Central Queensland - A New Millennium is a joint initiative bringing together governments at all levels and the community to create a framework to guide future growth and development of the Central Queensland region.

The project area comprises 141,963 square kilometres or 8.2% of the state's total area. Its estimated resident population at 30 June 2001 was 184,411 persons, representing a total increase of 3,596 or 0.4% each year since 1996.

Areas covered by this plan

The project covers a diverse area based on the local government areas of:

• Banana
• Bauhinia
• Calliope
• Duaringa
• Emerald
• Fitzroy
• Gladstone
• Jericho
• Livingstone
• Mount Morgan
• Peak Downs
• Rockhampton
• Taroom
• Woorabinda Deed of Grant in Trust Community.

Project aims

Central Queensland - A New Millennium aims to create a plan for the region that is essentially focused on the following outcomes:

• Providing strategies designed to improve the quality of life for communities, particularly regarding access to facilities and services, infrastructure provision and sustainable environmental practices.
• Providing governments with a regional focus on fundamental strategic-planning issues.
• Providing a decision-making framework that ensures complementary actions by the Australian, state and local governments and the private and community sectors to create desirable long-term growth and development objectives and avoid duplication and inefficient use of resources.
• Forming the basis of a comprehensive regional framework to be implemented through local government strategic plans and providing guidance for state and local government planning and development decisions.
• Positioning the region to maximise competitive advantage and future sustainability.
• The Central Queensland Regional Growth Management Framework signals a journey of planned growth for the Central Queensland region.