Sunday, October 26, 2025
If “business as usual” is so utterly broken, why do we keep doing it?
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“Business as usual is broken” I’ll say to someone. Their head nods in furious agreement. Whether that head belongs to a property industr...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025
How many hospitals will an extra 1 million people need?
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A million people generate a lot of demand for things. Hospitals included. In Australia, we need on average 1 hospital bed for every 270 peop...
Monday, August 25, 2025
Casino Royale? Flushed?
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The much-hyped Queens Wharf Casino project originally promised to lure thousands of high spending Asian tourists (and gamblers) to Brisban...
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Thursday, July 17, 2025
Can we solve Australia’s city problem? (Part two)
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In the previous article I observed that s ome 70% of Australians live in our 8 largest cities. By comparison, in the USA their 10 largest ...
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Sunday, June 22, 2025
Australia: we have a city problem! (Part one)
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Australia’s large cities are facing extraordinary population growth pressure, with symptoms manifesting themselves in everything from shorta...
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Monday, May 5, 2025
Winning the suburbs is the key to winning elections.
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There’s a great line from the comedy show Kath & Kim, where the very suburban Kim expresses her desire to be like affluent city people...
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Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Slow down!
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Many in the development community cite population growth as a necessary ingredient for market health. To some extent, that’s true – except w...
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