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Chief Executive | Winning in December

  • December 04, 2024
  • by Mike Zorbas
Mike Zorbas, National President Carmel Hourigan, NSW Honorary Life member Adrian Harrington, NSW President Fabrizio Perilli, NSW Executive Director and emcee Katie Stevenson

Why Christmas, from here you are looking gorgeous.

Half a dozen wonderful Property Council Christmas events are coming up this week across Australia. I’ll see some of you in Wollongong tonight and then in Sydney and Hobart in the coming days.

A very merry South Australian Christmas with SA Executive Director Bruce Djite, CEO of Junction Australia Maria Palumbo and Mike Zorbas.

Last week build-to-rent (BTR) housing legislation passed the Senate. Thanks to our tremendous BTR Roundtable, our clever team and our wise allies at Community Housing Industry Association and National Shelter. Would not, could not, have happened without you.

See the welcome details here and please note there is continuing work to be done on the regulations in this parliament and hopefully the new one.

Next Federal parliamentary term, the rest of our heavy lifting on better cities continues.

Getting high community benefit assets like purpose-built student accommodation and retirement living on the right regulatory footing to meet community needs and save governments and residents money is one pillar.

Getting states and territories to live up to their part of the welcome and ambitious 1.2 million home housing targets is another pillar.

I spoke a little bit more about this with my friends Kathryn House and Amanda Steele on the excellent Talking Property with CBRE podcast – out now!

All’s well that gets upgraded

Lastly a quick shout out to Property Council alumnus and star graduate Adrian Harrington who last week was inducted into honorary national life membership at our NSW end of year drinks in the presence of his terrific better-half Karen and the kids.

Thanks to outgoing NSW President Fabrizio Perilli for his generous hosting and leadership as ever and, equally, it was a pleasure to be joined by members and Presidents past and present as well as former Prime Minister Scott Morrison, likewise a proud alumnus, and former CEO Peter Verwer.

Committee announcement coming soon

If you nominated for a Committee in the upcoming term, you will receive a message on 9 December detailing the next steps. 

Positions on our Committees are always highly competitive and as ever we have been unable to accommodate every nomination request.

Thank you to everyone who applied for your support and commitment to the Property Council of Australia.

Next week – those city building scorecards…