**Check against delivery** It’s great to be able to join you all remotely today. I’m looking forward to when we can do these events in person again soon. We’re here to discuss a critical issue for Australia: how to build the industries of the future, and to create the jobs of the next decade and…
DetailsUniversities Australia Higher Education Conference 2021 03 June 2021 Thank you for the opportunity to be with you today and to have so many here in person. Unfortunately, my fellow Victorians cannot be here due to the most recent lockdown. But we send our best wishes to them. The Victorian outbreak is a reminder that…
Details31 March 2021 Thank you Vice Chancellor Martin Bean for having me at your RMIT city campus, and congratulations on your contribution to this great university. I wish you well on your next chapter when you finish up here in a few months. Thank you also for the introductory remarks from the Hon Phil Honeywood.…
DetailsSpeech 26 February 2021 Acknowledgements I am delighted to join you all today — here at our second oldest university, one of our great research institutions, and my alma mater. This is my first major speech on higher education since becoming Education Minister just before Christmas last year. I want to use it to…
DetailsThank you Dean Zabrieszach for the introduction. May I start by expressing my appreciation for the day-to-day work of ITS Australia, and in particular for organising this summit. Each year, the ITS Summit brings together Australian leaders in transport technology to share information, learn from each other and work out opportunities to make our transport…
DetailsThank you for the opportunity to speak at Smart Cities Conference. I’d like to start by acknowledging Adam Beck, the Executive Director of the Smart Cities Council, Les Walker the Deputy Mayor from the Townsville City Council, as well as dignitaries from the ASEAN Region and New Zealand who have joined us here today. It…
DetailsCarolyn Weitzman: Thank you very much for coming. I’m going to be very professorial for the next few minutes. My name’s Carolyn Weitzman, I’m a professor of urban planning at the University of Melbourne and it’s my pleasure and privilege to moderate this session today on relieving cities’ growing pains. I’d like to begin by acknowledging…
DetailsAcknowledgements Thank you Adina Carson and thank you Ken Morrison for your invitation to speak at the PCA’s annual lunch today. I do not need to tell this audience how important the property sector is to Australia’s economy, with more than half of Australia’s wealth held in residential real estate— $7.6 trillion worth — and…
Details**Check against delivery** Last week, the Prime Minister, Minister Coleman and I announced our Population Plan. It is an integrated plan to ease the population pressure in our big capital cities while supporting the growth of those smaller cities and regions that want more people. It is a plan to accelerate infrastructure construction to deal…
DetailsIt is a pleasure to join you here in Melbourne at the Australian Financial Review National Infrastructure Summit. I am born and bred of this great city. I grew up in Pakenham, 55 kilometres out from where we are today. When I was a boy, it was a country town of just a few thousand people;…
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