Regional Capitals Australia (RCA) has warned large pockets of inequity will grow between metropolitan centres and the regions if regional municipalities do not receive funding to provide much-needed community infrastructure and services. RCA Chair Mayor Peter Carter said regional capitals were the heart of regional...
The Federal Government’s Aviation White Paper: Towards 2050 was released at the end of August as Regional Express, or Rex, entered voluntary administration. At its September meeting, the Secretariat presented the RCA board with a summary of the White Paper and its implications for our...
Pictured above at Parliament House are (from left to right) Mayor of City of Karratha Mayor Daniel Scott, Mayor of the City of Greater Geelong Cr Trent Sullivan, Mayor of the City of Albury and RCA Chair Cr Kylie King, Shadow Minister for Immigration and...
Regional Capitals Australia has welcomed the pre-election commitment from the Federal Liberal-National Coalition to allocate $5 billion to housing enabling infrastructure. The Housing Infrastructure Programme is aimed at unlocking 500,000 new homes. Funds will be used to get zoned land across the nation, including in...
Regional Capitals Australia (RCA) has called on the Federal Government to invest in regional airports, advocating for funding for important programs to continue so regional airports are able to fly. Regional Capitals Australia Chair and current Mayor of the City of Albury Cr Kylie King recently led...
Ahead of the 2022 Federal Election Regional Capitals Australia is calling for growing investment to support growing regional communities. Cr Daniel Moloney, Chair of Regional Capitals Australia said as the country moved toward COVID recovery, planning for a network of strong regional capitals is now...
The Hon Catherine King MP started her political career after being elected in 2001 to the Federal seat of Ballarat. After six years of serving as Labor’s Shadow Minister for Health and Medicare, Catherine moved to the key economic portfolio of Shadow Minister for Infrastructure,...
Minister for Population, Cities and Urban Infrastructure the Hon Alan Tudge MP this week, launched an update to the Planning for Australia’s Future Population plan at the Sydney Morning Herald’s Population Summit. As part of the update the Minister advised, after consultation with the States, he will...
With the Federal Election fast approaching, we have chosen to interview Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Cities and Regional Development, Anthony Albanese MP. It seems that a political career was always in the cards, with a young Anthony joining the Australian Labor Party at fifteen...
We know that population growth is an important topic that is on the minds of many RCA Members, so for our first political interview of the year, we have chosen to interview Minister for Cities, Urban Infrastructure and Population Alan Tudge. Before entering politics, Minister...