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Australia's own pioneering transport routes lie unsung and unused, and that presents an opportunity.
by John O'Donnell - 25/03/2026
If these projects made sense, politicians would invest their own money. Instead, taxpayers are left footing the bill.
by Brendan O'Reilly - 19/03/2026 - 13 comments
What happens to cities when office work disappears? AI and demography are already forcing an answer.
by Ross Elliott - 19/03/2026 - 1 comment
No refineries, no fuel. How does California sustain America's military and ports as local supply disappears?
by Ronald Stein and Mike Umbro - 18/03/2026 - 1 comment
Leaving Albanese as a world outlier, Carney has stymied Canada’s population growth, to ease the housing pain. Sigh, his Australian visit was all framed around 'middle powers' vs Trump.
by Stephen Saunders - 13/03/2026 - 3 comments
What if fixing housing wasn’t about more planners or smarter rules - but ruthless simplification? Planning law meets Elon Musk.
by Ross Elliott - 11/02/2026
Renters fear the next email. Investors fear the long run. New evidence suggests they’re trapped by the same broken housing structure and points to a different way forward.
by Andrew Walton - 6/02/2026 - 5 comments
PM Albanese we have a fabulous country that is in a financially difficult time and we just need you to focus on what we have.
by Stuart Ballantyne - 3/02/2026 - 5 comments
Albanese’s responses to Bondi hew to a script. Unpopular mass migration must continue – at any cost. Citizens must be socially 'cohesive' - else we’re racist.
by Stephen Saunders - 30/01/2026 - 4 comments
On its triennial immigration-stats, Albanese Australia is a radical outlier not the cautious reformer of embedded media-narrative. Not even Bondi can budge him much.
by Stephen Saunders - 30/12/2025 - 6 comments
Why do planners chase rail fantasies when buses already carry twice the passengers? Southeast Queensland’s real transit workhorse is on the road, not rails.
by Ross Elliott - 4/12/2025 - 5 comments
The Crisafulli government’s roadmap is a welcome correction — more reliable and less reckless than Labor’s plan - but electricity won’t be getting any cheaper.
by Graham Young - 30/10/2025 - 14 comments

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