Register to attend Future Sydney: Bradfield
Reserve Bank Governor Michele Bullock will deliver The Daily Telegraph’s 2025 Future Sydney: Bradfield Oration at the Sydney Opera House, with public tickets available for the first time.
Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Michele Bullock will deliver The Daily Telegraph’s 2025 Future Sydney: Bradfield Oration as our commitment to ensuring a bold and prosperous Harbour City for generations to come culminates with a showstopper event at the Opera House next week.
Register here to attend The Daily Telegraph’s Future Sydney: Bradfield Oration
For the first time since its inception in 2014, the Bradfield Oration will be open to the public as a ticketed event, providing an audience at the Playhouse the opportunity to hear from one of the most influential figures in Australia today.
Fittingly for the Bradfield campaign – where visionary ideas are created, cultivated and tabled to governments with a view to developing a more liveable and connected Sydney – Ms Bullock has experience in smashing through glass ceilings.
Appointed in September 2023, she is the first woman to hold the role as Reserve Bank Governor.
“It’s a great pleasure to be giving this year’s Future Sydney: Bradfield Oration,” Ms Bullock says.
“The themes of technology and innovation are a great platform to talk about the RBA’s role in Australia’s payments system, and how it keeps our economy moving now and into the future.”
Ms Bullock told an estimates hearing in recent days she welcomed government efforts to build more homes as interest rates fall and a first homebuyer scheme allows for property purchases with a five per cent deposit.
A reference to the need for housing supply to increase as demand rises, or risk inflationary pressure.
Housing was a focal point for the Bradfield Oration last year and features again in 2025 as the Telegraph campaign officially launches today.
Core elements explored over the next 10 days will be underpinned by a technology theme, looking at innovative ways to improve planning, transport, housing and entertainment options across Sydney.
The Western Sydney Airport and its surrounds are part of the Bradfield campaign, along with new ideas for Sydney Airport, additional Metro lines and further road projects.
Infrastructure initiatives designed to drive increased tourism and more major events will also be examined.
On the final day, Ms Bullock will become the latest Bradfield orator, named after the designer of the Sydney Harbour Bridge who also had the foresight to push for the city’s underground railway system.
Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who has just released his much-anticipated book Australia: A History, together with a three-part documentary of the same name which premiered on Sky News on Monday night, gave the first Bradfield Oration.
It was a time when Sydney was suffering an infrastructure crisis, lacking the road, rail and even airport capacity for the nation’s premier city to reach its full potential.
Since then, Sydney has witnessed the opening of the WestConnex, the NorthConnex, light rail networks in Parramatta and the eastern suburbs, along with game-changing Metro lines.
The new Western Sydney Airport will commence operations late next year.
On the 10th anniversary of the Oration last year, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said: “The priority of urban planning is making people’s lives better. It’s about building communities and ensuring places are not just pleasant to live, but have that all-important sense of home.
“That’s what we achieve when we ensure people are at the heart of our plans. And that, in so many ways, is the spirit of the Bradfield Oration. It asks us to think seriously about what Sydney can be, and what we can do to make this extraordinary city even greater.”
The Daily Telegraph editor, Ben English, said: “I’m thrilled that Michele Bullock will deliver this year’s Bradfield Oration.
“These are incredibly important times for our city and her role in assisting our city, our nation, in taking steps towards greater prosperity is key.
“In many ways we are looking to make our contribution by encouraging governments to take bold and necessary steps to ensure Sydney remains a ground-breaking world-class city.
“Technology will be a consistent theme through our coverage this year and I’m confident it will be one of the most forward-looking and ambitious Bradfield campaigns yet.”
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