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The role of the regional centre has been changing in the last few decades, which had directly led to the decline of many small towns. Economic, retail and public sector restructuring has led to the growth in regional centres. A subsequent magnetism from this growth has leached development and manpower from the small towns. Many of the small towns are as a result losing the infrastructure necessary to maintain a viable community and are in a state of decline. A regional centre is defined as a having a population between 11 000 and 50 000. Regional centres have been increasing in size in the last twenty years due to advances in technology and economic restructuring in both private and public sectors. Decentralisation has been a key player in the growth of regional centres, with the government introducing decentralisation into rural NSW in the 1970s with plans for seven designated growth centres....

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