Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Wednesday 19 November
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Listen to audio from this event here (mp3, 25mb, 1 hour). We’ll publish a video early this week.
As our cities get more crowded, our transport infrastructure ages, and climate change brings new challenges, transport looms large as a knotty policy issue. What is happening at the cutting edge of public transport, and clean car technology? What’s the state of Australia’s public transport systems and road transport network – and why do we always have to choose one over the other?
Question time
When you think ‘question time’, perhaps you picture rowdy politicians cussing each other out. But in our new series, we’re putting the dignity back into proceedings … along with a generous amount of time. It’s one full hour of pure Q&A between you, our audience, moderator Madeleine Morris, and a panel of experts in the evening’s chosen field of inquiry. Get informed about the key issues of our time, in the lead-up to the Victorian state election.
This programme, Question time will tackle three critical topics: renewable energy, jobs of the future, and the always-fraught issue of transport, now and into the future. BYO hot potatoes and burning questions.
Hosted by Madeleine Morris.
Presented in partnership with Arts House.
Featuring
Angharad Wynne-Jones
Angharad Wynne-Jones is creative producer at Arts House, City of Melbourne, a contemporary performance centre in Melbourne. She is also director of TippingPoint Australia, developing international and local projects with artists, scientists and communities energising the cultural response to climate change.
Madeleine Morris
Madeleine Morris is a Melbourne-based reporter for ABC television’s 7.30. She was formerly a presenter for the BBC in London and reported from dozens of countries before returning to her native Australia. She is the author of Guilt-Free Bottle-Feeding: Why Your Formula-Fed Baby Can Grow Up To Be Happy, Healthy and Smart, published by Finch.
John Stone
John Stone is lecturer in transport planning at the University of Melbourne. His research has identified many opportunities for more effective and efficient public transport in Australian cities through better service coordination and more efficient network design. He is currently pursuing opportunities for exchange and policy learning between Australian public transport planners and their international counterparts.
Amandine Denis
Amandine Denis is head of research at ClimateWorks Australia. She was a key analyst on the Low Carbon Growth Plan for Australia, and authored the Cost of Delay report which quantified forecast financial losses from delaying implementation of the Low Carbon Growth Plan activities.
She also led the research for the Impact of the Carbon Price Package, which developed a methodology to assess the uptake of the policies included in the Australian Government’s Clean Energy Future package and the Industrial Energy Efficiency Data Analysis project, which developed a detailed knowledge base on the energy use, energy savings potential and factors impeding implementation for Australia’s industrial companies.
Most recently, she led the research on the Tracking Progress project, which was the first national stocktake of Australia’s progress towards a low carbon economy (providing an assessment of abatement activity occurring across the Australian economy).
Prior to joining ClimateWorks, Amandine worked as a management consultant for McKinsey and Company in Sydney, advising clients in both the public and private sector on a wide range of matters including strategy, sustainability issues and carbon abatement opportunities and associated policies.
Amandine holds an MBA, as well as a MSc. from Ecole Polytechnique (France) and a MSc. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.).
John Daley
John Daley is the inaugural chief executive of Grattan Institute, which provides independent, rigorous and practical solutions to Australia’s most pressing public policy issues. The current programs of Grattan Institute focus on productivity growth, cities, school education, tertiary education, energy and health.
John’s work at Grattan Institute has focused on economic and budgetary reform. He is particularly interested in government prioritisation. His other interests include analysing the situations in which government intervention is justified, and the limits to government.
He has 25 years’ experience spanning policy, academic, government and corporate roles. He has worked for the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet, McKinsey and Co, and ANZ where he was managing director of the online stockbroker, E*TRADE Australia.