State and local services have been talking through possible emergency scenarios in public housing high-rises trying to identify who is actually responsible in different situations. Peter Murphy looks at the…

Australia, the land ‘of drought and flooding rains’, has witnessed a number of disasters over the years, with the most severe occurring in the last decade. Samuel Beattie explains the…

Australia’s only community justice centre is the Neighbourhood Justice Centre in inner-city Melbourne. Its integrated approach to justice, service co-ordination and crime prevention is one many would like to see…

NSW elections in recent decades have been described as ‘law and order’ auctions. Garner Clancey explores some of the reasons why there is no reason for a ‘law and order’…

This is the double–edged sword that cuts through the third tier of the National Drug Strategy: Harm Reduction (the other two tiers are supply reduction and demand reduction). If we…

Clovelly Road was transformed and re-imagined as a greener, safer, more liveable street on 27th October 2013. Megan Sharkey explores what those keen to reimagine their streets and communities can…

Fear can have a big impact on how we see and interact with those around us. Here we explore some of the human cost of our fear of crime and…

Access to open space is crucial in high density neighbourhoods so understandably residents using Ward Park are concerned about what happens when their open space it is not available.

For more than a year I’ve been sitting behind a desk in a glass and concrete high-rise in North Sydney, and it’s had me reminiscing about Mondays gone by in…