The Sydney Morning Herald14 November 2008 BUILDING McMansion-style suburbs on the outskirts of Sydney costs the economy and the environment twice as much as inner-city housing, according to research released this week. As the State Government prepares to make it …
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Australia is managing growth in urban centres reasonably well, and moves to streamline planning assessment processes and increase public participation in planning are having a positive impact, according to the latest results of a national survey of planning professionals conducted …
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Media ReleaseThe Hon Peter Garrett AM MP, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the ArtsThe Hon Kate Ellis MP, Member for Adelaide and Minister for Sport and Youth7 November 2008 The influential urban design of Adelaide – Australia’s first planned …
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CDATA Online is a new online tool which combines information on Australian society from the 2006 Census, with web graphing and mapping capability. CDATA Online allows you to create your own tables of Census data on a range of different …
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In the Energy Efficiency Policy Paper, The Climate Institute proposes an energy efficiency strategy which would create 40,000 jobs and save almost two dollars a day on household energy bills.
The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) has conducted an assessment of the impacts of climate change on Australia’s physical infrastructure. The study noted that most sectors of Australia’s physical infrastructure were reasonably well-placed to respond to climate …
Environment Victoria released a groundbreaking report today showing how Victoria’s emissions could be more than halved by 2020. The report Turning it around: climate solutions for Victoria was commissioned by Environment Victoria and completed by The Nous Group.
Dealing with the challenge of climate change calls us to our fullest humanity. It will require all the honesty, ingenuity, intelligence, and courage we can muster. And it can’t be left to the “experts” and the “leaders”. This is a …
The NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC) and the Department of Primary Industries (DPI) invite public submissions on A new Biodiversity Strategy for New South Wales – Discussion Paper. The release of this Discussion Paper is the first …
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The Sydney Morning Herald7 November 2008 THE pumping of water from the Shoalhaven River to top up dam supplies for the Sydney metropolitan area will be arrested for at least three years, and suggests that the city’s water crisis has …