This paper considers a variety of definitions and classifications of sex industry premises within NSW. In order to regulate effectively in the future, policy makers need to define activities accurately to reduce ambiguity and minimise problems in a highly contentious industry.

This paper briefly discusses the concept of death and burial practice in Australia. It defines green burials and uses a case study to showcase a NSW green burial site currently in operation. The paper argues that planning authorities and planners face real challenges with land availability for cemeteries and social practice around this burial method.

Despite some consensus across key texts in planning history that non-experts have influenced aspects of urban governance, politics and urban environmentalism, the impact of non-experts on planning― including planning policy and planning law― remains unspecified. Taking as its case planning reform in NSW in the late 1970s, this paper aims to address this gap.

This paper deals with three aspects of flood hazards that are crucial for an understanding their interactions with land use planning.

Flood management has always been a challenge, but planning for and adapting to floods in northern Victoria will only prove more problematic if long-term trends of forecasted drought are realised.