Tag Archives: Population

The Strategic Week (no. 17, Friday 15 April 2016) – the week in governance, planning, infrastructure and transport

Posted on 18 April, 2016 by Alex

Top of the Week Lagging jobs growth in Western Sydney could result in transport chaos for the whole of Sydney By 2036 Sydney’s economy “will be strangled by the daily congestion and expense involved in moving people to their places … Continue reading →

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The Strategic Week (no. 15, Friday 1 April 2016) – the week in governance, planning, infrastructure and transport

Posted on 2 April, 2016 by Alex

Top of the Week NSW council mergers: mayors and councillors likely to be dismissed and made to apply for interim positions on merged councils … The NSW Minister for Local Government Paul Toole has revealed that merged councils are likely … Continue reading →

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Greater Macarthur Land Release – many questions but few answers

Posted on 24 September, 2015 by Alex

The recent announcement by the State Government of the release of 7,700-hectares of land south of Campbelltown at Menangle Park, Mount Gilead and Wilton Junction with up to 35,000 new homes is surprisingly short on detail. A five-page preliminary land … Continue reading →

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You call that an amalgamation? THIS is an amalgamation!

Posted on 27 January, 2011 by Alex

Recently I was involved in a project undertaken by the Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government, studying examples of amalgamations and other forms of council consolidation across Australia and New Zealand. The largest amalgamation we looked had around 320,000 … Continue reading →

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Sydney, population growth – and the rise of “mega-councils” (part 5 – conclusions)

Posted on 14 September, 2010 by Alex

In the first four posts in this series I looked at the distribution of Sydney’s forecast population growth across local government areas and in particular the projected increase in the number of councils with populations over 200,000, from two in … Continue reading →

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Sydney, population growth – and the rise of “mega-councils” (part 4)

Posted on 13 September, 2010 by Alex

In this post I’ll try to put the “mega-councils” story in the broader context of Sydney’s forecast population growth by looking at population increases growth rates rather than the resulting  size of the councils themselves, though obviously there is a … Continue reading →

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Sydney, population growth – and the rise of “mega-councils” (part 3 – Greater Western Sydney)

Posted on 29 July, 2010 by Alex

Given the current interest in population growth, in the third of my articles I’ll take a look at forecast population growth in Greater Western Sydney councils. To reiterate, the projections I’m discussing are based on forecasts released by the NSW … Continue reading →

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Sydney, population growth – and the rise of “mega-councils” (part 2)

Posted on 21 July, 2010 by Alex

Given the current obvious interest in “Big Australia”, big cities and all things to do with population I thought I’d take a further look at the so-called “mega-councils” of Sydney’s future that I identified in my last post. To reiterate, … Continue reading →

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Sydney, population growth – and the rise of “mega-councils”

Posted on 20 July, 2010 by Alex

If you were told that by 2036 the number of councils in Sydney with populations of more than 200,000 would be seven times the number today, you might be forgiven for thinking that these forecasts were based on some fairly … Continue reading →

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How is NSW growing? Part 3: Sydney’s employment growth 1996 to 2006

Posted on 21 July, 2009 by Alex

In my last post I looked at the snapshot of Sydney’s 33 largest employment centres provided by the NSW Transport Data Centre (TDC) in its Employment and Commuting in Sydney’s Centres, 1996 – 2006, based on the Metropolitan Strategy centres … Continue reading →

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