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With Chris Eddy on leave, Victorian Local Governance Association CEO Kathryn Arndt steps into the VLGA Connect hosting chair, as Chris interviews Johnathan Spear, CEO of Infrastructure Victoria to discuss the recently launched draft Victorian 30-year infrastructure strategy. Julie Reid re-joins the panel to discuss the recent planning scheme reforms. And, Helen Healy the Mayor of Mildura joins us to talk about the Nature Strip Showdown - a unique annual community competition where residents showcase their creatively maintained nature strips.Sponsored by Hunt & Hunt Lawyers.Support the showTo learn more about the events, programs, and training offered by the Victorian Local Governance Association (VLGA), please click here. If you'd like to contact us about the podcast, please send us an email to vlga@vlga.org.au or call us on 03 9349 7999

On this weeks program Chris talks to Adam Pulford about Lime and Neuron e-scooter rental schemes in Melbourne including them no longer available in Melbourne or Yarra, a disconnect between decision makers and end users creating kneejerk reactions, how consultation processes don't necessarily work for busy people, how e-scooters provide a vital last mile/km travel option, why aren't designated on-road parking bays an option to keep footpath areas decluttered, why modern cities should be embracing new travel ideas in a environmental and cost of living crisis, state government support for e-scooters, how to plan and design streets for everyone, problems with e-scooters trials means they can be easily lobbied against as part of the so called road culture wars and what steps people can take next.Local news, Brunswick Bike Shed holding earlier sales during CERES Harvest Festival this Saturday 29 March then offering free bike checks to festival attendees from 12pm to 3pm andCritical Mass Boroondara, 5.30pm, Friday 28 March riding to the inner east for cycling infrastructure and a new Yarra river crossing,Keep signing our petition:  Don't risk our safety in 2025 - tell Yarra Council not to remove safe cycling lanes, Infrastructure Victoria draft 30-year infrastructure strategy + Inquiry into the impact of road safety behaviours on vulnerable road usersAnd if you have a few spare hours for reading: Elizabeth Street Protected Bike Lanes: A historyProgram musicKing Stingray, Camp dog

On this weeks program Chris talks to Mark Donnellon from Streets People Love Hobart about how they created the group, what actions they've taken since December 2024, how the campaign grew from passionate debate about improving Collins Street, showing community support for active transport in nipuluna Hobart, being guided by their fun-loving mascot, Perci the Platypus, supporting Hobart City Councils Argyle and Campbell Street bicycle connections and getting people involved with a public meeting about the Collins Street improvement trial on Tuesday 25 March at 5.30pm at City Hall, 57-63 Macquarie Street.Local news includes the Victoria Parliament finally tabling the final report of the inquiry into vulnerable road users that was tabled in the Legislative Assembly last year, you can read the report here, especially Recommendation 31: 'The Department of Transport and Planning continue to promote the installation of protected bike lanes in inner and middle Melbourne'. Most of the recommendations are supported 'in principle' which is fairly lukewarm response to be honest. Critical Mass Boroondara is coming up on Friday 28 March, Yarra and Boroondara need a new river crossing! Infrastructure Victoria has just released their 30 year plan, and it supports a cycling link from the city through to the Hawthorn - Box Hill trail. This link would need a new pedestrian and cycling bridge between Richmond and Hawthorn.And don't forget to sign our petition: Don't risk our safety in 2025 - tell Yarra Council not to remove safe cycling lanesProgram musicKing Stingray, Camp dogCamp Cope, How to socialise friends and influence people

Schools in Australia are being asked to open up their grounds after hours to give families more green space and areas for children to play. With the population of Australia's south-eastern Victoria state growing rapidly, the demand for additional green spaces in cities and towns is also increasing. Asking to go back to school during the holidays isn't something parents would expect from their children, but mom of five Amanda Murray-Alston says it's a little different these days. “First day of school holidays, the first thing they said to me on the Saturday was ‘Can we go up to school and play?'” she quips. She says her children need space to play and run around, so they come to the local primary school which is open all week long. On Sundays, they can even enjoy a farmers' market on school grounds. “Often we'll turn up to do something and there will be half a dozen people here already,” says Murray-Alston. According to research conducted by Infrastructure Victoria, two-thirds of Melbourne's public schools stay open for the wider community outside of school hours. That allows local families to have a space to come to and play next to their homes. “Especially as our city and our population grows there's a really big opportunity to make better use of our school grounds,” says Infrastructure Victoria CEO Johnathon Spear. The advisory body is now urging the state government to help more schools stay open after hours. Their research indicates that if all public schools in the city were accessible, an extra 450,000 residents would gain access to green spaces nearby. Some school principals have expressed concern that opening their facilities to the public might lead to increased graffiti and damage. Spear says the project would offer funding to counter any additional costs incurred by the school. “We've recommended that schools that open up for community use get funding to help them with any additional maintenance or administrative burden to do that,” he says. This article was provided by The Associated Press.

Affordability is the most-debated and the most confused issue in residential real estate. While the rental shortage and rising rents occupies the minds of many, the property issue that occupies the most space most often in news media and in the minds of Australian consumers is housing affordability. It has been this way for years, indeed for decades. And while the so-called Great Australian Dream is often declared dead, with young people doomed to a lifetime of renting, the evidence suggests otherwise. I recently finished working on a report with financial comparison website Canstar which demonstrates that the Dream is very much alive. The Deposit Stars report shows that there are attainable options for young buyers in all our city and regional markets, including the biggest and most expensive cities. And the finance data indicates our property markets remain as active as ever.  A report from the Housing Industry Association in August 2024 noted that “various segments of the housing market are increasingly active, with lending to first-home buyers, owner occupiers, and investors increasing in the first half of 2024”, based on the latest ABS lending data. HIA economist Maurice Tapang said: “This increase in lending is partially driven by first home buyers. The number of loans issued to FHBs in the June quarter was 5.8% higher than the March quarter.” This reflects ABS data on the broader market encompassing all types of residential real estate loans up to the end of June 2024. One of the reasons home ownership is often declared beyond the reach of the average consumer is that most reports are based on unrealistic parameters.  As I comment in the Deposit Stars report, most analysis on affordability is based on the size of a 20% deposit to buy a house at the median price in our major cities and how long it would take to save such a deposit. These reports preclude the possibility of smaller deposits, particularly with the help of government programs.  They overlook the reality that most people entering the market for the first time buy houses in the lower price ranges well below the city's median price. And they usually ignore the preference of many buyers for attached dwellings – apartments, townhouses and units - and not only because they're cheaper. Many of the locations featured in the Canstar report reflect a growing phenomenon in Australian real estate: the rise of attached dwellings as the home of choice by more and more buyers. A range of cohorts are opting increasingly for units and townhouses, including downsizers, lifestyle buyers, migrants and first-home buyers. One of the features that draws growing numbers to apartments is location appeal. Not only do attached dwellings allow people to access property in good locations at cheaper prices than houses, but the average unit is better located than the average house. The “Measuring Home Price Differences” report by Infrastructure Victoria found that units consistently trump houses on proximity to desirable features.  The report says: “Units are located closer to selected infrastructure types, on average, than houses and townhouses.” This is one of multiple factors driving higher demand for units – challenging the dominant paradigm of real estate (that houses always outperform units and townhouses on capital growth). That is undoubtedly changing. Recently Ubank, which is a division of National Australia Bank, published a survey which found more than half of Gen Z and Millennials who don't own a home are looking to make a move on the property market within the next five years. 56 per cent of survey respondents – all Australian Gen Z and Millennials between the ages of 18 to 43 – aim to purchase their first property within the next five years. Nine out of 10 respondents agrees that purchasing a home was one of their goals in life – although most acknowledged it won't be easy. In addition to all that, research from the Commonwealth Bank confirms that ownership remains an ambition and that the number of first-time buyers going it alone is growing. According to data from the big four bank, 40 per cent of first home buyers purchased their property alone in the first six months of 2024 – without going in on the purchase with a partner, friend, or family member. That's a jump from the 35 per cent of first-time buyers doing the same in 2019. So there is compelling evidence that home ownership not only remains a primary goal for young Australians, but that it is being achieved in growing numbers.  

The trend we have termed “The Rise and Rise of Apartments” continues to pick up pace. Across Australia, more and more buyers are opting for attached dwellings for lifestyle, for affordability, for convenience and for safety. One of the features that draws growing numbers of buyers (and tenants) to apartments is location appeal. Not only do attached dwellings allow people to access property in good locations at cheaper prices than houses, but the average unit is better located than the average house. A report titled “Measuring Home Price Differences” by Infrastructure Victoria has found that units consistently trump houses on proximity to desirable features.  “Units are located closer to selected infrastructure types, on average, than houses and townhouses,” the report says. The report found that units were far more likely to be located close to train stations, tram stops, major activity centres and arterial roads than houses. “About 60% of units are within 1.6km of a tram stop, while this distance only includes about 20% of houses,” the report says. This is one of multiple factors driving higher demand for units – challenging the dominant paradigm of real estate. That paradigm, still widely accepted in the real estate industry, states that houses always outperform units and townhouses on capital growth. But that is undoubtedly changing. We are seeing growing evidence that more and more buyers of various sorts are opting for attached dwellings. Buyer demand in locations where units dominate the dwelling mix - or are a significant part of the dwelling mix - has been rising notably for the past 12-18 months. Suburbs where units prominent are now among the most powerful markets in Australia – which makes our Top 10 Apartment Hotspots report essential reading for investors seeking opportunities in 2024 and beyond. Those seeking out well-located and affordable apartments include older people downsizing from a large family home. They also include … young people seeking an affordable first step on the property ladder; lifestyle buyers seeking low-maintenance, lock-up-and-leave options in good locations; overseas migrants from countries where unit-style living is the norm; investors seeking affordability and higher rental yields in good locations; and buyers who seek the security and safety of an apartment above ground level. In inner-city precincts in our biggest cities, houses can typically cost over $2 million, but apartments can be bought in the $600,000s and $700,000s in the same suburbs in many cases. The rental yields are also significantly higher, a key consideration in times of higher interest rates – although it needs to be remembered that apartments do entail additional costs like body corporate fees. But the most noteworthy data relates to capital growth. In a growing number of locations throughout Australia, apartments have recorded larger increases in median prices than houses, both in the past year and over the longer term. At Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast, apartments are considerably cheaper than houses, sell faster, have higher rental yields, have recorded bigger price growth in the past year – and the long-term capital growth rate also is superior. There are many, many more examples like this across Australia. New data from CoreLogic shows that apartment values are rising faster than those of houses in about six out of 10 suburbs. This is also reflected in the general results for many of our major cities. In the past three months, the median price for units in Brisbane rose 5.8 per cent, while houses increased 3.4 per cent. Adelaide units outperformed houses by the same margin after increasing by 7.1 per cent during the same period. Unit prices are also rising at a faster rate than houses across Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Hobart, although they have fallen behind in Darwin and Canberra. Across the combined capital cities, unit values rose faster than house values in 506 suburbs out of a total of 855 suburbs, with some unit markets gaining more than seven times more than houses.

Infrastructure Victoria found a whopping 30 per cent of Melburnians have never caught a bus, even though 80 per cent live within 400 metres of a stop.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

VLGA Connect, Episode 340Infrastructure Victoria has released the results of an 18-month research project, looking at how and why people are making housing choices; and revealing what could be don to shift demand in new greenfield suburbs to established suburbs, closer to existing infrastruture.IV CEO Jonathan Spear talks to Chris Eddy about the report's findings and the range of proposed policy options offered for government consideration.Support the showTo learn more about the events, programs, and training offered by the Victorian Local Governance Association (VLGA), please click here. If you'd like to contact us about the podcast, please send us an email to vlga@vlga.org.au or call us on 03 9349 7999

Kulja and Dylan sit down with regular guest Dave Nichols, who gets get into Infrastructure Victoria's recent report proposing family-friendly housing in established suburbs as a solution to tackle the housing crisis; Wanning Sun, Professor at University of Technology Sydney, discusses her research into Chinese-Australian responses to Australian media narratives about prospective war with China; and Dr Andrew Peters, Professor at Swinburne University, chats about the progress being made to return land to traditional owners following the successful native title claim by the Eastern Maar people in Victoria.

Evelyn Mugisha´s architecture and design career journey is bold, daring, versatile and inspiring.  She is an Architect and project management practitioner from Uganda. She moved to Australia in 2019 and currently works at  Infrastructure Victoria, an independent infrastructure advisory body for the State of Victoria in Australia. Evelyn shares her fascination for cities, the large scale urban infrastructure that makes up cities and how this infrastructure works. She offers her views on the state and the future of African cities of infrastructure, pointing us to some innovative and sustainable solutions. We are intrigued and inspired by Evelyn's personal and career achievements , specifically her process of transitioning to a different career path with architecture and design as her  backbone/foundation. We hope that this episode will help young architectural design professionals  broaden the spectrum of how they can apply themselves in different career paths. Support the showInstagram: @myafricanaesthetic Twitter: @MyAfricanAesth1 https://www.myafricanaesthetic.com/

In this EXTRA SPECIAL HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR your intrepid hosts eschew the normal dissection of climate and energy reports and instead, in an exercise of regrettable democratic process, critique a climate movie of YOUR choice, dear Summerupperers.But before we do that, we kick off with the inaugural awarding of our favourite climate and energy paper of 2022. This award, which most-definitely-will-not-be-named-the-Papies, was awarded to… DRUMROLL pleeeeease…..'Empirically grounded technology forecasts and the energy transition' from Rupert Way, Matthew C. Ives, Penny Mealy and J. Doyne Farmer from Oxford University. AKA the learning rates paper!  A very worthy recipient of Let Me Sum Up's inaugural NON-Papie! Honourable mentions for our runners up go to Infrastructure Victoria's ‘Towards 2050: Gas Infrastructure in a Net Zero Emissions Economy' and the Commonwealth's ‘Safeguard Mechanism Reforms consultation paper'. And of course you could do a lot worse than hit the back catalogue to hear us discuss these three papers on Episode 11, Episode 5 and Episode 7 respectively!Grabbing the popcorn and maybe some rotten tomatoes, your intrepid hosts settled in to critique the climate movie of your choice for 2022, the satirical comedy ‘Don't Look Up' in which two astronomers go on a media tour to warn humankind of a planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth. The response from a distracted world: Meh. The response from your intrepid hosts? We're not going to make it that easy for you Summerupperers! We watched so you can listen ;-)Frankie's One More Thing is Noel Pearson's Boyer Lecture for 2022, available as a podcast or on ABC iView, where he discusses constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, contending this is not a project of identity politics, but one of justice, unity and inclusion.Tennant's One More Thing is a retro fantastic re-reading of a favourite science fiction book by William Gibson, Neuromancer, published in 1984. Go check it out!Luke's One More Thing is a summer movie whodunnit, Glass Onion starring Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc, a charming PI with a southern drawl. Reminiscent of Agatha Christie and also skewering the rich and powerful, this is currently filling Menzel's void of Rian Johnson's missing Star Wars trilogy so give it a watch peeps!We are taking a break in January but will be back with ever more reports to read in Feb 2023. In the meantime, happy holidays to all our wonderful Summerupperers. Please keep tweeting your thoughts to us at @LukeMenzel, @TennantReed and @FrankieMuskovic and if you would like to weave some golden threads through our back catalogue, give us your feelpinions or suggest papers to read we are always here for that - hit us up at mailbag@letmesumup.net.

VLGA Connect State Election Series 2022Dr Jonathan Spear, CEO of Infrastructure Victoria, joins Kathryn Arndt and Chris Eddy to talk about the 30 year infrastructure strategy for Victoria, and what the evidence says about current and future infrastructure needs across the state.

This week your intrepid hosts braved some interstate travel craziness (the things we do for you) and came together IN 3D REAL LIFE AND EVERYTHING to bring you this pod from Wurundjeri land.We have been loving the energy twitterati folks having at our ISP episode and in response to our follow up question “what would you want to see in a supercharged ISP?” we received plenty of excellent fodder from friends of the pod Emma, Tom Quinn, Craig Memery and more! A no-surprises tech scenario, a supercharged electrification/green hydrogen one as well as the fraught question of a just transition and how all this necessary infrastructure is to be paid for. Gulp.Our truly hipster choice for this week's pod was to eschew the boringly mainstream Victorian Gas Substitution Roadmap and instead dive into one of the reports that fed into it… Infrastructure Victoria's report ‘Towards 2050: Gas Infrastructure in a Net Zero Emissions Economy'. Thank you to dear friend of the pod, Rob Murray-Leach for recommending the 190-page-report-disguised-as-half-that-size

In this episode your intrepid hosts recap listener feedback say WHAAAAT! While basking in the glow of our dear listeners – proving both their existence AND interest in our musings – we:do a combined shout out to Laura Hamilton O'Hara at Living Future Institute of Australia for letting us know their Declare Material transparency label has recently expanded to include embodied carbon, as well as the team at NABERS and GBCA who are leading some important work for governments on embodied carbon in the buildings sectorcelebrate IRENA finally releasing Part I of their Hydrogen paper series (Trade outlook for 2050 and way forward). We remain mystified by the rationale for releasing Part I after Parts II and III, but absolutely claim credit for the release of Part I within 24 hrs of our hydrogen carriers episode going live!and while we're on claiming credit for things, in perhaps our last Gas Substitution Roadmap Corner for a bit, we can only assume our keen interest in this paper's whereabouts drove the Victorian Government's decision to release their roadmap ahead of the state election in November. While there are whispers of a major update next year, for now we will pore over the current version.Want your hot take featured in the next round of follow up? You're in luck! Send your comments, questions (and reports you think we should cover on the show) to mailbag@letmesumup.net and we'll see what we can do.With all family business settled, we turn our attention to our whizz bang report for this week….. AEMO's 2022 Integrated System Plan (ISP)! So much to unpack. Guess you'll have to listen to find out what we think ;-)Tennant's One More Thing (apart from a plea to Katharine Murphy and David Speers to plug the pod) is trilogues! Taking place in the EU (Council, Commission, Parliament) to resolve how to implement their ambitious Fit for 55 legislation, including expanding ETS (will it include transport and heating of buildings?) and Tennant's favourite topic, the carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) and whether hydrogen will be in or out. Complex? Yes. Fascinating? For sure!Frankie's One More Thing is the hotly anticipated legislation that will give effect to the Federal Government's target to reduce emissions by 43% on 2005 levels by 2030. Will the Greens vote in support? Will Labor build a floor not a ceiling? Will the future of coal and gas projects feature in the debate? See two longform interviews with Adam Bandt here and here for some insights and stay tuned!Luke's One More Thing (apart from usurping Frankie's with the Victorian Opposition's gauntlet throw down to legislate a net zero by 2050 target for Victoria if elected) is a bit of shameless self promotion for his other work-related pod, First Fuel. For any listeners interested in Luke and Frankie's German adventures on a recent energy efficiency delegation, you can hear Part I of the wrap on the delegation from Luke, Frankie and ‘rando ring-in' Carlos Flores, Director of NABERS right here. (We love Carlos, a dear friend of the pod).See you next time! Please keep tweeting your thoughts and suggestions for new papers to us at @LukeMenzel, @TennantReed and @FrankieMuskovic. On our next episode we will be chatting about the other blockbuster government report on gas in Victoria, Infrastructure Victoria's Towards 2050: Gas infrastructure in a net-zero emissions economy. Didn't see that coming, did you? Blame this bloke.

On this weeks program Chris catches up with Cr Jonathan Sri, Greens Councillor for the Gabba, Brisbane City Council about flooding impacts in Queensland and New South Wales, priorities on repairing damaged cycling infrastructure, reducing emissions, problems with extraction of rare earths, supply chains, disposable products with the upsurge to EVs, socio economic impacts of climate changeUpdate: a temporary protected cycle lane has been installed on Coronation Drive to bypass the blocked Bicentennial BikewayLocal news includes Moving Forward: Yarra Councils draft Transport Strategy 2022,  Moreland Council: 10 Year Capital Works Programs for Walking and Cycling, two Monash cycling reseach studies: Understanding the experiences of cyclists and Cycled Study: City-wide bicycling exposure modelling study and recent Infrastructure Victoria article: Why the city needs safe and more reliable alternatives to car usage

From 26 October 2021: On VLGA Connect, Chris Eddy is in conversation with Peter Kartsidimas, Director Networks and Planning at Infrastructure Victoria. We learn more about the development of IV's 30 Year Strategy, and its recommendations in relation to growth area infrastructure, urban infill and developing regional areas.

On VLGA Connect, Chris Eddy is in conversation with Peter Kartsidimas, Director Networks and Planning at Infrastructure Victoria. We learn more about the development of IV's 30 Year Strategy, and its recommendations in relation to growth area infrastructure, urban infill and developing regional areas.

How the move to work from home has changed your job, and what you need to know about what that means for you. Patrick Turner, a senior associate at Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, speaks with us about how working from home has altered the legal status of the workplace, and what you need to know about how the law deals with workplace issues in the home. The Deputy CEO of Infrastructure Victoria, Jonathan Speer, is also on the pod. We'll chat with him about how working from home has fundamentally changed the dynamic of commuting, traffic, and activity within a busy metropolis, and what that means for future city living. More about On The Job podcast Need help with working conditions? Call Australian Union Support Centre - 1300 486 466 About the hosts Sally Rugg, Executive director at Change.org Australia - @sallyrugg Francis Leach, ACTU - @SaintFranklySupport the show: https://www.onthejobpodcast.com.au/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Faith and Val are joined in the studio today by Jeremy Lawrence of Streets Alive Yarra. We chat about what Streets Alive do and Infrastructure Victoria's Draft 30 Year Stratgey, out for consultation now. 

Faith and Val are back in the studio for the first live program of 2021! We kick off the program with a couple of news items including; Victoria Walks release of their position paper on Safe Urban Speed Limits. Often it is very difficult for local councils to change speed limits and Victoria Walks think it should be easier forcouncils to implement lower speed limts near schools, activity centres and residential areas. We tend to agree! - Infrastructure Victoria have realeased their research paper (does everyone spend the summer holidays writing papers?) on policy options to get Melbourne moving post-2020, called Transporting Melbourne. It includes suggestions such as financial incentives to encourage people to ride to work (page 50) and fast-tracking infrstructure like the the St Kilda Rd bike lanes and others to encourage peopleto see riding as a safe option, (page 53). - The  Environmental Performance Authority performance group is an ecological performance group that focuses on how we are interconnected with our environment. Their project Hidden In Plain Sight seeks to uncover and share the hidden places and pleasures we discovered in the City of Yarra during the lockdowns of 2020. Get along to the introductory forum at Bargoonga Nganjin Library, North Fitzroy at 6:30pm Thursday February 4th, share what you discovered and hear all about the project. EPA will make dances and a sensory walk and bike ride to celebrate some of these places and insights on March 27th and 28th. You can register to attend the fourm here. Val talks about H G Wells, a source of some of his best biccyle stories, before we move on to some upcoming events imncluding: the Great Otway Gravel Grind, the Outer Wombat Gravel Grind and a second GromPre as well as the come-back of the Full Moon Ride this coming Friday.(Listen for details from Val) 

Infrastructure Victoria has released its draft 30 year strategy, and is looking for feedback prior to 26 February 2021. We speak with IV's Manager Strategy and Policy, Llewellyn Reynders, about how the strategy was developed, and what it means for local government.

كشف تقرير صدر اليوم عن Infrastructure Victoria أن اعداد راكبي الدراجات الهوائية في مدينة ملبورن قد ارتفع بشكل كبير بلغ 270 بالمائة خلال الفترة بين نوفمبر 2019 وأبريل من هذا العام.

An Infrastructure Victoria report today reveals the figure skyrocketed between November 2019 and April this year. President of the Australian Cycling Alliance, Edward Hore, says he's certain the number of cyclists on Melbourne's roads will rise further in coming months. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Val and Faith chat about their respective bike moments, Darebin Council opening their first pop-up bike lane trial on South Crescent, Northcote, no marked lines on Napier Street, e-bike recall, Victoria’s Draft 30-Year Infrastructure Strategy from Infrastructure Victoria, Streets Alive Yarra overview and the 125th anniversary of the Melbourne to Warrnambool cycling race.

You Heard it Here - December 9: Caitlin Cassidy and Alex Mitchell take you through what made news today including a Shepparton man facing court for assaulting a 75-year-old man, new leaders at the helm of Echuca-Moama's Community Living & Respite Services and Infrastructure Victoria saying Shepparton doesn't need 200km/h trains. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Victorian Transport Association has endorsed several of the 95 recommendations made. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A 30-year plan for Melbourne's future has recommended cheaper off-peak fares on public transport and a trial of full-scale congestion pricing in inner-Melbourne. Deputy CEO of Infrastructure Victoria, Dr Jonathan Spear, says all of the plan's 95 recommendations are "really important" for the future of the city. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transport Matters MP Rod Barton weighs in on Infrastructure Victoria's plan to cut tram, bus and off-peak fares. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We are joined by Michel Masson (CEO of Infrastructure Victoria) and Claire Ferres Miles (CEO Sustainability Victoria) to hear what are the most important focus areas to ensure we are well equipped to deal with the challenges of; climate change, population growth, recession and the associated social shocks and stresses. How do we help our cities bounce back from COVID in the short term, and how do we adjust to ‘live with COVID' and the associated stresses on our communities in the long term.GET IN TOUCH:Email the show at talkingcities@aecom.com. Let us know who should be our next guest, what you like or how we can improve Talking Cities.Connect with our hosts,James Rosenwax, via LinkedIn.Tim O’Loan, via Linked InFor any further information visit AECOM's Brilliant City Insights.Please if you enjoy listening to Talking Cities, leave us a 5 star rating and don't forget to subscribe.

On this episode of VLGA Connect, Michel Masson talks about the work of Infrastructure Victoria, preparing for a post-COVID-19 world, and the role of local government in helping shape the infrastructure agenda.

How, what and when we charge users of roads and transport is a particularly sensitive topic for politicians and the broader community.  In this episode, we're joined by Jonathan Spear and Moses Lee from Infrastructure Victoria to talk about new research that points to some potential ways forward.

BZE speaks to Dr Allison Stewart, Project Director Automated and Zero Emission Vehicle Infrastructure Advice at Infrastructure Victoria about the recent research showing these vehicles could add almost $15 billion per year to the economy, community and environment.

Laurence and Alastair discuss the news in Melbourne this week. We're getting toward the end of 'developing' Docklands, Southbank Boulevard changes kick off, Infrastructure Victoria has surprisingly gone out early for its first 30-year strategy refresh and shots fired - the Victorian state opposition has announced their first public transport-focused election initiative.

BZE speaks to Dr Allison Stewart, Project Director of Infrastructure Victoria's groundbreaking research on how to pave the way for automated and zero emission vehicles.

Bron and Anth sail the good ship marinara with a dive report from Terri Allen and loads of the latest news and views. We are joined by Oceanographer Dr David Provis talking about the recent NOnathanrfarrelly@hotmail.comAA predictions for global mean sea level and what this could mean for the Victorian coast in 2040 and 2100. Jeff Nottle, Chairman of Preserve Westernport Action Group, joins us to talk about his group's response to the recent announcement by Infrastructure Victoria on the timing and location of an additional container port. Also we promo world oceans day which is of course June 8th!

In today's episode I speak with four everyday people who have been participants in deliberative mini-publics in Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. Each person has their own unique take on being a randomly selected participant in a deliberative mini-public, but they all agree they would recommend being part of a deliberative mini-public to family and friends. First up is Ben McPeek who was a member of the Residents’ Reference Panel for the Davenport Community Rail Overpass project in 2015. This Reference Panel was commissioned by Metrolinx and designed and facilitated by MASS LBP.  I spoke to Peter MacLeod from MASS LBP about their work on episode 6 of the podcast. Next, I spoke with Lewis Adams who was a juror on the Infrastructure Victoria Citizens’ Jury in 2015. Infrastructure Victoria was developing a thirty-year infrastructure plan for the State of Victoria in Australia and ran a multi-faceted engagement program which included two concurrent citizens’ juries: one in the capital - Melbourne and the other in Shepparton in regional Victoria. Lewis was a juror on the regional Citizens’ Jury. The Infrastructure Victoria Citizens’ Jury process was designed by the newDemocracy Foundation and involved a range of facilitators (including some of the people who I spoke to on episode 11 of the podcast) under Nation Partners who were responsible for delivering the overall engagement process. I also spoke with Caroline Victor who was a juror on the Cats and Dogs Citizens’ Jury in South Australia in late 2014. This citizens’ jury was established by the Dog and Cat Management Board to advise on measures to reduce the number of unwanted dogs and cats. This process was facilitated by DemocracyCo, whose co-founder Emily Jenke I spoke to on episode 10 of the podcast). Recruitment for this citizens’ jury was undertaken by the newDemocracy Foundation. I was working for newDemocracy Foundation at that time and managed the recruitment for this citizens’ jury. The Dogs and Cats Citizens’ Jury won the IAP2 Australasian Core Values Award in the environmental category in 2016. And finally, I talked with Andy Holdup who was a member of the Citizens’ Assembly South in Southhampton in the UK in 2015. Unlike the other three processes covered in today’s episode, which were all commissioned by government agencies to get input into decisions they were making, the two Citizens’ Assemblies run in Sheffield (Citizens’ Assembly North) and Southhampton (Citizens’ Assembly South) were commissioned by the Electoral Reform Society with a number of academics interested in democratic reform as a project to demonstrate the value of engaging with everyday citizens on key governance issues, in this case the devolution agenda. In episode 8 I spoke with Professor Graham Smith one of the academics involved in the Democracy Matters project about these assemblies and in particular about the experimental aspect of the process where Citizens’ Assembly South included local politicians as well as citizens. And in episode 10 I spoke to Titus Alexander the lead facilitator for these Assemblies. The Democracy Matters process won the UK Political Studies Association Annual Award for Democratic Innovation in 2016.   There are only two more episodes to come for Season 1. Next week I'll be talking to Professors Graham Smith and Brigette Gießel about how they evaluate democratic innovations, including deliberative mini-publics and the following week I'll be talking to a number of critics of deliberative mini-publics to get a different perspective on these democratic innovations. I hope you'll join me for the final two episodes of Season 1 of Real Democracy Now! a podcast.