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The theme of this paper is regional ecology and issues for vocational education and training (VET) in developing learning partners with small business for sustainable economic development while protecting the natural capital of a growing, complex, diverse region. However there are questions about the capacity of a market driven culture of VET for building learning communities as well as about the direction for the new national strategy in embracing the triple bottom line (the social, the economic and the environmental) for developing public private partnerships for learning communities with a sustainable future. The regional ecology of the Adelaide Hills region of South Australia is discussed and the absence of a role for VET is noted.