The long-delayed bridge linking the Perth Stadium with East Perth gets a test run, with Premier Mark McGowan leading scores of construction workers across the new structure on a rainy morning.

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Cities are expanding upwards and downwards, as well as outwards. With urban density also increasing, moving people efficiently around the city using often-ageing infrastructure is quite a challenge, write Andrea Connor and Donald McNeill.

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One hour’s off-street parking in the Brisbane CBD has an average price of more than $28, making it the most expensive in the country.

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Governments around the world are trying to create business clusters to grow their economies.
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A bid to build a $7-million resort in the seaside town of Boat Harbour in north-west Tasmania gets council approval but some residents are still fighting it.

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Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull calls for more bollards to be installed in Melbourne to prevent a repeat of the Bourke Street attack that killed five people.

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An early 20th century garage will take centre stage and give Hobart’s new $90 million arts precinct its name, the developers have revealed.

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Hobart Lord Mayor Sue Hickey says she “didn’t kill Aborigines” and does not support MONA’s focus on Tasmania’s “difficult history” for Macquarie Point.

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Mona’s $2 billion vision for Macquarie Point may take 30 years to build and may end up looking “quite different”, Tasmania’s Premier says.

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The NT Chief Minister acknowledges some of the decisions he got wrong, but says he is happy the public debate of Labor’s first 100 days in power are about decision-making, not scandals and infighting.

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