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T1 The first attempt at mixed-use development in Australia was the Sydney Region Outline Plan, a plan that identified Sydney's need to decentralise and organise its growth around the metropolitan area. Its main objective was to control the city's rapid post-war population growth by introducing growth corridors and economic centres that would help prevent uncontrolled sprawl and the overuse of the car as a means of transport. Several subsequent plans complemented the initial plan, focusing on economic and urban renewal issues. In particular, the 1988 Plan was designed in collaboration with a transport strategy and was the first to recommend higher development densities. Since then, planning authorities have given greater priority to mixed-use development of inner-city industrial land as a way of revitalising areas neglected by the decline in manufacturing and, according to according to 2021 data from Australian Bureau of Statistics, mixed zoning already suppose more than 9% of new housing approvals.

T2 The first calls for the conservation of woodland areas in and around cities arose in the 1970s in response to increasing urbanisation and the consequent demand for recreational green space and awareness of protecting native wildlife. BOBITS – bits of bush in the suburbs – was a popular term at the time to describe these early "simplified versions of Australia's native forests" that flourished in Australian cities by the ecologist policies of the then Prime Minister Bob Hawke, summarised in its Greenhouse 21C: A Plan of Action for a Sustainable Future strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.