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    The affordable housing crisis and a case for mixed tenure developments
    The affordable housing crisis and a case for mixed tenure developments

    Australia is in the middle of a serious housing crisis, with problems such as housing insecurity and homelessness demanding real solutions, and fast.


    Raising the hospitality stakes (& steaks) to greater heights
    Raising the hospitality stakes (& steaks) to greater heights

    After the savage hand the hospitality industry was dealt during Covid, you’d think all the big players would be declaring all bets are off – but no. The best in the game are doubling down, raising the stakes (and steaks) to greater heights.


    Reconciliation & architecture: Conversations about tension & creativity
    Reconciliation & architecture: Conversations about tension & creativity

    Tensions are integral to architecture, design and human relationships – post-conflict or not – and so is their resolution.


    How to create experiences to entice people back into the office
    How to create experiences to entice people back into the office

    If you build it, will they come? Not necessarily. It’s a lesson urban designers and city planners have learnt over many decades.


    Cost of living and affordability has come up again and again as a major concern of voters
    Cost of living and affordability has come up again and again as a major concern of voters

    Prices in Australia have sky-rocketed in recent years, with the ABS reporting that as of December 2021, the mean price of houses across the capital cities had risen by $44,000 to reach $920,100. Anxieties around homeownership and breaking into the housing market are high: according to the ABC’s Australia Talks survey, 65 percent of young Australians out of those surveyed did not believe that having their own home was a possibility.


    How 5G is changing smart cities in real-time
    How 5G is changing smart cities in real-time

    Smart cities are getting smarter by the day thanks to the increasing use of 5G.


    Nonda Katsalidis reflects on his love of post-industrial urban design
    Nonda Katsalidis reflects on his love of post-industrial urban design

    Nonda Katsalidis the Founding Partner of renowned architecture firm Fender Katsalidis, is celebrated for lighting up the Melbourne city skyline with landmark Australian buildings including the Eureka Tower and more recently Australia 108.


    Artificial intelligence may take your job. Some lessons from my grandmother
    Artificial intelligence may take your job. Some lessons from my grandmother

    Up to 40 per cent of all jobs now are tipped to be taken over by AI and robots in the next few decades. My grandmother has some advice on how to cope.


    New report highlights post-pandemic housing affordability pressures
    New report highlights post-pandemic housing affordability pressures

    A new report released from the UNSW Sydney and Australian Council of Social Services (ACOSS) Poverty and Inequality Partnership compares the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on housing and homelessness in Australia with seven other case study countries.


    The world may lose half its sandy beaches by 2100
    The world may lose half its sandy beaches by 2100

    For many coastal regions, sea-level rise is a looming crisis threatening our coastal society, livelihoods and coastal ecosystems. A new study, published in Nature Climate Change, has reported the world will lose almost half of its valuable sandy beaches by 2100 as the ocean moves landward with rising sea levels.


    UNSW and ACOSS partnership launches an international review of housing and homelessness policies
    UNSW and ACOSS partnership launches an international review of housing and homelessness policies

    A new report released today from the UNSW Sydney and Australian Council of Social Services (ACOSS) Poverty and Inequality Partnership compares the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on housing and homelessness in Australia with seven other case study countries.


    How Germany’s useful idiots helped destroy Ukraine and the Green energy movement
    How Germany’s useful idiots helped destroy Ukraine and the Green energy movement

    In September AD 9, the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, also known as the Varian Disaster (Clades Variana) by Roman historians took place at modern Kalkriese in Germany’s lower Saxony region that forever shaped Roman attitudes towards the Germans.


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