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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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SGS Economics and Planning AB Carticle Marcus

Commute for an hour and a half or work in a different industry? The choice facing residents on city fringes

Media

In an ABC News interview, Dr Marcus Spiller discusses the future of Melbourne's outer suburbs. Highlighting that these suburbs are projected to see an influx of 1 million residents by 2056. This projection takes into account various changes in living preferences and urban development strategies, signaling the need for thoughtful planning to accommodate the growth while maintaining the areas' appeal.

SGS Economics and Planning Fringe Growth

Melbourne's challenges in the face of outer suburb growth

Insights

Community Infrastructure, Housing

Melbourne's outskirts face rapid growth issues. New research shows State Government's 70/30 housing plan won't quickly solve this.

SGS Economics and Planning Matildas3

'Til it's done', let’s make this the start of something

Insights

Community Infrastructure

The Australian women’s soccer team has captivated our nation with their remarkable journey to the Women’s World Cup semi-finals, a historic first for Australia. Let's harness this momentum and unite to enhance girls’ participation in organised sports.

SGS Economics and Planning Sue Holliday Black White Measuring What M Atters

Measuring What Matters: Reflections on Australia's first national wellbeing framework

Insights

Education, Employment, For Purpose, Health, Housing

The Measuring What Matters framework is an important step for Australian wellbeing.

SGS Economics and Planning Graham Larcombe Scholarship Rechelle Brooks

SGS scholarship reaffirms recipient’s passion for Indigenous planning and sovereignty.

What's New

Having just begun her career, Rechelle Brookes wants to find the right path for her passions. Receiving the SGS Graham Larcombe Scholarship has reinforced that value-driven work is important and recognised.

SGS Economcis and Planning Mapping Landscape

Mapping the shifting landscape of socio-economic advantage

Insights

Employment, Health, Housing

Unveiling the latest release of the Australian Bureau of Statistics' Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA), we uncover the shifting landscape of advantage and disadvantage in Australia's major urban settlements over time.

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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