Event Recording
Clear and transparent ethical frameworks can and should feature much more overtly in decision making across development processes, which are uniquely exposed to risks associated with conflicts of interest, politicisation, compromise, and corruption. This panel explores the realities facing planners and policy makers, and highlights strategies for those committed to ethical practice.
panel
Han Aulby, Centre for Public Integrity
Michael West, Michael West Media
Sue Weatherley MPIA, Director, City Strategy and Innovation, Georges River Council
Dr Crystal Legacy, University of Melbourne
chaired by
Dr Dallas Rogers, University of Sydney
Dr Dallas Rogers is an urban geographer with a broad interest in housing, land, real estate and urban development. He writes about the colonial histories of land claiming, public housing, foreign real estate investment, the politics of urban development, participatory planning, platform real estate, and more. His work involves working closely with people and institutions on collaborative research projects.
Han Aulby is the founder and Executive Director of the Centre for Public Integrity, an independent think tank dedicated to preventing corruption, protecting the integrity of our institutions, and eliminating undue influence of money in politics. CPI has worked on anti-corruption reforms for the past 5 years, leading policy research and engaging former judges and legal experts in the push for a National Integrity Commission.
Michael West is an investigative journalist and founder of Michael West Media, a news website specialising in areas of high public interest, particularly the rising power of corporation over democracy and impropriety in areas of business, finance, tax, and energy. He began his career at the Australian Financial Review and later became business editor at the Sydney Morning Herald and a columnist at News Corp.
West was appointed Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Sydney’s School of Social and Political Sciences.
Sue Weatherley oversees the development and implementation of key city strategies at Georges River Council. Sue is a passionate and successful urban planner and senior local government executive with over 20 years of experience in senior local government executive roles in NSW and QLD, including Townsville and Ryde
Crystal Legacy is Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Melbourne and Deputy Director of the Informal Urbanism Research Hub. As a former recipient of an ARC DECRA, Crystal has published widely on the topics of urban transport politics and the post-political city. Her current research examines the governance and policy challenges of planning future urban transport, and the politics of citizen participation in infrastructure planning.