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Average housing rents across Australia have increased by about 10% per year to February 2023 for new rentals, and just a bit lower than that for existing rentals.
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How can timber construction be sustainable when you have to cut down trees to source the material?
Last week, I examined the housing crisis in under 500 words. And what a mess it is, intractable and going backwards; each year we build less than the rising demand; any attempt to quickly solve it, by ramping up construction, is thwarted by the years it takes to develop housing schemes.
In 1985 photographer Rennie Ellis defined graffiti as “the result of someone’s urge to say something – to comment, inform, entertain, persuade, offend or simply to confirm his or her own existence here on earth”.
Recall that the Teal federal member for Wentworth (capturing Sydney’s wealthy eastern suburbs), Allegra Spender, penned two articles last year demanding a big lift in immigration, while also contradictorily demanding lower carbon emissions (see here and here):
When we were asked to survey people in Melbourne about their relationship with nature, little did we know our findings would reinforce a well-known cultural divide between those living north and south of the Yarra River. Residents of neighbourhoods to the south were overall less connected to nature.
Some say we should keep sport out of politics. But that seems to be almost impossible in the case of Tasmania.
Imagine a fleet of ageing factories operating in neighbourhoods across Australia.
Have we reached peak affordable-housing-debate in Australia? Or is it a case of that old mountaineering saying: the fog is thickest just before the summit?
Week 24/23: Housing crisis in 500 words / Vale Ian Stapleton / Tesla plates / Bookends: on Aussie housing / Signs off with the Truth
Australia’s energy transition is well under way. Some 3 million households have rooftop solar and sales of medium-sized electric cars are surging. But as we work towards fully electric households powered by renewable energy, have we overlooked a key enabling technology, the humble electric water heater?
For thousands of years ago, everyone from the ancient Egyptians to the Vikings used mud to keep their homes comfortable. Egyptians built their homes out of mud bricks, while Vikings plastered mud and straw in between the logs that made up their homes to keep the air and extreme temperatures out.
