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Welcome | Mr William Kirby-Jones AM
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Ministerial Address | The Hon. Brad Hazzard
Minister for Planning and Infrastructure, and Minister Assisting the Premier on Infrastructure NSW
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Keynote Address | Mr Peter Head CBE FREng FRSA
Director of ARUP
Peter is a champion for global practice that demonstrates how investment in the built environment could be made very much more effective if the public and private sector adopted sustainable development principles.
Based in London, he is a civil and structural engineer who has become a recognised world leader in major bridges, advanced composite technology and sustainable city development. He has won many awards for his work including the Award of Merit of IABSE, the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Silver Medal and the Prince Philip Award for Polymers in the Service of Mankind.
In 2002 he was appointed as an independent Commissioner on the London Sustainable Development Commission. He is an expert adviser to the Singapore Government on Green Buildings and Infrastructure and he is on the advisory panel for the World Future Council. In 2009 he was awarded the Sir Frank Whittle medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering for a lifetime contribution to the wellbeing of the nation through environmental innovation. In 2011 he was awarded the CBE for services to Civil Engineering and the Environment.
Development opportunities created by resource shortages and climate change
Peter will give feedback from his global lecture tour in which he analysed what policies and investments were needed to enable nine billion people to live sustainably on the Planet in 2050. He visited 25 countries and has assembled from the subsequent feedback in each country what he believes is a realistic development strategy for low, middle and high income countries. He will share the highlights of his findings and the particular aspects which are relevant to the challenges faced in Australia.
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Mr Anthony Capon
Professor at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, ANU, and Director of the Healthy Built Environments Program, UNSW
Tony is an authority on environmental health and health promotion, convenes the Australian Climate Change Adaptation Research Network for Human Health, and leads a CSIRO funded research program on urban settlements, climate change and health. He is currently working with the International Council for Science to develop a new interdisciplinary science program on systems approaches to health and wellbeing in the changing urban environment.
The links between the built environment, climate change and health
Evidence is mounting about links between the built environment and human health. Traditional concerns include air pollution, water quality and motor vehicle injury. The relationships between transport, land use, urban design and physical activity are increasingly well understood. Impacts on mental health warrant further attention. Climate change also has important health impacts. The challenge is to plan, design, develop and manage built environments that protect and promote the health of people in a sustainable way. The Healthy Built Environments Program at the University of New South Wales is responding to this challenge with innovative research and education programs. Tony will talk about the challenges and current innovative responses.
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Ms Raynuha Sinnathamby
Deputy Managing Director, Springfield Land Corporation
In her role at Springfield Land Corporation in QLD, Raynuha is involved in many facets of the group’s projects including strategic management, corporate, tax and legal work,commercial negotiations, leasing and marketing. A solicitor by training, her commercial property experience includes retail and commercial leasing, body corporate and community management issues, business acquisitions and disposals and broadacre residential developments. Raynuha completed an MBA in 1998 and in 2006 she won a UDIA Women in Development award for Strategic Management.
The story of Greater Springfield: creating a sustainable city
The Springfield vision was to create a sustainable city rather than a dormitory suburb and the target was to create one job for every three residents so that residents could live, work, learn and play within a masterplanned community.
In order to create an active CBD and not just a business precinct, the developer invested in Springfield’s human capital and future workforce through a commitment to a lifelong learning precinct and the development of a health service regional hub.
Commercially, the project supported this goal through offering housing products for a wide spectrum of the community from entry level or medium density homes to prestige golf frontage properties.
Raynuha will share some of the two-decade story of the Greater Springfield project and its catalytic effect on the Western Corridor; an area which became the fastest growing region in the country.
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Mr Mark McCrindle
Director, McCrindle Research
Mark is a social researcher with an international reputation for tracking emerging trends and analysing diverse generations. A Qualified Practising Market Researcher, he is the Director of McCrindle Research which counts amongst its clients over 50 multinational organisations and 100 of Australia’s largest corporations. His highly regarded research and reports into the changing times and emerging trends have developed his reputation as a futurist, demographer and a social commentator.
Australia in transition: the top 5 demographic and social trends redefining Australian communities
Australia’s population is growing, and it is also changing. At the same time that our population is ageing, annual birth numbers are setting new records. Both housing mobility and vocational mobility are higher than ever while housing affordability is lower than ever. So what is going on, and what’s next? In this session social researcher and demographer Mark McCrindle will give us a snapshot of 21st Century Australia and the key trends redefining housing, households and communities.
*Mark McCrindle appears by arrangement with Celebrity Speakers – www.celebrityspeakers.com.au
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Prof Eva Cox AO
Sociologist
Eva is a well known political activist and irrepressible advocate for making societies fairer. She is an unabashed feminist and passionately promotes inclusive, diverse and equitable ways of living together. She was the ABC Boyer Lecturer (1995) on making societies more civil. She has been an academic, political adviser and public servant, and she runs a small research and policy consultancy. Eva has been recognised in various ways: Australian Humanist of the Year, a Distinguished Alumnus at UNSW and an Edna Grand Stirrer award.
Planning for social sustainability: creating a more civil society
Creating a more civil society needs to be much higher on agendas of leaders and policy makers. Sustainability requires the commitment of a wide spectrum of people who feel they are part of the wider community. Recent focus on economic growth measures have undermined many of the quality of life issues that are really important to well being. Planning bus routes, local facilities, housing stock and services should be based on needs not just investor return on capital. There is increasing evidence that inequalities that signal unfair social structures are more damaging to social cohesion than poverty, once basic needs are met. How do we turn economic arguments around to plan and develop socially sustainable communities? How can communities help people feel they belong and are valued? What do we need to do to engage those who feel excluded or treated unfairly?
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Mr Michael Scott
Managing Director, The Treadstone Company
Mike has 30 years experience working in the development industry as a home builder, designer, real estate agent, developer and consultant. He has been a former member of the executive teams at Devine Limited and Urban Pacific Limited. As a consultant he has provided advice and management services to governments, investors, developers and home builders. This includes the delivery of over 1,500 dwellings in Landcom’s Stimulus Social Housing and LDA’s OwnPlace programs. Mike is a Past President and Life Member of the UDIA NSW Division and National UDIA.
What is housing diversity, why do we need it, and how will it be delivered?
For the last 40 years the housing industry has followed the Baby Boomers through their life. In new communities as the boomers’ families have grown bigger and bigger and ‘moved up’, so has the size of their new homes and their mortgages.
Over the last 20 years on most infill sites around Sydney, high quality new medium density housing has been sold to double income couples and investors at premium prices compared to established properties in the local area. Well-intentioned planning controls which prescribe minimum development standards in an effort to protect local amenity, have helped ensure that the supply of new homes have been sold at premium prices.
There has also been a growing recognition that over the past decade demand and supply have been poorly matched, with occupancy rates even unexpectedly rising recently as kids stay at home longer.
So, after a decade of constrained supply and 30 years of adding new housing predominantly to the top half of the market....Houston, we have a problem! Our cities need housing diversity. So, what is housing diversity, why do we need it and how will it be delivered?
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Prof Julian Disney AO
Director, Social Justice Project, UNSW
Since 2004, Julian has been the independent Chair of the National Affordable Housing Summit. He is a member of the Advisory Group for the National Rental Affordability Scheme and also chaired the NSW Ministerial Task Force on Affordable Housing from 1996-98. Julian is also the Chair of the Community Tax Forum, Convenor of TaxWatch and Co-Chair of Anti-Poverty Week. He has been President of NCOSS, ACOSS and the International Council on Social Welfare. He has also been a Law Reform Commissioner and Director of ANU’s Centre for International and Public Law.
Housing affordability in Australia: how do we achieve sustained improvement?
Housing affordability in Australia is the worst in the OECD. Tax reform and regional development are the most important ways of achieving major improvements over the longer term. The Australian Government has re-engaged in the housing policy debate with reviews of the taxation system and the introduction of targeted housing initiatives such as the National Rental Affordability Scheme. This offers new opportunities to improve our national affordability profile. The national and state planning systems can also promote better affordable housing provision. In this presentation, Julian will describe the extent of the affordability problem, and priority actions to achieve sustained improvement.
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Q&A Panel featuring | Mr Chris Richardson
Director, Deloitte Access Economics
The economic perspective
Chris Richardson is a Director of Deloitte Access Economics, heading up their Macroeconomic Policy and Forecasting Group. As one of Australia’s leading economists, Chris is an expert in the Australian and global economies, as well as Federal budget analysis, property, ageing and industry trends. Chris is the author of the Business Review Weekly’s Eco column, and is often asked to comment on economic trends in the media.
*Chris Richardson appears by arrangement with Australian Speakers Bureau
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Q&A Panel featuring | Prof Edward Blakely
Director, Blakely Global and Professor of Urban Policy, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
The social perspective
Ed is Director of Blakelyglobal, a strategic policy consulting group providing advice on urban and regional planning, sustainable development, and disaster recovery and management. Until 2009 he headed the recovery of the City of New Orleans. In this role he coordinated all aspects of municipal government from planning and financing to construction of major infrastructure related to the recovery of the City from the worst modern urban disaster in the United States.
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Q&A Panel featuring | Prof Peter Newman
Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute, and Member of the Board of Infrastructure Australia
The environmental perspective
In 2001/3 Peter directed the production of Western Australia’s Sustainability Strategy in the Department of the Premier and Cabinet - the first state sustainability strategy in the world. In 2004/5 he was Sustainability Commissioner in Sydney and in 2006/7 he was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Virginia Charlottesville where he completed two new books - Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change and Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems. Renowned for his futuristic thinking, in 2003 Peter was awarded a Centenary Medal for his contributions to planning and sustainability.
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Q&A Panel featuring | Mr Peter Head CBE FREng FRSA
Director, ARUP
Our keynote speaker will join the panel to take questions from the audience.
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