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October 16, 2025

With 83% of its buildings destroyed, Gaza needs more than money to rebuild

John Tookey, Auckland University of Technology

In Gaza, food, medicine and bottled water are the immediate priorities for residents. But how does the city itself get rebuilt?

Europe after World War II? No, it’s the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut in 2023, after a year of Russian bombardment. AP Photo, File

March 24, 2025

Ukraine will need major rebuilding when war ends − here’s why the US isn’t likely to invest in its recovery with a new Marshall Plan

Frank A. Blazich Jr., Smithsonian Institution

Trump wants Ukraine to repay the US for the military aid it sent Kyiv. Once upon a time, the US was more generous: It rebuilt Western Europe after World War II.

The UK emerged from the second world war to build a more economically and socially equitable nation. Allan Cash Picture Library | Alamy

July 8, 2022

Could post‑war drive for a more equal society help with today’s cost of living crisis?

Stewart Lansley, University of Bristol

The late 1970s marked a high point for economic equality in the UK. Returning to the progressive policies that made that possible could solve today’s cost of living crisis.

Prime Minister Ben Chifley introducing Australia’s own car, the Holden, at a manufacturing plant in Victoria in 1948. National Library of Australia

June 15, 2020

Rebuilding Australia: what we can learn from the successes of post‑war reconstruction

David Lee, UNSW

There is a case to be made for a new Commonwealth agency to lead the recovery effort, built on the model of the Department of Post-War Reconstruction after the second world war.

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