Essays & Reportage
17 August 2021
What happens when the idea of Country is integrated into how Australian cities are planned?
National Affairs
12 March 2021
Australia has invested heavily in a construction-fuelled recovery, but at what cost?
Essays & Reportage
29 September 2020
With governments unwilling to fix taxes or borrow, perhaps even Ronald Reagan has something to teach us
Essays & Reportage
16 September 2020
All of a sudden, proximity to the city may no longer be a critical driver of innovation and job creation
Books & Arts
13 July 2020
Covid-19 has supercharged concerns about how workplaces — and work patterns — are undermining good health
Books & Arts
25 May 2020
Books | Three housing researchers plot the way out of Australia’s affordability crisis
Essays & Reportage
30 March 2020
What does the coronavirus mean for Australian cities?
Essays & Reportage
6 February 2020
Migration is helping make drought-stricken Dubbo a dynamic regional city
Essays & Reportage
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
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
2 August 2019
There’s a risk that Australia’s leading social survey could become stuck in time
Essays & Reportage
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
30 April 2019
Election 2019 | The central goals of housing policy have been lost in debates about tax breaks for landlords
Books & Arts
22 March 2019
Books | Sydney’s Paddington was shaped by topography and “builders of modest means”
Essays & Reportage
14 March 2019
When is an airport not just an airport? Western Sydneysiders are in the process of finding out
Books & Arts
11 February 2019
Books | A blind spot among economists has helped price housing out of reach
National Affairs
5 November 2018
What is going on inside Australia’s immigration program? New government figures tell only part of the story
Books & Arts
5 October 2018
Do Sydney’s theatre audiences yearn for the city of old?
International
12 September 2018
Fuelled by new arrivals in the Bolivian capital, Indigenous architecture is on the rise in El Alto
Essays & Reportage
18 May 2018
Four months after the summer troubles, a reporter heads to Melbourne’s western fringe in search of “African gangs”
National Affairs
28 March 2018
By the time a new lord mayor is elected in May, quite a few electors will have voted twice
Books & Arts
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
22 February 2018
Flawed research has fuelled a mistaken view of the best way to assist less well-off households
Correspondents
30 January 2018
Urban life is still a fragile aspiration for millions of rural migrants
National Affairs
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
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
30 November 2017
Projects in Australia and Britain are showing how social housing can be more nimble and responsive
Essays & Reportage
30 November 2017
Although Australia’s major capitals are changing fast, cars are still calling many of the shots
Essays & Reportage
3 August 2017
With state and federal governments overwhelmingly focused on big-ticket medical spending, can local initiatives fill the gaps?
National Affairs
5 July 2017
Dig a little deeper, and the figures tell us unexpected things about more than one Australia