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Hustle & Bustle podcast
by Nicole Bennetts
Welcome to the Hustle and Bustle podcast hosted by Nicole Bennetts. Nicole lives on the Gold Coast, Australia - one of the cities preparing to host the 2032 Brisbane Olympics & Paralympics. The lead up to 2032 is the golden decade of opportunity and challenges (including Olympics and climate change targets). This podcast is a series of conversations with city shapers and urban thinkers to discuss the future on our city and SEQ region. The episodes are light hearted, conversational and inspiring. Tune in each week for a new 30 minute episode!
Episodes
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Amy Marsden - Passionate Advocate for Affordable Housing
In this episode, Nicole sits down with Amy Marsden, Director of Planning at Therefor Group. Amy brings over 20 years of national and international experience in planning and development, with a strong focus on affordable housing, inclusive communities, and meaningful planning outcomes. Together,...
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What is the Night-time Economy with John O’Callaghan
In this episode, I chat with planner, urban thinker and community engagement guru, John O’Callaghan, Director of JOC Consulting. John isn’t your average planner – and that’s exactly why I wanted him on the show. He’s a creative, a connector, and someone who’s built a career around authentic...
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Michelle Howard - How to Walk Alongside First Nations Communities
In this episode, I sit down with Michelle Howard, respected urban planner, social researcher, facilitator, and Managing Director of Collaborations. Michelle is known for her inclusive and thoughtful approach to public policy and urban development, and she joins us to discuss what First Nations...
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What Planners are Asking from the Next Australian Government
This is my first solo episode for Season 3! With the federal election only a matter of days away, I step through the Planning Institute of Australia's Federal Election Platform. In this solo chat, I explain: What are the key asks of the planning profession for the next Australian Government? How...
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Bradley Rasmussen - Where Will Development Happen Next?
In this episode, I’m joined by Bradley Rasmussen – CEO and founder of Sizztech, the creators of Forecaz, a cutting-edge platform that predicts urban growth and change. Bradley shares how data-driven modelling is transforming the way planners and decision-makers understand land use, infrastructure...
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Peter Richards - Gaining New Perspective with Urban Sketching
In this episode of the Hustle and Bustle podcast, host Nicole Bennetts sits down with architect and urbanist Peter Richards to explore the art of urban sketching. With over 40 years of experience in architecture and urban design, Peter shares his passion for the role of drawing in the design...
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Riley Flanigan - Can We Solve the Housing Crisis?
Housing affordability and availability are at crisis levels, but why? And what can we do about it? In this episode, we sit down with Riley Flanigan, an urban designer, strategic planner, and city strategist at Urbis, to unpack the forces behind Australia’s housing crisis. Riley has been at the...
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Laura Harvey & Haleen Singh - Planning the Gateways to Our Cities
In this episode, I'm joined by Laura Harvey, Planning Manager at Queensland Airports, and Haleen Singh, Planning Advisor with Port of Brisbane. We explore the unique world of planning for airports and ports—two critical transport hubs that serve as economic drivers, destinations, and catalysts…
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Chris Isles - Harnessing Big Data and Human Behaviour
In this episode, I sit down with Chris Isles, General Manager of Advocacy, Major Projects, and Economic Development at Redland City Council. With over 20 years of experience in planning, economic development, and major projects, Chris is a well-respected leader in the industry. As a member of PIA...
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Adam Beck - The Future is Coming
My guest today is Adam Beck, General Manager of Business & Market Development at Hub Group and Co-Founder of TEMPO Institute. About two weeks ago, the American Planning Association released its fourth Trend Report for Planners, featuring over 100 trends shaping urban planning. You can access the...
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Leisa Prowse - Securing Social License
In this episode, I sit down with Leisa Prowse, a highly regarded engagement specialist. Leisa is qualified in both planning and communications, and has extensive experience helping planners and developers to secure 'social license to operate' for planning and development projects. More about…
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Julia Miller-Randle - Unlocking the Power of Social Infrastructure
In this episode, I chat with Julia Miller-Randle, Director of Social Strategy and Engagement at Cred Consulting. We chat about the importance of social and community infrastructure. What is it? Why its important? How its changing? The biggest challenges in funding and delivery of social...
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Professor Paul Burton - Future of Planning Education
Paul Burton is an Emeritus Professor at Griffith University. Paul was the inaugural Director of the Cities Research Institute at Griffith University, a multi-disciplinary research centre focused on advancing studies and knowledge of cities. Paul is also a member of PIA Qld’s Division Committee…
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Ross Elliott and Guy Gibson - The Next Australian City Book
A conversation with Ross Elliott and Guy Gibson from Suburban Futures who co-edited the book "The Next Australian City". This book recently was awarded Overall Winner of the PIA Awards for Planning Excellence in Queensland. This interview covers details about the book, what inspired it, who...
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Season 3 Launch - we are back!
The Hustle and Bustle podcast returns after a 2 year break!! Nicole is excited to kick-start season 3 in this episode. She fills you in on the latest happenings.
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2022... the year that was
This is the final ep for 2022. Thank you for tuning into this podcast - whether you listen to each episode or whether you have only listened to 1 episode - it really is appreciated! In this episode, I recap my top 5 topics for planning in Queensland: 1. Climate Change 2. Designing with Country 3....
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Kerry Doss - immediate past chief planner of Qld
Kerry Doss has established a strong reputation as an experienced urban planner and leader during his career. Kerry has in excess of 33 years’ experience in planning & urban development in QLD & NSW. Prior to establishing his own consultancy firm, he was the Qld State Planner for 5 years, heading…
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Adam Beck - Saving the planet with Smart cities
Adam is a smart city guru and urbanist who has worked for private sector consultancies and leading global non-government organisations to advance sustainable community outcomes for over 25 years. Adam is the Head of Digital Urbanism at Ene.Hub. He leads the company's efforts to continually…
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Rachel Gallagher - Does zoning deliver sustainable, resilient cities?
Rachel is a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland. Her research interests include how cities adapt their urban form to changing conditions such as rapid population growth or decline, natural disasters, de-industrialisation and climate change; using GIS to track changes to urban layouts…
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Luke Brannelly - Master planner to tech creator
Luke Brannelly is the founder and Managing Director of the V2i Group, which combines his 35 years of experience in the planning industry as an Urban Designer and Master planning Consultant, 20 years within the digital story and visualisation industry, and the past decade of diversifying these...
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Dr Stefan Hajkowicz - 7 megatrends that will shape next 20 years
A once-in-a-decade report from CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, identifies seven global megatrends that hold the key to the challenges and opportunities ahead. The report is called Our Future World 2042. A lead author of this publication, Dr Stefan Hajkowicz, joins me on the podcast…
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Upendo Kowero - How does culture influence planning of cities and regions?
Upendo is a Chagga woman from the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Her diverse upbringing across many countries has nurtured her passion for and proficiency in three languages, as well as her particular interest in how built environments can support cohesive, equitable and productive...
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Farnoosh Shokoofan - young people are 100% of future
Farnoosh Shokoofan is an energetic and innovative planner currently working as a strategic planner at Toowoomba Regional Council. She was awarded a Bachelor’s degree of Urbanism and completed her Masters of Urban Design in 2018. Farnoosh has worked as a planner both in Iran and Australia within...
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Dale Bracewell - Global city transport leader
Dale is a mobility thought leader - enabling transformative and resilient sustainable solutions. At the City of Vancouver, Dale led the transport planning for many years including for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, created their first Active Transportation team, and most recently led their...
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Michael Papageorgiou - Planner’s value & Urban acupuncture
Michael Papageorgiou is the Director of an Urban Planning consultancy based in Brisbane. He has 40 years’ experience in the planning industry, including senior executive planning roles in State and Local Government, in both Queensland and Victoria. Michael is a Fellow of the Planning Institute of...
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Patrick Gorr - Australia’s energy crisis & future of hydrogen
Patrick Gorr is a Arup's Global Hydrogen Leader. His specializes in energy and hydrogen, and the transition to net zero energy production. Patrick is a chartered accountant by profession, Patrick holds a Bachelor of Business, Economics, Accounting and International Trade from Swinburne University...
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Dr Margaret Cook - Learning from history
Dr Margaret Cook has been a freelance historian for many years, working in the heritage, museum, government and private sectors. She holds a PhD in history from the University of Queensland and her current research interests include natural disasters, rivers, water politics, and environmental...
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Prof Barbara Norman - Planning Renaissance
Prof. Barbara Norman is the Foundation Chair of Urban and Regional Planning and Director of Canberra Urban and Regional Futures at the University of Canberra. She has a substantial professional background having worked at all levels of government and her own private practice. Her current research...
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Top 10 lessons from Planning National Congress 2022
I spent the week in Hobart last week, attending and presenting at the Planning Institute of Australia National Congress. The theme was Opportunities in times of crisis, and this was the first time in 3 years that PIA has held a national planning conferences in person. In this episode, I summarize...
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Matt Gross - Housing unaffordability & market outlook
Matt Gross is a well-known property economist, urban geographer, and sociologist based in Brisbane. Matt heads up one of Australia's most respected property research houses that has grown on the back of honesty, integrity and innovation, National Property Research Co. Matthew is highly regarded…
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Prof. Jason Byrne - Tassie & Nature Based Solutions
Jason Byrne is a Professor of Human Geography and Planning at University of Tasmania. He researches urban political ecologies of green-space, climate change adaptation, and environmental justice. He has over 100 scholarly publications, including a multi-award-winning co-edited book - Australian...
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Katherine Rickard & Dave Hanson - PechaKucha Gold Coast
PechaKucha is a global forum where ideas are pitched in a few minutes. Two of our great local architects, Katherine Rickard and Dave Hanson, have launched PechaKucha Gold Coast! With their first event in March a huge success, future PechaKucha nights will be held quarterly across the City....
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Martin Roushani-Zarmehri - urban flooding
Martin is an RPEQ, with a dual degree in civil engineering and business management. He is a stormwater and flooding engineer, with a vast range of experience focused mainly within the development and construction space. Martin has managed teams of flood engineers both in Australia and Vietnam,...
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Hon Brittany Lauga MP - Town Planner to Politician
Brittany Lauga MP is the State member for Keppel and Assistant Minister for Education. Elected in 2015, Brittany is an award-winning Urban and Regional Planner prior to politics. Brittany has a strong professional background in infrastructure, urban planning and design, approvals and community...
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Noel Grummitt - History of Gold Coast
Noel Grummitt is a town planner and civil engineer. Noel has 50 years planning and development experience primarily in South East Queensland. Prior to founding Grummitt Planning Noel also gained valuable experience overseas, culminating in 1997, spending the remaining 7 years as town planning...
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Matt Collins - Politics + Planning & an update on PIA Qld
Matt Collins is a highly skilled and experienced planning leader with a background in political studies and journalism. He is currently the QLD and NT State Manager for the Planning Institute of Australia. In this week's episode, I ask Matt about politics and planning. We also discuss what the...
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Jaime Traspaderne - Adapting to Climate Change
This week on the podcast, I am joined by the first Arup-ian to join me on the podcast, Mr Jaime Traspaderne. Jaime is an architect, urban designer with international experience, he is the Arup Qld leader for Urban design and Master planning, and co-leader of Cities local business leader for Qld....
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Dr. Sharon Harwood - Designing with Country
This week on the podcast, I interview Dr. Sharon Harwood. Sharon is passionate about working with communities to develop place-based solutions to planning challenges. Her specialty and passion is in Indigenous planning and planning for Aboriginal and Torres Strait land owners. She has extensive...
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SEASON 2. Nicholas Kamols - Young Planner of the Year
Welcome back to season 2 of the podcast! First episode back for 2022, and I am so thrilled to be joined by the 2021 Qld Young Planner of the Year, Nicholas Kamols. Nick is an exciting up and coming planner, who is really pushing the boundaries of traditional urban thinking. He is innovative,...
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Ep.18 Dorina Pojani - Brisbane‘s car-free community
In this episode, I interview Dorina Pojani, who is Senior Lecturer in urban planning at The University of Queensland. Her research interests encompass built environment topics, including urban design, urban transport, and urban housing, in both the Global North and South. She has completed her...
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Ep.17 Matthew Leman - future of planning schemes
This week I interview Matthew Leman. Matt is an urban and regional planner, having graduated from QUT in 2016, and has worked across private sector, State and local governments. He is also a digital native, meaning he was born after the internet. Matt brings a unique perspective to planning and...
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Ep.16 Update & highlights from last 3 weeks
This episode is an update & apology for skipping 2 weeks of podcast episodes! I made it 15 weeks in a row of new weekly episodes. But a range of professional events have occurred post-covid restrictions which has meant I needed to have a short break from podcasting. Good news is I’m now back for...
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Ep.15 Dr Stefan Hajkowicz - technology & shaping cities
This week on the podcast, I interview Dr Stefan Hajkowicz. Dr Stef is Principal Scientist at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency. At CSIRO, he is Director of Data 61, leading a team of researchers helping governments, companies and communities explore plausible futures and make wise…
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Ep.14 Amy Degenhart - Exemplary missing middle housing
This week I sat down with Amy Degenhart, Director of degenhartSHEDD urban design + architecture. Amy is the driving force (architect & developer) behind exemplar missing middle housing, including ENVI micro urban village in Southport, Gold Coast CBD. ENVI is an award winning exemplary small lot...
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Ep.13 Nicole Boulton - Planning cities for women
In this episode, I chat with Nicole Boulton. Nicole is Principal Planner at PSA consulting and the new Chair of the Professional development committee at Planning Institute of Australia Queensland division. Nicole is also a mother of 2 young children, a wife, and volunteers on her son‘s P&C...
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Ep.12 Professor Matthew Burke - Transport on the Gold Coast
This episode is an interview with Professor Matthew Burke, transport planning specialist and is based at Griffith University in Cities Research Institute. Prof Burke is a transport planning guru who is an expert at all things transport in the growing region of south east Queensland. I ask Matt…
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Ep.11 Laura Gannon - Role of planning in climate change
In episode 11 of the podcast, I chat with Laura Gannon. Laura and I discuss climate change, and the role planning must play in preventing, adapting and mitigating to climate change. Laura is Associate Director of Meridian Urban and is a natural hazards planning specialist. I ask Laura about the...
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Ep.10 Top 3 tips from past guests & future trends
This is a solo episodes recapping on previous episodes, top 3 lessons learnt from previous guests, and discussing future trends which will affect cities and regions over next 5, 10, 20 years.
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Ep.09 Natalie Rayment - YIMBY (Yes in My Backyard)
This week on the podcast I chat with Natalie Rayment, co-founder of YIMBY, a non for profit organisation saying Yes In My Backyard to good development and city growth. I ask Natalie about YIMBY: • Where did it all start? • What does YIMBY stand for? • How do we improve community participation in...
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Ep.08 Greg Tupicoff - developer’s perspective (& importance of industrial)
This week on the podcast I interview Greg Tupicoff. Greg is General Manager of Alder Developments and is a well respected development professional. Greg is best known for leading the development of Flagstone which is Australia’s largest satellite city. We chat about: •Why developers are a…
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Welcome to the Hustle and Bustle podcast hosted by Nicole Bennetts. Nicole lives on the Gold Coast, Australia - one of the cities preparing to host the 2032 Brisbane Olympics & Paralympics. The lead up to 2032 is the golden decade of opportunity and challenges (including Olympics and climate change targets). This podcast is a series of conversations with city shapers and urban thinkers to discuss the future on our city and SEQ region. The episodes are light hearted, conversational and inspiring. Tune in each week for a new 30 minute episode!
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