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

Insights For Purpose Housing

Community Benefit Sharing: A Path to Equitable Development

Insights Energy

Reflecting on a year of impact

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SGS Economics and Planning Matildas3

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

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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

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Education, Employment, For Purpose, Health, Housing

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

SGS Economcis and Planning Mapping Landscape

Mapping the shifting landscape of socio-economic advantage

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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 Rural Vic

More is more: Alternative sources of income for rural councils

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Rural local governments are efficient and innovative in generating alternative sources of income. But these supplementary income sources don’t make up for these Councils' lack of structural government funding.

SGS Economics and Planning National Housing Policy

Analysing the National Housing Policy: Trends, Prospects, and the Future of Affordable Housing

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Housing

The Albanese Labor Government has placed housing affordability at the forefront of their agenda – a noteworthy ambition. However, achieving their objectives would only mark the beginning of the efforts required to tackle Australia's significant shortfall in social and affordable housing. This paper delves into the trends and prospects associated with the National Housing Policy and presents ideas for how to fund the rebuilding of Australia's social and affordable housing infrastructure.

SGS Economics and Planning AEW23

Capturing the full picture: Why we must look beyond GDP to understand wellbeing

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Education, Employment, Environment, Health, Housing

SGS Economics and Planning's ground-breaking new index captures the socio-economic wellbeing of Australia, region by region. SGS Cities & Regions Wellbeing Index moves beyond state-level GDP data to show that where people live matters.

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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