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The prime minister’s state-of-the-nation focus on economic growth, particularly in mining and tourism, was long on aspiration and short on realistic expectations.
The rapid growth of our capital cities is creating all sorts of problems. Dispersing growth across regional city networks could ease these growth pains and make our cities more sustainable.
Made in Australia could be set for a comeback, if federal government promises materialise. But these localisation plans must work for the regional communities hosting new projects.
With big events drawing a growing share of of tourism dollars, F1 offers a potential glimpse of the travel industry’s future.
Research on where businesses and households want to be points to growth in suburban and regional centres on the coast, with Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth also gaining ground on Sydney and Melbourne.
We looked at the factors that led to levelling up success in Europe, Japan and the US.
The levelling up secretary has unveiled some very big ambitions, but there are still more questions than answers.
Pouring money into levelling up won’t work without a rethink of how Whitehall and local government work together
The town just so happens to be right next to the chancellor’s constituency.
The ‘exodus’ from capital cities amounts to 0.06% of their populations – similar to recent years – and people are still moving to the cities. What’s missing is growth driven by international migrants.
The pandemic has driven Australian workers and their employers to embrace the option of working remotely. And that has opened people’s eyes to the possibilities of living in regional Australia.
Australia lacks a coherent national approach to planning where settlement and growth happens. It’s time to take stock of our cities and regions and work together to improve outcomes across the nation.
A high-speed rail network in Australia would create many benefits by reshaping cities and regional communities along its route.
Education fuelled extraordinary growth in Western Sydney’s professional services workforce, but their jobs aren’t local. More than 300,000 commute to work outside the region.
Conflicts between seasonal property owners and year-round rural residents are highlighting the fault-lines between the “right to be rural” and “disaster gentrification.”
Economic and political trends are driving a shift away from coal. What kind of assistance do coal workers and communities need?
Other countries are planning new cities using technological innovation to achieve more sustainable development. Such plans aren’t new for Australia, but existing city growth is the focus of attention.
Encouraging migrants to move to regional areas could be a win-win’ scenario, as long as policymakers pay attention to five key factors.
The foundational economy has largely been overlooked in public policy but it could provide shelter from the Brexit storm for the UK’s deprived regions.
Top contributors
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Professor of Economic Geography, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor in Tropical Regional Development, The Cairns Institute, James Cook University
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Professor of Social Policy, The Open University
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Director, The Cairns Institute, James Cook University
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Professor of Urban Policy and Director, Urban Futures Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
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PhD Student in Government, Harvard University
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Honorary Professor, Australian National University
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Professor of Economic Geography, University of Southampton
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Honorary Associate Professor Environmental Science, University of Newcastle
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Professiorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Fellow, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Biology, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Human Geography, University of Sydney
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Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Wollongong
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Associate, Grattan Institute