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
International
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
National affairs
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
19 June 2017
A hulking ruin stands in judgement over a country adrift
National affairs
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
1 May 2017
Governments are favouring the easy but ineffectual options for reform
National affairs
27 April 2017
In the first of two articles, the Grattan Institute describes the profound effects of housing costs across the economy.
National affairs
6 March 2017
Forget what you’ve heard about infrastructure – it might be time to put the politics back in
Books & arts
26 October 2016
Books | James Button’s tale of a football club made good has all the elements of classical drama
Essays & reportage
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
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
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
11 August 2016
Tom Bamforth discovers the afterlife of Melbourne’s Olympic village
National affairs
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