Paula Rogers: Perth needs a plan to meet our | Australian Markets
As Benjamin Franklin stated, “If you fail to prepare, you prepare to fail”, which is simply as important in the present day because it was almost 400 years in the past.
The current State election has delivered a resounding mandate for Premier Roger Cook and his new Cabinet to lead Western Australia, and be sure that our State, and more particularly its capital, is ready for fulfillment, not simply in the present day however into the longer term.
This begins with engaged on a plan for Perth to information it in direction of 2050. After all, it’s solely 25 years away.
Speaking on the 2024 Premier’s handle in December, Mr Cook informed Committee for Perth members that Perth needs a plan. “I strongly believe in the importance of having a vision. And that a vision needs a decisive plan with a better sense of ourselves.”
Perth is at present the fastest-growing capital in Australia, in accordance to the Bureau of Statistics.
It’s anticipated to have a population of more than 3.5 million by 2050.
This presents wonderful alternatives for our area, but it surely additionally comes with distinctive challenges.
We need to think about and plan for the place people will reside and how we are going to meet their needs for housing, employment and important infrastructure.
WA already has an financial diversification strategy, Diversify WA — but my concern is that we nonetheless don’t have a plan for the longer term of the Perth area, the longest metropolis within the world stretching 152km from Two Rocks to Mandurah.
New York City has a plan, often known as OneNYC, developed to construct a fairer and more progressive metropolis, selling environmental sustainability, financial equality and social justice, with eight objectives and 30 initiatives to remodel its future because it progresses to 9 million residents.
Other cities comparable to Stockholm, Singapore and Melbourne even have plans.
Committee for Perth has a imaginative and prescient for the WA capital as a area of alternative to reside, work, invest, examine and go to however we imagine the plan to get us there should have authorities management and group assist.
The election demonstrated that voters are involved about quick points like cost-of-living, however in addition they have long-term fears for the surroundings and climate.
The new State Cabinet, introduced this week, is trigger for optimism with decarbonisation, power transition and financial diversification given vital precedence, with the Premier himself taking duty for the diversification portfolio.
In February, Sophie Scamps, Federal Member for Mackellar, tabled a Wellbeing of Future Generations Bill 2025 in Federal Parliament.
Could Perth and WA develop its own plan for dwelling in direction of 2050 and past, with younger people serving to cleared the path?
We may very well be the world’s most family-friendly area or a inexperienced power superpower.
These are all bold but doable concepts, however they won’t occur in a single day.
The Perth 2050 Report printed in November 2009 highlighted that 68 per cent of more than 1400 people surveyed have been excited and optimistic concerning the future however solely 22 per cent believed we have been ready for 2050.
In December, the Premier informed our members that if re-elected, his job was to present the management to match these challenges.
I’m wanting ahead to now working with the Premier and his crew — in addition to all leaders throughout politics, business, the group and tradition — to make sure we don’t miss this once-in-a-generation alternative; to stop and plan for how Perth shall be once we are nearly 4 million people.
Paula Rogers is chief government of the Committee for Perth
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