Victoria's COVID-19 State Budget is a chance to help Melbourne's outer suburbs catch up, experts say.
ABC News, 22 November, 2020
Read more"On a good day, IT specialist Mohini Karki spent 90 minutes battling public transport from her Cranbourne East home into the CBD. These days, Ms Karki’s office is a spare room in her outer-suburban home."
The Age, 1 November 2020
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The outer suburbs will benefit from the Federal Budget focus on jobs, skills and higher education, along with support for small business and manufacturing.
Read moreThe National Growth Areas Alliance, representing five million people living on the outskirts of Australia’s capital cities, is calling for the 2020-21 Budget to provide long-term support for vulnerable communities and embed spatial economic and employment shifts caused by COVID-19.
Read moreOuter urban growth areas are facing an avalanche of mortgage defaults and financial stress amidst a recession, shrinking levels of income support and the end of mortgage repayment moratoriums.
Read moreThe NGAA’s new research into working from home in the outer suburbs has revealed a positive outcome from Australia’s national lockdown – evidence of the many benefits and opportunities of working from home for the 5 million people living in outer urban growth areas.
Read moreSome unexpected and positive findings in our new research on the lived experience of working from home in the outer suburbs. Join us Wednesday, August 5 for the launch.
Read moreNearly two million people under the age of 25 live in Australia’s outer suburbs. What education and career opportunities will they get, miss out on, or never even realise existed? A personal view from NGAA Executive Officer, Bronwen Clark.
Read moreIf you’re already struggling to pay the mortgage, home renovations are an unattainable luxury. Helping people already under mortgage stress to keep their homes is the priority in Australia’s outer urban growth areas.
Read moreNGAA Member Councils have received more than $26.5 million in new federal government funding for local road and community infrastructure projects.
Read moreAustralia’s outer urban growth areas need immediate and long-term economic stimulus to prevent more job losses and mortgage defaults.
Read moreThe economic shock brought on by COVID-19 will have a disproportionate effect on growth areas ….
Read moreAustralia’s outer urban growth areas have lost a great champion with the passing of David Turnbull, former CEO of Mitchell Shire Council and the City of Whittlesea.
Read moreThirteen recommendations for the 2020-21 Federal Budget to support growth areas and the nation.
Read moreThe top 5 things that happened in 2019 for growth areas...
Read moreCouncillor Matthew Deeth, Mayor of Wollondilly Shire, is the new Chair of the National Growth Areas Alliance.
Read moreThe 2019 NGAA Awards celebrated excellence and innovation by the Councils shaping Australia’s fastest growing areas.
Read moreThe 2019 NGAA National Congress gave insights into leading practice on creating new communities and making paddocks into postcodes.
Read moreThe new NGAA Strategic Advisory Committee has been announced. The members are…
Read moreNGAA supports the goal of the Centre for Population – getting the numbers right.
Read morePlanning for Australia’s future population, the Government’s strategy to ‘manage current challenges and develop long term plans' is a first step in the marathon of significant policy shifts required to address the needs of growth areas - but we need to catch up first.
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New data showing that commute times have risen by 23 per cent is no surprise for frustrated residents of fast-growing suburbs and cities.
Read moreNGAA has been invited to submit a collated list of growth area projects to be considered for inclusion in the Infrastructure Priority List 2020.
Read moreCollaborations with the NGAA’s research partner such as AHURI, the Life Course Centre and Future Cities CRC help ensure that the outer suburbs are included in long term studies.
Read moreThe NGAA Symposium, Research and Practice from Australia’s fast growing outer suburbs, on July 4, was a packed day with papers from growth areas.
Read moreMayor Glenn Docherty's speech at the NGAA Member's Meeting held on 17 June, 2019 at the Australian Local Government Assembly (National General Assembly) in Canberra.
Read moreAs many of our Member Councils head to Canberra for the Australian Local Government Association National General Assembly in mid-June, we look at the resolutions from Members that directly relate to NGAA’s policy platform.
Read moreThe NGAA will continue to pursue funding and policy commitments made to fast growing outer suburbs during the Federal Election campaign.
Read moreThe NGAA welcomes today's focus on Cities by both the Coalition and the ALP in the lead up to the May 18 Federal Election.
Read moreIn the lead-up to the Federal Election in May, what are the major parties doing about the first priority of the NGAA's Catch Up with the Outer Suburbs campaign - Get 5 million people to work, study or home on time?
Read moreThe challenges of responding to rapid population growth in the outer suburbs of Australia’s capital cities play a starring role in the 2019-20 Federal Budget.
Mayor Glenn Docherty (Playford, SA), Chair of the National Growth Areas Alliance which represents 21 Councils in fast growing outer suburbs, welcomed the long overdue focus on urban infrastructure.
Read moreThe 2019-20 Federal Budget has an undeniable focus on infrastructure and the cross portfolio response to population growth (outlined in Planning for Australia’s future population) has put the challenges and opportunities of NGAA members front and centre. The significant expansion of investment in the Urban Congestion Fund is a strong indication that our transport issues are well and truly on the Government’s agenda.
Read moreThe 2019-20 Federal Budget will be handed down tonight amidst a flurry of funding announcements, many of them from the current Budget's $1 billion Urban Congestion Fund (UCF). We are looking for a continuation of the UCF to help catch up with infrastructure demand in growth areas, along with other items from our Federal Budget Submission.
Read moreCouncils from across Australia joined a national call for better access to roads, transport, local jobs and community facilities in fast growing outer suburbs with the launch of the Catch Up with the Outer Suburbs campaign in Canberra this week.
Read moreNGAA has made a 2019-20 Budget Submission to the Federal Government, focussing on five building blocks for good growth.
The full submission is available on the Advocacy page of the NGAA website.
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The National Growth Areas Alliance welcomes Infrastructure Australia’s new report, Planning Liveable Cities: A place-based approach to sequencing infrastructure and growth. We call upon the Federal and State Governments to work with local government to implement the findings of this report.
Read moreThe 2018 NGAA Awards showcased the vision and expertise that is building Australia’s diverse outer suburban growth areas. Winning projects included innovative uses of technology, a community program to prevent family violence, a suburb-wide urban planning approach and a $109 million community recreation facility.
Read moreThree priorities are the pathway to great Australian cities according to Professor Greg Clark, global cities expert, who addressed Mayors, Councillors and executives from Australia’s fastest growing outer suburban Councils at the National Growth Areas Alliance (NGAA) Congress in the booming south west of Sydney this week.
Read moreInfrastructure Australia has highlighted the need for public transport to catch up with the five million Australians who live in fast growing outer suburbs. We are pleased that the research and recommendations support our calls for urgent investment in transport infrastructure in the outer suburbs,
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The Grattan Institute has released a report stating that population growth has had little impact on the average metropolitan Australians’ commute to work.The NGAA’s understanding of commutes from the outer suburbs is very different.
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Momentum is building for action by the Federal Government to respond to the impact of rapid and sustained population growth, with the Building Up and Moving Out report from the Standing Committee on infrastructure, Transport and Cities.
Read moreThe National Growth Areas Alliance looks forward to a continued Federal Government focus on cities policy under new Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
Read moreThe Federal Government has finally started listening to the nearly 5 million people in Australia’s fast growing outer suburbs who face daily challenges of nightmare commutes to work or study, and lack of public transport options.
Read moreChair of the National Growth Areas Alliance, Mayor Glenn Docherty, is pleased to announce Bronwen Clark has been appointed to the role of Executive Officer, following a national recruitment process.
Read moreGrowth areas have welcomed 35 per cent of Australia’s overall population growth in the last five years, but only received 13 per cent of total infrastructure investment. Councils in growth areas are responding to this deficit with innovative and transformational projects to provide services and facilities their communities need.
Read moreTwo new research reports commissioned by NGAA tell the story of changing populations and economies which provide many opportunities for development.
Read moreCatch up on our Acting Executive Officer's chat about population growth with demographer Prof. Peter McDonald and host Michael Mackenzie on Radio National's Life Matters program here.
Read moreLocal Government leaders from fast-growing outer suburbs across Australia will gather in Melbourne’s south east next week to share stories of the incredible impact of rapid population growth on their communities.
Read moreA national event giving residents of fast-growing outer suburbs the chance to share their #nightmarecommute stories on social media.
Read moreThe National Growth Areas Alliance (NGAA) has today released the State of Australia's FastGrowing Outer Suburbs..
Read moreThe focus on infrastructure in the 2017-18 Federal Budget is a step in the right direction..
Read moreFive million people living in Australia’s fast-growing outer suburbs are hoping tomorrow's federal budget..
Read moreThe federal government should not shy away from borrowing for public infrastructure investment..
Read moreFast-growing outer suburbs, home to five million people and growing at double the national rate, are the often..
Read moreNational Growth Areas Alliance Executive Officer, Ruth Spielman, has been appointed to the Cities Reference Group, convened..
Read moreChair of the National Growth Areas Alliance (NGAA), Mayor Glenn Docherty.
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