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Now
We The People:
Challenging the US Empire - Australia for peace and justice
The
conference was held on August 23-24 at UTS, in Sydney. To discuss the
conference, give us your feedback, or build on the links formed that weekend,
let's use the
discussion
board on
this site.
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Conference papers are appearing and can be found
here.
:: Notes from the conference review meeting
are here.
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Link to the statement
adopted at the final session.
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new!
Andrew Bartlett's speech
to the Senate about the NWTP conference
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notes about printing this page
cost:
$50 full price, $25 concession/unemployed
one day ony: $30/15
9.30 am -
Registration (Guthrie Theatre lobby) UTS Broadway Campus, Building
6 (Harris St) level 3
10.15 am -
Welcome to Country (Guthrie Theatre) Allen Madden, Metropolitan
Local Aboriginal Land Council
10.30 am
- Opening Plenary: Where are
Howard and Bush taking Australia? The social, economic and environmental
consequences of the US Alliance.
Room 06.03.28 (Guthrie Theatre)
Panel: Doug Cameron (AMWU), Dr Patricia Ranald (AFTINET), Andrew Wilkie,
Tanya Plibersek MHR, Senator Kerry Nettle, Margaret Reynolds (United Nations
Association), Dr Carol Araullo (BAYAN Philippines)
Facilitator: Sally McManus (SEARCH Foundation)
12.25 - Guest speaker - Mr Wellington
Chibebe, General Secretary, Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions
12.30 - 1.30 pm LUNCH (available at nearby shops)
1.30 pm - 4.30 pm: Afternoon workshops:
Workshop 1: Unilateralism and sycophancy: Australian support for
US global strategy
Room 06.04.07
Panel: Andrew Wilkie, Denis Doherty, Dr Carol Araullo, Damian Cahill,
Dee Marghetts MLC.
Facilitator: Lee Rhiannon MLC
Workshop 2: How the people are left out - the challenge to renew
Australian democracy and the Constitution
Room 06.04.04
Panel: Rod Donald MP (NZ Greens Co-Leader), Mayor Liz Johnstone (City
of Port Phillip), Lyn Carson (University of Sydney), Arthur Chesterfield-Evans
(Australian Democrats)
Facilitator: Rev Dorothy McRae-McMahon
Workshop 3: A fairer finance sector for Australia
Room 04.05.50
Panel: Geoff Derrick (Finance Sector Union), Catherine Wolfhuizen (Aust
Consumers Assoc), Prof Frank Stilwell.
Facilitator: Amanda Tattersall (Labor for Refugees)
Workshop 4: Medicare and Welfare reform - the US model for Australian
society?
Room 06.04.16
Panel: Gary Moore (NCOSS), Ian McCauley (Uni of Canberra) Dr Alf Liebhold
(GP), Monika Baker (National Organisation of Unemployed).
Facilitator: Dr Meredith Burgmann MLC
Workshop 5: Multiculturalism after 30 years - why Australia failed
the refugee test
Room 06.05.49
Panel: Tanya Plibersek MHR, Dr Jock Collins (UTS), Maqsood Alshams (A
Just Australia), Phong Nguyen (Vietnamese Community Welfare Agency, Melb)
Facilitator: Paula Abood
4.30 pm - deadline to lodge amendments
for the conference statement at the registration table.
4.30 - 5.30 pm: Drinks & nibbles
Sunday August 24, 2003
9.30 am - Registration
10 am - Plenary: The global economy
goes into crisis - what options for Australia?
Room 06.03.28 (Guthrie Theatre)
Presentation: Graham Larcombe, Prof John Quiggin Facilitator: Senator
Claire Moore
12 noon - 2 pm: afternoon workshops
(lunch of sandwiches provided)
Workshop 6: Australia - USA Free Trade Agreement, General Agreement
on Trade and Services. What's at stake?
Room 06.04.07
Panel: Dr Patricia Ranald, Sen Kerry Nettle, Alistair Kentish (AMWU)
Facilitator: Richard Archer (SEARCH Foundation)
Workshop 7: Understanding the religious fundamentalism dynamic
- at home and abroad
Room 06.04.04
Panel: Randa Abdel-Fatteh, Rev Ray Richmond, Günter Minnerup (UNSW)
Facilitator: Bruce Childs (Evatt Foundation)
Workshop 8: Universities for the rich - the privatisation of
Australia's Higher Education sector
Room 04.04.16
Panel: Danial Kyriacou (NUS), Trish Mullins (NTEU), John Kaye (Greens
NSW)
Facilitator: Anna York (National Union of Students)
Workshop 9: What rights for Indigenous Australians when might
is again right?
Room 06.05.50
Panel: Dr Pam Johnston, Kevin Tory (TUCAR), David Cooper (ANTaR)
Facilitator: Adam Kerslake (NSW Labor Council)
Workshop 10: Ensuring Iraq is the last oil war - energy politics
for a sustainable future
Room 06.05.49
Panel: Stuart White (UTS), Leanne Piggott (Uni of Sydney)
Facilitator: Jemma Bailey
2 pm - Closing
Plenary
Room 06.03.28 (Guthrie theatre)
Facilitator: Kathy Ridge
Cartoon performance: Bruce Petty
Adoption of conference Statement
Room 06.03.28 (Guthrie Theatre)
2.30 - 4.00 pm: Closing
Plenary: A just Australia or just a straggler
- building the alliance for peace and justice
Panel: Rod Donald MP (NZ), Senator Andrew Bartlett, Sylvia Hale MLC,
Rev Dr Ann Wansbrough, Anthony Albanese MHR, Pat Anderson (Aboriginal
Medical Service Alliance of NT), Leigh Hubbard (VTHC), Elmer Labog (KMU
Labor Centre, Philippines)
4.00 pm: Finale with the Sydney Trade Union
Choir
Coffee, tea, water available throughout
conference
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