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Assures lender of broadening tax net, privatising SOEs, expanding social safety nets, facilitating private sector.

With global shifts reconfiguring architectural briefs and setting new expectations every day, designers have an immense responsibility to deliver on clients’ evolving aspirations and design for greater social impact.

Country-centric design doesn’t seek to erase the post-settlement history of a site, but add to it. Demand is growing even with a skills crunch.

Government can learn a lot from the commission’s approach. Recognition is growing within the state government that good development – for housing and commercial purposes, in transport, or within cultural precincts – requires reckoning with the past by partnering with Indigenous communities to deliver the future city. This has led to policies such as the Connecting with Country Framework and the Aboriginal Land State Environmental Planning Policy.

Local Aboriginal Land Councils are some of the largest private landowners in NSW. Making it easier for them to develop their land will benefit Indigenous communities and the rest of the public.

Local Aboriginal community members have come together on the cultural lands of Brinja Yuin, at the site of...

Connecting with Country was brought in as a priority early in the masterplan development with fjmtstudio and Bangawarra working towards mutually positive outcomes. “Engaging with local First Nations communities and working with Bangawarra have been very positive parts of the design process for Blackwattle Bay. Bangawarra have an engaging way of revealing Country and sharing stories and significant elements that come from the place and how these might present opportunities for the renewal of th...

China was one of the architects of the United Nations and was the first signatory of the UN Charter in San Francisco in 1945.But it was only in October 1971, with the Chinese delegation led by Mr

China was one of the architects of the United Nations and was the first signatory of the UN Charter in San Francisco in 1945.But it was only in October 1971, with the Chinese delegation led by Mr