Airports
Conference paper
Airports as development generators: A reconnaissance of employment trends in the Sydney airport region 1996–2011
Drawing on census data for the period 1996-2011, and working at three main spatial scales (airport, surrounding region, and global economic corridor), this paper explores employment trends in Sydney where the aerotropolis theory posits there would be evidence of significant airport-related development.
Submission
Submission to Inquiry into the use of ‘fly-in, fly-out’ (FIFO) workforce practices in regional Australia
Busselton Chamber of Commerce and Industry outlines some positive impacts of FIFO workers, including the reemergence of the Busselton Regional Airport.
Draft report
Economic regulation of airport services
This briefing paper investigates whether or not airport services need further economic regulation.
Conference paper
Commercial development on Australian airports: planning issues and debates through the lens of the National Aviation Policy Review
This paper analyses nearly 200 submissions to the National Aviation Policy Review addressing nonaeronautical activities on federally leased airport land, and focuses specifically on the problematic issue of commercial airport enterprises.
Report
Towards a national aviation policy statement
A submission to the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government in relation to Airport Planning and Development. This report offers a number of summary ideas for new approaches to airport area development and governance that would better integrate airport planning into the broader land use and statutory planning framework within which they...