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Peter Barber, an award-winning architect who focuses on urbanism and social housing, outlines what he thinks can be done to solve the social housing crisis

I was asked if I was prepared for a “No” result; I said we already live in “No”. We’ve been told “No” for 200+ years. The High Court told Yorta-Yorta “No” in 2002; I was there. I’d sooner try “Yes” or even, “Of Course”.

You can be a lover or a fighter, whatever you desire Life is a runway and you're the designer Wings of a butterfly, eyes of a tiger Whatever you want, baby, 💥choose you fighter💥

Today’s Mercury cartoon

Compare The Pair — #voteyes #Yes23 #traumatroy

‘A building like this is not merely a set of rooms for consulting patients, but the embodiment of a larger idea about the place of Aboriginal people in the town’ Rory Hyde visits Kaunitz Yeung’s PAMS clinic in Newman, Australia for the Deserts issue architectural-review.com/buildings/bill…

I love this kid- and he’s old enough to vote now. #VoteYES23Australia

Over the moon to announce this very exciting discussion I'm hosting Design Investigations! With Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti, Fiona Raby, Zoy Anastassakis, Nana Biamah-Ofosu, Rory Hyde + Giovanna de Oliveira Andreotti & Angela Neubauer. FREE signup here: eventbrite.at/e/765174035137

Kudos my friend Louise Adler speaking up for the grown-ups. abc.net.au/news/2023-12-0…

“We do not need everything to be interesting. Being good would be better… housing crisis..climate catastrophe…atomisation of communities as nhoods…destroyed by gentrification & rebuilding… It is not boredom that is making us unwell, it is all of (these) crises we face.” EH

“As the importance of university education has drifted, tradies have experienced a significant increase in their economic, social and political importance." John Hewson on the era of the tradie, and the end of tertiary education leading to a stable job: satpa.pe/2dwXbcp

'This sculpture gave me a voice for the first time and maybe it did the same for others who have different bodies. I was up there, a pregnant, naked, disabled single mother. Marc couldn’t really have picked any better.' Wonderful. theguardian.com/culture/2024/f…

Please enjoy this brilliant lecture by Paul Karakusevic of Karakusevic Carson Architects, courtesy of @msdsocial. Paul discusses the rebirth of public housing, architecture for dwellings and estates, public value, London, and more... (ta to Rory Hyde too!) youtube.com/watch?v=CtRKks…

JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a

We did it. 14 years of legal battles and we are finally taking him home to Australia to be reunited with Stella Assange and his kids - and giving him his life back. So many thank yous to make - and will come. Can’t wait to touch down in 🇦🇺

CITY OF MELBOURNE : Climatic Architecture / Free / Talk / Tue 27 Aug Visting Treseder Fellow and acclaimed Swiss architect Philippe Rahm is delivering a vital public lecture. whatson.melbourne.vic.gov.au/things-to-do/c…

Teenagers are too young for social media, and also apparently too young to protest for what they believe in. But 10-year-olds apparently can understand criminal responsibility.

The natural population experiment during COVID-19 border closure showed Australia’s housing crisis isn’t caused by immigration. It’s homegrown. Successive governments since the post WW2 rebuild era have failed to address the nation’s housing needs. This is a structural issue.

Why did voters abandon Kamala Harris? Because they feel trapped – and Trump offered a way out On Donald Trump and the new pluto-populism My column theguardian.com/commentisfree/…