Phil Day outlines a proposal to collect taxes on increases in property values deriving from the 'betterment' brought about by government decisions, and applying these funds to public policy expenditure.

Public museums are a critical element of the public sphere – the domain that links and affirms us all as citizens, irrespective of our individual traits, our birthplace, our place of residence, our religion, our economic status etc. But according to Brendan Gleeson, assessment, the public sphere in our suburban regions is not in good...

Brendan Gleeson, Toni Darbas, Laurel Johnson and Suzanne Lawson develop an operational framework for describing and analysing metropolitan plans. The framework aims to provide a basis for describing and analysing current metropolitan plans with reference to key Australian and overseas debates about urban strategic planning, and provide an operational structure for the formulation of a...

Brendan Gleeson outlines the major strategic challenges facing Queensland Transport deriving from contemporary patterns of urbanisation. He looks at the metropolitan context for strategic transport policy, principally the Southeast Queensland conurbation, exploring the physical, governance and socio-political issues to be confronted.

In a paper prepared for the Democratic Audit of Australia, Graeme Orr of Griffith University's Law School argues that one significant group of Australian citizens is in large part excluded from voting. They are persons under sentence of imprisonment. The paper questions the various grounds advanced for this exclusion. It also notes the recent decision...