Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Monday 13 February
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
In 2012, Ideas for Melbourne will be the talk of the town.
With city elections looming in 2012, we’re kicking off this year’s programming by turning the spotlight on some of Melbourne’s biggest civic issues. Over the course of a week, we’ll be asking the city’s most controversial questions, giving you the chance to ask the city’s best placed commentators, experts and policy-makers the questions that will decide this year’s elections. Our aim is simple: to generate public conversation on the issues that matter to Melbournians most.
Planes, trains, automobiles and – latterly – cycling are a perennial Melbourne bone of contention. Is there room on the roads for everyone, or are we heading for traffic armageddon? Paul Mees, Meredith Sussex and Daniel Bowen explore.
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Featuring
Meredith Sussex
Ms Meredith Sussex AM is a non-executive board director and consultant who provides strategic advice to organisations on public policy, planning, management and governance. She is a non-executive director of the Port of Melbourne Corporation and the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, and an administrator of Brimbank City Council where, with two others, she acts in place of the council that was removed by the state government for a variety of governance failings.
In September 2010, she was appointed as a member of the Council of Australian Governments’ Expert Panel on Capital City Planning, which will report in February 2012 on the extent to which Australia’s capital city planning systems meet the criteria agreed by all Australian governments.
Prior to moving from her Victorian public service career in 2009, she was the Coordinator-General of Infrastructure, Victoria, where she worked on the planning for Victoria’s transport future, including freight and port planning (in the context of land use planning). In this role, she also led research on the public policy issues facing Australian cities and suburbs.
Paul Mees
Dr. Paul Mees is a senior lecturer in transport planning at RMIT.
Previously, he worked at the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University’s Urban Research Program, and before becoming an academic he was a lawyer.
Paul is the author of A Very Public Solution: Transport in the Dispersed City, published by Melbourne University Press, and has been a consultant to local, regional and State government transport and planning agencies in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. His new book Transport for Suburbia: Beyond the Automobile Age, published by Earthscan of London, was launched in April and is now in its second print run.