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SUMMARY:How does your region keep tourists coming even when the water runs low?
DESCRIPTION:Regional tourism and drought are on a collision course. We’re looking for communities already finding a way through. \n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a national conversation on water\, tourism and events. This conversation will inform the first Ready Communities National Regional Challenges.\n\n\n  \nInspiring this Challenge \n\n\n\nAustralia is the driest inhabited continent on Earth and among the most drought-exposed nations globally. The OECD’s 2025 Global Drought Outlook found that the average drought today carries economic impacts up to six times greater than in 2000\, with costs expected to rise by at least 35% by 2035. Australia is listed among the most severely affected countries. \nThe cycle of drought is inevitable\, though inconsistent in onset\, duration\, geography\, and intensity. Individual droughts have reduced national GDP by more than one per cent\, while local economies can contract by as much as 15 per cent. Public funds dedicated to addressing drought exceed $15 billion. The economic impact must be considered alongside equally significant social\, environmental\, and institutional impacts related to mental health\, social cohesion\, ecosystem services\, community infrastructure\, and vulnerable populations. \n\nMore information \nRegister here
URL:https://www.readycommunities.com.au/event/how-does-your-region-keep-tourists-coming-even-when-the-water-runs-low/
CATEGORIES:National Regional Challenges
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SUMMARY:How does your region tell a story that belongs to everyone?
DESCRIPTION:Every region has many stories. How do they come together into one that leaves nobody out? \n\n\nJoin us for a national conversation on belonging. This conversation will inform the first Ready Communities National Regional Challenges.\n\n\n  \nInspiring this Challenge \n\n\n\nMost regions have an official story: the one on the tourism website\, the one in the council strategy. It usually reflects the people who were in the room when it was written. \nBut every region contains stories that predate that room\, cultures that shaped the place before anyone thought to document them\, and communities that arrived later still looking for somewhere to belong. \nWhen those stories stay separate\, or stay invisible\, a community loses something practical. \nThe regions finding ways to bring all their stories into one shared identity without flattening any of them are doing something that needs to be shared. \n\nMore information \nRegister here
URL:https://www.readycommunities.com.au/event/how-does-your-region-tell-a-story-that-belongs-to-everyone/
CATEGORIES:National Regional Challenges
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SUMMARY:How does your region keep its volunteer heart strong?
DESCRIPTION:Volunteering has always held regional communities together. But the way people volunteer is changing\, and the organisations that depend on it need to change with them. Has your region already figured this out? \n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a national conversation on volunteering.\n\n\n  \nInspiring this Challenge \n\n\n\nVolunteering is not a nice-to-have in regional communities. It is the operating system. Events\, emergency services\, aged care\, sport\, governance: all of it runs on volunteers. \nBut the pool is changing. New residents don’t always find it easy to find their way in. Many community groups find it hard to attract younger members\, lifestyles and the cost of living don’t always permit time for volunteering\, and the same small group of experienced people is carrying governance loads across multiple organisations\, with compliance and red tape adding to the weight. \nThe organisations that find ways to welcome new volunteers while sustaining the ones they have are doing something that’s worth sharing. \n\nMore information \nRegister here
URL:https://www.readycommunities.com.au/event/how-does-your-region-keep-its-volunteer-heart-strong/
CATEGORIES:National Regional Challenges
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SUMMARY:How does your region keep its money working locally?
DESCRIPTION:Some regional communities have worked out how to keep the value they create circulating locally. Is this your region? Tell us more. \n\n\nJoin us for a national conversation on local investment. This conversation will inform the first Ready Communities National Regional Challenges.\n\n\n  \nInspiring this Challenge \n\n\n\n Across Australia\, communities are demonstrating that collective ownership works. Community banks\, cooperative enterprises\, community-owned stores and pubs\, First Nations land and enterprise. But these models remain the exception rather than the rule. Most regional economic development thinking focuses on attracting investment from outside rather than building ownership from within. \nWe’d like to hear from communities that are finding ways to connect individual enterprise\, shared capital\, and collective infrastructure so that the value their region produces stays in it. \n\nMore information \nRegister here
URL:https://www.readycommunities.com.au/event/how-does-your-region-keep-its-money-working-locally-2/
CATEGORIES:National Regional Challenges
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