Late last year, to the alarm of many, a 12-storey apartment block in North Melbourne, built just five years prior, was approved for demolition. Just one example of the average 100,000 buildings that get approved for demolition in Australia each year, it demonstrates what can happen when a short-sighted approach to the urban planning of our cities takes hold the proliferation of low-grade buildings with short lifespans.
The Home Office is driving up the cost of housing asylum seekers in hotels because staff are competing internally with each other for the same contracts, according to a new report.