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Program Four
EMERGING FUTURES—SHAPING OUR
TERRITORY
DECEMBER 8-9 2003
Araluen Centre, Alice Springs
DAY ONE: Monday 8 December
| Arrival and seating | 7.45-8.15am
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| Opening comments by host, Jeff McMullen | 8.15-8.20am
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| Welcome to Country, Veronica Dobson | 8.20-8.25am |
| Introductory comments, Professor Helen Garnett | 8.25-8.40am
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| Vice-Chancellor, Charles Darwin University |
SESSION
ONE: PAINTING THE PICTURE |
| William Tilmouth | 8.40-9.00am
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| Director, Tangentyere Council, Central Australia | |
| Life in the Territory: Past, Present and Future | |
Peg Havnen-
Chair Seniors Council, Office of the Chief Minister and |
9.00-9.30am
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| Progressing the Territory out of
the past and into the future from 2005 to 2055 |
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| Dr Chris Healy | 9.30-10.00am
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| Cultural Studies Program, University of Melbourne | |
| Now you see it, now you don’t:
remembering aboriginality and cultural politics. |
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| Morning tea | 10.00-10.30am
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SESSION
TWO
Setting the scene: Myths, and Realities |
| Dr Gillian Cowlishaw | 10.30-11.00am
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| Senior Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney | ||
Who's upsetting who? Memory, nostalgia, morality. |
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| Stephen Jackson | 11.00-11.20am
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| Director, Research and Statistics, Office of Crime Prevention, NT | |
| Does the NT have the law and order problem it imagines? | |
| Robert Hoogenraad | 11.20-11.40am
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| Language Resource Officer, NT Dept Employment, Education and Training | |
| Demographic changes interpreted from a local perspective | |
| QUESTIONS FROM THE FLOOR | 11.40-12.00pm
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| Lunch break | 12.00-1.00pm
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SESSION
THREE
Falling between the gaps |
| FILM SHOWING: ‘Lonely Boy Richard’ | 1.00-2.00pm |
| A Film Australia National Interest Program | |
| An intimate account of one man’s journey to jail. |
| Johnny Lawrence | 2.00-2.30pm
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| President, NT Criminal Lawyer’s Association | |
| The judicial system and its limits | |
| Denise Haslem | 2.30-2.45pm
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| Producer, film Lonely Boy Richard | |
| Comments on the film | |
| QUESTIONS FROM THE FLOOR | 2.45-3.00pm
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| Afternoon Tea | 3.00-3.30pm
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SESSION
FOUR
Naming and blaming |
| Professor Gavin Mooney | 3.30–4.00pm
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| Professor of Health Economics and
Director, Social and Public Health Economics Research Group |
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| Institutionalised racism and health care | |
| Associate Professor Ted Wilkes | 4.00-4.30pm
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| Telethon Institute of Child Health Research, Western Australia | |
| On the hard business of naming problems
honestly: bringing out the open secrets of child sexual abuse. |
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| QUESTIONS FROM THE FLOOR | 4.30-4.45pm
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| DAY ONE WRAP-UP | 4.45-5.00pm
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| Shane Houston | |
| Assistant Secretary Office of Aboriginal Health, Northern Territory Department of Health and Community Services. |
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DAY TWO: Tuesday 9 December 2003
SESSION FIVE
Sharing Space: Contests
and Accommodations
| Arrival and seating | 8.00-8.30am
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| Welcome comments from host Jeff McMullen | 8.30-8.40am
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| Dr Gary Robinson | 8.40-9.00am
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| Director, Centre for North Australian and Asian Research, Charles Darwin University | |
| No way to be. Violent and suicidal youth. | |
| Anthony Ellis | 9.00-9.20am
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| Manager Tourism Development, Northern Territory Tourist Commission |
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| Looking through a shattered windscreen: community visioning processes. |
| Leon Morris, Coordinator, 'Itinerants'
Project and Galiwinku women |
9.20-9.50am
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| The Northern Territory Itinerants Strategy - A tale about unexpected avenues of action |
| QUESTIONS FROM THE FLOOR | 9.50-10.10am
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| Morning tea | 10.10-10.40am
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SESSION
SIX
Deconstructing orthodoxies, putting good ideas in place |
| Olga Havnen | 10.40-11.10am
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| Manager, Indigenous Programs, Fred Hollows Foundation | |
| On the paternalism of much of what
is badged as community development: turning things around with the Jawoyn people |
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| Barbara Flick | 11.10-11.35am
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| Executive Director, Policy Directorate, Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs |
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| Making community development platitudes become real: Implementing the Fitzgerald report | ||
| Her Worship the Mayor of Alice Spings, Fran Kilgariff | 11.35-11.55am
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| Community initiatives: working together to create amenity | |
| QUESTIONS FROM THE FLOOR | 11.55-12.15pm
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| Lunch | 12.15-1.00pm
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SESSION
SEVEN
Diversity within unity: the possibilities and the constraints |
| Brendan Meney RAIA | 1.00-1.20pm
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| Desert Knowledge Architect | |
| Eroding economic rationalism: culture
and the environment as the foundations for developing shared space. |
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| KEYNOTE ADDRESS | 1.20-2.00pm
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| Professor Michael Keith | |
| Head, Centre for Urban and Community
Research, Goldsmith’s University of London |
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| Michael Keith’s research focuses
on representation of the city in relation to urban policy, race and racism, and policing. He has published Race, Riots, and Policing: Lore and Disorder in a Multi-racist Society (UCL Press 1993) and a volume for Routledge, After the cosmopolitan - multicultural cities and the futures of racism is in press. |
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The relationship between city design, racial conflict, and social cohesion |
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| Associate Professor Paul Memmott | 2.00-2.30pm
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| Director of the Aboriginal Environments Research
Centre, University of Queensland |
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| Values of a bi-cultural society in Alice Springs |
| Afternoon Tea | 2.30-3.00pm
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SESSION
EIGHT
Bringing it together |
| Dr Mark Stafford-Smith -
CEO Desert Knowledge CRC (presenting) and Dr Bruce Walker - Centre for Appropriate Technology (co-author) |
3.00-3.25pm
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| Designing our futures together: lessons from the system we live in. |
| Kate Finlayson | 3.25-3.50pm |
| Journalist and author: A Lot of Croc: An Urban Bush Legend (2003, Vintage) | |
| Living together separately: how whitefellas
live |
| Audience / Panel Discussion | 3.50-4.30pm |
Local groups (city councils, resident groups, Indigenous organizations, magistrates) and interested citizens
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| SYMPOSIUM CLOSING REMARKS | 4.30-5.00pm
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Program is correct at time of publishing. However, the convenor reserves the right to change or omit speakers and schedule times as necessary.
| All Enquiries: | Conference Convenor: |
Events Officer
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Dr Tess Lea |
