This report is designed to assist policymakers, policy influentials and the lay public to understand the issues around rent regulation and how to design and implement regulation. It provides a case study of the Victorian rental system to look at trends in rents and what the data could reveal about likely outcomes from implementation of...

The main recommendation for the building of the Macquarie Point multipurpose stadium in Hobart, Tasmania is that the stadium should not proceed. The report lists the main problems as the size, location and geographical features of the site which would impact the spatial and landscape character, urban form and historic cultural heritage of Hobart.

This report addresses the challenge that low traffic volumes in remote and regional areas make it difficult for traditional cost-benefit analysis methods to support road improvements in these areas in line with community expectations and government policy objectives. It develops ways to improve the efficiency, equity and transparency of decision-making for road funding in these...

An analysis of 17 community consultation demographics across seven metropolitan local councils in Melbourne, Victoria. This research note tests a simple hypothesis: that Victorian local council consultations are biased toward older homeowners. It finds that the community consultation models tend to favour the time-rich (property owners and older residents) over the time-poor (renters and younger...

This report examines the way in which housing tax concessions are undermining affordability in Australia, by subsidising the removal of homes from the long-term rental market altogether. The report estimates the cost in foregone revenue to the Federal Budget of negative gearing deductions claimed on short-stay investment properties. The report argues that this policy failure...