Just click on the hyperlinks to find out more details, and to register your interest in attending.  Some events are still in planning and full details will be available later in the year so please check back or register to receive our event alerts. 01.02.11    No place called home:  why secure, affordable housing is still just a [...]

The Tony Abbott/Julia Gillard town hall double billing at Red Hill last night, pulled together quickly and smoothly by The Courier-Mail, threw up many issues that had seemed to have disappeared from the election agenda in recent weeks. An audience of 200 supposedly undecided voters, chosed by Galaxy Research, proved they were well-informed and genuinely [...]

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: Hospital Management: Is Local (Always) Better?;   Let the Growth Games Begin;   Food, Energy and Urban Living;   Disadvantage in Queensland;   Conserving Conservatism.     Hospital Management: Is Local (Always) Better?; Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott are both eager to accentuate policy differences, but they share an enthusiasm for returning power to local communities in reforming [...]