Business as usual? The Sustainable Development Goals apply to Australian cities too
- Written by Wendy Steele, Associate Professor of Sustainability and Urban Planning, RMIT University
We are still settling Australian cities on unceded Aboriginal lands. With the global agreement on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, development has finally come home to the developed world. Yet in Australia we still often proceed as if development goals are about foreign aid, somehow separate from our own development...
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