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FROM THE MANAGING DIRECTOR
Our commitment is to be an ongoing not-for-
profit research and community development
organisation, serving the interests and people
of remote Australia. Ninti One and the
Cooperative Research Centre for Remote
Economic Participation (CRC-REP) are
bringing new knowledge and practices to
successfully tackle challenges and realise
opportunities across remote Australia. This
knowledge is now available to policymakers,
communities and businesses through
Remote Australia Online (RAO), a resource
we launched in 2013 to provide access to
authoritative research about remote Australia
and its people. In May 2014, we launched a
second component: the Remote Australia
Online Atlases (RAOA), which convert
detailed data about remote Australia into
visual interactive maps.
This year saw the successful completion
of the four-year Australian Feral Camel
Management Project, with the project’s
density targets of feral camels at nominated
biodiversity hot spots across remote Australia
achieved. The comprehensive report we
produced made key recommendations for
future management.
The commercialisation of the Remote
Livestock Management System with
Precision Pastoral will potentially transform
the economics and sustainability of extensive
grazing in the Australian rangelands.
The CRC-REP is now in its fourth year
of operations, and early research findings
are starting to be published and made
available to end users. For example, the
first comprehensive value chain analysis of
the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Art sector is already helping remote art
enterprises develop strategies to improve
resilience of the sector.
The Department of Industry undertook the
CRC-REP Third Year Performance Review
in June 2014. The panel found that the CRC
is performing well and is providing a unique
national service with outcomes being applied
back into the community.
Finally, I recently announced my decision to
step down as Ninti One Managing Director.
I would like to thank Ninti One staff, our
partners, all my colleagues, peers and friends
for the invaluable support over the past nine
years. I wish the new Managing Director, Mr
Rod Reeve, all our partners, stakeholders,
dedicated staff and friends the best of success
in delivering positive and tangible outcomes
for people, industries and businesses in
remote Australia.
JAN FERGUSON
MANAGING DIRECTOR