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Outer metropolitan growth area councils are innovators by necessity, developing and applying new knowledge and approaches that create suburbs and communities out of paddocks. Share your recent growth areas research or fresh new projects in the 2022 NGAA Symposium - Research and Practice from Australia's Growth Areas. Submissions are invited from Member Councils, their partners and academia. The online Symposium will be hosted by the City of Whittlesea on the 24th and 31st of August, 2022.

 

This year’s Symposium will feature a keynote address from the RMIT team working on new research with NGAA to quantify the benefits of infrastructure investment in growth areas.

 

Submissions are invited in the following categories:

• Environment/Sustainability

• Resilience

• Community

• Economic Development

• Innovation

 

Submissions will be assessed by the NGAA Research and Practice Reference Group.

 

You can watch the diverse range of presentations from the 2021 Symposium here. 

 

 

Please contact Bronwen Clark or Nicola Ward if you have any questions about the Symposium or making a submission.

 

More on NGAA Symposia here.