Essential workers a long way from home
People working in lower paid but highly essential services cannot afford to live near our city centres.
If a politician says they want affordable homes, they are lying
What chance does a political party promising to radically reduce home prices to improve affordability have of getting elected?
When houses earn more than jobs: how we lost control of Australian house prices and how to get it back
In some quarters, the median Sydney home earns more from capital gains than the median worker earns from wages. Now's a good time to wind back the measures that push prices up.
The Future, This Week 23 Nov 18: patents, co-housing, and dangerous questions
This week: disturbing patents, smart housing, and asking a dangerous question.
How Australian cities are adapting to the Asian Century
China’s rise as a global power is driving new flows of people, ideas and capital between China and Australia. Australian cities need to adapt to this new geopolitical reality.
Our lifestyle, not our innovation, attracts US investment to Australia
As innovative and business-friendly as Australia has become in its short history, what makes Australia stand out to international workers is its quality of life.
City planning suffers growth pains of Australia’s population boom
Financial benefits are behind the development industry’s push for a continuous rapid population growth. But our poorly planned cities are ill-prepared and already struggling.
Our big cities are engines of inequality, so how do we fix that?
Australia’s global cities are a very large part of the nation’s economic success, but they are also generating significantly unequal incomes.