Felicity regularly features in major press outlets
Felicity Furey is regularly invited to comment on engineering, infrastructure and community issues across Australian media. Below is a selection of recent media appearances and commentary.
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ABC Radio
Will the Games Deliver Leagacy?
As Australia prepares for the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, billions of dollars will be invested in transforming transport networks, stadiums and public spaces across the city.
With legacy already central to Brisbane’s Olympic vision, including the long-term strategy dubbed ‘Elevate 2042’, award-winning engineer, author and entrepreneur Felicity Furey says the focus must now shift from planning to follow-through.
In this interview with Mel Buttle, Felicity shares the promise of legacy for the upcoming 2032 Olympic and Paralympic games and if we can deliver on this.
Herald Sun
“Standard” Commuter vs Reality
Rising costs and longer travel times expose gap between transport policy and commuter reality
Award-winning engineer and author Felicity Furey said the issue is not Australians rejecting public transport, but transport systems struggling to keep pace with how people actually travel.
She argues the Prime Minister’s advice to take public transport amid the fuel crisis assumes a “standard commuter”, who no longer exists.
Before the pandemic, commuting followed predictable peak-hour patterns into CBD workplaces, she explained, but the Covid pandemic changed everything.
“Public transport use dropped significantly during Covid and still hasn’t fully recovered,” Ms Furey told NewsWire.
“Because of this, today’s commuter is much more hybrid.
The Australian
Missing Link for Community
Sydney’s $57m Greenway ‘utopia’ sparks chaos on quiet inner west streets
A $57 million project has become a major problem for residents living in Sydney’s Inner West who say it has attracted obnoxious crowds, dog poo and bike raves.
The Greenway, a 5.8km trail that links the public green space and transport, opened December of last year almost 20 years after it was first conceptualised.
What was meant to be an urban green utopia has turned into friction on the residential streets.
“What it failed to do is really deeply consider the social aspects of it and the community,” engineer Felicity Furey said.
This article was also published in the Courier Mail, news.com.au, Yahoo News, Gold Coast Bulliten, Herald Sun, Adelaide Now and more.
Radio National Drive: Tech Head
Radio National Drive - Tech Head
Changing language around engineering to better entice creative women
Felicity Furey always believed engineering required days spent behind a desk calculating mathematical equations whilst wearing a tradies uniform.
After being nudged to consider the career path by her high school physics teacher, she discovered engineering allowed her to reshape and problem solve world issues in a creative way. Listen here.
Engineers Australia Centenary Hero
LEVELLING THE FIELD
See how passionate STEM advocate Felicity Furey has encouraged hundreds of young people, particularly young women, into engineering careers with her company Power of Engineering.
Watch as Felicity and the Power of Engineering team inspire female high school students about engineering on a behind the scenes tour at Qantas and the A380 hangar!
ABC News
Push for women to help solve engineer shortage
BY MADELEINE MORRIS
Australia's infrastructure plans, new space agency and defence projects could all be in jeopardy unless a severe shortage in the number of homegrown engineers is reversed.
Australian Financial Review
Engineering change by creating a vision and getting people on board
BY CATHERINE FOX
Sometimes influence is hard to measure but Felicity Briody can almost see it happening in front of her eyes when she talks to school students about a career in engineering.
Cosmos Magazine
Who Create’s the World? Engineers!
by felicity furey
We don’t often stop to think how amazing it is that clean water flows from our taps, a toilet flushing magically takes away our waste, satellites buzz around planet Earth to facilitate google maps or electricity turns on at the flick of a switch.
Our convenient world just… works. And it is all thanks to engineers. March 4th marks the first International World Engineering Day and it is an occasion to celebrate engineers.
2032 Games Preparation
With the Olympic deadline getting closer every day Felicity Furey comments on the challenges leaving legacy to the last minute will cause.
The Queenslander
Olympic Legacy
‘No other venues’: croc habitat to host Olympic rowing
Architects have been selected for other Games venues – Sunshine Coast’s 10,000-seat stadium and the Moreton Bay Indoor Sports Centre.
Construction for all venues would be on time and on budget, Mr Bleijie said.
But the deadline for completion was becoming “razor sharp”, infrastructure engineer Felicity Furey warned.
“The longer these major delivery decisions are delayed, the more pressure shifts onto the people actually building the infrastructure,” she told AAP.
“That’s when risk increases and projects become more likely to face compromises on time, cost or outcomes, which in this case could jeopardise the delivery.”
Three Mindset Shifts for Legacy
Design that endures: Decisions that will shape Brisbane 2032
As Brisbane moves from planning into delivery for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the conversation is rightly focused on infrastructure — stadiums, transport corridors and precincts that will define the city on a global stage.
The real opportunity is more than just what we build — it’s what we leave behind.
The important question is: to what standard will we deliver? Will we create something that our communities can be proud of?
What legacy are we leaving future generations with our choices today?
For those of us working across design, engineering and the built environment, this moment is where we must demand the best from ourselves and the industry — not just in capability, but in mindset.
ABC News 24
CAN THE LOCAL AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERING SHORTAGE BE SOLVED BY MORE FEMALE ENGINEERS?
Australia's infrastructure plans, new space agency and defence projects could all be in jeopardy unless a severe shortage in the number of homegrown engineers is reversed.
Felicity gives her perspective on ABC News 24 about co-founding Power of Engineering and how it works to inspire more women into engineering.
BOSS Magazine
Australian Financial Review
The laser focus of BOSS Young Executives
BY JESSICA SIER
To be the one who makes the final call day in and day out takes a certain type of confidence. Felicity Furey, believes backing yourself is the most crucial aspect of leadership.
“This isn’t about being corny, it’s about knowing what you know and making a decision,” she says. “It took starting a not-for-profit organisation for me to realise how beneficial taking risks and backing myself was to all aspects of my life.”
VTC: Vietnam Television
Same same or different? Women in STEM: an international perspective
BY Vietnam Television corporation
Does Vietnam have the same challenges as Australia in encouraging women into STEM? What about gender norms and cultural biases? Find out in Felicity’s interview on Vietnam’s national broadcaster VTC.
To celebrate Gender Month in Vietnam Felicity was invited by the Australian Embassy and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade for the Youth Leadership Speaker Series run by Social Good Outpost.
Pro Bono News
Engineering a Difference
BY RACHEL MCFADDEN
Female engineers are few and far between but this is something a trio of female civil engineers turned social entrepreneurs are hoping to change.
There have been more than a few occasions where Felicity Furey felt she didn’t quite fit in.
Her Place Museum
STEM can help us prepare for an unknown future
by her place women’s museum australia
We don’t often stop to think how amazing it is that clean water flows from our taps, a toilet flushing magically takes away our waste, satellites buzz around planet Earth to facilitate google maps or electricity turns on at the flick of a switch.
Our convenient world just… works. And it is all thanks to engineers. March 4th marks the first International World Engineering Day and it is an occasion to celebrate engineers.