Building a City on a Floodplain

With guest speakers, Dr Margaret Cook, academic and author of A River with a City Problem: A History of Brisbane Floods, and Cr Jonathan Sri, Greens councillor for the Brisbane City Council, representing The Gabba Ward.

How good is this? 90 minutes for you to ask questions on the history of the growth of the City of Brisbane on the banks and swamps of the Brisbane River, and how the planners are dealing with this today. It will be a Q&A style forum with you posting questions on notice and asking them from the floor. With major natural disasters occurring more frequently and with greater intensity in Brisbane, the effects of climate change and poor urban planning are combining to create desperate, and in some cases fatal, floods. What has led to this situation? What can be done?

Members please post your questions on notice to the GIC forum https://rgsq.org.au/geographyinconversation/

OR non-members

Email: questionsonnotice@gmail.com

Time: 5:30 light refreshments – doors open at 5:15

Q&A Forum 6:00 – 7:30

Location: Gregory Place, Level 2, 28 Fortescue St, Spring Hill

Cost: $5.00 for refreshments