+2016\n\n**Sources**:\n- `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- ill support our economy’s transition to net net zero. It is critical the government maximises the\nzero in partnership with the world.14 impact of its support for the north. The government\nwill undertake a statutory review of the Northern\n• $90 million through NAIF to the\nChichester Solar and Gas Hybrid Project Australia Infrastructure Facility Act 2016 (Cth)\nin the Pilbara region. (NAIF Act) in 2024.\nArea for continued focus\nGiven northern Australia’s comparative\nadvantages and the investments that will flow\nfrom the net zero transition, the Australian\nGovernment will:\n2. Build on northern Australia’s\ncompa\n Source: `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pages.jsonl`\n\n### Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility Act 2016\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: medium\n**Mentions**: 1\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=Northern+Australia+Infrastructure+Facility+Act+2016\n\n**Sources**:\n- `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- Isa\nExmouth\nRockhampton\nTROPIC OF CAPRICORN Alice Springs Longreach Gladstone\nCarnarvon\n0 205 410 820\nN KILOMETRES\nBrisbane\nIndian Ocean Cocos\nNorthern Australia Christmas\nTerritories (Keeling)\nNorthern Australia seas Island\n(Not to scale) Islands\nPerth\nNote: The Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility Act 2016 (Cth) (NAIF Act), s 5, defines ‘northern Australia’ as all of the NT\nand those parts of Qld and WA that intersect with the Tropic of Capricorn, Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands\n(collectively referred to as the Indian Ocean Territories). See NA\n Source: `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pages.jsonl`\n\n### Reference Group Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility Act 2016\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: medium\n**Mentions**: 1\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=Reference+Group+Northern+Australia+Infrastructure+Facility+Act+2016\n\n**Sources**:\n- `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- Development, $33.8 billion in public benefit for the north and\nCommunications and the Arts. support the creation of more than 18,400 jobs.\nNAIF’s operations are enabled and managed\nNorthern Australia Indigenous\nthrough its legislative framework, including the\nReference Group Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility Act 2016\n(Cth) and the Northern Australia Infrastructure\nThe Northern Australia IRG advises the Facility Investment Mandate Direction 2023\nAustralian Government on northern development, (Investment Mandate), which outlines the\nmaximising benefits and implementation Go\n Source: `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pages.jsonl`\n\n### Commonwealth Native Title Act 1993\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: low\n**Mentions**: 1\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=Commonwealth+Native+Title+Act+1993\n\n**Sources**:\n- `strategies/2036-and-Beyond-A-Regional-Investment-Blueprint-for-the-Kimberley-compressed.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- le overlay to consider as part of future development prospects. The information available from the National\nNative Title Tribunal confirms that most of the region has been either the subject of formal determinations or current\nunresolved claims made under the Commonwealth Native Title Act 1993 (see Map 7).\nIt is noted throughout this Blueprint that extensive and pervasive challenges generally apply to many of the\nKimberley’s Aboriginal residents. Many of those Aboriginal residents are either Native Title holders or claimants\nand many of those peopl\n Source: `strategies/2036-and-Beyond-A-Regional-Investment-Blueprint-for-the-Kimberley-compressed.pages.jsonl`\n\n### Mining and Resource Industry Industry Barriers Regulations The Mining Act 1978\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: low\n**Mentions**: 1\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=Mining+and+Resource+Industry+Industry+Barriers+Regulations+The+Mining+Act+1978\n\n**Sources**:\n- `other-pdfs/Mining-Oil-Gas_web.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- and innovatively with each other and\nWith 91% of Kimberley land falling under Native Title, and\nwith government to invest in common use infrastructure\nIndigenous people making up 50% of the Kimberley\nrequired by industry.\nBusiness in the Kimberley 7\n\n[page 8]\nMining and Resource Industry\nIndustry Barriers\nRegulations\nThe Mining Act 1978 and regulations covers mining activity and costly burden undertaken by all potential proponents.\non the Western Australian mainland with Commonwealth Any streamlining of regulations to create efficiencies\nlegislation covering exploration and exploitation beyo\n Source: `other-pdfs/Mining-Oil-Gas_web.pages.jsonl`\n\n### Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: low\n**Mentions**: 1\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=Strait+Islander+Heritage+Protection+Act+1984\n\n**Sources**:\n- `strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- 7 million to reduce the backlog and support agreement making to protect cultural\nand support administration of complex heritage. 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[CP p.5]", "how_we_deliver_source_page": 5, "government_priorities": [ { "text": "Fostering Sustainable Communities.", "source_page": 14 }, { "text": "Secure investment, industry growth and diversification.", "source_page": 14 }, { "text": "Progress skills and workforce capability, entrepreneurship, and innovation.", "source_page": 14 }, { "text": "Advance connected and resilient built, natural and knowledge infrastructure.", "source_page": 14 }, { "text": "Build regional leadership and organisational capacity.", "source_page": 14 } ], "outcomes": [ { "name": "Outcome 1: Facilitate regional economic development outcomes, investment, jobs and local procurement.", "description": "Provide details and/or a copy of a suitable existing strategic Regional Plan that your RDA is contributing to or that your RDA is developing in accordance with the Charter and the RDA Better Practice Guide. Provide details of the investment (in dollar terms), jobs (number), local procurement opportunities (in dollar terms) and other regional development outcomes that your RDA will facilitate (for planning purposes) or has facilitated (for reporting purposes) for your region during this financial year. [AR p.22]", "key_activities": [ "Deliver Employment Facilitator Services for the Broome Employment Region as part of the Investments $8,783 ex GST", "Update and advocate for recommendations outlined in the RDA Kimberley Strategic Investments Regional Plan 2022-25", "Advocate for priority projects identified by peak organisations (e.g Kimberley Regional Group of Councils); such as sealing Tanami Road, Kununurra Airport expansion, upgrade of Walmanyjun / Cable Beach Foreshore Redevelopment, achieve First Point of Entry determination for Ports of Broome and Wyndham, Deed of Variation request for the East Kimberley DAMA.", "Coordinate ongoing regional input to the design of Census 2026 implementation plan for the Kimberley with the Australian Bureau of Statistics and Kimberley stakeholders.", "Promote RDA Kimberley’s id.Economy data resource to Kimberley organisations which provides free up-to-date economic and community statistics to facilitate project planning and support grant submissions.", "Engage with West and East Kimberley Employment roundtable discussions to improve employment outcomes in the region and Government understanding of the Kimberley’s challenges in this space.", "Promote access to RDA Kimberley and Kimberley Small Business Support’s free Kimberley Way Assured Quality Service training program.", "Promote access to RDA Kimberley free online Grant Application Master Class to Kimberley organisations.", "Provision of RDA Kimberley Sponsorship support to regional and economic development initiatives (e.g. Kimberley Economic Forum, Showcase WA)." ], "source_page": 22 }, { "name": "Outcome 2: Promote greater regional awareness of and engagement with Australian Government policies, grant programs and research.", "description": "Provide details of where you have supported awareness raising and/or engagement b. Number of submissions supported.", "key_activities": [ "Support and facilitate strong applications for Kimberley projects for grant and investment programs (e.g. Growing Regions Program, Regional Precincts and Partnerships Program, Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF)).", "Assist business, community, and local government groups access Australian Government programs, grants, and advice (e.g. AusIndustry; ONA; Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; Department of Home Affairs).", "Provide fortnightly grants information and Quarterly Update to stakeholders.", "Offer on-ground capability for Australian Government program delivery." ], "source_page": 28 }, { "name": "Outcome 3: Contribute to Commonwealth regional policy making by providing intelligence and evidence-based advice to the Australian Government on regional development issues.", "description": "Outline instances where you have provided intelligence and evidence-based advice to the Australian Government b. Number of instances information / feedback was provided.", "key_activities": [ "Engage and contribute to the refresh of the White Paper on Developing Northern Australia to ensure Kimberley priorities, challenges, and opportunities are shared.", "Investigate and advocate for Australian Government policy reform options to address key Kimberley issues including escalating crime, lack of housing affordability / availability, and childcare shortages.", "Engage with East Kimberley Leadership Forum to support East Kimberley stakeholders and the Department of Social Services transition the Cashless Debit Card program to a new Income Management system.", "Provide evidence-based updates on issues and activities to the Minister for Regional Development, Local Government and Territories and the Department.", "Attend national and regional events as an advocate for the Kimberley (e.g. RDA National Forum, Developing Northern Australia Conference, Showcase WA).", "Encourage and host regional visits by Members of Parliament to raise awareness of the Kimberley’s economic development opportunities and challenges.", "Provide submissions to policy impacting the Kimberley region.", "Engage with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to contribute to the Australian Government Insurance Monitoring of cyclone reinsurance pool." ], "source_page": 30 } ], "values": [ "integrity", "transparency", "respect", "accountability", "engagement", "support", "gender equality" ], "values_framework_name": null, "kpi_targets_2025_26": [ { "code": "CCE01", "measure": "Infrastructure resilience", "target": "Investing in projects prioritised by the Kimberley Regional Group of Local Governments", "source_page": 24 }, { "code": "CCE02", "measure": "Housing affordability", "target": "Addressing housing affordability and availability", "source_page": 24 }, { "code": "CCE03", "measure": "Workforce capability", "target": "Progress skills and workforce capability, entrepreneurship, and innovation", "source_page": 24 }, { "code": "CCE04", "measure": "Infrastructure development", "target": "Advance connected and resilient built, natural and knowledge infrastructure", "source_page": 24 }, { "code": "CCE05", "measure": "Regional leadership", "target": "Build regional leadership and organisational capacity", "source_page": 24 } ], "kpi_results_2024_25": [ { "code": "CCE01", "measure": "Infrastructure resilience", "result": "Approved Kimberley DAMA", "status": "Achieved", "source_page": 20 }, { "code": "CCE02", "measure": "Housing affordability", "result": "Approved increased border services for the Port of Broome", "status": "Achieved", "source_page": 20 }, { "code": "CCE03", "measure": "Workforce capability", "result": "Approved increased border services for the Broome International Airport", "status": "Achieved", "source_page": 20 }, { "code": "CCE04", "measure": "Infrastructure development", "result": "$26.4 million to the Shire of Broome for the Walmanyjun / Cable Beach Foreshore Redevelopment", "status": "Achieved", "source_page": 20 }, { "code": "CCE05", "measure": "Regional leadership", "result": "$13.4 million to SWEK for the Goonoonoorram Project / East Kimberley Regional Airport Upgrades", "status": "Achieved", "source_page": 20 } ], "_source_urls": { "annual_report_url": "https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2023-24-FINAL.pdf", "corporate_plan_url": "" } }, "ideas": [ { "entity_id": "B-002727", "entity_name": "RDA WA Kimberley", "folder_name": "RDA-WA-Kimberley", "category": "Procurement & Delivery", "scale": "small", "title": "Procurement lessons library for repeat purchases", "idea": "Capture reusable procurement clauses, market lessons, supplier performance notes, and common evaluation criteria.", "quote": "Number and value of successful Examples of Australian Government funded projects securing funding in the Kimberley include (but not limited to):\np roposals.\n• Co-funding secured through the Regional Connectivity Program for Halls Creek to transition to nbn’s Fibre to the\nPremise ($5,517,998 project value).\n• Regional and Remote Communities Reliability Funding secured for microgrid projects in the following Aboriginal\ncommunities (portion of $1.4 million total project funding):\n Yiyili\n Wangkatjungka\n Bawoorooga\n Yawuru-Broome\n Mowanjum\n• Priority infrastructure projects RDA Kimberley supported through advocacy, regional information, and advice on\nAustralian Government programs in 2020-21:\n Tanami Road upgrade (PART-FUNDED through State and Federal Government)\n Kununurra Airport Upgrade ($7.6 million FUNDED through BBRF Round 5)", "impact": "High", "effort": "Low", "proof": "Evidence-backed", "beneficiaries": "Delivery teams / suppliers", "source": "annual-reports/2020-21.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2020-21-FINAL.pdf)", "implementation": [ "Pick one high-volume process or document family.", "Name an owner and baseline current volume, time, cost, and satisfaction.", "Run a 4-8 week pilot with clear before/after metrics.", "Publish lessons and decide whether to scale." ], "risks": [ "Privacy and data quality", "Change fatigue", "Unclear accountability" ] }, { "entity_id": "B-002727", "entity_name": "RDA WA Kimberley", "folder_name": "RDA-WA-Kimberley", "category": "Procurement & Delivery", "scale": "large", "title": "Portfolio delivery office for major investments", "idea": "Stand up a portfolio delivery office that tracks benefits, risks, dependencies, procurement, and delivery confidence.", "quote": "Number and value of successful Examples of Australian Government funded projects securing funding in the Kimberley include (but not limited to):\np roposals.\n• Co-funding secured through the Regional Connectivity Program for Halls Creek to transition to nbn’s Fibre to the\nPremise ($5,517,998 project value).\n• Regional and Remote Communities Reliability Funding secured for microgrid projects in the following Aboriginal\ncommunities (portion of $1.4 million total project funding):\n Yiyili\n Wangkatjungka\n Bawoorooga\n Yawuru-Broome\n Mowanjum\n• Priority infrastructure projects RDA Kimberley supported through advocacy, regional information, and advice on\nAustralian Government programs in 2020-21:\n Tanami Road upgrade (PART-FUNDED through State and Federal Government)\n Kununurra Airport Upgrade ($7.6 million FUNDED through BBRF Round 5)", "impact": "Very High", "effort": "High", "proof": "Evidence-backed", "beneficiaries": "Delivery teams / suppliers", "source": "annual-reports/2020-21.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/RDA-Kimberley-Annual-Report-2020-21-FINAL.pdf)", "implementation": [ "Create a senior responsible owner and cross-functional delivery team.", "Map legislation, data, privacy, procurement, cyber, and workforce constraints.", "Co-design with users and frontline staff before technology selection.", "Stage delivery through pilots, benefits tracking, and public reporting." ], "risks": [ "Privacy and data quality", "Change fatigue", "Unclear accountability" ] }, { "entity_id": "B-002727", "entity_name": "RDA WA Kimberley", "folder_name": "RDA-WA-Kimberley", "category": "Risk & Assurance", "scale": "small", "title": "Recommendation tracker for audits, reviews, and inquiries", "idea": "Publish a single internal tracker for audit/review recommendations, owners, due dates, and implementation evidence.", "quote": "The plan has\nThe Australian Disaster Resilience Index shows\nalready delivered:\nlarge areas of the north have some of the lowest\n• increased funding for police, domestic resilience in the country.60 Similarly, the Australian\nviolence services and youth services, Climate Service’s Heat-Health Index61 uses\nincluding increased support for community level data to pinpoint Australian\nyouth at risk communities most vulnerable to extreme heat\nand demonstrates that northern Australian\n• funding for the establishment of a network\ncommunities face much higher risks from heat\nof remote training hubs\nthan other communities in Australia.\n• traditional owner community night patrols\nin Alice Springs If we continue to develop the north without\nfactoring in resilience to increasingly frequent\n• improved access to preventative health\nand intense climate-related hazards, we risk", "impact": "High", "effort": "Low", "proof": "Evidence-backed", "beneficiaries": "Executives / assurance teams", "source": "strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)", "implementation": [ "Pick one high-volume process or document family.", "Name an owner and baseline current volume, time, cost, and satisfaction.", "Run a 4-8 week pilot with clear before/after metrics.", "Publish lessons and decide whether to scale." ], "risks": [ "Privacy and data quality", "Change fatigue", "Unclear accountability", "Regulatory capture", "Over-automation of judgement" ] }, { "entity_id": "B-002727", "entity_name": "RDA WA Kimberley", "folder_name": "RDA-WA-Kimberley", "category": "Risk & Assurance", "scale": "large", "title": "Integrated assurance and lessons-learned system", "idea": "Create an assurance system that connects audit findings, risk registers, delivery reviews, and investment decisions.", "quote": "The plan has\nThe Australian Disaster Resilience Index shows\nalready delivered:\nlarge areas of the north have some of the lowest\n• increased funding for police, domestic resilience in the country.60 Similarly, the Australian\nviolence services and youth services, Climate Service’s Heat-Health Index61 uses\nincluding increased support for community level data to pinpoint Australian\nyouth at risk communities most vulnerable to extreme heat\nand demonstrates that northern Australian\n• funding for the establishment of a network\ncommunities face much higher risks from heat\nof remote training hubs\nthan other communities in Australia.\n• traditional owner community night patrols\nin Alice Springs If we continue to develop the north without\nfactoring in resilience to increasingly frequent\n• improved access to preventative health\nand intense climate-related hazards, we risk", "impact": "Very High", "effort": "High", "proof": "Evidence-backed", "beneficiaries": "Executives / assurance teams", "source": "strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)", "implementation": [ "Create a senior responsible owner and cross-functional delivery team.", "Map legislation, data, privacy, procurement, cyber, and workforce constraints.", "Co-design with users and frontline staff before technology selection.", "Stage delivery through pilots, benefits tracking, and public reporting." ], "risks": [ "Privacy and data quality", "Change fatigue", "Unclear accountability", "Regulatory capture", "Over-automation of judgement" ] }, { "entity_id": "B-002727", "entity_name": "RDA WA Kimberley", "folder_name": "RDA-WA-Kimberley", "category": "Staff Productivity", "scale": "small", "title": "Reusable briefing and summary assistant for internal documents", "idea": "Create controlled templates for summarising reports, submissions, minutes, and ministerial briefs.", "quote": "Materially improving the lives of • the Qld Minister for Regional Development\nIndigenous people and communities. and Manufacturing and Minister for Water\n• the WA Minister for Regional Development\n*NAIF is also directed to notionally set aside\n$500 million of its appropriation to support • the NT Chief Minister.\nprojects which align with the Critical Minerals\nIn 2022, the NAMF agreed to 14 priorities\nStrategy 2023–2030.\nunder 3 high-level themes, which informed the\ndevelopment of the Action Plan.", "impact": "High", "effort": "Low", "proof": "Evidence-backed", "beneficiaries": "APS staff / executives", "source": "strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)", "implementation": [ "Pick one high-volume process or document family.", "Name an owner and baseline current volume, time, cost, and satisfaction.", "Run a 4-8 week pilot with clear before/after metrics.", "Publish lessons and decide whether to scale." ], "risks": [ "Privacy and data quality", "Change fatigue", "Unclear accountability", "Sensitive information leakage", "Inconsistent quality of generated drafts" ] }, { "entity_id": "B-002727", "entity_name": "RDA WA Kimberley", "folder_name": "RDA-WA-Kimberley", "category": "Staff Productivity", "scale": "large", "title": "Department-wide knowledge and briefing platform", "idea": "Build a secure knowledge platform that lets staff search, summarise, and cite approved departmental material.", "quote": "Materially improving the lives of • the Qld Minister for Regional Development\nIndigenous people and communities. and Manufacturing and Minister for Water\n• the WA Minister for Regional Development\n*NAIF is also directed to notionally set aside\n$500 million of its appropriation to support • the NT Chief Minister.\nprojects which align with the Critical Minerals\nIn 2022, the NAMF agreed to 14 priorities\nStrategy 2023–2030.\nunder 3 high-level themes, which informed the\ndevelopment of the Action Plan.", "impact": "Very High", "effort": "High", "proof": "Evidence-backed", "beneficiaries": "APS staff / executives", "source": "strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)", "implementation": [ "Create a senior responsible owner and cross-functional delivery team.", "Map legislation, data, privacy, procurement, cyber, and workforce constraints.", "Co-design with 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"effort": "Low", "proof": "Evidence-backed", "beneficiaries": "Executives / Parliament / public", "source": "strategies/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/northern-australia-action-plan-2024-2029.pdf)", "implementation": [ "Pick one high-volume process or document family.", "Name an owner and baseline current volume, time, cost, and satisfaction.", "Run a 4-8 week pilot with clear before/after metrics.", "Publish lessons and decide whether to scale." ], "risks": [ "Privacy and data quality", "Change fatigue", "Unclear accountability" ] }, { "entity_id": "B-002727", "entity_name": "RDA WA Kimberley", "folder_name": "RDA-WA-Kimberley", "category": "Data & Performance", "scale": "large", "title": "Outcome dashboard linking budget, delivery, and public impact", "idea": "Build a public-facing outcome dashboard showing spend, outputs, outcomes, and delivery confidence.", "quote": "The Government recognises the important 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"entity_name": "RDA WA Kimberley", "folder_name": "RDA-WA-Kimberley", "category": "Citizen Services", "scale": "large", "title": "Single front door for life-event based services", "idea": "Bundle services around life events so citizens can complete related steps across agencies in one journey.", "quote": "The plan has\nThe Australian Disaster Resilience Index shows\nalready delivered:\nlarge areas of the north have some of the lowest\n• increased funding for police, domestic resilience in the country.60 Similarly, the Australian\nviolence services and youth services, Climate Service’s Heat-Health Index61 uses\nincluding increased support for community level data to pinpoint Australian\nyouth at risk communities most vulnerable to extreme heat\nand demonstrates that northern Australian\n• funding for the establishment of a network\ncommunities face much higher risks from heat\nof remote training hubs\nthan other communities in Australia.\n• traditional owner community night patrols\nin 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and Cable industry regulation • Natural or\nBeach • Poor experience environmental\ndensity disaster\n7 Tourism Perceptions – Tourism WA\n8 Tourism Research Australia 2018\n9 ATEA Kimberley Snapshot 2020\nBusiness in the Kimberley 7", "impact": "High", "effort": "Low", "proof": "Evidence-backed", "beneficiaries": "Regulated entities / policy teams", "source": "other-pdfs/Tourism-Industry_web.pdf (https://www.rdakimberley.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Tourism-Industry_web.pdf)", "implementation": [ "Pick one high-volume process or document family.", "Name an owner and baseline current volume, time, cost, and satisfaction.", "Run a 4-8 week pilot with clear before/after metrics.", "Publish lessons and decide whether to scale." ], "risks": [ "Privacy and data quality", "Change fatigue", "Unclear accountability", "Regulatory capture", "Over-automation of judgement" ] }, { "entity_id": "B-002727", "entity_name": "RDA WA Kimberley", "folder_name": "RDA-WA-Kimberley", "category": 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