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Community wealth building is a direct response to extractive policies and aims to build an economy on the principles of local ownership and control of assets.
Exposure to diverse microbes boosts our immunity, while spending time in nature restores wellbeing. And COVID reminds us of the risks of new viruses when we intrude on and degrade natural habitats.
Societally, we need to recognize that sex workers have agency and deserve the same respect, dignity and aid as any other person selling their labour.
Australia faces economic problems down the road if three big, structural reform areas — housing affordability, the tax mix, and decarbonisation — are not addressed.
Tax rises to pay for the NHS recovery could have focused on those who have profited from the pandemic. Bundling these costs with social care reform, however, risks
The government proposes to fix social care and rescue the NHS in one go. The levy it proposes risks only scratching the surface
Australians’ mental health has suffered terribly during COVID. They need to know what the plan is for a future pandemic.
As the fourth most innovative nation in the world, the UK is under particular threat.
The UK government’s plan to ‘build back better’ can only work if we understand what that means to different populations.
From nursery closures to families self-isolating, COVID has disrupted children’s access to pre-school care. This impacts their development, and their parents’ ability to work
Universities can provide the leadership and motivation to keep different groups learning from each other and working together.
The former Federal Reserve chair has the experience and broad respect to get businesses to move on climate change and to lay the foundation for real and lasting progress.
Instead of free parking, our post-COVID CBDs need a big vision to become attractive destinations that aren’t car-friendly at the expense of being people-friendly.
The shortfall of social housing has built up over decades. Even after the building program is complete, the gap between housing supply and the numbers on waiting lists will still be huge.
The halving of international student numbers living in Australia to 300,000 is a huge hit to universities’ revenue. But our cities and businesses will also feel the loss of so many residents.
CBD retailers were already struggling before the pandemic. The contrast in fortunes with suburban retail activity is stark, and there are good reasons to think the shift could be permanent.
City by city, the data on CBD visitors vary with the severity of COVID-19 outbreaks and restrictions. But none of the CBDs has recovered former activity levels, and some might never fully recover.
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A resurgence of the coronavirus in South Africa is almost impossible to avoid, but the timing and extent depend on people's behaviour.
Current housing stimulus measures aim to boost buyer demand and are too small to sustain a recovery. A second round of stimulus is likely to be needed, and it should go into social housing supply.
Top contributors
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Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor & Programme co-ordinator (Masters of Public Policy), The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Housing Research and Policy, and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Director, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Professor of Property and Housing Economics, University of South Australia
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Research Officer, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Vice Chancellor, Victoria University
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Construction Management, University of Technology Sydney
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Finkel Professor of Global Health, Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow, Global and Women's Health, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow, Jean Hailes Research Unit, School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning & Design, Monash University
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Professor of Future Urban Mobility, Swinburne University of Technology
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Karin Hammarberg is a Friend of The Conversation.
Senior Research Fellow, Global and Women's Health, School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University
