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Australian cities are crying out for better planning, but the research funding is missing

  • Written by: Dorina Pojani, Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, The University of Queensland
Australian cities are crying out for better planning, but the research funding is missingThe Urban Planning Exhibition Centre in Shanghai – good planning is immensely valuable.Jordiferrer/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-NC

Although 90% of our population lives in cities, Australia lacks a national urban policy and our government provides insufficient funding for urban sustainability projects.

Good urban planning is important for a number...

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Grattan on Friday: The Nationals have been paralysed by the extraordinary and unpredictable Joyce situation

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

You can’t help loving how the boy from Belgium is relishing his chance to walk in prime ministerial shoes, even if they’re borrowed ones and he can occupy them only briefly.

Mathias Cormann, whose glory moment has been picked up back in his home country, swarms over the media at any available opportunity, so it’s not surprising...

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Joyce hits back over sexual harassment claim as Nationals prepare to discuss leadership

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce is under intense new pressure following a call from backbencher Andrew Broad for him to stand down and an allegation that he sexually harassed a woman.

Broad said he would raise the leadership issue at Monday’s party meeting, saying that Joyce’s going to the backbench would be in the best interests of...

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Essays On Air: On the Sydney Mardi Gras march of 1978

  • Written by: Mark Gillespie, English for Academic Purposes Specialist, Anthropologist, Centre for English Teaching, University of Sydney
Essays On Air: On the Sydney Mardi Gras march of 1978Marchers at the 1978 Mardi Gras parade. Sally Colechin/The Pride History Group, Author provided

On a cold Saturday night in Sydney on June 24, 1978, a number of gay men, lesbians and transgender people marched into the pages of Australian social history. I was one of them.

On today’s episode of Essays On Air, the audio version of The...

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