Essays for my Graduate Certificate of Environment at Macquarie University in Sydney.
Australia's cities are racing to build upwards and inwards to solve housing, climate and inequality crises, but the very projects meant to save our urban future risk excluding the communities they're supposed to serve.
Three-quarters of university students know saving a house deposit won't be easy, yet most still expect to buy within 10 years, a gap between hope and housing economics that reveals just how broken Australia's property market has become.
Tonga contributes less than one per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, yet faces sea levels rising twice as fast as the global average, a cruel preview of how climate change punishes the innocent first.
While governments debate housing policy, a decade of data from Manly shows how falling interest rates created a perfect storm, simultaneously enriching property owners and pricing out the next generation of buyers.