National affairs
12 April 2024
Despite worrying evidence, the direct health effects of car-boosted air pollution barely figured in the debate over Labor’s vehicle efficiency standard
International
24 January 2024
“Keeping the sea lanes open” comes with rarely considered opportunity costs
Essays & reportage
20 October 2023
When the history of electric vehicles is written, who will be seen as central?
National affairs
14 August 2023
Qantas’s relations with government underscore the inadequacies of Australia’s lobbying laws
National affairs
20 April 2023
Labor’s electric vehicle strategy won’t quickly reverse Australia’s laggard status. But the news isn’t all bad
Books & arts
21 January 2023
A new book about urban mobility invites us to think differently about our streets: who do they belong to, what are they for, who gets to decide?
Books & arts
25 January 2022
Elon Musk has cast a spell across global business and investment. Someone needed to
National affairs
26 August 2021
The road to reduced emissions is clear
National affairs
21 April 2021
Why are Victoria’s Liberals stuck on a controversial project twice rejected at the ballot box?
Essays & reportage
27 March 2021
It’s been a long road for hydrogen, but its time might finally have arrived
Summer season
24 September 2020
Australia lags by more than a decade in tackling the health effects of low-quality petrol
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
Essays & reportage
30 March 2020
What does the coronavirus mean for Australian cities?
Essays & reportage
28 July 2019
Cutting working conditions won’t get us out of the current malaise
National affairs
28 May 2019
A state budget that’s somehow in surplus still plays the wrong kind of politics with infrastructure
National affairs
14 May 2019
Election 2019 | Two parties, three promises, three problems
National affairs
2 July 2018
How much does it cost to stop a freeway?
National affairs
10 May 2018
The prime minister and the Victorian premier are talking infrastructure after a long federal funding drought
National affairs
2 May 2018
Cautious in parts, extravagant in others, the Victorian budget is built on a boom
Essays & reportage
16 January 2018
As Uber picks itself up after another legal blow — this time from the European Court of Justice — an ambivalent observer recalls a visit to the company’s Australian head…
Books & arts
15 January 2018
Television | Our reviewer is gripped by SBS’s venture into slow TV
National affairs
30 December 2017
Despite the US and Australian governments, attitudes and technology are driving change
Essays & reportage
30 November 2017
Although Australia’s major capitals are changing fast, cars are still calling many of the shots
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
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
19 February 2016
Infrastructure Australia’s latest report got lost in the tax debate this week, writes Tim Colebatch. It deserves a closer look
National affairs
14 December 2015
The Victorian auditor-general’s criticism of the quality of bureaucratic advice on the contentious East West Link raises broader concerns about the public service, writes…
International
8 December 2015
Cities, regions and states are setting the pace on climate adaptation, reports Giles Parkinson from Paris
National affairs
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…