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This document is a final report of an inquiry into projecting Australia's urban and regional futures, specifically focusing on population dynamics, regional mobility, and planning responses. It examines the drivers and effective management of population growth and change in regional Australia, identifying various push and pull factors influencing population change and providing policy implications for managing population growth and change in non-metropolitan areas. The report highlights the importance of factors such as proximity to major cities, access to transport links, availability of housing, and lifestyle opportunities in attracting and retaining residents. Challenges identified include insufficient infrastructure, housing affordability, and the need to attract key workers. The report suggests policy solutions such as supporting local business development, improving internet connectivity and transport infrastructure, and providing affordable housing and key worker incentives. Cooperation between different levels of government and industry is also crucial in managing population change effectively. The document also discusses the social impacts of population growth and decline, particularly in relation to skills shortages and the pressure on health services. It analyzes the factors influencing population change, identifies push-pull factors for migration to regional areas, and investigates how local governments can manage population growth. The report presents the methodology used, including statistical modeling and surveys, and provides an analysis of the variables that impact population change. The text also discusses the use of regression analysis to understand the factors influencing population growth and decline in regional urban areas in Australia, highlighting the importance of factors such as proximity to the coast and major cities, climate, industry specialization, and the presence of a highly educated workforce [Extracted from the article]

Infrastructure governance has emerged as a subject of critical interest in the current 'infrastructure turn' whereby fragmented governance approaches sit in tension with complex demands for infrastructure transformations within contexts of multiple intersecting crises. To understand the state of the literature and inform ongoing debates, a systematic review method is used to interrogate a large body of infrastructure governance literature across sectoral boundaries. This review identifies a range of literature gaps prevailing in the areas of infrastructure governance on unceded First Nations land, the societal end goals of infrastructure, and understandings and applications of integrated governance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper demonstrates how the national urban hierarchies can be understood through the lens of connectivity within globally scaled economic networks. We first examine the global city network structure using a k‐core decomposition method. Values of k‐coreness are then used to understand the distribution of global connectivity within national urban systems. This is observed through a measure of statistical dispersion applied to a novel global dataset of 68,602 weighted headquarter‐subsidiary relations of 31,371 firms linking 4181 cities collected in 2019. Our results confirm the existence of a hierarchical core–periphery structure at a global scale, yet reveal varying degrees of hierarchy at a national scale. At a national scale, single‐core, double‐core or multi‐core network structures characterize the way in which national and global city networks intersect, indicating that there is a distinction between global cities as the core and urban‐systems‐as‐networks that connect nations to the global economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]