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The Outstanding Women in Planning Award has been awarded each year at the Qld Women in Planning Breakfast since it's inaugural Award in 2019.

The award provides an opportunity to celebrate the contribution that women planners make to our profession, our communities, and to the outcomes of planning work in Queensland, and the lasting legacy they provide.

Listed below are our current and past receipients of the Award.


2024 Award Recipients Joint Winners: Peta Harwood MPIA & Julia Miller-Randle MPIA

Peta Harwood is General Manager Development Services, City Planning and Sustainability with Brisbane City Council. She has operated in executive leadership roles for over 13 years, in a career spanning 30 years.

Through Peta’s varied roles, she her demonstrated personal and professional integrity have made her an outstanding role model in the industry. In her current role, she leads 300 team members managing end-to-end development assessment and compliance functions for Brisbane City. Taking on this role during the pandemic, she has brought a brand of connection and trust.

Peta’s leadership style inspires others to reconsider their roles in planning processes, from managing regulation to one of facilitation in partnership with others. This has led to groundbreaking initiatives that support development assessment processes, driving organizational change in unconventional times. This is built upon her ethos of continuous improvement.

Congratulations Peta!

Julia Miller-Randle leads Cred Consulting’s Queensland team, and is an industry leading and inspirational strategic and social planner and engagement specialist with almost 20 years of experience in consultancy.

Julia is passionate about communicating planning projects and systems to the community, so they can make informed decisions and engage in shaping the places where they live. In the wake of the devastating floods that struck the Northern Rivers region in early 2022, the community faced unparalleled challenges in rebuilding and recovery. Julia’s work leading the Building Back Northern Rivers Guideline for residents, businesses, community groups and landowners helped to translate complex processes into easily understandable guidance to aid people in trauma.

Julia understands the profound impact that planning has on communities, and she recognises the crucial role planners can play in creating inclusive and joyful cities. One of the ways she advocates for this is by consistently bringing the human side of planning into our projects and how we think about them.

Congratulations Julia!


2023 Award Recipient Julie Saunders MPIA


2022 Award Recipients Joint Winners: Laura Gannon MPIA and Bethany Williams-Holthouse MPIA


2021 Award Recipients Joint Winners: Dr Laurel Johnson MPIA and Jennifer Morrissy MPIA


2020 Award Recipient Natalie Rayment RPIA


2019 Inaugural Award Recipient Nikki Huddy RPIA (Fellow)