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The coming end of middle class work

HAVING SUBSTANTIALLY SHRUNK the working class (and, therefore, the membership and influence of trade unions), industrial technology and software are

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Return — hut on a point

IT’S BEEN DECADES, I thought as the driver throttled back the engines to approach the jetty. Decades… and there was

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The scouting unit

IT WAS A BIG ANIMAL, ALRIGHT, though some distance off and, fortunately those new to the forward scouting unit thought,

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All that remains… ruins on a Tasmanian mountainside

ALL THAT REMAINS is a bit of stone work where the house once was. And a few pieces of iron

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A new forest rises in Randwick

The mission: Establish a food forest at the Permaculture Interpretive Garden, one of the components that make up the Randwick

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Sustainable Communities Plan for Chippendale—a submission

ON BEHALF of the Australian City Farms & Community Gardens Network, I prepared this submission to the City of Sydney’s

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In sydney, a new economics recognises its existence

SOMETHING SIGNIFICANT happened on Thursday 27 September 2012. How it unfolds over the next few years will determine whether it

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Local government version 2.0: from managerialism to platform

What could happen if councils made the change from managerialism to platform? From doing things for people to doing things

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My work in local government—a few thoughts

A reflection on my recent role working in local government and a validation for my approach to the work...

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A next-to-last project: a new community garden for Woolloomooloo

It was a different process getting the Bourke Street Park Community Garden through the social design and into the design

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