Evaluating the impacts of workfare.

Photo: Pixabay/suju-foto Natural landscapes are continually transformed to make room for agricultural and urban developments – often at the expense of important habitats and species. That’s why, to avoid unnecessary species extinctions, it’s crucial to know which habitats to protect. In a recent paper we studied how changes to the landscape affected […]

The Victorian Government has announced that it plans to abolish transfer duty on sales of commercial and industrial properties. The proposed measures will not apply to residential premises. We have summarised the proposal and some initial questions below. The Proposal At present, there is no draft legislation and there is […]

Post-pandemic, with some level of remote work here to stay, the global real estate industry is tracking an unprecedented reassessment of the office asset class. To paraphrase Mark Twain, have the rumors of the “death of the office” been greatly exaggerated? Or are office assets hanging on, with a new […]

The temperature reached 45.7°C (114 Fahrenheit) on Sunday at Prayagraj, in the East Uttar Pradesh of northern India, as a heat wave affected much of the country. Temperatures began to ease in Kolkata, a city identified by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as the world’s most threatened by […]

Closing the gender data gap in agricultural development.