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Melbourne
Victoria State’s Booming Population and Busted Budget
By Grant Wyeth
Melbourne’s infrastructure needs and the state’s budget problems are clearly in grave tension. The abandonment of critical and necessary rail projects cannot be the solution.
Does Urban Design Matter for International Engagement?
By Grant Wyeth
Good design is a decentralized mechanism for international engagement. It is a soft power tool that can produce expanding effects.
Melbourne Protests and the Disinformation Wars in Australia
By Grant Wyeth
The violent protests prove that Australia shouldn’t be complacent about the effect of misinformation and disinformation on the country’s social stability.
Why is Australia Trying to Push Migrants Away from Sydney and Melbourne?
By Grant Wyeth
Canberra simply doesn’t understand the power and pull of urban spaces in the modern economy.
The Batman By-Election: The Carmichael Mine Matter
By Grant Wyeth
In inner-city Melbourne, an upcoming special election is focused 2,000 km away on a mine in Queensland.
Time for Australia to Embrace Urbanization
By Grant Wyeth
Opportunity in Australia is increasingly concentrated in two cities, leaving much of the country behind.
Urbanization and The Greens of Melbourne
By Grant Wyeth
The Greens have consolidated in Australia’s “cool” city, but hold a deep suspicion of the urban development that keeps it that way.
Does Australia Lack Commitment to Building Up Its Cities?
By Grant Wyeth
Victoria state received a disproportionately low amount of infrastructure funding in the latest budget.
Constructing the ‘Terrorist’ Identity
By Shafiul Huq
A Melbourne arrest “exemplifies the hysteria that permeates Australia’s anti-terror climate.”
Size Doesn’t Matter for Asia’s Influential Cities
By Anthony Fensom
Work in Asia, live in Australasia is the message from the latest global surveys of economic clout and livability.
BHP Billiton, Versus Papua New Guinea
Australian mining firm BHP Billiton and Papua New Guinea’s government have gone to battle over the Ok Tedi Mine.
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