Media

Media enquiries

Selected feature articles

• "Walking Dread: Pedestrians pinpoint unsafe sites,' Herald Sun, 20 June 2017
• "Walk on the wild side: Hazardous crossings among pedestrians top gripes,' The Age, 19 June 2017
• 'Make drivers pay - Sky rail parking plan', Herald Sun 15 December 2016
• 'Drivers to wait longer at red lights under pedestrian safety plan', The Age 8 September 2016
• 'Red Light State: Plan for longer waits at crossings to help elderly', Herald Sun, 8 September 2016
• "Red Light on the Delay', Herald Sun, 9 September 2016
• 'Walking into Danger: pedestrian falls put 5000 a year in hospital', The Age, 17 March 2016
• 'Streets have turned into battleground for older pedestrians' The Age 17 May 2015
• 'Should we ban cars from Melbourne's CBD?' The Age16 April 2015
• 'Walk this way' The Sunday Age 22 September 2013
• 'Free-range kids encouraged to spread their wings' The Age 1 May 2012
• 'Going Walkabout' The Sunday Age 3 April 2011

Opinion

• 'Cities for People' ADC Forum 8 March 2016
• 'Taking the right steps to get your children healthy' Leader Newspapers 27 Jan 2015
• 'Let's make it safer for our seniors to walk' 6 Feb 2014 (Letter)
• 'These feet are made for walking' The Age 4 February 2011
• 'Why medium density housing is a health issue' Crikey, 11 April 2010
• 'Try walking and talking' The Age 1 February 2010 (now published on www.essentialkids.com.au)

Radio interviews

• 'Motorists could wait longer at intersections in plan to help the elderly', 3AW, 8 September 2016
• 'Tensions in Abbotsford as council paints parking bays on the footpath' - 3AW 8 March 2016
• 'Could Melbourne's CBD eventually become a car-free zone?' 3aw 16 April 2015
• 'Hot foot it' (walk to school) ABC Gippsland, 19 November 2013
• 'Walking and Walking Maps' ABC Gippsland 5 December 2012
• 'Talking Walking on Rethinking Cities' (UK), December 2010
• 'Favorite Melbourne Walks on 774 ABC Melbourne' ABC 7 August 2010 (copyright of ABC)

Selected media releases

• Lack of safe crossings tops list for walkers in Melbourne (WalkSpot results) 20 June 2017
• WalkSpot, 14 March 2017
• Let's Walk Braybrook launch, 1 March 2017
• Older walkers being killed and injured by bad driving, 8 September 2016
• New research – 5,000 Victorians injured by falls in the street, 17 Mar 2016
• Walkers say no to more bikes on footpaths, 3 Jul 2014
• Seniors missing out: new research - 5 December 2013
• It's time to get serious about children walking to school, 14 Nov2013
• Metropolitan Planning Strategy 25 March 2013
• Global Road Safety Week 2013, 6 May 2013
• Governments are failing young pedestrians 30 Oct 2012
• Victorian Victorian Road Safety Strategy 3 Oct 2012
• Free range Bendigo walk 30 April 2012
• Speed Limits Letter to the Editor 30 May 2012