BY ALISON MARTIN
\nRISING to the challenge of creating sustainable, connected communities as the region grows will be a focus of next month\u2019s G21 Stakeholder Forum.
\nThe annual event, planned for August 6 at RACV Torquay Resort, promises lively, thought-provoking discussions from a stellar list of guest speakers, with former ABC presenter Jon Faine as MC.
\nThe forum will provide the region\u2019s leaders with an opportunity to hear informed perspectives from author and journalist George Megalogenis and urban research expert Distinguished Professor Billie Giles-Corti.
\nGeorge is an author and journalist who has observed national politics and demographic changes in Australia for more than three decades for The Australian, the ABC and The Age. He is currently penning the new Quarterly Essay: Exit Strategy \u2013 Politics After the Pandemic.
\nGeorge is also the author of \ufb01ve books, including The Australian Moment which won the 2013 Prime Minister\u2019s Literary Award for Non-\ufb01ction and the 2012 Walkley Award for Non-\ufb01ction, and formed the basis for his three-part ABC documentary series Making Australia Great.
\nGeorge\u2019s other books are Faultlines, The Longest Decade, Australia\u2019s Second Chance, The Football Solution and Balancing Act.
\nProfessor Giles-Corti is a VC Professorial Fellow at RMIT University and leads the Healthy Liveable Cities Group in the Centre for Urban Research.
\nFor more than two decades, she has studied the impact of the built environment on health and wellbeing, and led thought-provoking discussion on the features of the \u201c20-minute neighbourhood\u201d.
\nProf. Giles-Corti has also led the National Health and Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence in Healthy Liveable Communities, was RMIT\u2019s Urban Futures Enabling Capability Development Platform director and foundation director of UWA\u2019s Centre for the Built Environment.
\nShe is a technical advisor of the Victorian O\ufb03ce of the Government Architect\u2019s Design Review Panel, a member of the Victorian Planning Authority\u2019s Precinct Structure Plan Review Committee, a member of Melbourne Water\u2019s Liveability Panel and an Honorary Fellow of both the Planning Institute of Australia and the Public Health Association.
\nG21 Forum guests can also expect to take away ideas and insights into sustainable growth and shaping a community for future generations during a panel discussion with Wadawurrung Traditional Owner Corrina Eccles, sustainable architect Jeremy McLeod, economist Angela Jackson and urban planner Nat Anson.
\nThe forum\u2019s primary supporting sponsors include the Times News Group, Gforce Employment Solutions, TAC and Deakin University, with supporting sponsors Evologic, Geelong Port, Urbis and LBW Business & Wealth Advisors.<\/p>\n
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BY ALISON MARTIN RISING to the challenge of creating sustainable, connected communities as the region grows will be a focus of next month\u2019s G21 Stakeholder Forum. The annual event, planned for August 6 at RACV Torquay Resort, promises lively, thought-provoking discussions from a stellar list of guest speakers, with former ABC presenter Jon Faine as […]<\/p>\n