Starting Point

This blog is a response to an impending trip around Australia.

After over 10 years involved in economic development, including involvement with the peak professional body, Economic Development Australia, - http://www.edaustralia.com.au/ - the opportunity to publish thoughts stimulated by constantly exploring new parts of our wonderful country and interact with others through doing so, was too good an opportunity to not take up.

Posts will likely be irregular as they will depend on opportunity and web connectivity. Additionally, my blogging skills will be limited initially, but hopefully these will improve over time. So please join me, make comment, disagree when necessary (and probably often) and feel free to suggest particular things to focus on as I reach different parts of Australia.

Before I leave I will hopefully start by making a series of comments based around the initial Rural and Remote Economic Development Training Program developed through Economic Development Australia with other ED professionals from Western Australia - particularly Simon Millcock from Christmas Island, but also valuable input from Cassandra Stipanicev from Cranbrook and William Barry from Bassendean. This program is now being made nationally and will hopefully give many smaller communities the opportunity to improve their ED capacity.

Trevor