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Louise McCormick
Interim Infrastructure Commissioner, NT Infrastructure Commission
Louise has over 20 years’ experience in the transport and infrastructure sectors. She is also an award winning Chartered Engineer in both civil and structural engineering and is also Chartered as an Engineering Executive. Preamble Over the 16 years Louise has worked in the Northern Territory, she has been involved in planning, delivery and management of some of the Territory’s largest and most complex infrastructure projects. She has been instrumental in securing Australian Government funding for a significant number of road upgrades across the Northern Territory. Recently, Louise was appointed the interim Infrastructure Commissioner to establish Infrastructure NT. She also represents the Northern Territory on several national boards, committees and working groups, including as the Deputy Chair of Austroads, Australian Road Research Board (ARRB), the Infrastructure Investment Forum and I-Body National Forum.
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Paul Fletcher
Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts, Federal Government Paul Fletcher is Federal MP for Bradfield, in northern Sydney, and the Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts in the Morrison Government. He entered Parliament in December 2009, joined the Ministry in 2015, and was appointed to his present role in December 2020. Before entering Parliament, Paul was Director, Corporate and Regulatory Affairs, at Optus for eight years. Earlier in his career Paul was Chief of Staff to the Minister for Communications in the Howard Government, Senator Richard Alston. He has dual first class honours degrees in law and economics from The University of Sydney and an MBA from Columbia University, in New York, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.
Dr Helen Fairweather Senior Lecturer in Environmental Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast (USC)
Helen's research over her career has included a diverse collection of projects encompassing agriculture, hydrology, irrigation and climate research in a number of universities as well as Government agencies in NSW, QLD, Canada and the United Kingdom. On her return to Australia, Helen worked for the NSW Government, where she delivered on a range of climate and agricultural projects for various funding agencies and a State Government research grant to develop a climate change adaptation tool in a GIS framework. Before joining USC, Helen led the development of the science component of a project to revise the flood risk assessment methodology to take account of climate change in the relevant Queensland State Planning Policy.
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September 2021 // Issue 20
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