Decision rules and making defensible decisions ■ Requirements for lawful conditions, the scope of lawful conditions and enforcing conditions ■ Legal rules about interpretation of development approvals and drafting tips and tricks ■ Staged development applications, and challenges for development assessment and conditions ■ The sanctity of development approvals, and consequences when something goes wrong

IPWEA Australasia arranged and lead a Study Tour Delegation to the Smart City Expo World Congress Barcelona in November 2018. This was in conjunction with SCCANZ, ASCA, and Austrade. I was fortunate to be awarded a scholarship from the IPWEA Queensland Foundation to take part in the study tour. Herein this report outlines my objectives in attending, an account of the tour, discussion of key learnings and recommendations which members of IPWEAQ, IPWEA Group and the wider public engineering com...

qldwater finished the 2018 events season on a high with a great turn out at the Annual Forum held on 5 – 6 September at the Gold Coast Turf Club. As our signature annual event, the forum brings together around 100 water industry professionals representing a wide range of councils, utilities, industry and government agencies to share ideas and knowledge to improve services and build value for customers.

It’s been heartening to trace the response to the Knowledge Centre collections from IPWEAQ’s annual conference late last year on the Gold Coast.

We are in the throes of the 4th Industrial revolution and the pace of change and innovation can feel staggering at best, overwhelming at worst. Numerous articles on the future of technical professions predict that the skills needed tomorrow will be very different to the skills needed today.