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Skills lab Sydney: Making the case with cost benefit analysis

A tale of two economies: How Auckland compares to Australia

Sobering shifts: The impact of Victoria's liquor law reforms

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Making the case with cost benefit analysis: Melbourne training insights

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Throughout August, we ran a series of cost benefit analysis introductory courses to help participants gain practical skills for applying cost benefit analysis in various decision-making contexts.

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Building on two years of ESG reporting by the Australian community housing sector

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Housing

The second Annual ESG Review of Australian Community Housing was officially launched on 28 July 2025, marking a significant milestone in the sector’s commitment to environment, social and governance (ESG) principles.

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Community benefit schemes for renewable energy: planning framework

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Community Infrastructure, Energy

Australia’s renewable energy rollout is gaining pace, but local concerns remain. NSW’s new Renewable Energy Planning Framework, including a Benefit-Sharing Guideline, requires developers to fund local projects and services in affected communities.

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Sharing knowledge on Country: Reflections from the AIATSIS Summit

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For Purpose

In June 2025, supported by SGS’s sabbatical program, Kasey Bailey took the stage at the 2025 AIATSIS Summit in Garramilla (Darwin) to share a powerful story of economic self-determination, co-developed with Victorian Traditional Owners.

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Victoria's kindergarten reforms: What comes next?

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Community Infrastructure

Victoria’s kindergarten reforms require councils to plan for growing demand, guided by state-issued KISPs. But with limited local detail and contested modelling assumptions, many councils are now building their own evidence base to make investment decisions that better reflect community needs.

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Local insight, long-term vision in Aotearoa New Zealand

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We're working in Aotearoa New Zealand to help communities plan for a future that’s sustainable, inclusive, and uniquely their own.

SGS Economics and Planning acknowledge the First Nations Peoples of Australia and on whose Country we live and work. We acknowledge that the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia never ceded their sovereignty, and are one of the oldest continuing living cultures on Earth, have one of the oldest continuing land tenure systems in the world, and have one of the oldest continuing land use planning and management systems in the world.

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