Land Ownership Change in Rural NSW: Riverina Transect Report

Abstract

The Riverina transect report is an output from the Australian Research Council Linkage Project ‘The impacts of land ownership change on rural social and economic change’ (LP170101125) undertaken by the University of Sydney in partnership with the NSW Department of Primary Industries. Research reported here has the approval of the University of Sydney Human Research Ethics Committee (Protocols 2018/020 and 2019/749). This report is one of four transect reports covering different regions of NSW. The aim of the broader project is to identify and explain key trends in the spatial and temporal patterns of changes in the ownership of land in rural NSW. The core component for achieving this objective is the construction of a unique, research-ready, spatially informed database that records and maps every land transaction in rural NSW over the 16-year period from January 2004 to January 2020.