• Boosting internet resilience

    Jocelinn Kang     |      June 15, 2025

    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

    Peter Court     |      June 10, 2025

    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

    Ali Kandi     |      June 6, 2025

    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

    Gill Armstrong     |      June 3, 2025

    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

    Laura Gutierrez Bucheli     |      May 7, 2025

    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

    Alan Morris     |      April 21, 2025

    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

    Rachel Ong ViforJ     |      April 16, 2025

    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

    Samantha Dunn     |      April 9, 2025

    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

    Gill Armstrong     |      March 16, 2025

    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

    Open Forum     |      February 11, 2025

    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

    Maria Pia Dunne     |      January 9, 2025

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

  • Remaking healthy cities

    Jinhee Kim     |      December 10, 2024

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