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Labor’s new National Urban Policy is welcome. But will it be transformative?

  • Written by Robert Freestone, Professor of Planning, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney

In March 2021, then-Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese declared “cities policy has been one of the abiding passions of my time in public life”. He promised a new national urban policy framework if Labor was elected.

That moment has (almost) arrived with the release of a draft National Urban Policy.

The policy aims to inject an...

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