2024 ACT GENERAL ELECTION
2024 ACT GENERAL ELECTION
Call for improving the built environment
The ACT Chapter of the Institute is alerting all political parties in the coming election to the challenges in the built envrionment and how they can be met, expressed in our 2024 ACT State Election Priorities statement.
campaign purpose
The 2024 ACT election has the potential to define the future vision of our city and it’s built environment. Political parties will make commitments that will impact how we live, play and work in the region, and how we care for country.
The ACT Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects welcomes a proactive debate and, on behalf of our members, articulates our priorities for improving the built environment whilst ensuring sustainability within the profession of architecture.
PRE-ELECTION EVENT
ACT BUILT ENVRIONMENT ASSOCATIONS JOIN FORCES TO HOST ADVOCACY FORUM
In the lead up to the ACT state election, the ACT Chapter in partnership with the Planning Institute of Australia, Engineers Australia, and the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, held a forum on 6 September 2024 with candidates for the 2024 ACT election to discuss our joint key priorities.
These priorities included:
- Planning for climate change
- Promoting housing diversity and the missing middle
- Embedding caring for country into design
- Strengthening capacity for reform delivery and approvals processes
- Planning for ACT rural lands and services across our borders.
In attendance were representatives for parties including:
- The Greens: Rebecca Vassarotti
- ACT Labor: Chris Steel and Suzanne Orr
- ACT Liberals: Peter Cain, and
- Independents for Canberra: Thomas Emerson
All associations prepared the Joint Advocacy – ACT 2024 Election Priorities paper, which candidates responded to.
For more information, please contact the ACT Chapter.
2024 ACT GENERAL election priorities
WHAT WE WANT OUR FUTURE GOVERNMENT TO FOCUS ON...
Homes for the ACT
- Reuse buildings for rapid housing solutions
- Increase investment in social housing
- Create a more compact and connected city
- Provide more housing choices.
Better Procurement Delivers Better Value
- Select most suitable procurement option
- Allocate appropriate budgets and adequate design fees
- Design quality as a key criteria
- Use standard, fair contracts
- Ensure appropriate risk allocation
- Use procurement criteria that is proportionate to the scale and complexity of the project.
ACT at the Centre of Designing and Building the Territory
- Strengthen Canberra Region Local Industry Participation Policy
- Mandate a specific percentage of ACT professional services be used for all public projects
- Mandate the use of local architectural graduates in government projects
- Enhance design review panels to allow more projects to be reviewed.
How we move forward
NEXT STEPS FOR ADVOCACY ...
- We are sending our priorities to the major parties
- We have created a media release to gain exposure in ACT local media
- Members are encouraged to also connect with local candidates and share these priorities with them
- Following the election and whichever government is formed, we will engage with relevant ministers to ensure that the next government is aware of these priorities and becomes engaged with the opportunities we are proposing.