Extra focus will be put on growing the economy and creating jobs under a shake-up of Regional Development Australia (RDA) committees, The Nationals Member for Gippsland Darren Chester has announced.<\/p>\n
The Gippsland RDA committee will be tasked with proactively targeting and negotiating with private companies, not-for-profits and governments of all levels to bring more jobs and investment to the region.<\/p>\n
Mr Chester said the Gippsland RDA already played an important role in economic development by setting the agenda for Commonwealth investment.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Gippsland RDA\u2019s focus will be broadened under these changes to help communities make the most of government and private investment that is available,\u201d Mr Chester said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is important that our region can determine its own future, and explain to governments what our priorities are.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe other important role of the Gippsland RDA is to better coordinate across three levels of government \u2013 federal, state and local – and look for opportunities for co-investment in local projects.\u201d<\/p>\n
The changes come following an Australian Government review of RDAs by the Hon Warwick L Smith AM.<\/p>\n
A new role of Director of Regional Development will be created for Gippsland. That person will be tasked with spearheading efforts to attract investment and jobs to the region.<\/p>\n
\u201cOften it can be confusing for people to navigate the different levels of government when seeking co-investment. That\u2019s why it is so important to have an expanded scope for the RDAs,\u201d Mr Chester said.<\/p>\n
Funding for RDA committees will be extended until December 31, 2020.<\/p>\n
The independent review into the RDA program and the Australian Government response can be found at: www.regional.gov.au<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Extra focus will be put on growing the economy and creating jobs under a shake-up of Regional Development Australia (RDA) committees, The Nationals Member for Gippsland Darren Chester has announced. The Gippsland RDA committee will be tasked with proactively targeting and negotiating with private companies, not-for-profits and governments of all levels to bring more jobs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[209,2661],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}