Understanding the patterns and impacts of population migrations within Australia is key for governments and providers of housing, infrastructure and services to be able to plan where they will prioritise resources. This research critically assesses the population projection methods available to Australian decision-makers and planners. A significant finding is that because different users need different...

This research examines how population migration to particular suburbs or regions across Australia affects house prices in different suburbs and regions. Besides targeting policies that provide financial support for households experiencing housing stress in regional areas, policy-makers should be aware that policies focused on particular regions can have unintended consequences for nearby regions.

This research studies the extent and patterns of spatial segregation by income bands and levels of neighbourhood deprivation across Australia’s five largest capital cities - Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth.

This paper investigates the question of how urbanisation and localisation economies interact over the 30 largest Australian Significant Urban Areas.

This research tests the usefulness of new datasets to inform the forward planning of social and community infrastructure in rapidly growing areas of Australian cities. It focusses on greenfield areas of Sydney, Brisbane, and Perth to demonstrate data sources and methods that can be replicated in other locations.