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Australia needs to switch to electric cars to cut carbon emissions, but we also need to ensure we don’t become more dependent on cars as we emerge

A plan to help minimise the impacts of acute shocks and chronic stresses on our residents, community and environment was endorsed at last night’s

Published July 9, 2021, 11:30 AM Digital cities outside Metro Manila aim to create over a hundred thousand local jobs by 2025. So far, of the 31 cities launched under the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT)’s Digital Cities Program, nine have completed their five-year roadmaps. 18062 These include Balanga, Batangas, General Santos, Iligan, Legazpi, Puerto Proncesa, Taytay Rizal, Tuguegarao, and Zamboanga. The DICT’s Digital Cities Program identified 25 locations and 31 cities as ideal sites for information technology business process management (IT-BPM) companie...

Governments need to drive a harder bargain on transport megaprojects Taxpayers end up paying too much for major road and rail projects in Australia because governments don’t drive a hard bargain on contracts with the big construction firms, according to a new Grattan Institute report. Megabang for megabucks: driving a harder bargain on megaprojects calls on governments to stop worrying about the profitability of the industry and start delivering quality services at the lowest long-term cost to the community. Australia’s transport infrastructure costs are above the global average, and ther...

Brief Analysis Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 repeats old mistakes of relying heavily on new megaprojects and ignoring regional advantages in research and education. When Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman gave an update on Vision 2030 in an interview last month, his optimism was substantially more muted than at its unveiling five years ago. This is hardly surprising to anybody who is familiar with the Gulf’s Visions. Vision 2030 is hardly the kingdom’s first attempt at economic transition, nor is it in any way unique in the region. Every GCC member country has a plan how to wean its econo...