AUSTRALIAN Minister for Regional Development Fiona Nash last week launched the Coalition Government's vision statement for rural, regional and remote Australia: 'Regions 2030: Unlocking Opportunity'.
THE 2017-18 Federal Budget has established the Infrastructure and Project Financing Agency to help shape and assess financing options for major infrastructure.
FOLLOWING an upwardly revised increase of 8.9 per cent in February, the total number of new dwellings approved in March decreased by 13.4 per cent, in seasonally adjusted terms, according to the latest figures released last week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
THE Federal Budget cuts real infrastructure by $7.4 billion compared to the 10 year average – and sees Commonwealth funding at its lowest level since the early 2000s – according to Infrastructure Partnerships Australia (IPA).
A SCHEME to help first home buyers bridge the deposit gap and a suite of measures to address housing supply are at the centre of the Property Council's newly-released 'Fixing Housing Affordability' plan, which details ten key actions to help address housing affordability.
THE Australian Government is building a National Cities Performance Framework to measure improvements in the nation's largest cities, with industry leaders, researchers and non-government organisations invited to help develop the Framework.
THE Australian Government has embarked on its decentralisation program, Minister for Regional Development and Deputy Leader of the Nationals Fiona Nash announced at the National Press Club last week.
FOLLOWING a revised increase of 2.2 per cent in January, the total number of new dwellings approved in February increased by 8.3 per cent, in seasonally adjusted terms, according to the latest figures released last week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
OVER 57,000 new lots were released in greenfield communities in the major capitals, the highest number in the eight year history of the National Land Survey Program (NLSP), and over 53,000 lots were sold, according to the 2017 State of the Land report.
STATE governments should be wary of following the Australian Government's advice to introduce 'value capture' schemes to fund major new transport projects, according to a new Grattan Institute report.
AUSTRALIA is experiencing its fastest growth in Net Overseas Migration (NOM) in four years, according to the latest figures released last week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
WITH housing affordability at the top of the political agenda at both a state and national level, the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) has called on the Federal Government to acknowledge that tackling housing affordability is much more than a 'supply issue'.
FOLLOWING a downwardly revised decrease of 2.5 per cent in December, the total number of new dwellings approved in January increased by 1.8 per cent, in seasonally adjusted terms, according to the latest figures released last week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
