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Queensland Landcare Conference 2009
Thursday 15 – Saturday 17 October 2009 |
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Program & Speakers
To view the program please CLICK HERE
Program is subject to change
Keynote Speakers
Further information on keynote speakers will be become available as the conference planning progresses. |
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Karen Brook
Karen Brook started Karen Brook STUDIOS in 2007, a project management company in the creative industries, providing solutions in branding, marketing, public relations, events and photography. Based in Charleville, Karen’s passion for sustainably developing regional areas, and her affinity for the outback, brings with it the enthusiasm and patience to successfully understand the communication objectives required by businesses and organisations in regional and remote areas. Karen grew up in Birdsville and has lived and worked in Brisbane and Adelaide, and has travelled throughout Asia, South Africa and England and has a special understanding of what makes regional areas of Australia and Australia itself, special and unique.
Karen has a degree in graphic and web design and has also successfully worked as a freelance photographer, having work published in national and regional newspapers, magazines and overseas publications. Karen has overseen many large branding projects for both local government and corporate businesses in regional Queensland. Since 2007, Karen has successfully grown her business to employ four people and has set-up strategic business relationships with printers, web developers and IT personnel in south-east Queensland to support the services of KBS.
In Karen’s own words "a dream is a reality not yet realised". |
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Jeff Campbell
Jeff and Jacky run cattle enterprise both breeding and finishing cattle for the high quality European market. This is on a 25,000 ha property "Currawarra" at Mitchell and 8,300 ha property "Craigmore" at Springsure.
Jeff has held a position on the board of the Queensland Murray Darling Committee for the past 5 years and has been on the finance committee and held the position of deputy chair for a number of years.
Jeff’s main passion has always been the land and Landcare and has been the District Landcare Chairman for the past 10 years and currently holds a position of the chair of chairs for the Maranoa Balonne, Border Rivers and Condamine catchments.
Jeff won the Queensland Individual Land carer of the year award in 2007 and went on to win the 2008 Australian individual Land carer award, a title he presently holds. The awards are in recognition of innovative management practises and commitment to Landcare. Being a Legend of Land and a Landcare Hero, his Profile can be viewed at http://www.landcareheroes.com/2008-finalists/individual-landcarer-award with many testimonies from the community and Associates. |
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| Invited Speakers |
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David Elliott
David has a passion for Australian natural history and his initial discovery of dinosaur fossils in the 1990’s has led to numerous dinosaur digs in the Winton district.
In 2002 David and his wife Judy founded Australian Age of Dinosaurs and in the 7 years since, the organisation has been instrumental in the discovery and recovery of some of Australia’s most significant dinosaur fossils.
During this time Australian Age of Dinosaurs has amassed the largest collection of bones from Australia’s large Cretaceous dinosaurs in the world.
Through the support of people from all over Australia, David and his team publish an annual journal on Australian natural history and have operated a fossil preparation facility in western Qld since 2006.
The organisation has attracted over $2m in funding and has commenced building the initial stages of the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History in a wilderness area near Winton. |
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Ernie Grant
Ernie Grant is an elder of the Jirrbal (pronounced Jiddabul) people from the Tully area in Far North Queensland. He spent his first nine years living in the rainforest getting a grounding in the traditional life of the North Queensland rainforest people.
Many academic researchers have been keen to draw on his knowledge in the fields of ethno-botany and spirituality/mythology. Uncle Ernie (as he is commonly known) has had a long and varied career, and a lifelong passion for education and for sharing his understandings with educators.
For many years, Ernie has been working as a Cultural Research Officer in the Queensland Department of Education. He presents at numerous state and national education workshops and conferences. He has extensive knowledge and experience working within traditional Aboriginal, urban and regional Aboriginal, and the wider non-aboriginal communities in Australia.
Very few Indigenous educators have the knowledge and experience of both traditional lore and western academic approaches to education. Ernie brings this to his work and that underpins his Holistic Teaching and Learning Framework. The key to understanding the holistic framework is the primary relationship that Aboriginal people have between their Land, their Language and their Culture - the inseparable nature of these elements and the ways they depend on each other for meaning. Uncle Ernie states:-
"The framework came about because it is acknowledged that Western culture depends on literacy greatly, and Indigenous cultures depend on oral transmission of knowledge. It would be a mistake though to say that there is no written component to Indigenous transmission of knowledge, because Indigenous people use the land as their book. How we got fire, animals, water, all these things are written in the land". |
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Charlie Phillott
Charlie Phillott has spent most of his life in the Winton area, having run sheep and cattle at Carisbrook for 48 years, and also operated a tourism enterprise for 40 years at Carisbrook. Charlie has been involved in Landcare since 1990 and control of woody weeds, particularly prickly acacia since 1974.
Charlie began property development in 1966 using the principles of the keyline system with the aim of managing water to promote growth of pasture and trees in an effort to create a balance in the landscape and to provide water for small scale irrigation. |
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Peter Whip
Peter Whip of PRW Agribusiness is well known to graziers through numerous business planning and property planning activities carried out with producers in the region. Peter assists clients with succession planning, bank reviews and proposals, Government funding opportunities, vegetation management and valuations.
Peter has lived in Longreach for the past 22 years and operates his own grazing enterprise on "Bandon Grove" south of Longreach with his wife Raeleen and boys Toby and Sam. |
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Important Dates |
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Standard Registration Closes: Wednesday 30 September 2009 |
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