Now We The People Conference 2005

Advance Australia Fair
Building Sustainability, Justice and Peace

July 30-31, 2005
Melbourne Trades Hall, 54 Victoria st, Carlton South, Melbourne

"We, participants of the ‘Advance Australia Fair - Building sustainability, justice and peace’ conference, 2005, joined together to promote democratic alternatives to unfettered free trade and free market policies which increasingly limit the capacity of democratic governments and community organisations to achieve social justice, equity, peace, and ecological sustainability."

Conference statement

Read the final conference statement. Agreed to by the 330 participants at the conference.

PUBLIC MEETING Speeches available now

'Corpocracy Vs the Global Commons'

Phyllis Bennis, United for Peace and Justice in the USA
Carol Araullo, Chair, Bayan, Philippines
Sharan Burrow, ACTU and ICFTU
Margo Kingston, journalist and author of 'Not Happy, John'

MC: Rod Quantock

Conference program and speeches

The speeches made by people in the plenary sessions and workshops will be available from this page. Keep an eye on the program as they appear.

Conference Feedback

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Conference supporters

Many thanks to the fantastic organisations and many volunteers who made this conference possible! See which organisations supported the conference and the ongoing Now We The People process.

Conference flier

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Now We The People Conference 2003

Challenging the US Empire - Australia for peace and justice
August 23rd-24th, 2003, University of Technology, Sydney

Link to the 2003 Conference Program and the full transcripts of all the presentations.

Link to the statement adopted at the final session.

Andrew Bartlett's speech to the Senate about the NWTP conference

Notes from the conference review meeting are here.

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Now We The People Conference 2001

Uniting against economic rationalism and corporate globalisation

Link to the 2001 Conference Program and the full transcripts of all the presentations