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QUEENSLAND Planning Minister Cameron Dick has launched a new statewide program aimed at inspiring and supporting women working in a highly rewarding and vitally important role.

Minister for State Development, Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Planning Cameron Dick. Picture: Peter Cronin

PLANNING Institute of Australia Queensland has launched a statewide program to inspire and support women in planning, and to advocate for the design of cities and regions that are safer and fairer for women.

The program kicked-off with the inaugural Queensland Women in Planning Network Breakfast yesterday, launched by the Minister for State Development, Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Planning, Cameron Dick.

PIA Qld has also established its first Women in Planning Network Committee, comprising some of Queensland’s leading planners, to oversee the year-long program celebrating and advocating for women both working in, and benefitting from, planning in Queensland.

WiP chair Jenny Roughan said PIA’s goal of inspiring women was about more than just encouraging women to enter the planning profession.

“The #metoo movement has certainly put the spotlight on some of the challenges women face women in workplaces around the world,” she said.

“The Women in Planning Network aims to shine a light on the achievements of women and the particularly amazing contribution being made by women in planning our cities and regions.”

“For a long time, female planners have been at the heart of designing the way we live in our cities, towns and suburbs but for far too long their fingerprints have been largely invisible.

“We’re really asking Queensland planning agencies, consultancies and allied professional employers like law firms and developers to support the work of the Women in Planning Network.”

END OF AN ERA

AFTER 16 years at King & Co, senior property manager Greg Stewart has pulled up stumps.

Greg will retire to Harvey Bay with his wife to live in a dream home, which they built together last year.

Greg Stewart.

King & Co managing director Paul McAvoy said: “Greg has been a loyal and valued member of the King & Co team over the years and has managed an industrial portfolio in excess of $300 million with a combined total floor area of over 325,000sq m.

“Greg will be sorely missed at King & Co team and we wish him all the best for the years that lay ahead.”

CLEAN-CUT CELEBRATIONS

FRASERS Property yesterday celebrated 10 years of involvement in Business Clean Up Australia Day with up to 30 staff pitching in at Minnippi Parklands.

The clean up day has a special significance for Frasers which a couple of weeks ago announced that it had bought a 5.4ha Cobbity Farm Bakeries site on Fursden Rd, Carina, which is adjacent to the parkland.

Frasers will create a masterplanned community on the site.

Frasers Property’s sustainability co-ordinator Olivia Leal-Walker says Clean Up Australia Day is about taking the time to appreciate – and care – for what we have.

“We recognise that the places we create are more than bricks and mortar, or concrete and steel. Across all our operations, Frasers Property focuses on creating places that embrace and respond to their natural environments,” she said.