The 80’s introduced us to the mullet, leg warmers, spandex and …. the NIMBY. Fast forward to the 2010’s and we’ve seen the battle in our suburbs reaching fever pitch,…
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Today, Saturday 11th July, is World Population Day. It seeks to “focus attention on the urgency and importance if population issues.” “The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is the world’s…
The developer vs community narrative continues on! This week, a sensationalist television report took aim at ‘rooming accommodation’. The false claims in promotion advertising stated ‘rooming accommodation’ as ‘units’ which…
Oh, that dreaded morning commute by car during peak hour. The traffic snarls, stopping and starting and slowly, very slowly. At least I could try and sip my all-important morning…
Fitness crazes, aren’t they iconic? Who can ever forget those vigorous 80’s aerobics workouts? Those outrageous Fluro-coloured outfits, overzealous instructors and Jane Fonda’s best-selling VHS home workout that supposedly toned…
The great ‘Toilet paper’ debacle of 2020 during the COVID-19 crisis, had many household members set out for Brisbane shops and supermarkets desperate to secure multi-packs or even a roll…
As we work towards reducing the gender pay gap in Australia, we are far from creating equal opportunities for women, as we expand the gap through other means. Celebrating Women…
From today, our housing choices will be limited in Brisbane. Today is the start of Exclusionary Zoning in Brisbane. What does that mean? It means that from today, the majority of…
YIMBY Queensland has lodged a submission to Brisbane City Council’s draft Sandgate district neighbourhood plan. The submission includes reasons for support, areas for improvement and recommendations to achieve best practice…
While global cities are responding to changing lifestyles, affordability and environmental challenges by adapting their zoning and housing policies, we seem to be moving in the opposite direction. We are…
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By Natalie Rayment It’s the century of the city, a decade of densification in an urban millennium. In the space of a New York Minute, cities are growing up fast. …
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By Natalie Rayment Sara Maxana posed a serious question to the world’s NIMBY practitioners when she spoke at the world’s first YIMBY conference in Boulder Colarado. Sara was telling her…
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