Dr Penny Burns has announced her retirement. Dr Burns has made a towering contribution to how infrastructure is managed worldwide in a career spanning over forty years. She introduced game playing to infrastructure priority setting in 1988, setting the rules as: 1. Clarify your objectives 2. Take the annual asset consumption cost (between 1.5% and […]
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THE YIDINJI PROPOSITION FOR A JUST REBALANCE Dr Jane Stanley and Kerry McGovern, EAROPH Australia Introduction The Yidinji Declaration on Climate Justice was developed at a workshop held in Cairns during April 2023, supported by the Eastern Regional Organisation for Planning and Human Settlements (EAROPH). A video presentation on the Declaration is available here. The
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It’s forty years since Dr Penny Burns began her questioning of the way the South Australian Water Board manages and costs the use of public assets. She has documented her questions and the resulting responses by governments, in her book “The Story of Asset Management“. She will be in Brisbane in April to launch the
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2023 was a year of consolidations. Dr Penny Burns published her book “The Story of Asset Management”. Dr Jane Stanley published her book “Gnarly Planning Volume 1 and Volume 2”. (See Book Depository Page for details.) Kieren McGovern was the Efficiency Agenda Outreach Specialist for Asia Pacific and OMT Thailand Coordinator with the Development Coordination
Dr Penny Burns has published “The Story of Asset Management“. Amazon makes the book available to you in Kindle or Paperback. ‘The Story of Asset Management’, authored by Dr. Penny Burns, offers a detailed account of the gradual emergence of asset management practices, spanning a decade of development. While discussions about government reforms often take
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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
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EAROPH Australia is hosting a workshop at which people from the Torres Strait Islander and Salt Water and Rainforest Aboriginal communities and Pacific Islanders, who are finding ways to combat climate change and fighting for their rights, will draft a Climate JustUs Charter for First Nations Peoples. This Charter will be a key input and
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In 2022, I\Jane focused a lot on climate change, and presented on the Loss and Damages issue to the World Urban Forum in June. She finalised strategies for UN Habitat’s Participatory Slum Upgrading Program in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Kiribati, and progressed her thinking on the informal economy and how it links
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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
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Nepal became a federation with the gazetting of the Constitution of Nepal on 20 September 2015. Kerry McGovern from K McGovern & Associates was happy to share Australia’s experiences of inter-governmental fiscal relations across the three tiers of government with a visiting group of senior public servants, elected officials, civil society representatives from federal, provincial
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