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Planning public toilets: An inconvenient necessity for local governments

Insights Community Infrastructure Health

We can't have housing without thinking about sustainable cities

Insights Housing

Australia’s rental crisis reaches new heights: 2024 Rental Affordability Index

Insights For Purpose Housing

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Australian communities benefit from natural hazards research

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Environment

The 2019/20 summer bushfires felt more intense and threatening than ever — but natural hazards are not new to Australia. Research into the response, recovery and mitigation of natural hazards greatly benefits Australian communities.

SGS Economics and Planning social isolation

How can we help socially isolated people in suburban areas?

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Health

Social isolation has taken a new meaning under COVID-19. But we know that some people suffered from social isolation before the pandemic, are suffering during the pandemic and will continue to do so long after it has ceased. So how can we help socially isolated people in the suburbs?

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South Australian public libraries generate significant community value

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Education

New report shows public libraries in South Australia support economic activity in the local community and generate $253 million of annual benefits.

SGS Economics and Planning Maranoa MP David Littleproud Balonne Shire Mayor Samantha O Toole

Economic analysis helps Balonne Shire Council secure $5 million funding to bridge the education divide

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Education

The Balonne Shire Council has secured $5 million funding for its ambitious plan to transform the St George town centre into a state-of-the-art learning complex incorporating a regional university hub.

SGS Economics and Planning social housing nth melb

Building the recovery: Investment in social housing will create thousands of jobs and improve social outcomes

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Housing

New modelling by SGS Economics and Planning released this week by the Community Housing Industry Association and National Shelter demonstrates how investing in a four-year social house building program of 30,000 homes will create on average up to 18,000 full-time equivalent jobs each year.

Engaging online during COVID-19 social distancing

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It is essential to keep projects moving while social restrictions are in place. But how do we engage remotely with people focused on their personal experience of COVID-19? Best practice principles...

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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