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

Insights For Purpose Housing

The ability for local governments to fund infrastructure and services

Insights Community Infrastructure

Community Benefit Sharing: A Path to Equitable Development

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SGS Economics and Planning Voice to Parliament combined briefings

We support a First Nations Voice to Parliament

What's New

We support a First Nations Voice to Parliament and the Uluru Statement from the Heart. With a Voice to Parliament referendum happening in October, now is the time for informed conversations and action.

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Local governments are productivity pacesetters despite being starved of resources; reform program needed

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Employment

When it comes to delivering efficient government services, local governments are setting the pace. Local governments play an indispensable role in the productivity of Australia's economy, but they are typically seen as bit players in the big policy moves orchestrated by the Commonwealth and state governments. A reform program is needed...

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Rental affordability crisis requires urgent intervention

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Housing

Australians are being hit with unsustainable rent increases according to the latest release of the Rental Affordability Index, with every capital city nationwide experiencing a decline in rental affordability in 2022. Low-income renters such as single parents, pensioners, students, and job seekers are most vulnerable...

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Live Q&A Event: Measuring local governments' impact

Events

Join SGS and LGiU Australia for a live event on Thursday 17 November to discuss how local governments can measure their ‘impact’ and effectively prioritise future investments.

Viviana Silva SGS Economics and Planning article scholarship recipient

SGS scholarship recipient encouraged to tackle social inequalities in urban development

What's New

Moving from Peru to Melbourne to study a Master of Urban Planning at The University of Melbourne didn’t go to plan for Viviana Silva. Arriving in Melbourne in early 2020 — flying into the city shortly before COVID lockdowns — Viviana settled into her accommodation and kickstarted her master's program online with the rest of her cohort. Despite her unsettled start, Viviana loved every minute of her experience at The University of Melbourne.

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Assessing net community benefit in the Victorian planning system

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Statutory planning practice in Victoria has struggled with the concept of net community benefit since the advent of this term in the Victoria Planning Provisions in 1996. This paper explores the reasons for the continuing controversy surrounding how the idea of net community benefit might be applied in the planning system and proposes some ways forward.

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