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MONDAY 16 JUNE
6.00pm Welcome Reception and Registration
  Venue 'In Blue' Function Room
Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government
Mezzanine Level, 111 Alinga Street, Canberra City
  Speaker: The Hon. Gary Gray AO MP
Parliamentary Secretary for Regional Development and Northern Australia. Launch of About Australia’s Regions 2008 Booklet
   
TUESDAY 17 JUNE
Venue: Mural Hall
Parliament House
   
8.45am Conference Opening
  Michael Taylor AO, Secretary, Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government
9.15am Keynote Address
  Professor Philip McCann, Professor of Economics, Waikato Management School,
The University of Waikato, New Zealand, ‘Globalisation, Knowledge and Regions’
   
10.15am Morning Tea
   
10.45am Theme 1: Understanding community wellbeing
  Chair: Dr Gary Dolman, General Manager, Regional Research & Transport Statistics,
Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics
Series of short presentations:
Professor Ann Harding, Director, National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling,
University of Canberra, ‘Social inclusion: issues, data and policy responses’
Carolyn Brennan, Senior Researcher, Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics—’Income Support’
Leanne Johnson, Regional Research Leader, Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics—’Household Wealth’
Geoff Frost, Regional Research Leader, Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics—’Costs of remoteness’
     
12.45pm Lunch Guest speaker—The Hon Gary Gray AO MP
Parliamentary Secretary for Regional Development and Northern Australia
   
1.45pm Workshop: Understanding growth, change and contrasts across Northern Australia
 

Facilitator: Susan Page, Deputy Secretary, Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government
Presenters:
Professor Rolf Gerritsen, Research Leader Central Australia, Charles Darwin University,
Alice Springs, ’Policy conundrums of remote Australia’s two speed economy’
Amy Ruddick, Executive Officer, The Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia, ’Resource sector engagement—the Pilbara region’
  Panellists: John Angley, Executive Director, Local Government and Regional Development, Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government
Kate Sutcliffe, Senior Consultant, Kleinhardt Business Consultants, Cairns
   
3.00pm Afternoon Tea
   
3.30pm Theme 2: Climate shocks–understanding regional adaptation
  Chair: Dr Peter O'Brien, Managing Director, Rural Industries and Development Coorporation
Introduction: Dr Catharina Williams, Principal Research Analyst—Regional Research, Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics
Dr N eil Barr, Senior Social Researcher, Department of Primary Industries, Victoria, ’Structural adjustment in the Australian farm sector’
Dr Anthony Hogan, Senior Social Scientist, Bureau of Rural Sciences, ’Climate change and adaptation–perspectives from primary producers’
Professor John Handmer, Head, RMIT University, ’Do communities recover well from disaster?’
   
5.30pm Summation and reflections
  Professor Andrew Beer, Director, School of Geography, Flinders University, Adelaide
   
5.30 Conference close