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Industry Issues 04-07-2019
Infrastructure Contributions policy released for comment UDIA has welcomed a revised draft policy released by the state government today to improve how development contributions toward infrastructure are collected, managed and spent by local…
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Industry issues 27-06-2019
Local government reforms pass parliament The state government passed local government reform legislation today that is a result of the Local Government Act review. These reforms target key priority areas identified by the…
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Industry News 20-06-2019
UDIA National launches policy priorities for new federal government UDIA National has moved quickly to engage with the re-elected Morrison Government – unveiling a post-election action plan and beginning a series of planned…
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Industry News 13-06-2019
Liza Harvey elected Leader of the Opposition UDIA has congratulated the Hon. Liza Harvey MLA on her appointment as the new Leader of the Opposition in the WA Parliament. Ms Harvey was elected…
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Industry news 06-06-2019
UDIA meets with Minister for Housing UDIA WA CEO Tanya Steinbeck and Research and Policy Director Chris Green met with the Hon. Peter Tinley this morning to discuss a range of issues relevant…
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THE JOURNEY TOWARDS A SMART CITY
Although a Smart City is a complex web of infrastructure, applications and services, creating an evolving platform to support today’s needs whilst able to build on future needs can be relatively straightforward. Here…
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Industry news 30-05-2019
Development Contributions – draft policy discussed Close to 350 guests attended UDIA’s Industry Breakfast on Wednesday to hear from WAPC Chairman David Caddy on the latest progress in drafting the new State Planning…
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THE SYNGERGISTIC CITY
As the Internet of Things networks connect devices and systems across a city, automation, artificial intelligence and real-time data acquisition come together to create Urban Environments that can ‘think for themselves’. Data sourced…
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Industry News 23-05-2019
Latest Land Sales figures released UDIA has released the March Quarter Urban Development Index to members that shows lot sales have declined close to 8 per cent over the quarter and 15 per…
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BIG DATA AND LOCAL ACTIVATION
Although it will be possible to quantify the benefits of some infrastructure on a basic cost-benefit analysis (for example: calculating if private water or embedded energy infrastructure is more cost effective than using…
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Industry news 16-05-2019
First Home Loan Deposit Scheme announced Following the announcement of Keystart change at a state level, the federal government has also focused on assisting more first home buyers into the housing market with…
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THE PROTOCOL DROID AND THE SMART POLE
In the movie Star Wars, C-3PO is a protocol droid, fluent in six million languages. In the real world, appliances and systems communicate using a wide variety of protocol languages across a broad…
