The Fifth Estate

15/07/2025

In NSW particularly, government housing affordability policy is focused on promoting apartment living. However, the breadth and depth of problems within this sector are insufficiently recognised, let alone adequately addressed.

In NSW particularly, government housing affordability policy is focused on promoting apartment living. However, the breadth and depth of problems within this sector are insufficiently recognised, let alone adequately addressed.

15/07/2025

When a shopping centre in Sydney’s inner west was repeatedly outed for poor fire and safety standards, the story eventually hit the headlines. It’s the kind of care and concern that has propelled Elumen to think best in class for safety.

When a shopping centre in Sydney’s inner west was repeatedly outed for poor fire and safety standards, the story eventually hit the headlines. It’s the kind of care and concern that has propelled Elumen to think best in class for safety.

15/07/2025

Brookfield has finalised the long running sale of its Aveo retirement living asset to Scape’s rebranded parent business The Living Company.

Brookfield has finalised the long running sale of its Aveo retirement living asset to Scape’s rebranded parent business The Living Company.

15/07/2025

Kerbside charging rollout, Cromwell’s new green building, Lisbon rolls out return and earn cups and jobs news.

Kerbside charging rollout, Cromwell’s new green building, Lisbon rolls out return and earn cups and jobs news.

14/07/2025

Driving our energy future: Earlier this year Southeast Queensland received another wake up call to climate change, when ex-tropical Cyclone Alfred made landfall on the Moreton Bay Islands, directly off the coast from Brisbane on 7 March. Although it was downgraded from a category 4 to a category 1-2 by the time it “landed”, the ex-cyclone caused “damaging wind gusts, heavy rainfall with subsequent flooding impacts and severe coastal erosion of beaches”....

Driving our energy future: Earlier this year Southeast Queensland received another wake up call to climate change, when ex-tropical Cyclone Alfred made

10/07/2025

This week the topic of housing slammed back to centre stage from three different frames....

10/07/2025

With the Queensland government axing the $1billion Moonlight Range Wind Farm near Rockhampton despite already receiving planning approval – Rok Solid, a renewable land brokerage firm, says that “progressed projects” are now in higher demand than ever before. The company’s Daniel Moroko said that smaller renewable energy developers are playing a critical role by doing the “heavy lifting by taking on upfront risk and costs” because “bigger companies don’t want to be wasting years on something they don’t know is a sure thing.”...

With the Queensland government axing the $1billion Moonlight Range Wind Farm near Rockhampton despite already receiving planning approval – Rok Solid, a

10/07/2025

After a chance encounter with a run-down farmhouse and cottage in Balgowlah in Sydney’s Northern Beaches, Felicity Stevens now runs the Airbnb Rangers Cottage - it's so venvironmentally conscious, guests keeps coming back.

After a chance encounter with a run-down farmhouse and cottage in Balgowlah in Sydney’s Northern Beaches, Felicity Stevens now runs the Airbnb Rangers Cottage - it's so venvironmentally conscious, guests keeps coming back.

10/07/2025

I have lived in Sydney’s inner west for decades. I have seen substantial demographic and economic change, including the steep rise in the cost of housing, and I know how this stunts peoples’ lives. Like PM Anthony Albanese, my local member of parliament, I too, grew up in public housing. You might think I would approve of “Our Fairer Future” – Inner West Council’s draft local environment plan, in which the IWC attempts to outbid the state government’s own transport oriented development LEP, striving for substantially more dwellings than the TOD proposed....

I have lived in Sydney’s inner west for decades. I have seen substantial demographic and economic change, including the steep rise in the cost of housing,

10/07/2025

Nathan Hage and his team of owners corp made some serious savings while making the apartment more sustainable and here's how.

Nathan Hage and his team of owners corp made some serious savings while making the apartment more sustainable and here's how.

09/07/2025

Imagine walking through Sydney’s CBD and looking up, not at another glass tower emerging from a demolition site, but at new, lightweight apartments quietly perched on the sturdy rooftops of buildings that have been standing for decades. No extra land, no urban sprawl, just clever use of the “fifth facade" that we already own....

Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a detailed brief. Imagine walking through Sydney’s CBD and

08/07/2025

Step into the future of the built environment with CIBSE ANZ’s biggest technical event of the year - with a discount exclusive to TFE readers.

Step into the future of the built environment with CIBSE ANZ’s biggest technical event of the year - with a discount exclusive to TFE readers.