To find out more about the quality of rental properties in Victoria, VCOSS surveyed 116 properties on the rental market across metropolitan Melbourne and Geelong.

The ongoing struggle over the future of the Brunswick Terminal Station (BTS) offers some interesting lessons for urban planning and local governance in Australia today, writes Carolyn Whitzman.

Population growth in the peri-urban areas to the north of Melbourne has been significant over the past two decades. This paper uses research establishing the patterns and level of new housing development in these areas to explore processes of planning, housing development and increased community risk in these regions.

The synthesis presented here refers to infill mapping in different local government areas in the Middle and Outer regions of the Melbourne Metropolitan Area (MMA), including Monash, Knox, Casey, and Whittlesea local government areas.

Using Melbourne as a case study and drawing from an international literature, this paper reviews the purposes of urban growth boundaries and their potential impacts on land prices.