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

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Community Benefit Sharing: A Path to Equitable Development

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Reflecting on a year of impact

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The value of planning: How to rebuild trust in the democratic process and show that good planning has value and is valuable

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Despite 25 years of economic growth, Australians have become more distrustful of politicians, sceptical about democratic institutions, and disillusioned with democratic processes. So what tools can we use to get things done and how can we rebuild trust in Australian democratic institutions? To answer these questions, I suggest...

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Living on Australian coastline will get too risky and houses will be impossible to insure

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Ellen Witte, economist and partner at SGS Economics and Planning, says that the new research by Perth’s Edith Cowan University into using the coastal vegetation in Australia to combat climate change, is worthwhile but doesn't take coastal residential developments into account and that the sea levels will keep rising. According to Ellen living along the Australian coastlines will become too expensive to insure and too risky. Listen to the interview.

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A big win for the community: Funding secured to restore the historic Snowy River floodplain bridge

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Funding secured! SGS Study shows that restoring the historic Snowy River floodplain bridge will significantly benefit the Victorian community and represent a tourism and marketing icon for Orbost.

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Melbourne: Governing the growing metropolis

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In many respects, Melbourne is a great success story but on closer examination, there are troubling signs evident in Melbourne’s growth management record.

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Canberra: An evolving city

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Education, Housing, Open Space, Transport

Last year was a busy time for planning in the ACT. This period saw the release of a range of new strategies to guide Canberra's development. Heralding a further wave of urban renewal, together with the completion of the first stage of the light rail network. This is expected to see the dawning of a new era for the evolving city and communities of Canberra.

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Don’t tear it down: the idea behind Labor’s National Rental Affordability Scheme is worth saving

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Housing

Labor’s Rudd-era National Rental Affordability Scheme (NRAS) has come under attack just when it might be needed. We need to learn from past mistakes, but we don't need to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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