Regional universities are poised to play a pivotal role as the Australian government rolls out more City Deals. These are based on an urban development model imported from the United Kingdom.

In the UK and Europe, City Deals (including smaller cities and their regions), Growth Deals (outside urban areas), and Smart Specialisations are...

No sooner is one complicated financing idea from the government batted down, than another one pops up. We can expect more of them, now that the federal budget has established a new Infrastructure and Project Financing Agency.

We’ll get “innovative” financing options for everything from the massive Inland Rail project, down to a bo...

Words like worm, trojan horse and zombie may seem like the stuff of science fiction, but they’re part of the reality of life online.

Now that we communicate, work and entertain ourselves on the internet, these familiar terms start to take on new meaning....