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2050 NSW Parliament Submission

In 2006, the New South Wales government launched a parliamentary inquiry into "Children, Young people and the Built Environment". As our first opportunity to influence policy towards sustainable development, 2050 have developed a response to the inquiry, providing feedback on the Terms of Reference and outlining the importance of addressing current issues facing children and young people and their relationship to the built environment through social, environmental and economic sustainability.

To view 2050's response to the inquiry click here.

On Tuesday the 16th of May 2006 the 2050 National Chair, Michael Manikas, was requested to give evidence at a public hearing for the inquiry into Children, Young People and the Built Environment on behalf of all the 2050 members.

To view the official transcript from this public hearing click here.

If you would like to provide any further comments, please email us at info@2050.org.au

2050 Federal Parliament Submission

2004 - Year of the Built Environment

2004 was named the "Year of the Built Environment" in Australia. The year was a collaborative celebration by government, industry, environmental and community groups to raise awareness in the Australian community about the built environment.

The seven themes for the year can be continued to be explored within a curriculum context. Towards sustainable communities

• Healthy environments
• Excellence in building
• Our built heritage
• Imagining the future
• Design for all
• Building regional communities

For Australia, 2004 was officially the National Year of the Built Environment. Of the year's many events that sought to focus the people and their leaders on the subject, Youthquake was perhaps the most daring and ambitious.

On the last weekend of November 2004 seventy-three young Australians, drawn from the various organisations and institutions that regulate and contribute to the form and function of the nations' built environment, were gathered in Newcastle, New South Wales. Their extraordinary two-day task, carried out in a workshop environment, was to imagine, crystallize and record the shape and quality of Australia's future living environment. To create a vision of what Australia might look like and live like in the year 2050 - if the nation began immediately to build ambitiously and unstintingly toward it.

To download more information about Youthquake see the links below:

Youthquake Summary Document
Youthquake Media Release

This second annual 2050 event was held in Brisbane from November 25 - 27, 2005. Future Shock saw Young Professionals from across Australia come together in a forum like no other seen before. 2050 is about making a change, this change includes the way we think about our Nation's future. This change therefore required a unique forum whereby the delegates become the facilitators and asked the big questions to turn lobbying as we know it on it's head! The Agenda for the conference was derived from the key outcomes of Youthquake:

To download more information about Future Shock see the links below:

Future Shock Programme
Future Shock Pictures
Future Shock Article - Building Sustainability

2050 National Forum 2006 - "Building a Future"

The annual 2050 forum for 2006 will be held in Melbourne, 24th-26th November.

To download a program for the 2050 National Forum - "Building a Future" click here.
Information on registration options for the National Forum is available here.

2050 is a culmination of a variety of young professionals who are involved in various industry associations relating to the built environment. These associations hold a variety of events nationally which are relevant to the goal of a sustainable built environment by the year 2050.
Some upcoming events selected and approved by our 2050 committee which may be of interest are below: