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Freight, energy and regional sovereignty: planning infrastructure for the future

Australia’s regional freight debate is often framed as a contest between rail and trucks when both should be used to improve energy and regional sovereignty, significantly reduce road trauma and potential to enable passenger rail.

by Ray Wills, The University of Western Australia and Peter Newman, Curtin University

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Victoria needs better planning decisions

by Patrick Fensham, PIA

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Nick Reece: A lord mayor who understands that liveability has a lot to do with a city’s building quality

by The Fifth Estate

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How Australian cities are made: planning beyond institutions

by Ahmad Yazdanian, University of Queensland

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Transition Risk Masterclass

How to capitalise on new energy, electrification and ESG reporting and avoid stranded assets.

by The Fifth Estate

TRANSITION RISK READS

When the CFO asks, ‘where do I even start?’ Joshua Martin on the reporting risks about to hit property

by Tina Perinotto

At Green Square, a public school breaks tradition and wins the community

Green Square Public School in Sydney, designed by BVN was a major departure from regular public schools. The project has won important architecture awards, but it’s also been celebrated for its challenge to tradition and the way it’s allowed a school and its community to blend and reinforce connections.

Arts and Letters

Ancestors, early settlers and the rise and fall of prime real estate

by Philip Bull, Civic Assessment

News from the Front Desk

On anger

by The Fifth Estate – our view

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Toby Kent on big ambitions for the Infrastructure Sustainability Council

by The Fifth Estate

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Cold on the couch? Here’s how to switch the furniture and save energy on reverse cycle aircon

Alan Pears, Jake Emmerling, Sara Vahaji, Nicola Willand and Trivess Moore, RMIT

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Town Hall Square: nice, but should try harder

by Mike Brown

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Flood risk? Here’s how governments, insurers and property professionals can help

Ransi Salika Athauda, Dulani Halvitigala, Rebecca Leshinsky, and Kusal Nanayakkara, RMIT

NEWS FROM THE FRONT (CONTINUED)

The Bathla collapse exposes the financial problems in housing targets

The collapse this week of one of Western Sydney’s largest housing development and construction groups brings another part of that delivery challenge sharply into view: finance.

by Nicky Morrison, Western Sydney University

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