Season’s greetings from the RDA Northern Rivers Committee and staff. Our office will be closed from Monday 24 December 2018 and re-open on Wednesday 2 January 2019. Over the break our Director of Regional Development, Tim Williamson will be available for urgent enquiries on 0407 724 110. We wish you and your families a safe and happy festive season and look forward to continuing to work with you in 2019....

RDA Northern Rivers was a collaborative partner for the Thinking Differently Summit, initiated by NSW Business Chamber – Northern Rivers and held in Ballina. This successful event brought together 140 of the regions business leaders to take a design thinking approach to growing jobs for our local young people and growing business innovation. The Summit was led by keynote speaker Mark McCrindle. Mark is a social analyst with an...

Each year the University of Canberra conducts the Regional Wellbeing Survey, which supports research that improves the wellbeing and quality of life of people living in rural and regional Australia. The survey allows residents in rural and regional areas of Australia to have their say on issues ranging from how your community is changing to your health and wellbeing. This year, the survey research will also be looking into the experiences of...

If you could change 3 things in your business today, what would they be? The government funded Entrepreneurs Programme provides eligible business with access to an experienced, independent Business Adviser, free of charge, in order to develop a customized Action Plan for business improvement and growth. The business can even access $20,000 of grants to co-fund the implementation phase. How is that for a start to the new year? View the...

According to the Australian Farmers Federation the Australian hemp industry is on the rise!

New research from the Bureau of Communications and Arts Research shows that cultural and creative activities contributed $111.7 billion to Australia’s economy in 2016-17

Government consultations in the areas of Business & Industry, Community, Energy, Food, Health, Intellectual Property, Superannuation and Taxation are now open for comment