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Boosting internet resilience
Jocelinn Kang | June 15, 2025Without a unified approach that connects submarine cable protection to terrestrial fibre, power, cooling and workforce planning, we risk compounding vulnerabilities and missing economic growth opportunities.
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Australia adrift
Peter Court | June 10, 2025Successive governments have allowed our maritime capability to wither. In the 1980s, Australia maintained a fleet of more than 120 internationally trading ships of varied types, including tankers and container carriers. Today, we effectively have none.
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The hidden inequity in your water bill — and how to fix it
Ali Kandi | June 6, 2025Australia’s water policy debate is often stuck in a false binary, with calls to either reduce consumer costs today or invest in sustainability for tomorrow. Dynamic pricing offers a third path to manage the growing complexity of water use, household diversity, and environmental limits.
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Office space
Gill Armstrong | June 3, 2025There’s an underutilised resource sitting in virtually every Australian town and city that might offer at least part of the solution to the nation’s housing shortage.
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Building productivity
Laura Gutierrez Bucheli | May 7, 2025While the major parties focus on demand-side interventions – Labor’s reduced minimum deposit and the Coalition’s mortgage repayment tax deductibility for first home buyers – supply-side reform is required to increase the nation’s housing stock.
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Building a housing solution
Alan Morris | April 21, 2025Australia is spending billions trying and still failing to get people into decent homes they can afford. Some more radical options could be on the table.
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Focus on the housing crisis
Rachel Ong ViforJ | April 16, 2025The housing crisis has prompted a series of housing promises from across the political spectrum, but Australia needs ideas that will actually work, rather than marginal handouts.
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Building back better
Samantha Dunn | April 9, 2025A month after Tropical Cyclone Alfred led to flooding affecting large parts of Queensland and NSW, a timely new report led by UNSW researchers highlights the need to strengthen localised responses to ‘build back better’.
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Sleeping at the office
Gill Armstrong | March 16, 2025There’s an underutilised resource sitting in virtually every Australian town and city that might offer at least part of the solution to the nation’s housing shortage.
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Housing on the election agenda
Open Forum | February 11, 2025New research from Redbridge for the Community Housing Industry Association and PowerHousing Australia shows an expansion of low cost rental housing will be a vote changing political issue at the upcoming federal election.
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Battling the blob
Maria Pia Dunne | January 9, 2025The internet is overrun by bots designed to spam and imitate us and it’s time to fight back.
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Remaking healthy cities
Jinhee Kim | December 10, 2024Australia drifted away from the Healthy Cities movement it helped start. It can still get back on track.