Regional planning in SEQ: Failed, flawed or the future we all need?
Description
SEQCA is pleased to invite you to a half day community conference on Saturday 31 October, exploring topical planning and development issues facing Southeast Queensland - regional planning; housing; infrastructure; major projects; environmental protection, climate resilience and liveability.
Hear from professionals, practitioners and community representatives. Bring your questions, hear alternative views and join in the discussion.
Run by the community for our community with all profits going to Orange Sky Laundry, a local charity offering practical support to homeless people. We hope to see you there.
Lineup
Professor Martine Maron
Martine Maron is Professor of Environmental Management at the University of Queensland, with research interests spanning biodiversity conservation, environmental policy, community ecology, ecological restoration, and landscape ecology. Martine’s research evaluates how conservation policies and management interventions perform in the real world, and how they can be improved. This includes work on biodiversity offsetting, no net loss and nature-positive policies, conservation planning, woodland management, and the conservation of species and ecosystems in degraded and transformed landscapes. Martine contributes to biodiversity policy development and review processes in Australia and internationally, including through collaboration with organisations such as the IUCN, IPBES, the CBD and the UNCCD.
Emeritus Professor Darryl Low Choy
Darryl Low Choy is Emeritus Professor in the School of Environment and Science, Griffith University. Across his career, his research has focused on growth management for developing regions including SEQ; values led planning and indigenous landscape values; resilience and peri-urbanisation of the landscape; landscape/community transition; climate change adaptation for human settlements, and water sensitive cities. Darryl has a long association with regional planning. He was seconded to work on the original non-statutory regional plan and then the first three statutory regional plans. He was responsible for developing the Regional Open Space System (ROSS) and designing the Regional Landscape Framework (that is, what happens beyond the Urban Footprint).
Dr Millicent Kennelley
Millicent Kennelly is Senior Lecturer at Griffith University where she undertakes research exploring what sport and sport events can do (and can do better) for core stakeholders in host communities. Her past research has focused on the legacies of Olympic and Paralympic Games, covering topics such as sport participation, security, opposition, environmental sustainability and climate change.
Dr Rachel Gallagher
Rachel Gallagher lectures at Griffith University where she researches public policy specialising in geography, housing and planning. Her work focuses on how planning systems, property institutions, and inherited urban form shape housing outcomes. Rachel’s current research spans: how cities adapt to changing conditions such as rapid population growth or decline; natural disasters; deindustrialisation and climate change and how urban policy influences (or fails to influence) desired urban form.
Associate Professor Dorina Pojani
Dorina Pojani is Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Queensland. Her research is focused on the built environment triad: urban design, mobility, and housing - in both the Global North and South. She approaches her work from a feminist perspective and has been ranked among the top ten urban and regional planning researchers in Australia.
Mr Adam Young
Adam Young is the creator and host of THE Brisbane Channel, an independent YouTube channel covering the issues, developments and decisions shaping Greater Brisbane. Through news analysis, interviews and long-form discussions, the channel explores topics including planning, infrastructure, housing, transport, local government and Brisbane's preparations for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Mr Dean Griggs
Dean Griggs is General Manager, Policy and Strategic Engagement at Q Shelter, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to promoting solutions that address unmet housing needs and prevent homelessness in Queensland. Dean’s career has involved working with people and communities for more than 25 years. He is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, has an MBA and a Bachelor of Behavioural Sciences. Dean's early career was in the community mental health sector before spending over two decades working in executive roles in local government across Victoria, Tasmania and most recently on Palm Island. Dean has a passion for connecting and collaborating across sectors to improve outcomes for those in need.
Mr Michael Berkman
Michael Berkman is the Member for Maiwar and was the first Greens representative elected to Queensland Parliament in 2017. Before entering politics, he was a public interest environmental lawyer working in a community legal centre, representing communities in court cases against companies like Adani. As a State MP, he sees the impacts of profit-driven development and a broken political system every day and is fighting to clean up politics by focusing on meaningful change and positive improvements to the local area and state.
Mr Steve MacDonald
Steve MacDonald is currently President of Redlands2030. Before his retirement, Steve worked on many aspects of strategic greenspace planning including the Draft SEQ Greenspace Network Plan 2012-2031; SEQ regional recreation trails and Rail Trails Australia. He advocates for a values-led approach to regional planning so that community benefits are optimised and community participation is maximised. He believes the current planning paradigm is inadequate when responding to the issues and values of rural, regional landscape and peri-urban issues and values. For example, liveability is limited to rhetorical not substantive recognition.
Cr Ellie Smith
Ellie Smith is the Community Independent Councillor for Division 11, City of Moreton Bay. For over twenty years, Ellie has worked across Queensland in community engagement, environmental protection, and governance. She now brings that experience to Moreton Bay City Council with a clear focus on listening, working constructively, and delivering practical outcomes for Division 11 and for the wider Moreton Bay region.
Mr Alastair Leighton, Therefor Group
Alastair Leighton is Urban Designer, City Strategist, Creative Leadership facilitator and Director at Therefor Group, a Queensland-based, employee-owned multidisciplinary advisory, planning, design, and land strategy firm headquartered in Newstead, Brisbane. Therefor Group’s mission is to lead positive, impactful, and lasting change that helps to build stronger and better-connected communities.
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