Good morning, everyone.

Welcome to our annual International Women's Day event at Norman, Disney and Young.

It's fantastic toe.

Have you a ll here today?

My name is Joseph on on one of the directors here in the Melbourne office.

We traditionally do a welcome to country arrangement, as you might see quite commonly.

And today I would like to do something a little bit different than you might ordinarily safe the JJ along North show.

Anyone being there?

Yeah, fantastic place.

So you're asking yourself just why are you talking to me about JJ along North Shore?

Well, it's about 60 kilometers from where we are today.

And if you consider translating time into distance when you look at our indigenous nation that spends something like 60,000 years, 60,000 years in this nation, um, the time in this place has to be is very important.

And if you consider where we are for its festival hall, we didn't even Mike back straight in our time in this place.

So I think a little bit of a different white or flames on certainly custodians of this land.

So move on International Women's Day that celebrates the treatments of women, So that's fantastic.

It's a range of achievements social, economic, professional, cultural.

It's an action in celebrating gender equality.

I'll reflect on my own circumstance of what?

Three beautiful girls and my hopes and aspirations for my three bills.

Um, hi.

And if I think about my hopes and then what I see today that I'm actually a line.

There is a difference between what I hope for my three girls and what I see.

You know, society, particularly in the workplace, so that inspires May to do more.

I hope that residents with some of you, Endy Y, has done a lot of good stuff, certainly in racing use around pushing the gender equality matter forward.

Yes, we come from a very mild dominated industry.

We participated in a bunch of industry forms.

We've also implemented a bunch of policies and initiatives that really supporting our progress and that includes, from flexible working arrangements.

Mito agenda, Paige up, review it and they want where we drink genuinely looking whether we have pie gap issues and we fix it.

We also have a fairly well established diversity and inclusion program, so that's demonstrating progress around among a range of fronts, you know, Dana Agenda.

But I'd also acknowledge that at times we do file, and it's important that as an organization and his individuals we can recognize when we do file, acknowledge it on trying to deal with it and try again.

And then if we file what we try again.

So that's an ongoing journey for ever seen laws on that note.

It's important tonight that the workplace Gender Equality Agency has recognized in the wine what's only about 120 organizations across Australia?

Eso We've certainly hit that mark for the second year in a row as I employer of choice for gender equality.

So I think we should be as Indy why, proud of that achievement that we've been able to implement for the second year in a row, and we will continue to do that well, I think that we will only get better and for ass stuff that here you can actually look at submissions that support those applications.

So it's important that we continue on that journey and demonstrate that that's quite an achievement that we should be proud of.

It as a business is an organization.

We have an impressive panel here today to talk a bunch of interesting top ese.

So you're not gonna hear a whole lot more from me.

But I'm gonna welcome Sarah to the stage Markham's to introduce and facilitate that panel.

So welcome, Sarah.

Yeah.

Thanks, Joe.

For those of you who haven't met me before, my name is Sarah Dawson, and I'm the head of marking calms it, Indy.

Why?

I'm quite new in the role in this is a really great stop to martini here at N.

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And I'm really excited today to introduce three really exceptional women to our panel.

You know, talk about International Women's Day and what it actually means to them.

Um, but before we begin, I'd like to invite you to our panellists to introduce themselves about their career.

Joni's today s o.

Firstly, I'd like to introduce Carolyn Bonnie from his unity sentence.

Eso Caroline is actually the chief development officer.

It wasn't incentives.

It's a role.

She's held suits October 2016.

She has more 20 years experience in construction, property development in real estate investment.

I'm proud of joining this Unity Center's Carolyn was broke on which she held a number of senior roles, including CEO, deputy CEO and head of development.

Currently is an advisory board member to the Victorian government's Office of Projects Victoria and also the organization Women's Property Initiatives.

She's also a non executive director of the big issue Heist Our Homes and the Water and Lies.

A whole Institute of Medical research, apparently is a former president of the Victorian Division of Property Council of Victoria as I place join me in welcoming Caroline.

No.

All right, well, good morning, everyone.

Um, I might be gained by I think of slips and slides on the legend guy.

I begin by acknowledging the Tricia Linus of the land on which we make this morning in my respects to Elder is past and present.

Thank you, Indy.

Why?

And thank you for that warm welcome.

And happy international Women's Day.

Everybody, um, And if I can also acknowledge my delight Panelists Dr Rebecca Costs and Joanna I think the idea is that we get to know each other a little bit before we launch into what I'm sure is gonna be a great panel.

Discussion s o.

When I was thinking about that, apart from the formal CV reach.

Everyone wants to breed out at the beginning.

What else would I want you to know about May?

Well, my current role, a CZ there mentioned he's as chief development officer at the city centers.

I actually hate the title chief development officer.

I don't know why I can't just be the executive general manager development or something like that in a traditional way.

But we had a whole range of roles that changed about two years ago, where a range of my male peas into that with chief at the beginning of their title.

So they felt that I also needed to be a chief.

I would've been happy with the role of Total the white Walls, but it was a time from a good place anyway.

So this unity, the unity ease and I have six listed property company we own and manage about $26 billion worth off assets across the country.

The company is the merger between what waas, the Colonial first I rito fund trust for that gandal group on then the other part of the business and the assets come from federation centers in century.

The pedigree of both businesses is mostly retail.

But increasingly, we're very focused on a mixed use agenda, which is about looking at the potential about real estate and transforming those assets, which are largely a single or maybe even two story building, with three telling them in a sea of car parking, looking at that real estate and sighing what all the other things that we could do with that real estate in 2020 2030 2040 2050 on Fundamentally.

From my point of view, that means transforming what a traditional retail assets into right places.

Right places that people love that they want being and I want to connect with other people, involves a capital spending about $3 billion over the next three employees and introducing things like offices and hotels and residential service departments.

And you've seen it's do some of that stuff already.

A places like that blaming Bloom Waverly in the hotel in the office it Cheston and someone pride of assumes.

He spent 13 years at Grow Corn, and I know a lot of people in the room from my time there.

Various roles from in house counsel 32 Hit of development, deputy CEO and CEO Garcon is undoubtedly a very different uses today than it was vain butting any respect when I think about work on in my time there in the 50 years before that?

Um, it's undoubtedly nine full and best remembered for conceiving in delivering some of Melbourne industry's most memorable buildings, like Realtor in the M.

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A meat pie in Eureka Tower in Melbourne.

Uh, Governor Phillip Talon one glass straight and that building in Sydney and the parallels to Queensland.

So I might add that nd why was a consultant on almost all of those buildings having settle that, uh, up again my career as a property lawyer working for me to Ellison a studied law, in part because I was accepted into the degree.

Ah, that'll sorry.

As an impressionable teenager, there was a show of showing my age now a great show on TV called L.

A Law, which depicted the life of a lawyer has by interesting and glamorous and the meaning of fame in the show I was sexy as hell.

And let me tell you, this was very different to my experience of me to Alison.

When I resigned at mentors, had a lot of fun there on Lancelot at the partner who works for me said, I'll Carol anything needed a job.

I would have hoped to get a proper job, which wasn't particularly inspirational on Monday when it broke on.

I wasn't sure at all that he hadn't got it entirely wrong.

I had completely underestimated the magnitude of the change of going from a T one more for him in the big tower in the city to a high profile but nevertheless private business, a za builder and developer.

And when my husband called me at lunchtime on Day one to see how the new gig was going, I really had to do all that I could not to actually cry, and I'm not really a cry out.

So that was saying something.

And that was from my desk in the tight confines of the side office that we had in Longstaff straight at Key V, uh, where my disk was literally situated directly outside the men's bathroom.

I did wonder what have I got myself into?

But um, by then and now, often reflected on the training that really great companies provide their stuff that these kind of organizations make a really big investment in there, but people in general and the young people in particular and end a wise my different.

I'm sure I'll certainly saw myself as a beneficiary of that training and investment.

Having said that, once I was the client, as opposed to just advising the client was always gonna be pretty hard for me to do anything else.

And it was really then that I began my lot of there with buildings.

More specifically, that my interest is in how people use buildings on the realization know what we'll do every day in the bilge form.

Spicy is super important and in fact really, really special.

That leaves a big mark on the cities in which we live and work.

And then we have it to ourselves and the future generations to make sure that what we leave behind is exceptional in all respects.

And that doesn't need to make expense people fancy, but rather that it's well considered fit for purpose and matches and hopefully exceeds the expectations of the people who were delivering those buildings.

That's one aspect of what I love about what I do.

On the other is the amazing terms of people who you get to work with a long way.

And in real estate, I think one of the best things is that none of these buildings have been, in fact without lots and lots of people across lots of organizations coming together and collaborate really well to put a project together and say it to live.

So a constant reminder of what people are capable of innovative thinking, extreme problem solving in just the hard ground of getting a project up and delivered, and also a reminder of how many wonderful professionals working now industry tough, sometimes brutal.

But I feel very lucky to have been a part of it.

Most days when I come to work, I don't think about being a woman.

That's not to say that one, but I haven't been heat on in a professional capacity.

I was young once to found myself feeling slightly uncomfortable when I'm literally the only female at a dinner table of 30 or 40 men.

Three, uh, back Wayne, having found myself feeling uncomfortable when on the only person I just south of 50 or four, for reasons that still aren't clear, found myself in meetings with my mail piece being from here to take the nights.

Most days I just focus on the job I have to do.

Projects are a big part of my role, but so, too, is keeping an eye and an ear.

Apathy, actions on behaviors off the people in my 19 and the broad of assumed the business if they run counter to each for equal and with age.

But lots of that now and experience better that to being prepared to call it out when I say it.

Thanks for listening.

Okay, thanks, Caroline next will interviews Doctor Big Cult Whose a sustainability professional Rebecca's a saying.

A sustaining sustainability, professional over 20 years experience, environment conservation, science, policy and management.

She's currently senior communications engagement advisor for the Victorian Commission for Environmental Sustainability, where she also the inaugural state of Victoria Sorry State of the Year in its park last 2018 report and how was the Victorian state of Environment?

2018.

Report.

Rebecca has served as a board member of Central Crystal boards and has reputation her expert knowledge across sustainability stewardship decided 1,000,000,000 implementation that you ain't since signing development goals, and she holds a PhD in conservation, environmental management as a global executive.

It's a place.

Join me in welcoming back up.

Thanks very much for the lovely introduction because you can see I'm vertically challenged and I just need to push it down further.

Thank you, Indy Y and also Johnson for inviting me to speak today.

It's just wonderful to celebrate with everybody.

International Women's Day and also Caroline Angelina to share the panel with you today is also really exciting for me, too.

I'd also like to think the elders and emerging leaders off the coronation.

So where we are today, where the Yellow River, the Maranon never interested, Support for bag is really important place for the coronation.

This is an area where they came to get that to trade, to actually arrange marriages and was really important for their food and also economic prosperity.

And if you ever get an opportunity to go on country with elders, they'll share the cultural knowledge with you.

And what really resonates with me is that they don't look at environment, societal maids and economic prosperity.

Separately, it's actually a very tightly integrated knowledge, said, which we could learn a lot from when actually this approach is the foundation of what I want to talk to about.

Today.

I have a PowerPoint presentation of being a Sanchez to know that freaks A lot of people out there probably expect tables grass, and it's far too early on Friday morning to do that.

And I haven't had enough espressos to do that either.

So I'm not gonna do that to you.

Um, I just want to explain the connection of environmental sustainability is an independent and impartial office.

Dr.

Gillian Sparks is the commissioner, and she's wanted for tickets, and later she has a background actually in mining and Liszt, and she was elected by bipartisan support to be commissioner.

And this is her second to them, and we do a lot of the state off reporting.

So instead of the air instead of the environment, state of the forests and so on, it's quite an exciting office.