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BuildingoneVictoriaM A G A Z I N E

ISSN 1835-193X

The future of Melbourne - an architect’s perspective

Rejuvenating our arts and cultural precinct

Lifting the veil on sustainable development

Newest icon opens on the Yarra

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Biosciences Research Centre Public Private Partnership early amid financial crisis

The future of Melbourne An architect’s perspective

2009 State Budget Infrastructure and jobs

Melbourne Convention Centre Bringing big business and jobs to Victoria

Melbourne Rectangular Stadium New sporting icon takes shape43 8 107

In tough economic times the Brumby Government is acting to secure jobs through record levels of infrastructure investment and by fast tracking projects.

The 2009 State Budget handed down in May 2009 delivers strong leadership with an $11.5 billion investment next financial year in job-creating infrastructure to secure up to 35,000 jobs.

Another major initiative to support the construction industry is the recently announced planning reforms to speed up investment and jobs.

Under these reforms ten projects have already been fast tracked, creating more than 18,000 jobs and providing a $2.4 billion boost for the Victorian economy.

The next year promises to be an exciting time in the Major Projects portfolio. The Melbourne Convention

Centre, which opened in late May, is a fantastic new economic engine for the state. It is the largest centre of its kind in the southern hemisphere, creating 2,500 jobs and injecting approximately $197 million a year for the next 25 years into the Victorian economy.

The $267.5 million Melbourne Rectangular Stadium is on track to host games in early 2010. This iconic stadium will be Melbourne’s first ever purpose built venue for rugby and soccer and is generating incredible excitement, especially for Melbourne Victory and Storm fans.

Victoria’s Biosciences Research Centre has commenced construction five months ahead of schedule and the Melbourne Market Relocation project is currently under procurement.

Another interesting upcoming project is the $128.5 million Southbank Cultural Precinct redevelopment which begins with the refurbishment of Hamer Hall at the Arts Centre.

Other fantastic projects in the development or feasibility planning stages are the Melbourne and Olympic Parks redevelopment and the subsequent stages of the Southbank Cultural Precinct redevelopment.

Victoria is stepping up to the challenge of the Global Financial Crisis with a dynamic infrastructure program that will see us through the storm and continue to build the state for the future.

Tim Pallas MP Minister for Major Projects

Building jobs, building Victoria

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The highlights of the budget include:

> More than $3 billion allocated to the $38 billion Victorian Transport Plan.

> $2.4 billion for new road projects including Peninsula Link.

> $980 million allocated to rail construction projects.

> $402 million to rebuild or renovate 113 government schools.

> $283.1 million for new health capital works.

> Building or upgrading ten police stations.

> Extending the first homeowners grant by 12 months.

The 2009 State Budget continues the largest major projects program in Victoria’s history.

> Since 2000 more than $24.5 billion has been invested in infrastructure.

> In the 2009 State Budget the Brumby Government has committed to an average net infrastructure investment of $4.4 billion over the coming three years.

Major Projects Victoria also received direct funding for a number of exciting projects including:

> $20 million to deliver the final stages of the Princes Pier restoration

> $2 million to progress planning for the E-Gate site in West Melbourne

> $5 million for the Melbourne and Olympic Parks redevelopment.

For more information on the 2009 State Budget please visit: www.budget.vic.gov.au

For more information on the Princes Pier, E-Gate or Melbourne and Olympic Parks redevelopment projects please visit: www.mpv.vic.gov.au

Lifting the veil on sustainable development

Brett Sheehy, Melbourne International Arts Festival Rejuvenating our arts and cultural precinct 1412

2009 State Budget: infrastructure and jobsThe 2009 State Budget puts infrastructure and jobs at the forefront with a record $11.5 billion investment during the next financial year in job-creating infrastructure to secure up to 35,000 jobs.

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In his first major speech as Major Projects Minister, Tim Pallas champions the cause of good design and reveals his least favourite Victorian road.

Good design - you get what you pay for

I’d like to begin by stating an obvious but frequently overlooked fact: in design, you get what you pay for. In fact, when we scrimp on design and strategic thinking, we waste money in the long term.

Too often in government projects, the combination of competitive fee tendering, over zealous probity measures and technically naïve clients means that price becomes the only criteria used to judge design.

However, the reality is that a dollar saved on design and planning often costs ten or a hundred dollars to rectify later on. I am not just talking about building design here either: all our infrastructure must be well designed.

We need to have a balance of form and function, and need infrastructure that complements the landscape around it.

As the Minister for Roads, I know roads are often the worst culprits in terms of poor urban design - take Sydney’s Cahill Expressway for example.

The Expressway, which runs between Sydney’s CBD and Circular Quay, is one of Australia’s most visually destructive roads. Paul Keating recently verbally demolished the Expressway at the Sydney Architecture Festival describing it as a piece of ‘utilitarian junk defacing the founding site of our country’.

Beyond the invective, Keating is right. The Expressway does nothing for the area that surrounds it – it blocks the Sydney CBD from the harbour and monsters the public space around Circular Quay.

If we compare the Expressway with a road here in Victoria, we can see the profound difference that good design can make. The EastLink project goes beyond pure functionality to deliver a road that is integrated with its surrounds and which offers new levels of environmental and visual amenity.

Of course, Sydney alone does not have ugly roads. My personal local bugbear is the West Gate Freeway.

Although I lack Keating’s gift of colourful expression, every time I see the West Gate’s vista of brutal concrete, power lines and clumsy looking footbridges, I can only think the road is a symbol of the Hamer Government’s utter contempt for the West and its residents. To in part rectify this ugliness, the Brumby Government is now spending around $1 million to improve visual aesthetics through new

landscaping and tree plantings and by installing mesh screens for growing creepers in front of the noise walls.

I’m glad we are doing this now, but it all could have been prevented by considering aesthetics and design when the road was first built. I am proud to say we now have VicRoads working with the Victorian Government Architect to deliver better designed freeways that are not visual insults to the communities around them.

To return to Keating’s comments on the Cahill Expressway, he went on to say the road was a ‘failure of the Government’s imagination’. He makes an excellent point: government does need to be imaginative about design because if we don’t, who will?

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The future of Melbourne – an architect’s perspectiveFrom the 2009 MPV Seminar Series

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Government’s ultimate responsibility is to the community rather than to the market. Because of this we should be the strongest advocates for designs that enhance people’s lives, not just economically, but socially, culturally and environmentally.

As Winston Churchill said, ‘first we shape our buildings and then they shape us’. Beyond their impact on people’s lives as places for leisure or work, public buildings are a source of pride for Victorians.

Research shows that people like to live in a place that has good, if not great architecture. It signifies growth and progress to people. Good design lifts the spirit. With this in mind, the government’s social infrastructure agenda proposes a different, more balanced relationship between form and function.

We need to make buildings that are iconic and that fit the environment around them, while fulfilling the community’s needs and providing good value for taxpayers’ money.

Of course getting all this right is not easy – which is why good design needs a strong voice within government. I believe by establishing the Office of the Victorian Government Architect, the Government has given design a much needed focus and a direct line to the key decision makers. The Government Architect ensures we have the advice to take a strategic approach to design.

You will all remember Melbourne’s version of the Cahill Expressway, the old Gas and Fuel buildings on Flinders Street. Built in the late 1960s in the international style, these brown brick monstrosities were a case of function beating form into submission.

To his credit, Jeff Kennett was tireless in his campaign against the Gas and Fuel buildings. Had the Bolte Government been more conscious of design, it might have realised the Gas and Fuel buildings were an urban design disaster and saved everyone a lot of time.

As you know, the creation of Federation Square had a huge impact on Melbourne, helping to set up a chain reaction of projects that have made the Yarra the new axis of Melbourne’s life. But the idea of building over the Jolimont rail yards as the next logical step in Melbourne’s expansion to the south-east is not new.

Since 1925 there have been no less than eight proposals to deck over the rail yards. Ideas have included a pleasure garden, a new town hall, various office and hotel developments, a giant fibreglass Ayres Rock, and plans to build an Eiffel Tower-sized kangaroo and beer bottle that thankfully went nowhere.

It is disappointing then that the strategic significance of the site was overlooked in 1967, to the city’s great expense.

Of course it is all very well for me to trumpet the cause for good design but as we all know, the design and construction industries currently face a very tough outlook during the global financial crisis.

The Government is aware of the situation and is taking practical steps to protect the industry that has given so much to this state, an industry that in fact provides 7.8 per cent of its gross domestic product.

Minister Pallas was joined by some of Melbourne’s leading architects at the first in a series of MPV seminars. Other speakers included:

> Geoffrey London, Victorian Government Architect

> Roger Poole, Chairman, Bates Smart

> Howard Raggatt, Director, Ashton Raggatt McDougall

> Dr Catherin Bull, Elisabeth Murdoch Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Melbourne.

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Government can support construction in hard times:

> by making prudent investments> by removing planning burdens and

streamlining processes> by coordinating the release of

various tenders across government to avoid swamping the industry, and

> by providing more certainty in the project pipeline.

We also need to be willing to pay more for design services and to select on value and reputation rather than just on price.

We have achieved a lot so far but see other challenges in the future. In particular we need to reduce bid costs and make it easier for firms to get involved in tenders. Relative to other countries, it still costs too much to bid for major projects in Victoria, which reduces participation and competition. Fixing these problems will increase competition, drive down long term costs and deliver better ideas.

I realise I haven’t touched on the topic of today’s seminar, the future of Melbourne, but I will leave that for the experts on our panel. I would like, however, to offer one thought on Melbourne’s future .

As I see it, the challenge for Melbourne’s urban design will be how we integrate the CBD with the Southbank arts precinct and the Olympic Park sporting precinct. Melbourne has these two incredible assets just a stone’s throw from the city centre and yet there is no natural pedestrian flow into either area. As the city’s focus increasingly moves towards the river this lack of connectivity becomes more pressing.

Work on the Southbank Cultural Precinct redevelopment and Federation Square East is currently being undertaken to rectify the problem, but the challenge remains to get the strategy and the detail right, lest Paul Keating ever line this government up for being utilitarian and unimaginative.

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Biosciences Research CentrePublic private partnership early amid financial crisis

Victoria’s Biosciences Research Centre is set to commence construction five months ahead of schedule, generating hundreds of jobs for the state.

Premier John Brumby was recently at the Bundoora site to mark the start of construction and said the vital facility would put Victoria at the forefront of innovation and agricultural research.

“This Government is investing in important infrastructure projects in tough global economic times that are not only securing jobs but building for the future of the state,” Mr Brumby said.

“The Biosciences Research Centre will be a world class centre for agricultural biosciences research and development and will boost Victoria’s ability to make important scientific discoveries.”

“This facility will stimulate economic activity in Victoria through investment in biosciences and biotechnology, while delivering research to boost productivity, fight diseases such as Equine Influenza and make Victoria’s farms even more sustainable.”

“Importantly, the project is also estimated to generate 390 jobs during construction and inject around $620 million into the Victorian economy.”

Major Projects Minister Tim Pallas said Plenary Research, comprising Plenary Group, Grocon Constructors and Honeywell Services, had been chosen to deliver the project.

“This is yet another impressive achievement and demonstrates the confidence of the private sector in the strength of the Victorian economy,” Mr Pallas said.

“This project will deliver a state-of-the-art facility that will provide internationally recognised research and development outcomes for the benefit of Victorians.”

Agriculture Minister Joe Helper said the Biosciences Research Centre would be a landmark facility for Victoria’s $11.8 billion agricultural sector.

“Victoria is a leader in protecting and working with our agricultural sector against biosecurity threats that provide a constant risk to our farming productivity,” Mr Helper said.

“This important centre will help to further protect this sector by allowing us to rapidly detect and eradicate plant and animal pest and disease outbreaks. The Biosciences Research Centre will complement our $205 million Future Farming Strategy, which is delivering the services farmers need to take on today’s challenges and benefit from future opportunities.”

La Trobe Vice Chancellor Professor Paul Johnson said the Biosciences Research Centre is extremely important for the University in terms of enabling research collaboration with world leading scientists in a state-of-the-art facility, and boosting the national and international profile of La Trobe.

The Biosciences Research Centre is a joint initiative of the Victorian Government and La Trobe University. To be located at the university’s Bundoora Campus, the facility is expected to be operational in 2012.

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Victoria is set to become one of the most sought after business tourist destinations in the world, when the new $370 million Melbourne Convention Centre opens for business in July this year.

Premier John Brumby said the Convention Centre would inject an estimated $197 million a year for the next 25 years into the Victorian economy and create 2500 jobs across the state.

“This world class centre gives Victoria an international advantage in securing conventions and bringing business tourists to the state,” Mr Brumby said.

“Convention and business tourist visitors on average spend five times as much as leisure tourists.

Mr Brumby said the Melbourne Convention Centre was a new economic engine for the state and that the timing of its completion couldn’t be better.

“This facility is a significant asset for our state and one which will help us weather the storm of the global economic slowdown,” Mr Brumby said.

The Centre has also revitalised the whole South Wharf area of the Yarra, sparking the development of the new Hilton Hotel, the South Wharf retail development, the South Wharf sheds development and plans for a new maritime precinct around the Polly Woodside.

Major Projects Minister Tim Pallas said the Convention Centre was a new architectural icon for Melbourne.

“The centre features a 5,000 seat Plenary Hall, innovative gala seating system, grand foyer, banquet room and fantastic views of the city, making this a truly world class facility,” Mr Pallas said.

“The Convention Centre also leads the world in sustainability, as the first large public building of its kind to be

awarded a Six Star Green Star rating by the Green Building Council.”

The Melbourne Convention Centre development was delivered as a public private partnership under the Partnership Victoria Framework.

The project was managed by Major Projects Victoria, in partnership with Plenary Group and the City of Melbourne, for the Victorian Government.

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A new icon is taking shape and changing Melbourne’s skyline as the distinctive roof frames of the $267.5 million rectangular stadium are bolted into place.

Major Projects Minister Tim Pallas said Melburnians were starting to get an idea of how the new 31,000 seat stadium is going to look.

“The Brumby Government is taking action to invest in vital infrastructure like the rectangular stadium that creates jobs and new business opportunities while delivering an important new sports and entertainment facility,” Mr Pallas said.

“Anybody driving or walking the area can really see the stadium’s bio-frame roof coming together. This stadium is not only going to be an excellent sporting arena, it’s also going to stand out as something unique on Melbourne’s skyline.”

Speaking at a site tour for the construction industry, Mr Pallas said more than 1,200 workers had been employed both on and off site during the project, which is expected to generate about $775 million in benefits for the construction and associated industries.

Melbourne’s newest sporting icon takes shape

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Major Projects Victoria and project partners recently welcomed members from the design, construction and sporting sectors for an exclusive preview of the stadium as it starts to take shape.

The 600 strong crowd, which included members of peak bodies in the design and construction industry, were given a unique opportunity to see inside the stadium as it progresses.

Sean Sweeney (Major Projects Victoria Executive Director), Minister Pallas, and the directors of Cox Architects, ARUP and Grocon, spoke about the complex structure, discussing their vision, enthusiasm and pride at being involved in the construction of this iconic structure.

Showing that all the hard work will be worthwhile, Al Baxter and Luke Burgess from the Wallabies, Robbie Kearns (former Melbourne Storm Captain and Club Ambassador), Wairangi Koopu and Brett White from the Melbourne Storm also gave the building their seal of approval.

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And despite the inner city locale, the suburb is surrounded by billabongs and punctuated by nature strips where plant life abounds.

It might sound far-fetched, but these are just some of the ideas that came out of a series of workshops run late last year by the Victorian Government-funded think tank, Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab (VEIL).

Design staff and students from Melbourne, Monash, RMIT and Swinburne Universities were asked to take a ‘blue sky ESD (ecologically sustainable development) approach’ to one of the last remaining large brown field sites in inner Melbourne without a long term strategic plan.

The site, known as E-Gate (and named by workshop participants as Ecological Business District, or EBD) is located off Footscray Road between North Melbourne Railway station and the Docklands. VicTrack has been working with Major Projects Victoria (MPV) on possibilities for the future development of the site.

While there are no firm plans for E-Gate at this stage, the ideas generated by the workshops will help guide the Victorian Government’s thoughts on the site’s future development potential.

The ideas can also help inform the sort of changes we should be making to our patterns of behaviour, not just in how we design and construct our homes and consume resources, but also in the way we interact as a community and plan our daily lives.

Ecologically sustainable development is key to our world coping with climate change: it is not a futuristic phenomena, it needs to start here and now.

The ideas that came out of the workshop were recently showcased at the MPV-sponsored Eco-City Melbourne Exhibition. The following examples provide a snapshot of the positive power of ESD design.

Bioremediation

The ecologically sustainable development of the notional EBD starts with the site’s remediation. Plants are progressively planted in various stages around the site over a number of years. Through a natural phytoremediation process, the plants absorb contaminants from the site, meaning today’s usual remediation methods – heavy excavation and haulage equipment, and landfill sites – become redundant.

Acqua Anytime (Ching Tan, Kate Bissett-Johnson, Swinburne University)

Acqua Anytime is a smart water management system for a communal garden: valves, meters, a computer and digital network drive the system. It has a central access point where users simply enter a PIN, and a number of discharge (water) points that can be accessed by the various garden plots.

The system monitors an individual’s overall water consumption (whether it is in the home or the garden) and allows them to divert unused portions of their water allocation wherever they wish.

In addition to promoting smart water use, the system allows various water types to be used for specific gardening needs – for instance, grey water can be recycled for ornamental plants while rainwater can be used to water consumables such as fruit and vegetables.

While Acqua Anytime has been designed for a communal garden, the system could be used by the industrial and farming sectors.

Ecofood (Jacqui Lawson, Brad Haylock, Monash University)

Ecofood is an online home delivery service that provides environmentally friendly and sustainable food for the future. Concerned with the harmful effects that food transport, processing, packaging and storage is having on the environment, Ecofood sources locally produced food products and supports local farmers and independent producers committed to providing customers with fresher, better quality food.

Ecofood helps customers recycle and reuse glass bottles, bread bags and food containers by collecting empty packaging and refilling it over and over again.

Lifting the veil on sustainable developmentPicture this… it’s the year 2032 and you are living in an inner Melbourne suburb just 2 kms from the CBD where your fruit and veg come from onsite tower farms, a resource co-op. allows you to share with your neighbours a range of appliances and resources from vacuum cleaners and hotplates to chickens, bikes and cars, and your energy and water consumption can be monitored and modified at the touch of a button.

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Officefarm (Patrick Kenny, Simon Whibley, RMIT)

The Officefarm creates an efficient working environment where workers combine their standard office work with food production. Staff can harvest the food they grow and excess produce is sold to local organic cafes.

Being involved in the production process enables people to become more in tune with their real consumption needs – as opposed to following ingrained consumption habits.

Nature Strips (Deanna German, Noemie Le Coz, Kate Slattery, Kushan Sarathchandra, Mark Strachan, Swinburne University)

The EBD Nature Strips provide a new form of community garden which turns wasted green space – the nature strip - into a very practical food production space within the urban fabric. Active residents maintain the gardens and a sense of community grows alongside the food gardens.

LiteSwitch (Shannon Brown, Jhulian Koh, Petter Stenberg-Hansen, Liew Jee Guan, Caloine Coultas, Laila Azanar, Mark Strachan, Swinburne University)

LiteSwitch is a wall mounted touch screen LCD display connected to local wiring and a small server via closed intranet, to be placed in each apartment in the EBD. It allows the homeowner to power down all specified appliances without having to turn each appliance off at the switch. Users can configure existing presets or create new ones for scenarios such as recording or downloading which require specific appliances.

LiteSwitch aims to effect change by making our often invisible patterns of consumption visible and placing them within a context we can understand. The idea is to make zero standby as easy as hitting a button.

Railway Recycling Vehicle (Tosika Maluma, Ian Wong, RMIT)

This waste management uses RFID tags inserted into packaging and products to separate different waste materials within all EBD buildings. The waste is separated into recycling groups and then compacted. A trolley allows the compacted waste to be collected from the buildings and wheeled a short distance to the waste tram collection point and rolled straight onto the tram to the local recycling plant.

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Arts and culture have always been, and are increasingly, major drawcards for Melbourne, attracting international and interstate visitors and contributing to the identity and liveability of the city.

From Princes Bridge and south along St Kilda Road we have an array of world class cultural facilities – the Arts Centre, the NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) and the spectacular new Melbourne Recital Centre and MTC Theatre complex. This year the Brumby Government revealed its long term vision for Southbank which will rejuvenate and reconnect the cultural precinct and individual venues to each other and to the wider city precincts.

The Southbank Cultural Precinct redevelopment will create a destination connecting people to the arts and the arts to people.

With this in mind, Building One Victoria asked Brett Sheehy, the newly appointed Artistic Director of the Melbourne International Arts Festival about how Melbourne fares against the world’s cultural destinations and his hopes for the Southbank precinct. Brett is one of Australia’s most accomplished and acclaimed artistic directors and the first person to direct three of Australia’s five leading international arts festivals.

Why does Melbourne attract such high calibre national and international artists?

In my 13 years working in the international festival milieu, I have always been struck by the association of Melbourne with arts and culture. Clichés are clichés for a reason, and as a newcomer to this city I can say that Melbourne is still considered the cultural capital of Australia, a claim I earnestly believe to be true.

Three things mark Melbourne as being unique in Australia in this regard; the depth of its artistic talent across all art forms, the degree to which arts and culture are literally and metaphorically woven into the fabric of the city, and the feeling that culture is an important part of Melbourne among its residents. Having now lived in and been part of the artistic life of Australia’s four largest cities, I can say that only in Melbourne does the man and woman in the street almost universally proclaim culture as being a critical part of their city.

How does Melbourne’s arts and cultural infrastructure fare against other cities around the world?

Per capita, Melbourne fares very well. In terms of population, Berlin is about the same size and I would like to see Melbourne mirror some aspects of its (Berlin’s) arts and cultural infrastructure, particularly the deep and generous engagement of corporate Berlin with the artistic life of the city. I would also encourage Melbourne’s private citizens to be more involved in the creation of infrastructure in terms of venues, galleries and museums.

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Melbourne – an international arts and cultural destination?An interview with Brett Sheehy, newly appointed Artistic Director, Melbourne International Arts Festival

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What is unique about Melbourne as a hub for arts and culture?

Melbourne is now in the middle of creating one of the great festival precincts of the world with the development of Southbank. This geographic hub will see between 20 and 30 arts venues situated within a square kilometre – a truly astonishing development which is a gift for a festival director. I believe it will see Melbourne lead the way internationally in terms of the opportunities afforded by a city with cultural infrastructure of such depth and richness.

Southbank has been criticised for its lack of connectivity and street activity. What do you think should be done to make the area more vibrant?

I understand plans are well advanced for creating linkages through the Southbank precinct and for connecting the venues with walkways and pedestrian zones. Providing these plans are realised, and in conjunction with an animation of the area with bars, restaurants and retail outlets, I believe the area will be a vibrant and irresistible hub.

However in saying that, I have also long ago learnt that communities and precincts need time to grow organically and cannot be forced. Some patience will be needed for the entire Southbank precinct to settle once the infrastructure is in place. Providing it is built with audiences and artists in mind then its natural life will follow.

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Published and authorised by Major Projects Victoria, Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development, Level 8, 121 Exhibition Street, Melbourne, Victoria. June 2009.Copyright State of Victoria.

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