Future SEQ: Bernard Salt to reveal new research and vision for southeast Queensland

LEADING demographer and social researcher Bernard Salt will deliver his “bold and ambitious” vision for the future of southeast Queensland at a special event in Brisbane in October.

LEADING demographer and social researcher Bernard Salt will deliver his vision for the future of southeast Queensland at a special lunch event in Brisbane on October 23.

Mr Salt has undertaken extensive population, infrastructure and liveability research which can help shape planning and funding decisions for the region over the next 25 years.

His exclusive report will be revealed as part of The Courier-Mail ’s Future SEQ campaign, which launches on October 9, and will be delivered live at the event lunch at the Royal International Convention Centre on the 23rd.

Bernard Salt will deliver his vision for southeast Queensland to 2043 at the Future SEQ event on October 23. Picture: Steve Pohlner

“This will be a bold and ambitious interpretation of southeast Queensland both now and over the next 25 years, (with) new data, new insight and new benchmarks,” he said.

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This is the fourth campaign in The Courier-Mail’s GoQld! series, and follows the successful Future Brisbane project last year.

Scott Charlton, Julieanne Alroe, Ticky Fullerton, Bernard Salt and Geoff Hogg at The Courier-Mail's Future Brisbane lunch last year. (AAP image, John Gass)

More than 400 people attended last year’s Future Brisbane event. (AAP image, John Gass)

Research consultants PwC, planning experts Urbis, the South East Queensland Council of Mayors and other tiers of government, are also providing insights to shape this year’s campaign.

The Courier-Mail editor Sam Weir said SEQ, as one of the fastest-growing regions in the world, had incredible opportunities moving forward over the next quarter of a century.

“But this population surge also brings significant challenges in transport and other physical and social infrastructure to maintain our productivity and liveability,” he said.

“Our future as a place people will want to call home and work from, depends on planning decisions made today to get it right for tomorrow.

“The region’s roads, trains and buses will reach breaking point over the next two decades unless we find and fund solutions now.”