Home affordability in Australia
Posted: March 5, 2010 Filed under: Housing | Tags: affordability, Christopher Joye, home prices, mortgage, price to income ratio Leave a commentClaims that home affordability is at disastrous levels appear to be exaggerated. The always interesting Christopher Joye points out today that the average Australian home price is $428,000 on Dec Qtr figures (median is $400,000). Read the rest of this entry »
Limitations of My School
Posted: March 5, 2010 Filed under: Education, justice, health | Tags: Camberwell, ICSEA, Julia Gillard, Melbourne Grammar, My School, NAPLAN 7 CommentsThe My School web site launched by the Deputy Prime Minister earlier this year has some important lessons for any disciplines that rely heavily on spatial measures to capture social and economic information.
With two school age children, I’m sympathetic to Julia Gillard’s push for more information to be made available on schools’ performance. I think providing the NAPLAN information is a good start and I’m looking forward to seeing time-based data next year. Read the rest of this entry »
The Melbourne Urbanist 