Regional Australia is not uniform. Regions can be viewed in many different ways. These can be broad, specific and overlapping. The same region can be seen from several different perspectives.

Such diversity of perspectives offers endless opportunities for the ‘themeing’ and focussing State of the Region Summits and for the range of issues to be addressed.

Regions can be seen in relation to their geography, environment and ecology. There are remote regions, beach regions, desert regions, and ravaged regions.

Regions can be seen in relation to their economic development – growth regions, ailing regions, stagnant and declining regions.

Regions can be seen in terms of their economic focus – industrial regions, rural regions, mining regions, or tourist regions.

Regions can be seen in relation to their lifestyles – ‘seachange’ regions, retirement regions.