Legislative Council Environment and Planning Committee

Inquiry into Climate Resilience

Introduction
Submissions
Hearings
Reports

Conducting Public Hearings

The Committee is currently holding public hearings for this Inquiry.

Previous public hearings

Corrected transcripts of these hearings are published below when finalised by the Committee.

  • Wangaratta Performing Arts and Convention Centre (WPACC), 33-37 Ford Street, Wangaratta, 3677

    10:00 AM
    Council panel

    Rural City of Wangaratta Stephen Swart, Director, Sustainability & Culture Moira Shire Council Bryan Sword, Director, Sustainable Development Indigo Shire Council Ian Ellett, Director Infrastructure Services Sam Niedra, Council’s Coordinator Environment and Sustainability

    11:00 AM

    Goulburn Broken CMA Carl Walters, Interim Chief Executive Officer Joel Leister, Manager Flood Plain Implementation

    12:00 PM

    Southern Hemp David Brian, Business owner Sherri Smith-Hoyer

    12:45 PM

    Alpine Resorts Victoria Annie Volkering, Assets, Land Management and Strategic Development General Manager Louise Perrin, Head of Environmental Sustainability

    2:00 PM
    SES panel

    Benalla Unit Ailsa McMillan, Unit Controller Myrtleford Unit David Coates

    2:45 PM

    Green Lab, Monash Business School Dr Michael Spencer, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow
    Submission

    3:45 PM

    Indigo Power Ben McGowan, Managing Director Heath Shakespeare, Project Manager

    4:30 PM

    Benalla Sustainable Future Group Davide Blore, President North East Region Sustainability Alliance John Naylor, Representative Tony Lane, Representative
    Benalla Sustainable Future Group - Submission
  • Victorian Emergency Management Institute, 601 Mount Macedon Road, Mount Macedon, 3441

    10:00 AM
    Council panel

    Macedon Ranges Shire Council Bernie O'Sullivan, Chief Executive Officer Tania MacLeod, Acting Manager Strategic Planning and Environment City of Greater Bendigo Ashley Fletcher, Climate Change Resilience Officer Frances Ford, Coordinator Emergency Management and Resilience Central Victorian Greenhouse Alliance Annika Kearton, Chief Executive Officer
    City of Greater Bendigo - Submission

    11:00 AM

    Bendigo Sustainability Group Shamir Varma, Ordinary Director

    12:00 PM

    Barmah Community Group Maureen Blair, Secretary John Jackson, Barmah Community Group Member Murray Blair, Barmah Community Group Member and First Lieutenant Barmah Rural Fire Brigade

    1:15 PM

    Better Building Design Brett Franke, Registered Building Designer

    2:00 PM

    Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal Natalie Egleton, Chief Executive Officer Sarah Matthee, Climate Solutions Portfolio Lead
    Submission

    3:15 PM
    Catchment Management Authority panel

    Wimmera CMA Luke Austin, Operational Delivery Manager North Central CMA Camille White, Manager floodplain Rohan Hogan, Water & Environment Specialist
  • Hearing Room, 55 Saint Andrews Place, East Melbourne, 3002

    9:00 AM

    City of Melbourne Tiffany Crawford, Co-Director, Climate Change and City Resilience Mornington Peninsula Shire Renae Littlejohn, Director, Planning and Environment Melissa Burrage, Manager, Climate Change and Sustainability Andrew Joseph, Team Leader, Community Resilience and Emergency Management
    Submission - City of Melbourne Submission - Mornington Peninsula Shire

    10:00 AM

    Federation of Community Legal Centres Vic Dr Bronwyn Lay, Strategic Lead, Climate Justice Unit

    11:00 AM

    Geelong Sustainability Dan Cowdell, Chief Executive Officer
    Submission

    11:45 AM

    Sustainability Team, Deakin University Zoe Roloff, Acting Director, Sustainability Partnerships

    1:00 PM

    AusNet Andrew Linnie, Executive General Manager Distribution Charlotte Eddy, General Manager Strategy and Regulation (Distribution) Powercor Renate Vogt, General Manager, Regulation Adam Gellie, General Manager, Network Services

    2:00 PM

    Council Alliance for a Sustainable Built Environment Natasha Palich, Executive Officer
    Submission

    3:00 PM

    Housing Industry Association Keith Ryan, Executive Director, Victoria Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) Victoria Jane Keddie, Vice President
    Submission - HIA Submission - PIAVic

    4:00 PM

    Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA) John Bradley, Secretary Carolyn Jackson, Deputy Secretary, Regions, Environment, Climate Action and First Peoples Group Department of Transport and Planning Natalie Reiter, Deputy Secretary, Strategy and Precincts Andrew McKeegan, Deputy Secretary, Planning and Land Services Stuart Menzies, Acting Executive Director, State Planning Services
  • Davui Room, 55 Saint Andrews Place, East Melbourne, 3002

    9:45 AM

    Victorian Forest Products Association (VFPA) Andrew White, Chief Executive Officer
    Transcript Responses to QON Submission

    10:30 AM

    Natural Turf Alliance Garnet Brownbill John Englart
    Transcript

    11:30 AM

    Aurecon Michael Nolan, Director, Climate Physical Risk and Resilience Smartcrete CRC Hugh Ong, Portfolio Director
    Transcript

    12:15 PM

    Australian Institute of Architects David Wagner, President Victorian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects James Legge, Founding Director, Six Degrees Architects Xavier Cadorel, Lecturer, Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne Dr. Chris Jensen, Lecturer in Construction Management, University of Melbourne Katie Skillington, PhD candidate, University of Melbourne
    Transcript

    1:30 PM

    Community Housing Industry Association Victoria Alex Trudzik, Policy Officer
    Transcript Responses to QON Submission

    2:15 PM

    Sustainable Builders Alliance Jeremy Spencer, Director
    Transcript

    3:15 PM

    Polar Enviro Dylan Broomfield, Principal Adviser Dave Jones, Technical Advisor
    Transcript Submission
  • Aireys Inlet Community Centre, 6 Great Ocean Road, Aireys Inlet, 3231

    10:00 AM

    Surf Coast Shire Robyn Seymour, Chief Executive Officer Chris Pike, Placemaking and Environment Borough of Queenscliffe Martin Gill, Chief Executive Officer City of Greater Geelong Pete Mercouriou, Senior Sustainability Officer (and Chair/President of Alliance) Barwon South West Climate Alliance Sue Phillips, Executive Officer
    Transcript

    11:00 AM

    Victorian Marine and Coastal Council Jacquie White, VMaCC Deputy Chair Dr Tom Kompas, Director, Australian Centre for Biosecurity and Environmental Economics, ANU; Chief Investigator, Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis, University of Melbourne
    Transcript Responses to QON Responses to QON - Q4 Attachment 1 Responses to QON - Q4 Attachment 2 Responses to QON - Q5 Attachment

    12:15 PM

    Port Fairy Coastal Group David Bills-Thompson, Technical Officer
    Transcript

    1:00 PM

    Corangamite Catchment Management Authority Amber Clarke, Chief Executive Officer Chris Pitfield, Investigations and Program Development Manager
    Transcript

    1:45 PM

    Aireys Inlet and District Association Ian Laging, President
    Transcript Responses to QON
  • Puffing Billy Railway, Emerald Lake Road, Emerald, 3782

    10:00 AM

    Cardinia Shire Council Warren Smith, Coordinator Climate Change and Heritage Yarra Ranges Council Kim O'Connor, Acting Director Built Environment and Intrastructure South East Councils Climate Change Alliance Helen Steel, Chief Executive Officer Daniel Pleiter, Operations Manager
    Transcript

    11:00 AM

    Emerald Village Association Trevor Budge, Chair, Planning, Tourism and Environment sub-committee Claude Cullino, Committee Member, Planning, Tourism and Environment sub-committee Kate Forster, Committee Member, Planning, Tourism and Environment sub-committee
    Transcript Submission

    11:45 AM

    Emerald Community House Centre of Resilience Mary Farrow, Resilience project
    Transcript

    1:00 PM
    Local emergency support groups

    Emerald and Cockatoo Emergency Support Team Rachelle Mechielsen, Team Leader Monbulk and District Community Working Group Dr Dan Jeyaseelan, Member Monbulk Emergency Management Group Peter Edyvane, Member
    Transcript

    2:00 PM
    Local CFA brigades panel

    Bill Robinson, Captain, Kalorama and Mt Dandenong Fire Brigade Klaus Brodeck, Captain, Emerald Fire Brigade

    3:00 PM

    Mountain Ash Developments Victoria Pty Ltd Ben Selby-Hele, Director
    Transcript

    4:00 PM
    OPEN MIC

    Frank Archer Caroline Spencer Trevor Budge Kate Forster
    Transcript
  • Davui Room, 55 Saint Andrews Place, East Melbourne, 3002

    10:00 AM
    The Network Outage Review Panel

    Rosemary Sinclair AM, Chair Kevin Kehl, Panel Member
    Transcript

    11:00 AM
    ARC Centres of Excellence for Climate Extremes and the Weather of the 21st Century

    Associate Professor Ailie Gallant, Chief Investigator, School of Earth Atmosphere and Environment, Faculty of Science, Monash University Dr Kimberley Reid, Research Fellow, School of Earth Atmosphere and Environment, Faculty of Science, Monash University
    Transcript Responses to QON Submission

    12:30 PM
    Infrastructure Victoria

    Dr Jonathan Spear, Chief Executive Officer Llewellyn Reynders, Director Research and Policy Caroline Evans, Principal Policy Officer
    Transcript Responses to QON Submission Submission - attach 1 Submission - attach 2
  • Century Inn Traralgon, 5 Airfield Road, Traralgon, 3844

    10:00 AM

    East Gippsland Shire Council Cr Tom Crook, Mayor Stuart McConnell, General Manager, Assets and Environment Bass Coast Shire Council Donna Taylor, Acting General Manager, Place Making Gippsland Alliance for Climate Action Tiffany Harrison, Coordinator
    Transcript BCSC - Responses to QON Submission - Bass Coast Shire Council

    11:15 AM

    Associate Professor Rakibuzzaman Shah, Smart Power Systems Engineering, Federation University Associate Professor Jessica Reeves, Future Regions Research Centre, Federation University
    Transcript

    12:15 PM

    Gunaikurnai Land and Water Aboriginal Corporation Daniel Miller, Chief Executive Officer
    Transcript Responses to QON Responses to QON - Attachment

    1:45 PM

    Niels Olsen, Beef Farmer, Founder of Soilkee Ryzo Philip Mulvey, Chief Executive Officer, Ryzo
    Transcript

    2:30 PM

    Loch Sport Business and Tourism Association Tony Patchell, Secretary Gippsland Ports Chris Waites, Chief Executive Officer Inverloch Surf Life Saving Club Glenn Arnold, President Stephen Duncan, Treasurer
    Transcript

    3:45 PM

    Gippsland Climate Change Network Inc Stephen Angus, Deputy Chair Wellington Climate Action Network Dr Jillian Carroll, Vice President Brian Burleigh, Member
    Transcript GCCN - Responses to QON Submission - Gippsland Climate Change Network Submission - Wellington Climate Action Network