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Books & Arts Peter Mares 25 May 2020 Books | Three housing researchers plot the way out of Australia’s affordability crisis
Essays & Reportage Sarah Barns 30 March 2020 What does the coronavirus mean for Australian cities? Essays & Reportage Robert Milliken 6 February 2020 Migration is helping make drought-stricken Dubbo a dynamic regional city Essays & Reportage Sarah Barns 18 December 2019 Is the data-rich city taking on a life of its own? And can Hugh Stretton’s Ideas for Australian Cities help us navigate its hazards? Essays & Reportage Leanne Hodyl 1 November 2019 High-rise housing has many benefits and quite a few shortcomings. The challenge is to shift the balance towards likeability
National Affairs Henry Sherrell 2 August 2019 There’s a risk that Australia’s leading social survey could become stuck in time
Essays & Reportage Tom Greenwell 31 July 2019 The purists are lamenting while the boosters (and bashers) cheer, but Canberra’s transformation may be more inspired than either camp acknowledges Podcasts Peter Clarke, Wendy Stone and Peter Mares 30 April 2019 Election 2019 | The central goals of housing policy have been lost in debates about tax breaks for landlords Books & Arts Chris Cunneen 22 March 2019 Books | Sydney’s Paddington was shaped by topography and “builders of modest means” Essays & Reportage Diana Bagnall 14 March 2019 When is an airport not just an airport? Western Sydneysiders are in the process of finding out
Books & Arts Brendan Coates 11 February 2019 Books | A blind spot among economists has helped price housing out of reach
National Affairs Peter Mares 5 November 2018 What is going on inside Australia’s immigration program? New government figures tell only part of the story Books & Arts Susan Lever 5 October 2018 Do Sydney’s theatre audiences yearn for the city of old? International Antonio Castillo 12 September 2018 Fuelled by new arrivals in the Bolivian capital, Indigenous architecture is on the rise in El Alto Essays & Reportage Margaret Simons 18 May 2018 Four months after the summer troubles, a reporter heads to Melbourne’s western fringe in search of “African gangs”
National Affairs James Murphy 28 March 2018 By the time a new lord mayor is elected in May, quite a few electors will have voted twice
Books & Arts Alan Davies 27 March 2018 Books | How did the Victorian capital regain the “intensive urbanity” that made it Australia’s leading city in the 1890s? National Affairs Brendan Coates & Trent Wiltshire 22 February 2018 Flawed research has fuelled a mistaken view of the best way to assist less well-off households Correspondents Duncan Hewitt 30 January 2018 Urban life is still a fragile aspiration for millions of rural migrants National Affairs Peter Mares 6 December 2017 Canada is showing the way, but the funds need to start flowing — and that means biting the bullet on tax
National Affairs Peter Mares 4 December 2017 A shift to a property tax will make the housing market fairer and more efficient, and researchers have come up with a practical way to do it
National Affairs Peter Mares 30 November 2017 Projects in Australia and Britain are showing how social housing can be more nimble and responsive Essays & Reportage Peter Spearritt 30 November 2017 Although Australia’s major capitals are changing fast, cars are still calling many of the shots Essays & Reportage Melissa Sweet 3 August 2017 With state and federal governments overwhelmingly focused on big-ticket medical spending, can local initiatives fill the gaps? National Affairs Tim Colebatch 5 July 2017 Dig a little deeper, and the figures tell us unexpected things about more than one Australia
National Affairs Peter Mares 3 July 2017 Malcolm Turnbull’s efforts to bring the federal government back into urban policy will be put to the test in Western Sydney
Correspondents David Hayes 19 June 2017 A hulking ruin stands in judgement over a country adrift National Affairs Brendan Coates, John Daley & Trent Wiltshire 29 May 2017 It’s not so much the banks’ balance sheets we should be worried about, it’s the economy-wide impact of much larger household debts National Affairs Brendan Coates, John Daley & Trent Wiltshire 1 May 2017 Governments are favouring the easy but ineffectual options for reform National Affairs Brendan Coates, John Daley & Trent Wiltshire 27 April 2017 In the first of two articles, the Grattan Institute describes the profound effects of housing costs across the economy.