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New report shows JobSeeker recipients continue to face severe rental stress; Hobart remains least affordable city

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Housing

The JobSeeker supplement has improved rental affordability for Newstart households across the country, but recipients are still facing moderate to extreme rental stress nationwide according to the latest release of the Rental Affordability Index.

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Australia’s creative sector can lead post COVID-19 recovery, but it needs immediate support

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Arts and Culture

The creative and cultural industries sector has been hit hard by the COVID-19 restrictions in Australia and internationally. The diverse creative workforce has an important role in Australia’s post COVID-19 recovery. Here are five ideas on how to support the creative and cultural industry sector in Australia and boost local economies.

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Insight from 30 years in business: You need more than generic data to understand and solve societal issues

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Australia’s cities, regions and policy challenges are becoming increasingly complex. Thankfully, we have more data tracking activities in our cities than ever before, which has helped improve how we understand and model what might happen in the future. However, data alone does not deliver the insights required to understand and solve pressing issues.

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Where are people working from home, and how could this reshape Australia’s cities and regions?

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Employment

New data by SGS shows the locations where Australian residents were regularly working from home before the pandemic. This analysis is a step towards understanding how working remotely could reshape the form and structure of Australia’s cities and regions.

SGS Economics and Planning Climate Change

LIVE Q&A EVENT: Adapting to Australia's Changing Climate I Tues 10 Nov 2020

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Environment

Join panellists Emma Herd, Professor Tom Kompas, Dr Dan Zwartz, Clive Attwater and John Brockhoff as they discuss practical ways governments and organisations can respond to the irreversible effects of climate change and take steps to mitigate further change...

SGS Economics and Planning Vibrant Communities

LIVE Q&A EVENT: Shaping Vibrant Places and Precincts I Thurs 5 Nov 2020

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How do we create opportunity from dual health and economic crises and achieve more just, inclusive and prosperous places and local economies? In this event, panellists Dr Ingo Kumic, Phoebe Harrison, Max Hardy and Pat Fensham explore this very question - from governance models to deliberative engagement and cross-sector economic recovery and regeneration. This is a free live stream Q&A event moderated by SGS Senior Associate & Partner Liz Mackevicius. Watch event recording...

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