This paper analyses the trends in planning governance concentrating on planning systems in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.

This paper compares and contrasts the activities of Commonwealth and State government agencies in relation to the management of public land. Context for this study is provided by the growing impact of neoliberalism on governments.

The global wave of neo-liberal reform processes unleashed in the 1980s have a considerable distance to run as we progressively refine our ideas about the boundaries between private and public action, improvements to collaboration between the two, and appropriate levels and kinds of regulation.

Drawing on two cases of large-scale residential property development in NSW (Warnervale Town Centre and ADI-St Marys), this paper situates residential development in relation to planning trajectories in NSW and orients this form towards hybrid forms of neoliberalism.

This paper, one of a series looking at global changes resulting from neoliberalism, supports the conclusion that these "forces" are largely due to specific initiatives or "reforms" in national and local policy resulting from changes in the prime economic paradigm.