Sydney to become 24-hour city

NSW government has released its strategy detailing how it will extend the productivity of Sydney’s daytime economy into the night.

15 September, 2020

Sydney planning must focus on people, not cars

Urban planning in Sydney is prioritising cars above people, an academic says.

15 January, 2020

Report wants 20 per cent recycled water target

Sydney is lagging behind other metropolitan centres in water efficiency.

9 December, 2019

Melbourne outranks Sydney as a smart city

Melbourne has been ranked sixth in a global comparison of smart cities.

28 November, 2019

Melbourne, Sydney among world’s most liveable cities

A global index has put Melbourne ahead of Sydney as the most liveable city in Australia.

5 September, 2019

Council engages community for Sydney 2050

Lord Mayor Clover Moore says council has begun planning for a future Sydney.

3 June, 2019

Australia’s regional powerhouses named

Australia’s leading economic engines are in Victoria and NSW, according to a report on top-performing regional economies.

13 May, 2019

New framework guides governments on risks

Heatwaves pose the greatest threat to Sydney, followed by storms and bushfires, according to an international benchmark of cities’ capacity to handle shocks and stresses.

7 June, 2018

Leadership needed on Sydney and Melbourne’s growth, says Infrastructure Australia

A new report from Infrastructure Australia is calling for the Federal Government to take leadership in securing the global competitiveness of Australia’s two largest cities, Sydney and Melbourne. The report recommends that the Government establish a framework of incentives to improve the productivity, liveability and affordability of our largest cities. “Australia’s cities are the powerhouses […]

26 February, 2018

Cities Power Partnership doubles in size

The Cities Power Partnership (CPP), a consortium of Australian local government authorities to encourage the use of renewable energy, has increased its number of members to 70, exactly double the number that signed up when the group was formed in July 2017. Numbers are likely to grow even more after the next round of applications […]

28 January, 2018

Australian cities rank poorly in mobility

Australia’s major cities fare badly in a recently released global ranking of mobility – how well they allow their citizens to move around. The ranking of 100 global cities, the ‘Sustainable Cities Mobility Index 2017: Bold Moves’, was published by Arcadis, a major Dutch engineering and management consultancy. Each city is rated on three factors: […]

30 October, 2017

Sydney and Melbourne should be ‘polycentric cities’

As the population of Australia’s two largest cities push towards the 5 million mark, increasing attention is being paid to urban sprawl and the need for people to live closer to where they work. Many people in Australia say that Australia’s two megacities are getting too big, but they are minnows on the world scale. […]

23 October, 2017

We’re not in the 1950s anymore’: NSW greenfield housing plan ‘not sustainable,’ Institute says

Cautions expanding urban sprawl.

8 June, 2017

OPINION: Renters left behind in NSW housing reforms

Tenant body urges action.

5 June, 2017