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When China cracked down on money leaving the country in 2017, some Sydney home prices fell 3%, while in other suburbs the restrictions had next to no impact.
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Last week we celebrated NSW Labor Premier Chris Minn's decision to not do something: abandoning replacement of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, aka Powerhouse, in Sydney’s Ultimo, in favour of a reno, and some small alts and adds.
Most of us find it very difficult to identify different species of eucalypt. You often hear people say they all look the same.
What would Goldilocks do if given the chance to pick the “just right” density for our cities? Depends who you ask.
The latest batch of laminates and solid surface materials to hit the market include some real winners for the hospitality sector. Now that the COVID-19 is largely behind us, it appears that one of the few positives the pandemic delivered was an increased emphasis on hygiene.
Rates of cycling are falling in Australia, a national report released today shows. More people started riding bikes early in the pandemic, but that hasn’t lasted. The percentages of people who cycle are lower now than in 2011.
The property market is New Zealand’s largest industry, adding NZ$41.2 billion a year to gross domestic product. But there is a debate over how we tax houses – particularly those sitting empty despite the ongoing housing crisis.
When it comes to interior walls and ceilings, there are a few things that all hospitality spaces have in common. Whether the setting in question is a café, a restaurant, a music venue, or a hotel, all require surfaces of this type that are non-stain, non-scruff, non-flammable, and acoustically sound.
With the nation feeling the pressures of a housing crisis, some believe the Australian government needs to ease housing demand by limiting international migration.
I've written 200 columns of criticism and commentary in the last three years, 175 longer pieces on Tuesdays and 25 collections of shorter snippets on Fridays. I’m combining the two now on Tuesdays: longer pieces of current commentary as well as absurdities that take my fancy. Enjoy.
Global warming threatens to have major impacts on Australia’s labour productivity, agriculture and tourism over coming decades, according to the Intergenerational Report, which makes climate change a major focus of its projections for the early 2060s.
Being scooped out of bed by Mum in the predawn exodus known as ‘going on holidays’ was always a sickening sign of things to come. For school holidays in those days (let’s say the 60s) meant being deposited in the back seat of Dad’s car (including, during one particularly bad holiday, in the almost windowless Chrysler Charger. Jesus) and driving like a bat out of hell for one or two days, straight, toward our much-loved Victorian based family.
