FOLLOWING a decrease of 1.8 per cent in August, the total number of new dwellings approved in September decreased by 8.7 per cent, in seasonally adjusted terms, according to the latest figures released last week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
AUSTRALIAN governments spent $28 billion more on transport infrastructure over the past 15 years than they told taxpayers they would spend, according to a new Grattan Institute report.
A MAJOR new report by Infrastructure Partnerships Australia, with financial modelling by KPMG, released at the National Press Club last week, outlines a plan to fix Australia's struggling public housing system by providing more money and more places for vulnerable households.
FOLLOWING an increase of 12.0 per cent in July, the total number of new dwellings approved in August decreased by 1.8 per cent, in seasonally adjusted terms, according to the latest figures released last week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
THE Australian Government will invest more than $126 million into 67 successful projects worth a total of $462 million, under the third and final round of the National Stronger Regions Fund, Regional Development Minister Fiona Nash announced last week.
INFRASTRUCTURE Australia, the nation's independent infrastructure advisor, last week updated its Infrastructure Priority List to include four additional projects that address Australia's current infrastructure gaps and meet the challenges of the future.
VICTORIA'S population has hit 6 million, according to figures released last week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), with a growth rate of 1.9 per cent or an additional 114,900 people in the year ending 31 March 2016.
INFRASTRUCTURE Australia, the nation's independent infrastructure advisor, last week announced it has updated its Infrastructure Priority List following the positive assessment of four business cases.
AUSTRALIA is becoming an increasingly unhealthy society, with almost two in three Australian adults now overweight or obese, and almost one in five experiencing some form of mental illness every year, according to the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA).
THE release of Transurban's road user study at Infrastructure Partnerships Australia's annual Partnerships symposium confirms the need for a detailed national process to fix transport, according to the peak body for the nation's infrastructure sector.
FOLLOWING a revised decrease of 5.2 per cent in May, the total number of new dwellings approved in June decreased by 2.9 per cent, in seasonally adjusted terms, according to the latest figures released this week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
FOLLOWING a revised increase of 3.3 per cent in April, the total number of new dwellings approved in May decreased by 5.2 per cent, in seasonally adjusted terms, according to the latest figures released last week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
THE Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) last month released the 2016-17 State of the Regions report, which finds a widening gap in employment rates, household incomes and productivity between and within Australia's regions and cities.
