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Organisation

Curtin University

Report

The financing of residential development in Australia


Summary: This project provided policy-makers with an understanding of the complexity of property finance, its role in the supply of all housing types and tenures and the impact of the Global Financial Crisis on property lending. Description The researchers interviewed property developers and financiers in Western Australia, New South Wales and Victoria who were involved...
Report

Policy as punishment: asylum seekers in the community without the right to work


This research paper outlines the experiences of asylum seekers who arrived to Australia by boat and are living in the Australian community without the right to work and with only minimal financial support.
Submission

Framework for land value capture from investments in transit in car-dependent cities


Many car-dependent cities have major transit projects stuck in financial and economic assessment due to inadequate links between land use, transport, and funding. This has left most urban transport networks underfunded and requiring significant government support. During this widening transit funding gap, there has been an international increase in demand on transit systems, which is...
Conference paper

Climate justice in the Australian city


This paper addresses critical gaps in existing research by taking a ‘practice approach’ to how we might better support climate justice at the metropolitan scale in Australia.
Report

Underemployment among mature age workers in Australia


This paper explores the patterns of underemployment for mature aged workers in Australia, and seeks in particular to determine the principal factors that contribute to a heightened risk of underemployment. Abstract Underemployment is a serious and pervasive problem both in terms of its impact on those individuals affected, and for the economy as a whole...