ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT QUARTERLY
FINALIST
SOUTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE COUNCIL
Digital Innovation and Smart Agriculture Festival
Southern Grampians Shire Council (SGSC) presented
the inaugural Greater Hamilton Digital Innovation and
Smart Agriculture (DISA) Festival in 2019.
economy and community powered by ‘STEAM’.
Together with the Creative Precinct Master Plan,
Ballarat is now positioned as one of Australia’s
leading creative cities.
The primary focus of the Festival was to showcase
how rural communities are embracing new
technology and innovative practices to gain an
edge.
Greater Hamilton region is transforming into a Smart
Connected Community that is a leading example of
a successful digital economy for regional Australia.
SGSC has invested in a LoRaWAN sensor network
which is free for the community to use.
www.disa.sthgrampians.vic.gov.au/
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
STRATEGIC THINKING
This award recognises strategies where economic
development outcomes are the leading factors
and basis influencing the approach adopted. This
award is seeking outcomes such as employment,
workforce development, investment, industrial and
commercial development.
WINNER
CITY OF BALLARAT
Ballarat’s Creative City Strategy and Creative
Precinct Master Plan
BALLARAT’S
CREATIVE CITY
STRATEGY
Celebrating Ballarat’s
Creative City Strategy
June 2019
FINAL APRIL 2019
This strategy suggests how all segments of our
community can play their part in embedding
creativity within the very fabric of the city.
www.ballarat.vic.gov.au/sites/default/
files/2019-07/Ballarat%20Creative%20City%20
Strategy.pdf
FINALIST
CITY OF SALISBURY
Salisbury. The destination to do business
Salisbury’s City Plan contains an ambitious
objective to “be the place of choice for businesses
to invest and grow within South Australia, nationally
and internationally.” This strategy positioned the city
strongly in the lead up to and immediately following
the closure of, GM Holden, Council.
Salisbury houses significant defence infrastructure,
hosts the Future Industries Institute, is at the
centre of South Australia’s food processing sector
and houses South Australia’s largest wholesale
produce market. Significant planned investment
reinforces Salisbury’s position as a prime location
for investment in freight and logistics.
www.salisbury.sa.gov.au/Council/Council_
Plans_and_Documents/City_Management_
Plans/City_Plan
‘Neopolitan Nag’ (2018) by Demi Gerardi,
graphic design student at Federation University
“Ballarat is an iconic city which inspires creativity,
demands discovery and rewards the inquisitive.”
Ballarat’s Creative City Strategy, adopted in May
2019, offers this long-term vision for the city, to
guide policy and investment for the cultural and
creative industries and to develop Ballarat as ‘an
FINALIST
DEVONPORT CITY COUNCIL
Devonport Living City
LIVING CITY is the largest urban redevelopment
plan ever undertaken in regional Tasmania. It is
transforming Devonport through the creation of new
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