Population Forum

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PRESENTERS  Ross Barker is the Manager, Planning Information and Forecasting Unit in the Queensland Department of Local Government and Planning, a position he has held for more than a decade. In this position Ross provides expert interpretation and advice on a wide range of demographic, housing and urban development issues that impact on the provision of infrastructure and services across Queensland.

 Alison Taylor is Principal Demographer in the Planning Information and Forecasting Unit, Queensland Department of Local Government, Planning, Sport and Recreation. The Unit has responsibility for monitoring and producing demographic, housing and urban land information to support urban and regional planning in Queensland. Alison has been in this role for six years. Prior to this, Alison managed the Social Research Unit at Gold Coast City Council and was a demographic planner for NSW School Education. Alison currently has a key role for the Queensland government that includes analysing demographic, housing, socio-economic and residential land development trends and conveying the results of these analyses to a wide range of users. In her spare time Alison is trying to finish a PhD looking at social structure and spatial patterns in Gold Coast City.