Towards Endemic Regionalism in Northern Australia

Abstract

In the story-based chapters in Part II of this book, I explored things that need to happen differently if north Australia is to have a brighter future. Part III will try to shape these understandings into some sort of meaningful path forward. The three following chapters will each respectively focus on a range of solutions that can address the three conflict themes explored throughout this book. All three chapters bring together a broader reform agenda that needs to be tackled if there is to be success in our attempts to reconcile the cultural differences between northern and southern Australia. A final synthesis chapter then tries to look at the prospects of such reform actually working and explores the consequences for Australia as a whole if these reforms don’t happen. The first of these four concluding chapters explores how northern Australia can better take advantage of the positive aspects of the south’s resource exploitation agenda, while making sure the negatives are kept at bay. It does this by introducing the concept of building endemic regionalism across the north.