Without innovation in all five building phases, the industry won’t have the capacity to meet market demands or to deliver the social and affordable housing the government is promising.
The budget’s back in surplus after 15 years, briefly, and there are measures to ease cost-of-living pressures, but can it tame inflation?
Cities are starting to restore natural systems such as waterways, wetlands and bushland. But restoration on the scale these systems need to function properly calls for a rethink of urban planning.
Electricity should be a main focus, but big improvements are also needed in transport, industry, agriculture and buildings.
Can architecture be a tool for acknowledging Australia’s original inhabitants?
The controversial HomeBuilder scheme could come with a big upside – making old homes more energy-efficient.
Around 6000 Australians aged under 65 live in nursing homes, cut off from their families and peers, with inadequate support for their disabilities.
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