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There are two things the new population strategy the Federal Government released on Friday gets right. First, it dismisses the concept of a specific population target and instead focusses on making Australia more resilient to change (I’ve discussed this before). Second, it points out that population size is not the sole cause of problems like [...]

The National Broadband Network will not drive decentralisation – it will not divert growth from Sydney and Melbourne to regional centres on a significant scale

Contrary to what seems to be a widely held belief, it is not an easy matter to make jobs simply materialise in places that have a shortage of employment. It is a difficult and complex business that involves much more than merely rezoning land for business use. However here’s an outrageous shortcut for developing Melbourne’s [...]