Around half of homes in three major Australian cities only have access to very old technology: hybrid fibre-coaxial (HFC). For them, access to the NBN fibre network remains only a fairy tale.
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Government agencies spend millions of dollars yearly to buy and demolish homes sited in floodplains. But the program is slow, cumbersome and doesn't always help those who need it most.
Tasmania's digital inclusion increased dramatically and more than the national average from 2017 to 2018. This change is underpinned by a doubling of access to NBN in Tasmania in that period.
From the 20th-century process of policy trial and error, the nations that married the strengths of markets and government came out ahead.
The patterns of Airbnb listings in Australia's biggest cities suggest impacts on rental housing are likely to be biggest in high-end areas that appeal to tourists. Low-income areas are less affected.
Mass incarceration harms the health of prisoners, their families and the people who work in detention centers.
In cities dominated by globalised market forces, how can we achieve social equity and justice? For any sharing economy idea, we need to ask what will it do to fix the big problems confronting us all.
The NBN has to be equitable to be a truly nation-building platform. As long as it is failing some, it is failing us all in Australia.
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Senior Lecturer in Urbanism, Sydney Research Accelerator (SOAR) Fellow, University of Sydney
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Lecturer, Australian National University
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Research Fellow, Centre for Social Impact, Swinburne University of Technology
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Faculty, Center for Bioethics and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University
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Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor, Research & Innovation; Director of UNGC Cities Programme; Professor, RMIT University
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Professor of Economics and Director, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in Design and Computation, University of Sydney
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Professor of Media and Communications; Director, Social Change Enabling Capability Platform, RMIT University
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Associate Director, Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School, Harvard University
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Griffith University
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
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Professor, Arizona State University
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Postdoctoral researcher, Arizona State University
