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| UpdatedThe controversial $800 million West Village project in West End is officially approved, setting local member and Deputy Premier Jackie Trad up for a battle with the Greens for her seat at the next election.
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| UpdatedMoves to re-establish a Pacific Island Planners Association are underway, with a conference planned in Fiji this week.
Topics: housing, urban-development-and-planning, pacific, fiji
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A Curious Canberran has asked: Why are the streets in Canberra so dark, even when there are streetlights?
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, mount-stromlo-2611, act, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedHave you ever taken a drive past your childhood home and wondered what is inside now?
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, history, people
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Colin Barnett rejects suggestions the Forrestfield Airport Link, which runs through two of the Liberals' most vulnerable marginal electorates, is designed to help his party return to government at the March election.
Topics: elections, government-and-politics, urban-development-and-planning, forrestfield-6058, wa
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| UpdatedThey've seen crocs, racism, cyclones and hippies. Could the Lameroo Baths be back a century after they were built?
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As developers eye a key piece of Darwin coastal land, Indigenous and other stakeholder groups call on the Northern Territory Government to make its intentions clear.
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The City of Perth rejects a bid by bars and restaurants to expand alfresco service onto the footpaths of Northbridge this summer.
Topics: local-government, urban-development-and-planning, hospitality, northbridge-6003, perth-6000
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The city lane between Currie and Hindley streets is to be free of cars over summer weekends, as the City Council and State Government try to entice more people to enjoy the area's growing number of small bars.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, states-and-territories, local-government, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedThe preferred developer of land at Gillman in Adelaide's north-west fails to meet a financial deadline, forcing the South Australian Government to go back to the drawing board on the site's future.
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| UpdatedTransport Minister Stirling Hinchliffe attempts to gain the upper hand in the Queensland Rail timetable controversy by claiming services have improved this month even with a reduced frequency interim timetable.
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| UpdatedA proposal to redevelop the old Royal Adelaide Hospital into a tourism and residential hub is unlikely to ever get off the ground, the Adelaide's Park Lands Preservation Association predicts.
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| UpdatedA unique pedestrian crossing beside Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra wins a major infrastructure award, and aims to challenge the 'creepy' stigma associated with similar underpasses.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, community-and-society, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedTransport Minister Stirling Hinchliffe says he intends to stay in his job to "fix the mess" in Queensland Rail after a driver shortage means train services are reduced for the foreseeable future.
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| UpdatedProperty developers who illegally tore down the historic Corkman Irish pub in Carlton last week tell the Victorian Government they will rebuild it.
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| UpdatedThe Victorian Government is taking action to force property developers — who illegally tore down the historic Corkman Irish pub in Carlton last week — to restore it.
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| UpdatedThe Adelaide City Council budgets $3 million to develop a new parking app and smart parking technology that will help people find available on-street car parks in the CBD.
Topics: local-government, government-and-politics, urban-development-and-planning, community-and-society, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedRubble contaminated with asbestos is discovered in construction waste at a site at Cairnlea, in Melbourne's north-west, after a 159-year-old pub was illegally demolished in Carlton.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, community-and-society, states-and-territories, carlton-3053
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Queensland Rail formally stands aside the head of train service delivery in response to the driver crisis, while the State Opposition says Transport Minister Stirling Hinchliffe must fall on his sword.
Topics: rail-transport, public-sector, state-parliament, urban-development-and-planning, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedFarmers say they are being offered infertile plots as compensation for their land as India's Government pushes ahead with its 100 smart cities idea.
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| UpdatedDust levels in Port Hedland are so dangerous the West Australian Government has been advised to ban new housing, aged care facilities and childcare centres in the West End, a leaked report reveals.
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