You’d be forgiven for asking if living in some parts of New South Wales is actually good for your health. In the past 18 months Australia’s most populous state has been challenged like never before. Unprecedented bushfires, a global pandemic and recent flooding have posed huge questions, which sit alongside other 21st-century challenges such as increasing loneliness, rising levels of obesity and unequal access to affordable, healthy food options.
Research has shown where you live shapes how easy it is to make social connections, keep physically active, enjoy green spaces and buy healthy food. The evidence is clear. But how do we create places that help promote good health and well-being for all?
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Accelerated Infrastructure Fund must continue in upcoming NSW Budget
The Property Council of Australia has called on the NSW Government to continue financial support for the Accelerated Infrastructure Fund (AIF) in the upcoming NSW Budget to deliver vital local infrastructure to growing communities in Sydney’s North West.
“The Accelerated Infrastructure Fund is a critical plank in ensuring growing communities in the North West get the local roads, sporting fields and community infrastructure needed to support an expanded population base,” the Property Council’s Western Sydney Regional Director Ross Grove said today.
Today the NSW Government announced that construction was already underway on all 14 projects in The Hills and Blacktown that received a share of $145 million in funding from the Government and local councils – and this was due to the funding support provided by the Accelerated Infrastructure Fund.
(ROB MUNRO / iNFOnews.ca) It might be the booming economy or how accessible Kelowna Airport is to city residents. Or it just might be Okanagan Lake, ski hills and golf courses. Or it could be all these things that ranked Kelowna as the number two most liveable city in Canada, outside major metropolitan areas like Vancouver or Toronto. The ranking is based on Rates.ca s first annual “liveability” survey and is called “Urban Flight: Canada’s Top Places to Move to if You re Trying to Escape the City.” Canada has some incredible hidden gems if you re relocating for a change in lifestyle; places people seldom think about, Robert McLister, mortgage editor for Rates.ca, wrote on the company’s website. We set out to discover which of these areas have the best combination of affordability, economic momentum and liveability.
Abstract
This article builds on Butlers’ concept of a ‘liveable life’ that pays attention to social power as constitutive of the psyche. I offer the concept of driving retirement melancholia to better understand why the future loss of a driving licence is often spoken of as living death. The article draws on qualitative fieldwork conducted in 2019 with drivers aged 65 years of age and over in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. I argue that retirement from driving is a form of social melancholia or blocked grief. The argument is that families, medical practitioners and transport authorities in car dominated western societies need to better understand the imagined loss of driving as constituting an ungrieveable and unliveable life.
Sunshine Coast Council
Ever wondered what happens to the rainwater that drains from your roof, driveway and yard once it leaves your property?
It’s likely that it enters Sunshine Coast Council’s extensive stormwater network, captured by a series of drains and is carried through underground pipes, before being discharged into local waterways draining to the ocean.
Environment and Liveability Portfolio Councillor Maria Suarez said council was developing its first Stormwater Management Strategy (SMS) and was now seeking community input, because everyone in the region has a role to play to manage stormwater effectively.
“Stormwater management protects our waterways from pollutants and increased or concentrated water flow, uses rainwater and stormwater as a resource and manages stormwater flood risk for the wellbeing and resilience of our communities,” Cr Suarez said.