Note from the Editors: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies - Volume 17, Number 2, 2011

This edition of the 'Australasian Journal of Regional Studies' (AJRS) is the first that we have produced since formally taking over as editors at ANZRSAI's AGM in December 2010. Volume 17 (1), which was published in the first half of 2011, contained selected conference papers and keynote addresses from the December 2010 meeting. It was guest-edited by our President, Professor Paul Dalziel. After a challenging transition of editorship we are now operating optimally. Both the pace of article submission and referee turn-around times accelerated greatly in the second half of the year so that we are close to copy-editing Volume 17 (3) and we now have a good number of articles now in the refereeing pipeline. Since Volume 18 (1) will also contain refereed material from the 2011 Conference in Canberra, we expected to be back on track to produce our three issues on schedule during 2012.