Fwd: Curtin Corner Friday 24 April 2026 : The Gulf Oil Crisis: Can we Accelerate the Transition from Oil?

[Gabrielle Dean]

From: Peter Newman <P.Ne...@curtin.edu.au>

Subject: FW: Curtin Corner Friday 24 April 2026 : The Gulf Oil Crisis: Can we Accelerate the Transition from Oil?

Date: 22 April 2026 at 1:46:45 pm AWST

To: Peter Newman <P.Ne...@curtin.edu.au>

I will be presenting at this event on Friday where I will be talking about the article below which has 20,000 downloads across the world. 

https://theconversation.com/this-fuel-crisis-could-last-for-a-while-its-time-for-a-new-approach-to-fuel-use-end-it-280454

 

Peter

 

 

From: JCIPP-events <jcipp-even...@lists.curtin.edu.au> on behalf of JCIPP <jc...@curtin.edu.au>
Date: Monday, 20 April 2026 at 10:08 am
To:
Subject: Curtin Corner Friday 24 April 2026 : The Gulf Oil Crisis: Can we Accelerate the Transition from Oil?

Dear Colleagues,

 

This Friday’s Curtin Corner webinar is The Gulf Oil Crisis: Can we Accelerate the Transition from Oil? with Professor Peter Newman. The webinar is being held at 4pm Perth time.

 

Please register below.

 

We look forward to seeing you soon. 

 

Regards,

 

John

 

John Curtin Distinguished Professor John Phillimore
Executive Director | John Curtin Institute of Public Policy
School of Management and Marketing

Curtin Business School

Faculty of Business and Law
                                  

 

                                                                                 

Curtin Corner Series 2026 Curtin Corner is a seminar series that features a broad range of topics in a seminar and discussion format and is managed by      The John Curtin Institute of Public Policy (JCIPP). To view previous Curtin Corners click here. Click here to join the JCIPP email list                     The Gulf Oil Crisis: Can we Accelerate the Transition from Oil?     Speaker: Peter Newman AO Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University     Date: Friday 24 April 2026 Time: 4:30pm to 5:30pm, followed by light refreshments Register                  Click here to register (This is an online event. Registrations close Friday 24 April at 10:00am. A link to the webinar will be emailed the Friday morning of the event).   Abstract Peter Newman was in the US during their first oil crisis in 1973 and watched San Francisco panic and fall apart, ’searing into his consciousness’ as he states in a recent WA Today article.  He has been deeply impacted from all four oil crises, especially in 1979 when he ran the campaign to save the Fremantle Railway, partly because the oil crisis quadrupled fuel prices in Australia. Peter’s research at Murdoch and Curtin has been around how cities and regions can build for an oil-free future. His latest article in The Conversation (co-authored with Ray Wills) pushes the need for a long-term Fuel Plan. In it, he sets out 6 things Australia should do to tackle the energy crisis rather than just building bigger fuel reserves. This Curtin Corner presentation for JCIPP will provide the background story and outline more detail about what it could mean in Perth and WA, as well as explaining the various political stances on the future of oil in Australia that are rapidly diverging into extremes.    About the Speaker   John Curtin Distinguished Professor Peter Newman is the Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. He has written 24 books and over 420 papers on sustainable cities. With a global reputation, he has worked to deliver his ideas in the three levels of government in Australia, including the Board of Infrastructure Australia (2010-14) and the NSW Sustainability Commissioner (2004-5). His latest book is Net Zero Cities with Sustainability: A Practitioner’s Approach which was published by Edward Elgar in 2025. Peter was Coordinating Lead Author for the UN’s IPCC on Transport in the 2022 Mitigation Report and was a Lead Author in the Cities chapter. In 2014 he was awarded an Order of Australia for his contributions to urban design and sustainable transport, particularly for his work in saving and rebuilding Perth’s rail system. He was WA Scientist of the Year in 2018.     Upcoming Events Friday 8 May 4:00pm – 5:15pm (AWST)  Online (webinar)   Victims of Crime claims in Australia: Why are they increasing so sharply? Adjunct Professor Robert Guthrie, JCIPP, Curtin University

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