Program
| Thursday 10 May 2007 | ||
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| Chair: Leon Compton | ||
| 8.30am | Welcome to Country Larrakia Representative |
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| 8.45am | Opening address Charles Darwin University Vice-Chancellor, Professor Helen Garnett |
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| 9.00am | Introduction: What is a Bill of Rights? What is a constitution? Ken Parish (Charles Darwin University) |
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| 9.10am | The pro-Bill of Rights position Professor George Williams (The University of New South Wales) |
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| 9.40am | The anti-Bill of Rights position Professor James Allan (University of Queensland) |
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| 10.10am | Open panel | |
| 10.30am | Morning tea | |
| 11.00am | What rights? Whose rights? Associate Professor Simon Evans (The University of Melbourne) |
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| 11.30am | Overview of history of statehood for the Northern Territory Ms Sue Bradley (Convenor, NT Statehood Steering Committee) |
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| 11.50am | The politics of Northern Territory Statehood, 2003-2007 Professor David Carment AM (Charles Darwin University) |
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| 12.10pm | Open panel | |
| 12.30pm | Lunch | |
| 1.30pm | Indigenous views on Bill of Rights Commissioner Tom Calma (Federal Human Rights Commissioner) |
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| 2.05pm | Indigenous aspects of Bill of Rights/human rights Professor Ravi De Costa (Trent University, Canada) |
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| 2.40pm | Bills of Rights - some international considerations Dr Annemarie Devereux (Australian Catholic University) |
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| 3.10pm | Afternoon tea | |
| 3.40pm | Panel discussion and audience participation with panel members:
David Ross, Professor Allan Patience, Michael Tatham, Barbara McCarthy and Terry Mills. Audience may also address questions to any of the three afternoon speakers |
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| 4.45pm | Summation Professor Allan Patience (Charles Darwin University) |
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| 5.00pm | Close | |
Current as of 24 April 2007
