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 [...]