Invite to national left renewal conference, From Global Crisis to Green Future …, May 29-30, Sydney
from global crisis to green future …Australian Left Renewal Conference
Weekend May 29-30, 2010
University of Technology Sydney
Building 2, Broadway
Conference Program
Saturday, May 29, 2010
9.30am Registration
10.30am Welcome to Country
Sydney Trade Union Choir
10.45am-12.30pm Participatory Forum I
Democratic responses to the social and ecological failure of global capitalism
Panel: Cate Faehrmann (NSW Greens)
Maree O’Halloran (Welfare Rights Centre)
Tim Ayres (Australian Manufacturing Workers Union)
Lydia Miller (Australia Council for the Arts)
Debal Singha Roy (Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi)
12.30pm-1.30pm Lunch – provided
1.30pm-2.00pm SpeedGreets
2.00pm-3.30pm
Workshops
Workshop 1
After Copenhagen – new strategies in the campaign to reduce global warming
Panel: James Goodman (UTS)
Cam Walker (Friends of the Earth)
Jill Finnane (Edmund Rice Centre)
Workshop 2
Great Recession in 2010 – outlook, challenges and opportunities
Panel: Jim Stanford (Canadian Auto Workers)
John Quiggin (University of Queensland)
Lynne Chester (University of Sydney)
Workshop 3
Empowering Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
Panel: Lydia Miller (Australia Council for the Arts)
Millie Ingram (Wyanga Aged Care Program)
Paul Torzillo (University of Sydney)
Henry Reynolds (Historian)
Workshop 4
Millennium Development Goals – what have we achieved and what happens after 2015?
Panel: Peter Jennings (APHEDA)
Dr Meredith Burgmann (ACFID)
Kelly Dent (Oxfam)
Workshop 5
Getting to Equality – creating an inclusive society
Panel: Jo-Anne Schofield (Catalyst Australia)
Frank Stilwell (University of Sydney)
Jane Corpuz-Brock (Immigrant Women’s Speakout)
Workshop 6
The media, democracy and the Left
Panel: Lesley Vick (Dissent)
David McKnight (UNSW)
Alison Caddick (Arena Magazine)
3.30pm-3.45pm Tea Break
3.45pm-5.15pm Participatory Forum II
International Left responses to the global crises
Panel: Debal Singha Roy (Indira Gandhi National Open University)
Alexis Adarfio (Venezuela Ministry of People’s Power for the Economy)
Rey Casambre (Philippine Peace Centre)
COSATU representative tbc
Jim Stanford (Canadian Auto Workers)
5.15pm Drinks (modest charge)
6.00pmRocking The Foundations (optional video 85 mins)
8.00pm Dinner at Marigold Restaurant, Level 5, 683 George St, Haymarket (optional)
Sunday, May 30, 2010
9.30am Registration
10.00am-11.30am Participatory Forum III
Alliances between environmentalists and unionists that show the way forward
Panel: John Kaye (NSW Greens)
Arthur Rorris (South Coast Labour Council)
Louise Tarrant (Liquor Hospitality & Miscellaneous Union)
Dave Kerin (CFMEU Mining & Energy Vic)
Jack Mundey (Ecological Union Activist)
11.30am-11.45am Tea break
11.45am – 1.15pm
Workshops
Workshop 7
Water policy and sustainability in Australia
Panel: Julie Sheppard (Rivers SOS)
Pat Ranald (ACTU Campaign & Education Centre)
Sarah Moles
Workshop 8
What would a sustainable economy look like?
Panel: Ben Spies-Butcher (Macquarie University)
Ariel Salleh (University of Sydney)
Mark Diesendorf (University of NSW)
Workshop 9
Cooperatives and workplace democracy
Panel: Race Matthews (Monash University)
Alexis Adarfio (Venezuela Ministry of People’s Power for the Economy)
Nikki Balnave (University of Western Sydney)
Workshop 10
Building better social movements
Panel: Oliver MacColl (GetUp!)
Amanda Tattersall (Sydney Alliance)
Anna Rose (Aust. Youth Climate Coalition)
Workshop 11
Better human services – the ongoing fight against neoliberalism in housing, education and welfare
Panel: Senator Claire Moore (ALP)
Angelo Gavrielatos (AEU)
Sally McManus (ASU)
Workshop 12
Human Rights Act and the campaign to create a more democratic and tolerant Australia
Panel: Susan Ryan (Human Rights Act for Australia Campaign)
James Arvanitakis (Uni of Western Sydney)
Robert Stary (criminal defence lawyer)
1.15pm – 2.00pm Lunch provided
2pm Adoption of Declaration
2.30pm – 4pm Session IV
The Left and its strategic direction
Panel: Lee Rhiannon (NSW Greens)
Rob Durbridge (SEARCH Foundation)
Senator Claire Moore (ALP)
COSATU representative tbc
Ben Eltham (NewMatilda.com)
David Barrow (NUS President 2009)
4pm Conference Close
Coffee, tea, water available throughout conference
Registration Form
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Organised by:
following the series of left renewal Roundtable forums in 2007-10.
See www.search.org.au/projects/roundtables
Level 3, Suite 3B, 110 Kippax St,
Surry Hills NSW 2010
Ph: 02 9211 4164 Fax: 02 9211 1407
Email: troyh@search.org.au
ABN 63 050 096 976
Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre, UTS
Level 3, MaryAnn House, 645 Harris Street
Ultimo NSW 2007
Nearby accommodation:
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Aarons Hotel, 37 Ultimo Rd, Haymarket. 02 9281 5555
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SEARCH Foundation
Level 3, 110 Kippax St,
Surry Hills NSW 2010, Australia
Ph: +61 2 9211 4164; Fax: +61 2 9211 1407
ABN 63 050 096 976
promoting democracy, social justice and environmental sustainability
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