Speakers
"Public Land @ 5 Million" - Tuesday 21 April 2009 DOWNLOAD Registration Form |
Dr Ian MacPhail
is Victoria’s Commissioner for
Environmental Sustainability.
Our question to Dr McPhail: the area of
land tied up in Melbourne’s road
reserves is as large as an average
National Park. Given the key themes
of the State of the Environment report,
how should that land be contributing to
our sustainability goals? |
Julian Hill
is the
Executive Director, Urban
Development, in DPCD.
We have asked Julian to
discuss the role of public land
in a future Melbourne, and the
legal, institutional and financial
instruments available for its
better contribution to the
government’s policy objectives. |
Cr Libby Mears
is Chair of the Victorian Coastal
Council, and a councillor of Surf
Coast Shire.
The foreshores and the Bay are a
finite resource, under ever-increasing
pressures from population on one
side, and rising sea levels on the
other. We have asked Libby to
discuss how the Victorian Coastal
Strategy will frame our response. |
Net proceeds
of this conference will be
donated to the Red Cross
bushfire fund
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Conference Manager:
Margaret Mills – ph 9534 5128
5million@publicland.com.au |
Prof Geoffrey London
is the Victorian Government
Architect.
We have asked him – in relation
to the public realm, what is the
meaning of good design? What
is the benefit of good design?
Can we expect Melbourne’s
public places to become more
like those in Europe or Asia? |
Prof Michael Buxton
is Associate Professor of Environment and
Planning at RMIT University.
His recent research has focussed on socioeconomic
and environmental change in
Melbourne’s bushfire-prone peri-urban areas.
Our question to Prof Buxton: is the planning
system as we know it an adequate tool for
working at the public land-private land interface? |
Duncan Malcolm*
is the Chairman of Victorian
Environment Assessment Council
(VEAC), currently investigating
public land in the Melbourne
metropolitan area.
He is no stranger to controversy,
having steered VEAC through its
recent studies of the Otways and the
River Redgum country.
We can expect Duncan to provide an
overview of themes (and
controversies) emerging in the
Melbourne investigation.
* or alternate member of VEAC |
Marcus Spiller
is a Director of SGS Economics &
Planning, a Director of VicUrban
and a former National President of
the Planning Institute of Australia.
Marcus will explore the economics of
public land, the opportunities for
shaping its usage through pricing
policies, and the corresponding
policy implications.
As a way into this issue, we have
asked Marcus - should rights to new
bathing boxes be auctioned off to the
highest bidder? |
Conference Manager : Margaret Mills – phone 9534 5128
email - 5million@publicland.com.au |
