Australia’s planning disaster

Sunday 1 March 2015

The Grattan Institute will launch a new book today entitled City Limits: Why Australia’s city’s are broken and how we can fix them.

The book contains a bunch of charts and analysis showing how Australia’s cities are not functioning properly. Included amongst these is the next chart showing how the bulk of jobs created over the five years to 2011 were created closer to the CBD, whilst most new houses were created further-out from the CBD:

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About the author

Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.