AIUS NSW Seminar

Decentralisation – Flogging A Dead Horse?

Speakers:
Jim Colman, Architect, Planner, Author and University Lecturer
Dr Glen Searle, Honorary Associate Professor of Planning at the Universities of Sydney and Queensland

From the very beginning of the British occupation of Australia the population has been concentrated in the first settlements: Sydney, Hobart, Launceston, Melbourne…The vast and comparatively dry interior has never been conducive to substantial urban settlement, except where irrigation has been possible or mining has provided the economic base, most notably at Ballarat and Bendigo, Broken Hill, Queenstown, Kalgoorlie and Mt Isa. Our speakers will touch on 20th century efforts by governments to break the capital city dominance and assess the likelihood of the pattern changing.

This debate is given added impetus by the Federal Government’s proposals to send new immigrants to regional centres. How can they be sustained by flagging regional economies?

Wednesday, 25th September 2019 5.00-6.30pm, followed by refreshments
Bartier Perry, level 10, 77 Castlereagh St Sydney