Through an examination of what is known about food flows in the Australian Capital Region, this paper argues that current ways of understanding and defining food security should be shifted and expanded to account for numerous factors that are presently neglected.

The paper discusses the extent of a key worker housing affordability issue for key workers in the City of Melbourne. The paper aims to determine whether the key worker housing affordability issue is a valid concern for key worker employers in the City of Melbourne.

This paper reports on findings from focus groups with inner-city children 9-12 years conducted as part of the Kids in the City project. As the children talk about their lives, and moving and playing around neighbourhood streets, many describe distress and discomfort as they confront the likes of homelessness, drunkenness, massage parlours and sex shops.

Using the Tonsley Redevelopment Project as a new case study, this paper seeks to contribute to the current discussion on urban renewal and the making of competitive cities through a critical examination of the role of ‘innovation clusters’ and the intersection of place and productive processes as the basis to renewal strategy.

As part of new plans to build greater urban resilience, local food security policies are emerging in some towns and cities. This paper reviews these processes of local food policy development in Australia, compares them with prominent examples from other similar countries and explores the barriers to further policy development and effective implementation.