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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. National Affairs James Murphy 6 March 2017 Forget what you’ve heard about infrastructure – it might be time to put the politics back in
Books & Arts Brett Evans 26 October 2016 Books | James Button’s tale of a football club made good has all the elements of classical drama
Essays & Reportage Jim Colman 12 September 2016 Unions, residents and community groups took on a powerful government agency to thwart plans for the wholesale redevelopment of Australia’s oldest suburb, writes Jim Colman Essays & Reportage The Vagabond 6 September 2016 Under his pseudonym “the Vagabond,” John Stanley James explored Australia’s major capital cities with fresh eyes in the 1870s and 80s. Here, he takes a culinary… Essays & Reportage Graeme Davison 31 August 2016 Ever since William Thackeray satirised the London suburb of Clapham in 1855, critics and supporters of the suburbs have been battling it out, writes Graeme Davison Essays & Reportage Tom Bamforth 11 August 2016 Tom Bamforth discovers the afterlife of Melbourne’s Olympic village
National Affairs James Murphy 4 February 2016 The Australian Electoral Commission’s latest political finance figures show how closely entwined are government and the development industry, writes James Murphy
Books & Arts Jennifer Kent 1 December 2015 Books | The challenge for Australian cities is to introduce fluidity into a landscape often set in concrete, writes Jennifer Kent National Affairs Jane-Frances Kelly & Paul Donegan 29 September 2015 State and local governments need to break down the emerging division between job-rich and job-poor suburbs in Australia’s major cities, write Jane-Frances Kelly and… Essays & Reportage Kerry Ryan 17 September 2015 Twenty years after he left, Kerry Ryan returned to Darwin. Some things had changed, some things had stayed the same Books & Arts Susan Lever 26 June 2015 Books | Susan Lever reviews Steven Carroll's Forever Young