Many people think a population policy is about control – like the one-child policy in China, for instance. But modern population policies are about population-well-being.
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Business-as-usual projections assume our four biggest cities must absorb three-quarters of Australia’s population growth over the next 30 years. Might new cities be a better way to deal with it?
Victoria offers lessons in the benefits of integrating metropolitan and regional planning, using regional rail to shrink distance and ease the pressures of growth on our big capital cities.
Regional cities can be as effective at generating jobs and growth as their big five metro cousins. But they must identify and build on their strengths to be investment-ready.
Universities can lead the way in creating opportunities for the economic development of regional cities and outer metropolitan areas under new City Deals.
Outside the capital cities and the coastal fringes, the towns and people of rural and regional Australia have had to be inventive to get through the tough times.
Only about 5% of Australians live in the tropics, but it is not a mysterious or unopened land of limitless untapped potential. The ambition of northern development dates back to the 19th century.
The draft plan for Southeast Queensland largely takes a ‘provide land for the predicted demand’ approach, which assumes regional planning is a type of technical process best left to the experts.
Long-distance commuting may help promote the development of regional cities by boosting local populations, skills and incomes.
On the big national policies affecting non-metropolitan Australia, such as agriculture and trade, the major party differences are minor. That’s why the election focus turns to local projects.
With the failures of past planning now apparent, the unruly threat of a damaged and depleting planet is ushering us toward a fourth era of urban restructuring. What might City v4.0 look like?
Three north Queensland MPs representing just 3% of the state’s population will wield huge power in Queensland’s parliament when it resumes on Tuesday.
Viewing the economic situation in Britain as a north-south divide tends to oversimplify things – and calls for a closer look.
In his budget speech, George Osborne claimed that the north grew faster than the south last year. Is he right?
There are hundreds of derelict mine sites across New South Wales – and the state planning department has admitted it is “not aware of the total size” of large mining voids currently being left behind.
If you’re looking for key battles to watch in the New South Wales election, which could help decide who forms the next state government, then you need to know the story of the Newcastle railway line.
In an influential speech in 2005, then-US deputy secretary of state Robert Zoellick called on China to become a “responsible stakeholder” in the international community. To optimists, China’s recent efforts…
The European Union has never been so unpopular among its member populations; for many political parties across the continent, the whole EU project of integration and co-operation is dying, or was a mistake…
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has renewed debate about the effectiveness of health systems and how best to support collective regional action. Having comprehensive, accessible and sustainable systems…
The UK’s economy is highly unbalanced; we have the worst regional disparities in the developed world and London’s property prices are also the world’s most expensive – second only to Monaco. Rebalancing…
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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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Professor of Economic Geography, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor of Urban Policy and Director, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Interim Director, Urban Futures Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
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Professor of Geography, University of Wollongong
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Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Wollongong
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Honorary Professor, Australian National University
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Professor of Criminology, Griffith University
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Professor of Biology, The University of Queensland
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Pro Vice-Chancellor (Engagement), University of Southern Queensland
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Professor in School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences; and Director of Environmental Futures Research Centre, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Human Geography, University of Sydney
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Demographer, POLIS Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University
