The town of Bingara lies within the Shire of Gwydir in North Western New South Wales. It faces problems similar to other parts of rural Australia: declining population with resultant lack of employment opportunities; withdrawal of services to provincial and even metropolitan cities; and a difficult future maintaining its viability. In the attached documents I summarise work that has been undertaken there under the leadership of the General Manager of the Shire, Max Eastcott.

The Gwydir Learning Region as well as the Hume Global Learning Village have been the subject of a research project under the auspices of the Australia Centre of Excellence for Local Government with PASCAL Associate, Leone Wheeler as one of the co-authors. Documents related to this work are also made available to PASCAL subscribers.