This paper examines the expanding purposes for which land is compulsorily acquired in Australia, and the evolving complexities in providing parity of value to dispossessed parties. Cases are examined in identifying the emerging purposes for land is acquired and a survey is used in exploring the impact of the types of acquisitions which encompass the...

This paper critically examines the response of current strategies to the notion of sustainability and multi-functionality and the role of peri-urban land, with particular focus on agricultural production. This paper offers an analysis of Australian metropolitan planning and comments on the treatment of peri-urban land as an integral component of the notion of sustainable and...

This paper suggests that the implementation of a supplementary spatial planning – a national spatial plan – may assist to evenly distribute wealth, services and subsequently population around the country.

This paper will begin to construct an argument for a more inclusive, adaptive and interdisciplinary planning process that realigns contemporary planning theory with practice.

Australian cities have a history of state-supported major sporting stadiums. This has intensified into the neo-liberal era dating from the 1980s with state funding of major stadium development, despite the greatly increased professionalization of the various sporting codes using the stadiums and the presumable scope for funding of stadium infrastructure by these codes. The last...