This report examines how neurodivergent adults experience Sydney’s public open spaces and identifies environmental factors that shape participation. Drawing on lived‑experience insights, it highlights how sensory load, predictability, legibility and supportive amenities influence comfort and inclusion. The findings provide practical guidance for strengthening urban policy, planning and design.

Policymakers need to recognise the importance of privately owned social infrastructure and the willingness of many in the private sector to deliver community space. By broadening our understanding of the agents responsible for social infrastructure and highlighting creative approaches to its provision, the report's authors hope to encourage a new model of social infrastructure delivery...

In this article the author considers how we might advance policy design to regulate the use of robots and asks what research techniques can be used to document public reactions to, and interactions with, robots in public spaces in Australia.

This research draws on a range of different evidence sources. To understand the powers and duties that local authorities hold to deliver clean air, researchers have undertaken a systematic desk-based review, interviewed a range of local government officers and councillors, and engaged with stakeholders with expert knowledge of local government and air quality.

This project focuses on finding new evidence and using it to assist community partners and policy-makers to activate social connection in practical ways. It looks particularly at outer-metropolitan suburbs with diverse populations and ongoing rapid growth.