Create Advisory helps shape Productivity Commission’s Housing Supply Interim Report
The Productivity Commission has released its Interim Report for the Housing Supply Regulation Inquiry, acknowledging several matters raised in Create Advisory’s submission and reflecting them in its focus areas and recommendations.
2026/27 Federal Budget overview
Budget superlatives can sometimes be over-played, but this years’ Federal Budget certainly has enlivened the debate around the tax and other policy settings needed to address Australia’s challenges in delivering affordable housing, infrastructure and services, whilst building economic resilience to geopolitical shocks.
Implications of an expanded Safeguard Mechanism
The Federal Government’s Safeguard Mechanism (SGM) review is scheduled to start in the second half of 2026. The Productivity Commission has recommended lowering the coverage threshold from 100,000 tCO₂-e to 25,000 tCO₂-e. If accepted, this change would see more than 100 new organisations enter the scheme for the first time.
Victoria’s Infrastructure Strategy 2025-55
The latest 30-year Infrastructure Strategy for Victoria is big and important piece of work. It tackles the ever-present challenge of how we better sequence the right infrastructure and services to support Victoria through sustained growth.
Challenges and opportunities of water infrastructure
Explore how Australia can innovate, invest and collaborate to secure sustainable and equitable access to water
QREC Executive Insights Survey
An industry survey commissioned by the Queensland Renewable Energy Council (QREC) has found community acceptance is both the biggest risk and most significant opportunity for the State’s clean energy transition.
Greater Whitsunday METS Sector
“Few regions in the world can boast the vital inputs to support multiple billion-dollar industries like Greater Whitsunday. And it is vitally important that our region adapts to new opportunities to ensure a prosperous future”.
Greater Whitsunday Alliance
Annual Report 2022-2023
Offshore Wind Tenure in Australia: Resolving Overlapping Applications
A broad cross section of stakeholders in the nascent Australian offshore wind industry are eagerly awaiting a response from the Commonwealth Minister for Climate Change and Energy (the Minister) and the Offshore Infrastructure Registrar (the Registrar) in respect of 37 applications submitted earlier this year for the award of licences to assess the feasibility of offshore wind projects proposed to be carried out within an area of approximately 15,000km2 off Gippsland, Victoria (the Declared Gippsland Region). The Declared Gippsland Region is the first declared area for offshore wind development in Australia.
Housing for our future
Housing in Queensland is in crisis with a range of variables exacerbating the issue…
Building social licence in renewables development
Companies and government continue to grapple with the challenge of building social licence in the communities in which they seek to operate, while host communities are feeling fatigued from consultation that isn’t delivering tangible or legacy benefits to the region.
