Planning & policy

Infrastructure Australia’s narrow remit is distorting cities

by —February 9, 2022

Cahill Expressway, Sydney. Photo: Corey Farwell

Australia’s independent infrastructure advisory body is fixated on transport projects. That’s bad news for good urban planning.

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Agriculture & environment

Kudzilla: An ethnobotanical monster myth

by —October 19, 2021

A tiny spider builds its web in the author's unmowed yard. Image: Penny Dunstan
Environment

Unmowing

by —October 12, 2021

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