Planning policies: circle not squared yet
Urban planning is one of the more wicked problems facing state politicians. To caricature, politically powerful groups a) dislike urban sprawl, c) want to develop stuff for sale, d) want affordable housing, and most significantly, e) intensely oppose development anywhere [...]
All clear in McGurk inquiry
As Imre Salusinszky noted a few days ago, the McGurk inquiry into planning decisions made for land in the Badgery’s Creek area of western Sydney has found that, ‘no NSW Labor politician or government official has acted corruptly.’ In handing [...]
NUMBYism
The world’s first clean coal power station (discussed earlier here on LP) has been operating for a little while now. It’s working fine – except for one little problem. All the CO2 is still ending up in the atmosphere. As [...]
Planning straw men
As a VFL/AFL footballer, he “boasted neither elegance nor athleticism, but Justin Madden was one of the most supremely effective ruckmen of recent times”. As a minister in the Bracks and Brumby Labor governments, he’s arguably made one of the [...]
Jørn Utzon passes
ABC News reports that the architect of the Sydney Opera House died of a heart attack in his sleep at age 90. Whatever else he did in his long career – as usual, the Wikipedia has more – it’s almost [...]
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