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This study develops a measurement tool to assess the economic health, human capital, social well-being and liveability of regional locations. The study is guided by developments in the professional literature related to measuring these four dimensions. Information was compiled from existing databases for 72 indicators used to generate four indices: Economic Health, Human Capital, Social Well-being, and Liveability. Index measures are reported for local government authority (LGAs) and Victorian State levels. The four indices provide a new quantitative tool to capture the effects from, and so reflect, economic, social and policy changes impacting across Victoria. Further application of this tool may be provided through periodic data updates over time using data captured on a national scale. The regional focus of the present study is the Latrobe Valley located in the Gippsland region of Victoria. The Latrobe Valley encompasses the LGAs of Baw Baw, Latrobe City and Wellington Shires. In addition, index values are reported for 16 towns located within the three LGAs and we include these findings as Appendix 1. For comparative purposes, the study also reports index values for the Gippsland region (comprising LGAs of Baw-Baw, Bass Coast, East Gippsland, Latrobe City, South Gippsland and Wellington Shire), the State of Victoria, and regional (non-metropolitan areas) using averages. Data were gathered for all 79 Victorian LGAs. The study results provide a measurement framework constructed from a comprehensive application of available databases. The end-product is a significant "tool" that identifies and summates enablers of economic productivity and social and community development. The tool provides evidenced-based measures to inform policy recommendations with regard to strategic intervention options and ensuing impacts on regional sustainability.

This paper examines the importance of family and social networks among elderly Italians in Gippsland in South-Eastern Australia. Support received by respondents from kin was highly valued and was most frequently provided in the areas of advice, general information, emotional problems and episodes of minor illness. The strength of these networks was based on the preservation of a cultural pattern which places a high value on the role of the extended family. Despite the widespread provision of formal community services designed to meet the needs of the aged, differences in culture and language present barriers to the use of main stream community services for the elderly. A small group was identified who were socially isolated and potentially vulnerable due to absence of kin and lack of confidence in using English.

The purpose of this report is to provide a starting point for assessing and understanding community capability practically, and to provide an indicative status of these in East Gippsland and Wellington Shires following the bushfires. It uses a systemic assessment of social, economic and risk contexts to examine community strengths and capabilities, and identify potential future pathways. The first section of this report has a specific focus on the capabilities involved in community recovery and how they have been experienced by diverse groups within the East Gippsland and Wellington community. This is viewed through a strengths-focused lens. It also provides an initial assessment of the status of the capabilities identified, and the challenges, needs and opportunities that have arisen as part of the recovery experience. The second section provides a broader picture of the comparative strengths, capabilities and needs identified in an online survey of those impacted by the bushfires in New South Wales and Gippsland through established community panels. The results show which aspects are shared more broadly, those partitioned by direct and indirect experience, and those specific to the East Gippsland community. The third section provides an economic assessment of two local government areas – East Gippsland and Wellington Shires – to provide a high-level assessment of the economic influences and impacts on the intersection of the COVID-19 pandemic and bushfire recovery.

Twelve species of vertebrates occupied nest boxes located in foothill forest trees in Gippsland, Vic.,
between 1977 and 1980. Boxes varied in entrance diameter, height above ground, and orientation. Over
the study period 38% of boxes were found occupied and another 40% showed signs of having been
visited. Occupancies were higher at the site with fewer natural hollows. Seasonal use of boxes varied
between mammals and birds and between species. Boxes with small entrances were preferred, and low
boxes were avoided by all species except the brown antechinus. Preference for the highest boxes was
significant at one site only. Preference for diameter of entrance hole was significant for brown
antechinus, sugar glider and crimson rosella; height was significant for sugar glider and brown
antechinus; orientation was not significant for any species.

Water reflects culture. This book is a detailed analysis of hydrological change in Australia's largest inland waterway in Australia, the Gippsland Lakes in Victoria, in the first 70 years of white settlement. Following air, water is our primal need. Unlike many histories, this book looks at the entire hydrological cycle in one place, rather than focusing on one bit. Deftly weaving threads from history, hydrology and psychology into one, Following the Water explores not just what settlers did to the waterscape, but probes their motivation for doing so. By combining unlikely elements together such as swamp drainage, water proofing techniques and temperance lobbying, the book reveals a web of perceptions about how water 'should be'. With this laid clear, we can ask how different we are from our colonial forebears.

Items of food in gizzards of 124 chestnut teal (Anas castanea) shot in the Gippsland Lakes area, Victoria, between August 1971 and July 1973, were identified as far as practicable, and percentage volumes were estimated. Plant remains formed most (74%) of the material identified in almost all months; members of the Cyperaceae were well represented (22%) and Ruppia sp. were also abundant (5%). Animal material was usually from insects, but molluscs and crustaceans were also recorded. It is concluded that the species feeds opportunistically in, and mainly around the edge of, wetlands in the region.

In partial response to two fatal utility truck accidents involving local school students, the School Focused Youth Service Coordinator and the Student Welfare Coordinator decided to form a boys' reference group to find out if the school was meeting the boys' health and well-being information needs. This resulted in 20 young men discussing and deciding on how they would find out the information, then developing a survey and distributing it to 113 boys. A wealth of information was gained from the completed surveys from young men in Years 8, 9 and 10 on what their information priorities were and how they would like the information delivered.