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National Affairs Are Victoria and the feds back on track? Tim Colebatch 10 May 2018 The prime minister and the Victorian premier are talking infrastructure after a long federal funding drought National Affairs Budgeting in boom time Tim Colebatch 2 May 2018 Cautious in parts, extravagant in others, the Victorian budget is built on a boom Essays & Reportage In the belly of the beast Tim Dunlop 16 January 2018 As Uber picks itself up after another legal blow — this time from the European Court of Justice — an ambivalent observer recalls a visit to the company’s Australian head… Books & Arts Getting somewhere or going nowhere? Either prospect is inviting Jane Goodall 15 January 2018 Television | Our reviewer is gripped by SBS’s venture into slow TV

National Affairs Less than frank and not quite fearless James Murphy 14 December 2015 The Victorian auditor-general’s criticism of the quality of bureaucratic advice on the contentious East West Link raises broader concerns about the public service, writes… International In Paris with the mayor of Byron Giles Parkinson 8 December 2015 Cities, regions and states are setting the pace on climate adaptation, reports Giles Parkinson from Paris National Affairs The new urban divide, and how to deal with it Jane-Frances Kelly & Paul Donegan 29 September 2015 State and local governments need to break down the emerging division between job-rich and job-poor suburbs in Australia’s major cities, write Jane-Frances Kelly and… National Affairs How to bridge the infrastructure gap Tim Colebatch 8 April 2015 With a dramatically rising population and falling infrastructure spending, the pressure for action is growing, writes Tim Colebatch

Correspondents When Chinese migrant workers go home 3 February 2011 It is the world’s largest annual migration of people – tens of millions of Chinese migrant workers reuniting with their families to celebrate the Lunar New Year.… National Affairs Paying for Australia’s infrastructure deficit Nicholas Gruen 23 November 2010 Public–private partnerships have turned out to be an expensive way of plugging infrastructure gaps, writes Nicholas Gruen. The evidence shows that governments need… Books & Arts Retreat to the backyard Peter Spearritt 7 October 2010 Peter Spearritt looks at how traffic engineers and apartment developers are degrading Australian cities National Affairs Sydney adrift Jim Colman 1 July 2010 Forty-one mayors and a state government in crisis means that no one is in charge of Sydney, writes Jim Colman