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.
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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.
Research shows there are now more ministers responsible for regional issues across Australian governments than ever before.
Efforts by governments to redirect population growth to regional Australia have never worked. Even if such policies could be made to work, they probably wouldn't be worth the costs.
Social mobility is linked to geography in the UK – and local leaders should be tasked with boosting it.
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.
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.
Top contributors
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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 Environment and Planning, RMIT University
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John Daley is a Friend of The Conversation.
Senior Fellow, Grattan Institute
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Professor of Urban Policy and Director, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Chief Executive Officer, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research; Professorial Fellow, Fenner School for the Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor, Centre for Urban Research and Urban Futures Enabling Capability Platform, RMIT University
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Director, UOW Global Challenges Program & Professor of Human Geography, University of Wollongong
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Demographer, ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods, Australian National University
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Honorary Professor, Australian National University
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Adjunct Asssociate Professor, James Cook University
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Associate Professor in Criminology and Director of the Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre, Monash University
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Professor of Biology, The University of Queensland
