Transport and Cities
15 February 2018
Congestion in Melbourne: is it time to consider congestion charging?
In this Policy Pitch event, a panel of transport and infrastructure experts explored: How bad congestion is across Melbourne; at what point we should consider new strategies to manage congestion, including congestion pricing; and, if a government were to introduce congestion charging, what principles should guide the scheme.
6 October 2017
Stuck in traffic? Road congestion in Sydney
In this Forward Thinking event, an expert panel considered: if we can manage Sydney congestion by working our existing approaches harder or has the city reached a tipping point, where a new approach is needed and if Sydney adopted a different approach, what could it do to keep the city moving?
27 January 2017
The right infrastructure at the right price
Australian governments spent $28 billion more on transport infrastructure over the past 15 years than they told taxpayers they would spend. Grattan Institute’s first Forward Thinking event for the year joined three experts to discuss how to get the right infrastructure at the right price.
19 October 2016
Webinar – Transport infrastructure: is government investment going to equip us for the future?
In this webinar, Transport and Cities Program Director, Marion Terrill focused on new research from the Grattan Institute on cost overruns on transport infrastructure projects, and where governments have been investing.
9 June 2016
Roads to riches: how to drive our transport dollar further
Nick Greiner, former NSW Premier and former chairman of Infrastructure NSW, at this Forward Thinking event discussed a better approach to transport infrastructure spending with Grattan Transport Program Director Marion Terrill and John Watson from The Conversation.
1 February 2016
Other People’s Money: big finance and where it’s taking us
Retired investment banker Harrison Young joined John Kay in a discussion with Marion Terrill about the finance industry.
15 October 2015
City geography and economic policy
John Daley presented to the Council of City Lord Mayors at Parliament House on Wednesday 14 October 2015.
4 March 2015
City Limits Book Launch Melbourne and Sydney Events
Launch events in Melbourne and Sydney for Grattan Institute’s first book, City Limits: Why Australia’s cities are broken and how we can fix them, by Jane-Frances Kelly and Paul Donegan.
28 July 2014
Mapping the Australian economy
This event will be launching our new Cities report which raises important questions about whether patterns of housing and transport development that served Australia’s cities so well during the golden age of manufacturing are the right ways to promote prosperity and opportunity into the twenty-first century.
1 May 2014
Sydney Event – Renovating housing policy
At this free public seminar Dr Rebecca Huntley, Executive Director IPOS Australia, discussed Grattan Institute’s new Cities report with author, Jane-Frances Kelly, Director of the Cities Program.