The Australian Financial Review’s Editors Forums bring together senior executives of leading Australian companies to discuss issues affecting particular industries or Australian society in general, which will define the nation’s recovery from the pandemic. The Forums are an initiative for the Financial Review Platinum 70th Anniversary. The first Forum – Australia’s Carbon Challenge – was held at the Financial Review Business Summit in March, and featured Woodside CEO Meg O’Neill, Santos CEO Kevin Gallagher and Lynas CEO Amanda Lacaze.

This is an edited transcript of the Editors Forum on the Future of Cities, held on June 2 and co-ordinated by The Australian Financial Review’s editor-in-chief Michael Stutchbury and property editor Nick Lenaghan.