Conference Speakers Program

Saturday 23rd September

 9.15 am Don Burke, AEF Chairman – Riding Change in a Populated World

 9.45 am Professor Mike Archer, Dean Science, UNSW -  The Revolution We Must Have

MORNING TEA

11.00 am Dr Walter Starck, Marine Biologist  -  Marine Resources and The Growing Cost of Precaution

11.30 am Bob Brinsmeads, Founder Tropical Fruit World - Mother Nature Doesn’t Always Know Best

12.00  Tom Quirk, Physicist – Uranium Birth to Death

 LUNCH

1.30 pm Saving Australia’s Forests: Presentation and Panel Discussion with Professor Peter Kanowski, Head of School Resources, Environment & Society, ANU & Jill Lewis, Executive Director, Timber Communities Australia & Mark Poynter, Media Liaison Officer, Institute of Foresters (Vic)

AFTERNOON TEA

3.30 pm   Professor Suri Ratnapala, TC Beirne School of Law,University of Queensland – Environmentalism  versus Constitutionalism

4.00 pm  Dr Jennifer Marohasy, Senior Fellow IPA  - Why Australia Needs the Australian Environment Foundation

DINNER

7.30 pm  Toowoomba Mayor Dianne Thorley will tell us about- That referendum on drinking recycled water.

24th September 

BREAKFAST

7.30 am Michael Duffy - Rational Environmentalism: An Idea Whose Time Has Come