In this issue: The Future of Townsville; The Western Corridor: Leading the Way in Planning for Population Growth; Regional Services Investment Needs to Support Regionalisation Agenda; Cairns: Pinning its Hopes on the New Deal; and Regionalising Australia. The Future of Townsville Policy makers have often payed lip service to the potential for growth of northern [...]

In this issue: Doing Better for Young People; Suicidal Behaviour in Youth; Adolescent Angst and the Search for Transcendence; A Focus on Youth is Key to Tackling Homelessness   Doing Better for Young People There are varying perceptions of the situation of young people in contemporary society. Significantly, the perceptions of young people often differ [...]

In this issue: Hands Up All the ‘Not-So-Empty’ Nesters;   Pay Equity in the Community Services Sector;   Ignorance;   Is Politics Losing its Legitimacy?       Hands Up All the ‘Not-So-Empty’ Nesters; Affordable housing was once a cherished feature of the Australian way of life. But it is no longer so. A first home is now out of [...]

In this issue: Childhood Obesity: The Death of a Paradigm;  Four Pre-requisites for Preventing Sexual Violence and Abuse;   Local Knowledge is Not a Thing of the Past;   Talking About Planning in its Absence.    Childhood Obesity: The Death of a Paradigm Myth and legend may constitute a significant proportion of what passes for rational discussion of [...]