PIA Membership
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Member Benefits
Members of PIA receive a wide range of services and benefits.
Service and benefits available to all members and associates include:
- Discounted (member) rates at national and state conferences and other PIA events.
- Regular professional publications and communication, including
- National journal Australian Planner (quarterly)
- Electronic bulletin PIA e-News (monthly)
- local newsletter for the State/Division in which you are based
- Invitations to relevant professional development seminars and lectures, and to social and networking events
- Access to dialogue, informal professional networks and formal forums, through
- area-based Divisions and Branches
- specialist discipline-based Chapters
- interest-based Networks
- Annual professional conferences to debate current issues and showcase leading planning practice.
- Opportunities to prepare and contribute to PIA submissions to local and national inquiries and to shape policy positions on key issues.
- Opportunities to publish work in Australian Planner or other PIA publications
- Access to Ethi-Call…the good decision line for assistance with ethical dilemmas in personal, professional and workplace situations. Opportunity for recognition through the annual Awards for Planning Excellence locally and nationally.
- Information about identified professional services and information to support practice.
- Access to a wide range of additional member services, through the National Building and Surveying Alliance.
Additional benefits are extended to people who meet or have met the qualification and experience requirements to be Members, Fellows or Life Fellows. These include:
- Opportunity to seek professional certification through the Certified Practising Planner scheme (open to Members only)
- Ability to use PIA postnominals to publicly verify professional affiliation and standing
- MPIA – Member of the Planning Institute of Australia
- FPIA – Fellow of the Planning Institute of Australia
- LFPIA – Life Fellow of the Planning Institute of Australia
- CPP – Certified Practising Planner (used in conjunction with any of the above)
- Capacity to shape and direct your professional association by voting on Institute matters.
- Ability to be actively involved in directing the association, by nominating for office at a National or Division level within the Institute.
- Public recognition of your professional qualification and experience with a certificate of membership for display.
Associate Companies and Local Governments who join PIA may nominate up to two contact people to receive information on behalf of the organisation.