The following Awards were presented at our Annual Conference Dinner on Thursday 29th September 2006

ANZRSAI Regional Development Practitioner Award of Excellence (sponsored by DOTARS)  to
Blueprint Shoalhaven Project Team for their submission on Blueprint Shoalhaven.

ANZRSAI Highly Commended Award(Runner-up) (sponsored by DOTARS) to Bundaberg Futures Program for the Bundaberg Technology Park.

ANZRSAI Practitioner Incentive Award (sponsored by DOTARS) to
Moreton Bay Coast and Country ACC for their submission Wise WOrkforce Employment and Training Expo- Australia's first jobs expo for over 45s.

Award for Best Postgraduate Thesis in Regional Science(sponsored by DOTARS) to
Rosa McManamey for her thesis  Exploring the Relationship between Community Newspapers and Social Capital: The Power to Empower.

Award for Best Undergraduate Thesis in Regional Science(sponsored by DOTARS) to
JAne Olsen for her thesis The Innovation Process in Small- and Medium-sized Enterprise: A Study of New South WalesBusiness.

Highly Commended Awards for Undergraduate Thesis to
Kim Maree Atherly, for her thesis The Social Geography of Sport in Small Western Australian Rural Communities: A Case Study of Brookton adn Pingelly, 1947-2003.and
Leah Purvis, for her thesis Case Study of the Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park: Exploring Issues of Interpretation and Community Engagement

Sustaining Regions Best Paper Award to
Martin Perry for his paper Cluster Confusion (Published Spring 2005)

John Dickinson Memorial Award for Best Paper in Australasion Journal of Regional Studies to
William Mitchell & Ellen Carlson for their paper  Exploring Employment Growth Disparities across Metropolitan and Regional Australia. (published Vol 11, No 1)

Best Paper of the Conference Award to
Paul Dalziel, Hirini Matunga and Caroline Saunders for their paper Cultural Well-being and Local Government: Lessons form New Zealand.

Many of these papers will be published in the 2006 COnference Proceedings which be available later in the year.