Following previous posts from Robert Merkel and Ben Eltham on the participants in the 2020 summit streams on sustainability and a Creative Australia, we’re pleased to be able to publish another parsed list of summitteers – this time Tanja Kovac casts her eye over the participants in the Governance and Communities streams. In other summit commentary online today, Bernard Keane at Crikey wonders how the thing will actually work and if it’s going to be dominated by industry advocates looking for a bucketful of dollars, and for Crikey subscribers, Overland editor Jeff Sparrow looks at the summit and elitism and reveals the unbelievable truth of the horrible jingle that accompanied John Howard’s “Future Directions” manifesto in 1988.
Tanja’s annotated lists are over the fold.
Future of Australian Governance
Mr Martin James Bailey Male WA
Mr Joseph Martin Fernandez Male WA (Lecturer Media and Communication, Curtin University)
Ms Pia-Angela Francini Female WA (general manager of Schlumberger Oilfield Services for Australasia.)
Ms Alison Lesley Gaines Female WA (Deputy Chancellor of Murdoch University, Global Practice Leader, Gerard Daniels. Former CEO Law Society of Western Australia, for nine years. )
Professor Janette Hartz-Karp Female WA (Associate Professor Community Planning at the Institute of Sustainability and Technology Policy (ISTP) Murdoch Universit. Deliberative democracy expert.
Ms Holly Elizabeth Ransom Female WA (City of Nedlands YAC)
Mr Wayne Francis Scheggia Male WA (WALGA)
Dr Christine (Chrissy) Sharp Female WA WA Greens MLC
Mr Peter Ajak Male VIC (Meet the Future Leaders of World refugee advocacy)
Professor Judith Margaret Brett Female VIC (Latrobe Uni, LPA expert)
Mr Julian William Kennedy Burnside Male VIC (Barrister and Living Treasure)
Mr Paul Chadwick Male VIC (Privacy Commissioner)
Professor Allan Fels Male VIC (Dean of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG). former ACCC,
Ms Iresha Herath Female VIC (Director, 9Minds Theatre Company, Corporate Counsel at ConnectEast Group, Director of the Law Institute of Victoria.)
Ms Kristen Anna Isobel Hilton Female VIC (Director PILCH and former Director of Homeless Persons Legal Clinic)
Professor Sarah Louise Joseph Female VIC (Castan Centre for Human Rights)
Ms Janice Winearls Keynton Female VIC
Dr Terry MacDonald Female VIC (International Relations, Monash Uni)
Professor Robert Manne Male VIC (Professor of Politics, Melb Uni)
Ms Katherine Dawn Sampson Female VIC (Director, Healthy Habits lunch bar)
Professor Cheryl Anne Saunders Female VIC (Director of the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies)
Ms Sally Warhaft Female VIC (Editor of The Monthly)
Mr Alan Wu Male VIC (AYAC, The wellspring website– youth leadership opportunities in Australia and UN)
Dr Sally Young Female VIC (Media and Communications, Uni Melb)
Mr Benedict Bartl Male TAS (Young Australian Lawyer of the Year)
Ms Lyn Mason Female TAS (Businesswoman and former Pres LGAT)
Rev Professor Michael Tate Male TAS (Fr Michael Tate, who is a professor of Law at the University of Tasmania and a former federal Labor minister)
Ms Olivia Guarna Female SA (co-ordinator young workers legal service)
Ms Elizabeth Francesca Ho Female SA (Director of the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre at the UniSA)
Ms Tanya Louise Smith Female SA (School of Education, Flinders Uni)
Mr Sean Barrett Male QLD
Senator the Hon George Brandis Male QLD
Dr Alexander Jonathon Brown Male QLD (Senior Research Fellow Griffith Uni, Whistleblowing expert)
The Honourable Matthew (Matt) Joseph Foley Male QLD (Matt Foley is a Brisbane barrister, former attorney-general of Queensland and a participant in the national 2020 Summit.)
Mr Paul Formosa Male QLD
Ms Bridie Kathleen Jabour Female QLD (Young person, Phillip Adams supporter, John Burton cadetship scholarship)
Ms Joanne Kelly Female QLD
Professor the Honourable Michael Lavarch Male QLD (Executive Dean of Law, QUT, Former AG)
Mr Michael McKinnon Male QLD (FOI Editor, The Australian)
Mr Alexander McLaughlin Male QLD
Mr Stewart Mcrae Male QLD
Dr David Solomon Male QLD (Chair of Qld FOI Review, Former Chair EARC)
Dr Anne Tiernan Female QLD (Centre for Governance and Public Policy at Griffith Uni)
Ms Danielle Vujovich Female QLD (Livingstone Youth Mayor, YMCA Youth Parliament)
Professor Patrick Weller AO Male QLD (Director Centre for Governance and Public Policy)
Ms Sarah Jane O’Rourke Female NT (CPSU)
Mr Mauri Japarta Ryan Male NT
Ms Erin Adams Female NSW
Mr Phillip Adams Male NSW (Journalist)
Ms Robin Banks Female NSW (Public Interest Advocacy Centre)
Associate Professor Lyn Carson Female NSW (Applied Politics and Academic Program director with the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, Australia, Active Democracy Website)
Professor Greg Craven Male NSW (VC at ACU)
Associate Professor Kate Jane Crawford Female NSW (Journalism and Media Research Centre, Syd Uni)
Ms Miranda Devine Female NSW (SMH Journalist)
Mr Macgregor Duncan Male NSW (Author Imagining Australia, Mergers and Acquisitions lawyer at the New York law firm Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, Former Associate to Justice Kirby, ALP member)
Professor Geoffrey Ian Gallop Male NSW (Professor and Director of Graduate School of Government, Former WA Premier)
Ms Kate Gauthier Female NSW (AJA Exec Officer and PolMin Board Member)
Mr Gerard Henderson Male NSW (Sydney Institute)
Dr Helen Irving Female NSW (Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence Director, Faculty of Law at Sydney University
Dr Paul Kelly Male NSW (Editor at Large, The Australian
Ms Miriam Lyons Female NSW (Exec Officer CPD)
Mr David Marr Male NSW (Journalist)
Mr Simon Rice Male NSW (President of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights)
The Honourable Helen Sham-Ho Female NSW (NSW MLC)
Professor Christopher Dominic Sidoti Male NSW (Human Rights Council of Australia)
Mr Brett Solomon Male NSW (Get Up)
Associate Professor Anne Frances Twomey Female NSW (Constitutional Law Expert, Syd Uni)
Professor Hillary Charlesworth Female ACT (Professor in RegNet, Director of the Centre for International Governance and Justice (CIGJ) and Professor of International Law and Human Rights in the Faculty of Law, ANU)
Mr Harry Evans Male ACT (Clerk of the Senate)
The Honourable Justice Mary Gaudron Female ACT (Former HCA)
Ms Susan Gail Harris Rimmer Female ACT (The Australia Institute)
Mr Michael James Harvey Male ACT (Political Editor Herald Sun)
Ms Janet Eileen Hunt Female ACT (Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Unit, ANU, Director of the Australian Council for Overseas Aid (ACFOA??)
Sir Anthony Mason Male ACT (Former CJ HCA)
Mr Ian McPhee Male ACT (Auditor General)
Ms Jamila Helen Rizvi Female ACT (President ANU Students Association, ACT Australian Young Labor)
Professor Marian Sawer Female ACT (Adjunct Professor, School of Social Sciences ANU, Democratic Audit of Australia)
Ms Amelia Mary Simpson Female ACT (ANU Law Constitutional Law Lecturer, former Associate to Justice McHugh)
Professor George John Williams Male ACT (Anthony Mason Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales and was the foundation Director of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, Chaired Victorian Charter of Rights Review)
Sir William Deane Male ACT (Forme rGG and HCA)
Ms Janet Giles Female SA (Secretary Unions SA)
Ms Amy Sarah King Female (Chair of SA’s Youth Committee, Rhodes Scholar, Former UniSA VP and Women’s Officer, Founder Women’s Leadership Form, Shattering Ceilings)
Prof Julianne Schultz Female (Editor of the Griffith Review)
Mr Kerry Stokes Male NSW (CEO Ch 7)
Mr Howard Whitton Male (Institute for Law Ethics, Justice and Public Affairs, Griffith University – Public Sector Ethicist)
Strengthening communities, supporting families and social inclusion
Professor Daniela Anna Stehlik Female WA (Dir Alcoa Centre for
Stronger Communities)
Ms Hala Abdelnour Female VIC (Ethnic Youth Council)
Ms Vivienne Amery Female VIC (CEO Tweedle Child
and Family Health Service)
Ms Gina Nancy McGregor Anderson Female VIC (CEO of Philanthropy
Australia)
Ms Elleni Bereded-Samuel Female VIC (Vic Multicultural Commission)
Ms Elizabeth Cham Female VIC (Former CEO Philanthropy Australia, Driver behind the Non-Profits Roundtable)
Associate Professor Chris Chamberlain Male VIC (RMIT Social Sciences – Homelessness)
Ms Margherita Coppolino Female VIC (Diversity Consultant)
Dr Kylie Cripps Female VIC (Koori Health Unit Melbourne Uni)
Ms Sarah Davies Female VIC
Ms Julie Mary Edwards Female VIC (CEO Jesuit Social Servcies)
Mr Kon Karapanagiotidis Male VIC (Director of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre)
Ms Joan Kirner Female VIC (Former Vic Premier, Head of Victorian Social, Emily’s List Australia)
Mr David Manne Male VIC (Refugee and Immigration Law Centre)
Mr Tony Nicholson Male VIC (Brotherhood of St Lawrence)
Professor Ann Sanson Female VIC (Co-ordinator ARACY)
Reverend Graham Sawyer Male VIC (Anglican Bishop Beechworth)
Dr Judith Marion Slocombe Female VIC (CEO of Alana and Madeline Foundation, Veterinarian and Business Woman on boards of Australian Red Cross Blood Service, Open Universities Australia and VicHealth, as well being the Chair of the Animal Welfare League of Victoria.)
Dr Kevin John Smith Male VIC
Mr David George Thompson Male VIC (CEO Jobs Australia Ltd)
Ms Michele Wright Female VIC (Inner South Community Health Service and Family Violence Network)
Ms Jennifer Branch Female TAS (Tas State School Parents Association)
Ms Elizabeth Jean Rayner Female TAS
Professor Freda Briggs Female SA (University of SA,
Consultant to Save the Children, Bravehearts Western Australia and The Freda Briggs Foundation (WA))
Monsignor David Cappo Male SA (Catholic Priest, Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Adelaide, Commissioner for Social Inclusion SA)
Ms Katrine Ann Hildyard Female SA (ASU SA Asst Secretary)
Mr Mark Hubbard Male SA (Basketball Australia?)
Ms Lyndsey Kate Jackson Female SA (Bank of IDEAS)
Ms Catherine Jean Leane Female SA (National Association of People Living With AIDS)
Ms Sandra Joy Pitcher Female SA (Director of the SA Office for Women)
Professor Barbara Ann Pocock Female SA (Assoc Prof School nof Social Sciences, University of Adelaide)
Associate Professor Michelle Slatter Female SA (Southern Research Centre of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI).
Archbishop Philip Edward Wilson Male SA (President Australian Catholic Bishops Conference)
Dr Mohamad Abdalla Male QLD (Islamic Research Unit, Griffith University)
Mrs Shelley Argent Female QLD (Convenor PFLAG)
Ms Hazel Douglas Female QLD (Native Guide Safaris)
Ms Valerie Thelma French AM Female QLD (WA Judge Surfers Paradise Catholic Parish?)
Revd Dr Catherine Laufer Female QLD (Lecturer in Ministry and Mission, St Francis’ Theological College)
Mr Alex James McDonald Male QLD (Executive Director of Wise Foundation, Social Inventions Manager, The Body Shop Alternate Director of First Australians Business, Member of City Advisory Board, Brisbane City Council)
Mr Michael O’Neill Male QLD (CEO of National Seniors Australia (NSA), former CEO AgForce and QFF)
Ms Zoe Scott Rathus Female QLD (Law Lecturer at Griffith Law School on Family Violence and Protection)
Dr Wendell John Rosevear Male QLD (Men Affected by Rape and Sexual Abuse)
Mr Iqbal Singh Male QLD (Sikh Leader, principal of Beerwah High School)
Ms Jessica Catherine Wellard Female QLD (Community Spirit Award Winner, Young Lawyer, Volunteer Refugee Tutoring)
Ms Indigo Willing Female QLD (Adopted Vietnamese International)
Dr Adam Matthew Tominson Male NT
Mr Galarrwuy Yunupingu Male NT (Land Rights Activist)
Mr Fadi Abdul-Rahman Male NSW (Young Muslim Leader)
Dr Mark Bagshaw Male NSW (Director Accessibility for IBM)
Ms Elizabeth Broderick Female NSW (Sex Discrim Comm)
Mrs Katrina Clark Female NSW (Carers Alliance)
Professor Julian Disney Male NSW (Director of Social Justice Project, University of NSW, Chair of Housing Affordability Summit)
Mr Paul Andrew Evans Male NSW
Ms Maree Ann Faulkner Female NSW (CEO Heart Foundation)
Reverend Keith Vincent Garner Male NSW (Superintendent Wesley Mission)
Ms Kerry Graham Female NSW (CEO Inspire Foundation – online youth activism)
Ms Sara Haghdoosti Female NSW (IWDay Committee and women’s officer at Syd Uni)
Ms Lisa Harvey Female NSW (Director Energetica, IT for non-profits, former IT LHMU)
Ms Corinne Kemp Female NSW (Director DKC International, VP UniFem Australia)
Dr Marie Leech Female NSW (Principal, Sancta Sophia College Previous roles include the position of General Manager, Community Services, at Mission Australia, and Senior Policy Advisor at Uniya,
Ms Nickky McColl Jones Female NSW
Ms Cathryn McConaghy Female NSW (Assoc Professor School of Education UNE)
Ms Jayne Meyer Tucker Female NSW (National Director Good Beginnings – Early Childhood)
Mr Daniel Petre AO Male NSW (Exec Chair NetUs, former PBL, Newsltd, Microsoft. Work-life balance author.)
Mr James Allan Pitts Male NSW (CEO odyssey house)
Father Christopher Riley Male NSW (Youth off the streets)
Associate Professor Alison Ritter Female NSW (National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre)
Ms Anne Miriam Robinson Female NSW (Non-profit lawyer Lawyer Prolegis)
Ms Roslyn Sackley Female NSW (Aboriginal Disability Network)
Ms Tirrania Suhood Female NSW (Blacktown Alcohol and Drugs Family Services Manager, Spokesperson for SNGO’s)
Ms Kathleen Swinbourne Female NSW (Sole Parents Union)
Adjunct Professor Clyde Spence Thomson Male NSW (School of Rural Health Melb Uni)
Mrs Julie Margot White Female NSW (Macquarie Group Foundation)
Prof Peter Shergold Male ACT (Chief Executive
Centre for Social Impact University of New South Wales, Former Head PMC)
Ms Maayan Adler Female ACT
Ms Toni May Bauman Female ACT (Visiting Research Fellow Native Title Research Institute at AIATSiS)
Major General William James Crews Male ACT (National President RSL)
Professor Ann Harding Female ACT (Director of the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM) at the University of Canberra)
Ms Lin Hatfield Dodds Female ACT (ACOSS President and Executive Director Uniting Care)
Ms Joan Anne Hughes Female ACT (Chief Exec Carers Australia)
Associate Professor Michael Herbert Levy Male ACT (Director of Centre for Health Research in Criminal Justice at Syd Uni)
Mr Francis Gerard Quinlan Male ACT (EO Cath Social Service)
Mr Xian-Zhi Soon Male ACT (ACT Young Oz 08)
Mr Quang Ba Thich Male ACT (Viet Buddhist)
Mr Ahmed Fahour Male VIC (Chief Exec NAB)
Ms Linda White Female VIC (ASU Asst Nat Sec)
The Crikey article is the usual snide smartarseary. Yes, I know the Summit is worth criticising and maybe it will turn out to be useless, but it’s the tone of these sorts of comments which irritates, because the writers don’t seem to have put any thought into what they’re writing at all.
It’s revealing how many people pay lip-service to saying ‘how important the arts are’ but just can’t help sniggering about a room full of ‘luvvies’. God forbid, that an actor, or writer, or director actually have some intelligence and are capable of using it. Guess what, Claudia Karvan’s an extremely good looking woman, so we couldn’t possibly take her seriously at all. Could we?
This Summit deserves criticism, but articles like Crikey are just lazy. It’s why I don’t subscribe to Crikey anymore.
Paul Kelly of the Oz has a PhD? In what?
Maybe he’s got an honorary doctorate and is one of those folks who thinks that he should use the title?
How will they ever get Gerard Henderson and David Marr to:
(a) have a civil conversation with each other
(b) shut up.
LOL is overused, but I just actually did literally and not metaphorically, Fine!
Maybe he’s got an honorary doctorate and is one of those folks who thinks that he should use the title?
Oh I hope so, one does like to have one’s prejudices comfirmed sometimes.
Did Dr Shane Warne get a guernsey?
Oh, how I wish he had!
Fine, there’s been a bit of discussion about the value of the Creative participants at the 2020 on my previous thread
I have absolutely no problem at all with screen actors being represented at the summit. But I am concerned that there are no game designers or new media artists, and barely a handful of publishers or contemporary musicians. Let alone cultural policy analysts …
Going back to that previous thread…I agree with you and I wasn’t having a dig at you at all. It’s the lazy criticism which irritates me, not yours.
“Maybe he’s got an honorary doctorate and is one of those folks who thinks that he should use the title”
Honoris causa, USyd 2007.
“Archbishop Philip Edward Wilson Male SA (President Australian Catholic Bishops Conference)
Dr Mohamad Abdalla Male QLD (Islamic Research Unit, Griffith University)”
Will they be fighting it out to tell us which of their respective gods is ther right one to lead Australia into the future?
Are they there to balance out Philip Adams?
Yes, Fine – the lazy criticism irks me too. Here I present an in-depth and highly mature and nuanced contribution to the debate on the credentials of the participants.
Strengthening communities, supporting families and social inclusion
Hala Abdelnour (Ethnic Youth Council) – token foreigner
Vivienne Amery (CEO Tweedle Child and Family Health Service) – tweedeldum couldn’t attend.
Gina Nancy McGregor Anderson (CEO of Philanthropy Australia) – pearls and twinset brigade
Elleni Bereded-Samuel (Vic Multicultural Commission) – more visas for drug runners
Elizabeth Cham (Former CEO Philanthropy Australia, Driver behind the Non-Profits Roundtable) – profits bad/unemployment good
Associate Professor Chris Chamberlain (RMIT Social Sciences – Homelessness) – chardonnay socialist
Margherita Coppolino (Diversity Consultant) – words fail me
Dr Kylie Cripps (Koori Health Unit Melbourne Uni) – cloistered academic
Julie Mary Edwards (CEO Jesuit Social Services) – god-botherer
Kon Karapanagiotidis (Director of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre) – People smuggler
Joan Kirner (Former Vic Premier, Head of Victorian Social, Emily’s List Australia) – failed politician
David Manne (Refugee and Immigration Law Centre) – People smuggler
Tony Nicholson (Brotherhood of St Lawrence) – will pass tin around
Professor Ann Sanson (Co-ordinator ARACY) – come again?
Reverend Graham Sawyer (Anglican Bishop Beechworth) – dead white male
Dr Judith Marion Slocombe (CEO of Alana and Madeline Foundation, Veterinarian and Business Woman on boards of Australian Red Cross Blood Service, Open Universities Australia and VicHealth, as well being the Chair of the Animal Welfare League of Victoria.) – professional schmoozer
Dr Kevin John Smith – summit dealer
David George Thompson (CEO Jobs Australia Ltd) – rent-seeker
Michele Wright (Inner South Community Health Service and Family Violence Network) – may be useful if things turn heated
Jennifer Branch (Tas State School Parents Association) – will dominate proceedings
Ms Elizabeth Jean Rayner TAS – Tasmanian
Professor Freda Briggs (University of SA, Consultant to Save the Children, Bravehearts Western Australia and The Freda Briggs Foundation (WA)) – self-promoter
Monsignor David Cappo Male SA (Catholic Priest, Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Adelaide, Commissioner for Social Inclusion SA) – dead white male
Ms Katrine Ann Hildyard Female SA (ASU SA Asst Secretary) – unionist – brightest & best !!??
Mark Hubbard Male SA (Basketball Australia) – right, okay
Lyndsey Kate Jackson Female SA (Bank of IDEAS) – of course
Catherine Jean Leane (National Association of People Living With AIDS) – any actual expertise in anything?
Sandra Pitcher (Director of the SA Office for Women) – soulless bureaucrat
Professor Barbara Pocock (Assoc Prof School of Social Sciences, University of Adelaide) – not even a proper professor
Associate Professor Michelle Slatter (Southern Research Centre of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) – academic
Archbishop Philip Wilson (President Australian Catholic Bishops Conference) – hmm – a few of these fossils – they’ll be full of new ideas
Dr Mohamad Abdalla (Islamic Research Unit, Griffith University) – self-appointed expert trading of his ethnicity
Shelley Argent (Convenor PFLAG) – couldn’t convene a piss-up in a pub
Hazel Douglas (Native Guide Safaris) – you’ve lost me here
Valerie French AM (WA Judge Surfers Paradise Catholic Parish) – this will be Malcolm Mackerras
Rev Dr Catherine Laufer (Lecturer in Ministry and Mission, St Francis’ Theological College) – may as well hold this summit in a cathedral
Alex McDonald (Executive Director of Wise Foundation, Social Inventions Manager, The Body Shop Alternate Director of First Australians Business, Member of City Advisory Board, Brisbane City Council) – will win prize for worst dressed
Michael O’Neill (CEO of National Seniors Australia (NSA), former CEO AgForce and QFF) – dead white male
Zoe Scott Rathus (Law Lecturer at Griffith Law School on Family Violence and Protection) – will demand tenure – then picket the summit
Dr Wendell John Rosevear (Men Affected by Rape and Sexual Abuse) – actually this may be Malcolm Mackerras
Iqbal Singh Male QLD (Sikh Leader, principal of Beerwah High School) – only one they could get.
Jessica Wellard (Community Spirit Award Winner, Young Lawyer, Volunteer Refugee Tutoring) – apprentice people smuggler
Indigo Willing (Adopted Vietnamese International) – therefore knows something about what?
Dr Adam Matthew Tominson Male NT – token NTer
Mr Galarrwuy Yunupingu Male NT (Land Rights Activist) – will sit with his back to rest of the team.
Fadi Abdul-Rahman Male NSW (Young Muslim Leader) – attending subject to police check
Dr Mark Bagshaw (Director Accessibility for IBM) – summit IT support – will turn on computers for dead white males
Elizabeth Broderick (Sex Discrim Comm) – included to make up female numbers
Mrs Katrina Clark (Carers Alliance) – why help actual people when you can talk about it instead
Professor Julian Disney Male NSW (Director of Social Justice Project, University of NSW, Chair of Housing Affordability Summit) – serial attendee at these junkets
Mr Paul Evans Male NSW – testbed data – pls remove from list (admin)
Ms Maree Ann Faulkner Female NSW (CEO Heart Foundation) – will monitor lunch orders for dead white males
Reverend Keith Vincent Garner (Superintendent Wesley Mission) – always a bus trip and will visit relos in Albury on the way up.
Kerry Graham (CEO Inspire Foundation – online youth activism) – OMG
Sara Haghdoosti (IWDay Committee and women’s officer at Syd Uni) – student politican!
Lisa Harvey (Director Energetica, IT for non-profits, former IT LHMU) – cheap PCs off the back of a truck for all her mates in the union
Nickky McColl Jones Female NSW – will change Australia’s future at the summit.
Cathryn McConaghy (Assoc Professor School of Education UNE) – Will crib some UN report to pass off has her own work.
Jayne Meyer Tucker (National Director Good Beginnings – Early Childhood) – ex-kindergarten teacher who found that chairing committees beats a roomful of noisy brats any day.
Daniel Petre AO (Exec Chair NetUs, former PBL, Newsltd, Microsoft. Work-life balance author.) – thinks he may get a book deal out of this.
James Pitts (CEO odyssey house) – knows there are no new solutions but hasn’t been to Canberra for a while and hears the museum is pretty good.
Father Christopher Riley (Youth off the streets) – wants it all kept behind closed doors.
Associate Professor Alison Ritter (National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre) – has research to show that drugs are a problem.
Anne Miriam Robinson (Non-profit lawyer Lawyer Prolegis) – hoping to find a paid job with a proper law firm during after summit drinks.
Roslyn Sackley (Aboriginal Disability Network) – always gets her funding submission in on time.
Tirrania Suhood (Blacktown Alcohol and Drugs Family Services Manager, Spokesperson for SNGO’s) – another social worker
Kathleen Swinbourne (Sole Parents Union) – expert on maintaining families.
Adjunct Professor Clyde Spence Thomson (School of Rural Health Melb Uni) – if you can’t do – teach.
Julie White Female NSW (Macquarie Group Foundation) – dark horse drawn wide but may do well.
Prof Peter Shergold (Chief Executive
Centre for Social Impact University of New South Wales, Former Head PMC) – ran Howard’s office – already shown he has no ideas at all.
Toni Bauman (Visiting Research Fellow Native Title Research Institute at AIATSiS) – specialist in acronyms
Major General William James Crews Male ACT (National President RSL) – conscription is not a new idea, Willy.
Professor Ann Harding (Director of the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM) at the University of Canberra) – has already had her ideas soundly rejected in national media fifty times
Lin Hatfield Dodds (ACOSS President and Executive Director Uniting Care) – social worker promoted to her level of incompetence.
Joan Anne Hughes (Chief Exec Carers Australia) – why are there are more Chiefs than Indians with these social workers?
Associate Professor Michael Herbert Levy (Director of Centre for Health Research in Criminal Justice at Syd Uni) – multidisciplinarian – just what we need
Francis Gerard Quinlan (EO Cath Social Service) – anybody not Catholic going to this?
Mr Xian-Zhi Soon (ACT Young Oz 08) – too soon to say what this young Turkoman may bring to the summit other than a permission note.
Mr Quang Ba Thich (Viet Buddhist) – ideas are an illusion
Mr Ahmed Fahour Male VIC (Chief Exec NAB) – man of the people
Ms Linda White Female VIC (ASU Asst Nat Sec) – another bloody unionist
wbb, keep a close eye on Andrew Bolt’s blog – you may have started something!
wbb – I love it when someone proves my point.
wbb
v amused.
Taking Mark’s advice, to “keep a close eye on Andrew Bolt’s blog”, led me to this piece of radical fiscal conservatism:
Rudd wants your last $20
“Centrelink has hired (Dun And Bradstreet) to collect 62,000 debts worth between $20 and $100, dating back eight to 12 years. The debts were mostly accrued because of welfare assistance overpayments by Centrelink and were waived by the Howard government. ”
Shamefully, only the tele and abc, and a bolt commenter, seemed to have deemed it newsworthy so far.
That nice Ms Macklin, on her highest of horses, reckons “there is nothing wrong with forcing welfare recipients to pay back old debts”.
This is what it takes to fund the tax cuts to non-centrelink clients?
The maximum overpayment in this tranche is $100, it’s hardly high roller stuff. If all 62,000 were $100 debts, they were all recovered, and D&B did the dirty work for nix out of the goodeness of there mercantile hearts, the $6 mill odd collected wouldn’t fund cover costs of the Community Cabinet program. The PM’s department gets ~$8 mill to spread the love in that PR stunt.
It might cover a few of the consultants’ invoices to the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations for implementing the program “to expand skills surveys to provide labour market data covering new industries and specific regional locations.”
Didn’t Centrelink used to have that data from when employers called in to say what they needed?
I think I saw that on SBS last night. It sucks all right.
And, yes, collecting that data was a prime purpose of the old CES.