Boosting internet resilience

Without 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.

Australia adrift

Successive 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.

The hidden inequity in your water bill — and how to fix it

Australia’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.

Office space

There’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.

Building productivity

While 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.

Building a housing solution

Australia 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.

Focus on the housing crisis

The 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.

Building back better

A 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’.

Sleeping at the office

There’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.

Housing on the election agenda

New 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.

Battling the blob

The internet is overrun by bots designed to spam and imitate us and it’s time to fight back.

Remaking healthy cities

Australia drifted away from the Healthy Cities movement it helped start. It can still get back on track.