30 June | Reform & Precinct Tracker

Please see below June's edition of the PremierNational Property, Planning and Infrastructure ‘Reform & Precinct Tracker’.

Included in this blog, you will also find some high level PremierNational insights into the Minister for Infrastructure, Minister for Cities, and Minister for Active Transport, Robert Stokes.

Please contact our Director Ilana Waldman, Special Counsel Lino Caccavo or Special Counsel Antony Anisse if you have any questions with respect to any of these items.

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Stokes first entered NSW Parliament as the Member for Pittwater in 2007 and has since been re-elected in 2011, 2015 and 2019. Prior to his current ministerial appointment as the Minister for Infrastructure, Cities and Active Transport, Stokes held numerous ministerial roles as the Minister for Planning and Public Spaces, Minister for Transport and Roads, Minister for Education, Minister for Heritage, Minister for the Central Coast and Minister for the Environment.

Stokes is an Honorary Fellow with Macquarie Law School and holds a double degree in arts and law from Macquarie University. He also holds a Master of Science from the University of Oxford and has a PhD in planning law.

Prior to entering NSW Parliament, Stokes worked as an associate with the law firm David Begg & Associates and was a lecturer in the Division of Law at Macquarie University. Stokes was also a policy advisor to Liberal Opposition Leader John Brogden, the former Member for Pittwater.

Stokes values good development where possible and has voiced that in his role as the Minister for Infrastructure, Cities and Active Transport,

“My focus will be on delivering the right infrastructure in the right place at the right time to ensure our cities reach their full potential.” – Robert Stokes