The authors of the volume are a range of academics and past public servants from different jurisdictions, which allows previously hidden stories and processes of multi-level governance in Australia across different periods of government to be revealed and analysed for the first time.

The growth of Australia’s major cities is revealing a number of problems. For most of the post WWII period they grew in accordance with the form and structure of highly centralized cities.

This paper analyses the use of consolidation policies in Australian cities and the effects it has had on Australian households.

Professor Patrick Troy explores the many different approaches of the Commonwealth toward housing policy since the 1940s; from the post war reconstruction initiatives – to questioning the current trend towards densification. His big question is whether affordable housing is a basic right here in Australia – such as education is - and how has this...

This paper examines the history of public housing policy in Australia and how this has changed since the establishment of the Commonwealth Housing Commission.