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.

Protecting our under-sea cables

Subsea cables are the backbone of our global communication system and as the economic and security value of data continues to grow, it’s crucial that an island nation such as Australia protects this critical infrastructure.

Safeguarding undersea cables

Australia relies on the digital connectivity that undersea cables provide and, with capacity-hungry 6G on the horizon, the need will only grow, increasing the need to protect them.

New council tool to combat homelessness

As the housing crisis deepens across Australia’s suburbs, local councils now have a new tool to help them manage and prevent homelessness in their communities

AirBnBlasted

Research by the Australian-based Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy suggests that Airbnb is compounding housing shortages and pushing rental prices beyond the reach of many residents in global cities.

Will big storms threaten Melbourne’s “Big Build”?

Melbourne’s rapid growth in recent decades has created a much-publicised range of infrastructure and congestion problems, but is stormwater drainage the Cinderella who doesn’t get to go to the ball?

Making mega-projects work

Medium and large-scale construction projects have a better chance of success if they are able to adhere to a set of pre-determined success criteria.

The flood risk at Kensington Banks

Floods have caused disastrous property damage in the Eastern States in recent years, with Melbourne’s Maribyrnong River incident in October 2022 offering a case study of foolish planning decisions and an abdication of responsibility in recognising and mitigating the danger of future events.

Filling in the blanks

The housing crisis created by Australia’s high rate of immigration mean that governments and developers are eying every square inch of under-used land in our cities, but plans for ‘in-fill’ development are often slow to materialise in reality.

Planning by numbers

Leading planning and geospatial figures are calling for a coordinated approach to digitising and streamlining Australia’s urban planning systems.