Dr Penny Burns has told her story of guiding the management of entity and state-wide infrastructure. If you have ever been in a position to guide public policy, you’ll know that the options are not clearly set out by parliaments. Rather, they appear out of a complex web of interactions among people and between people …
Developing public policy for the management of Infrastructure Assets Read More »
In May 2022 Dr Penny Burns presented to the IAM Global Forum on “The Fourth Wave -are you ready?” looking at current developments and issues in Asset Management. 2022 also saw the completion of volume 1 of “The Asset Management Story” covering historical developments over the period 1984 to 1993. Publication is scheduled for May …
“It is crucial that local governments ensure markets are safe spaces for women. Many marketplace vendors are women. Marketplaces offer women the opportunity to advance their socioeconomic status, protect their livelihoods and improve overall well-being. But the gender bias built into markets’ organizational structure and management culture impedes women from taking these opportunities. In fact, …
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Dr Penny Burns hosted the Talking Infrastructure Workshop, in Adelaide in February 2020 on ‘Modern Monetary Theory and its relevance for Infrastructure Decision Making’. She contributed to the “Reshaping Infrastructure” issues Paper May 2020 by Climate Works Australia and to the United Nations Manual on Local Government Asset Management in August 2020. She gave a …
With the Honduras, 50 countries have now ratified the UN Global Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty and there was much celebration. There are 84 signatories, so 34 are still to ratify. None of the 84 have nuclear weapons. Meanwhile countries that do, like the USA, Russia, the UK, France and China, India, Pakistan and North Korea …
Nuclear Disarmament, a case for inverted thinking? – Dr Penny Burns Read More »
Infrastructure is very expensive. And it brings to us and to the next generations enormous benefits. What are we prepared to pay for it? The Productivity Commission has released two volumes of a draft report recommending a “comprehensive overhaul of processes in the assessment and development of public infrastructure projects”. Overhauls are vulnerable moments in …
Waste is generated by the residents of cities in a manner that continues to change. The last fifty years have brought widespread use of plastics, vast numbers of manufactured chemicals and hazardous waste that extend across land, throughout our oceans and into outer space. Cities’ response to this challenge is on-going and requires an ability …
