The Coalition, Labor, and the Greens are making substantial commitments to projects that not only lack proper business cases, but are not even on the Infrastructure Australia priority list at all.
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Reinforced concrete is everywhere. But unlike plain concrete, which can last for centuries, reinforced concrete can deteriorate in decades as the reinforcing bars succumb to rust.
When it comes to Western Australia, key state issues will be more significant than usual in swinging the vote in the 2016 federal election.
Labor says that public sector infrastructure investment has fallen 20% under the Abbott-Turnbull government. Is that right?
By working together, social insects are able to fix a small failure before it becomes a larger one.
Pro-infrastructure and pro-enterprise, the newly-elected mayor has the policies to keep London a global financial centre.
Changing political and social demographics mean no-one is able to take the complex and diverse western Sydney region for granted.
A new millennium-long record reveals that Australia has suffered longer droughts and wet periods than those recorded in the past century’s weather observations.
What are the key policy issues on which the 2016 federal election will be fought?
Much of the infrastructure Australia needs will be funded by “value capture” – raising tax revenue by boosting land values. Some have decried it as a tax hike in all but name, but it isn’t really.
The budget paints a picture of higher debt, little relief for growing cities crying out for infrastructure investment, and no detail of how City Deals might work to fix this.
On reform, the 2016-17 budget is a holding one, with tinkering on the sides.
Big infrastructure projects are seen as an electoral and economic drawcard; but the history of management of these assets is mixed.
How can we tell whether we have an infrastructure deficit? And if we do, how big is it?
Victoria’s big-spending budget will fund education and services, but infrastructure is the big winner.
Cycling could be a major part of the solution to London’s transport problems – it’s a shame the main mayoral candidates don’t see it that way.
In his ministerial reshuffle earlier this year, Malcolm Turnbull made Angus Taylor, an up-and-coming Liberal MP, the assistant minister for cities and digital transformation.
The work of David Aschauer could help the government put a more positive spin on spending.
A fast rail link between Sydney and Melbourne was first proposed in 1984. So why haven’t we done it yet?
If the system was fixed project funding would be more likely to be based on merit.
Top contributors
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Transport and Cities Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor of Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
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Emeritus Professor of Public Policy, RMIT University
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Professor of Urban Policy and Director, Urban Futures Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
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Executive Director, Better Infrastructure Initiative, John Grill Centre for Project Leadership, University of Sydney
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Proprietor - Hale Consulting, The University of Melbourne
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Director of Energy Studies, University of Florida
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Head of Urbanism and Associate Professor of Urban Studies, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Professor of Economics, Director of the Australian Institute for Business and Economics, The University of Queensland
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Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair, Integrated Knowledge, Engineering and Sustainable Communities, University of Calgary
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Professor of Earth Sciences and Executive Director, Environmental Resilience Institute, Indiana University
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Transport Fellow, Grattan Institute
