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Here’s how green infrastructure can easily be added to the urban planning toolkit

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

Urban planners are wary of green infrastructure, although they generally understand its benefits, as our recent Conversation article showed. But green infrastructure delivery can be achieved relatively simply through existing planning processes.

Green infrastructure refers to standalone and strategically networked environmental features designed...

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Ideas for Australia: To really reform the federation, you must build strong bipartisan support

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageRecent debates over federation reform confirm that the Turnbull government must map out a path and a plan.AAP/Lukas Coch

The Conversation has asked 20 academics to examine the big ideas facing Australia for the 2016 federal election and beyond. The 20-piece series will examine, among others, the state of democracy, health, education, environment,...

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In Conversation: Mark Scott on his decade in charge of the ABC

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imageMark Scott has altered the ABC in profound ways.AAP/Mick Tsikas

Mark Scott is to step down as the ABC’s managing director in May following ten years in charge of the national broadcaster. These years have been marked by technological change and significant disruption in Australia’s media landscape.

Scott recently caught up with...

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