Property Rights Australia - 2013 Conference and AGM
Friday 14th June 6.30 pm Meet & Greet at the Highfields Tavern - Highfields Toowoomba.
Saturday 15th June 8.30am Conference
Highfields Cultural Centre – Highfields Toowoomba
8.00am Registrations Open
8.30am Welcome
Opening Address
Ashley McKay –
10 years PRA history and achievements
Alex Sparkes
Farmz website designer -
Social networking and agriculture.
His story and insights into the future.
Troy Rowlings
Rural Press QCL -
How do we get the message
across in the City Press
Barrister
Vegetation Management Act amendments
and Crown review of VMA update
Tom Marland
Creevey Russell Lawyers
Powerlines, Pipelines and Porky Pies
- All infrastructure projects
that can cross your land including
railways, roads, Powerlink, Sunwater
Garry and Kerry Ladbrook
Landowners Yuleba
Our experience with Powerlink
Richard Golden
Landowner Yuleba –
Living and Working in a Gasfield
Trenton Hindman
Landholder Wyandra
Dr Bill Burrows expert report
on Hindman vs Sargent.
on Hindman vs Sargent.
and more to be announced
3.00pm Action Group Workshops Electives
3.50pm Vote Of Thanks And Close
4.00pm Afternoon Smoko
4.00pm Afternoon Smoko
Conference dinner to follow at your own cost
Registration required for morning & afternoon smoko and for lunch.
UPDATE #1
Announcement of further presentations
Queensland Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestries, John McVeigh will give a presentation.
Basin Sustainability Alliance will also give a presentation in regards to water and the coal seam gas industry.
The agenda has been shuffled about a little. The Action group workshop electives have been brought forward to earlier in the day and will end at 4pm for afternoon smoko
The agenda has been shuffled about a little. The Action group workshop electives have been brought forward to earlier in the day and will end at 4pm for afternoon smoko
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That looks like an extremely interesting and relevant Agenda Dale and Jo, and as an 'absentee PRA member' from the depths of greenie suburbia in Melbourne, I can only wish you well. One day, who knows? I might actually turn up to spar along with others :-) But not now, as that's the day my wife and I head off for some adventures in the Austrian and Italian Dolomites, and Swiss Alps. As Bro' John knows, I am totally devoted to the philosophy of doing it while you still can, forget your age in years.
ReplyDeleteCheers and good luck
al
PS I am about to post a comment on one of the CSG discussions which while not contrarian, might stir up some comment. ;-) al
Alan
ReplyDeleteYour Europe trip looks very good. Some day you may be close enough to our Conference to have a look but I wouldn't be giving up a trip to Europe for a Conference either.
I wish you both a safe trip.
Thanks Jo. Given that Dale (with Bro' John) and I seem to be at friendly loggerheads in the current (of several) CSG threads here, you probably wouldn't want me there, anyway :-)
DeleteBut seriously, this is just one major issue which Australia must deal with, in a 'grown up' way. In CSG, we have a valuable resource plus the know-how, economic backup and overall support systems to exploit it in a responsible manner, not damn it to hell because of ....... No, I won't go on, in that vein.
Manufacturing is in diabolical trouble due fundamentally to our totally unrealistic wage / working rules/ bargaining conditions set by theorist, socialist union apparatchiks, both out there invading workplaces and destroying productivity and in government, with the recent strength of the $A (based on our avoidance of the depths of the GFC fallout due entirely to the prudence of previous conservative governments) a convenient socialist / pink media whipping post. Judging from comments by experts here and in other media, meat producers (ie you people doing the raising) are on their knees and the Labor/Green/Egodependent government, helped in their endeavours by years of similarly minded state lookalikes, have cruelled what could / should have been some further and major resources development. Think Olympic Dam, for starters.
So, what else do we have as earners of real (ie external) national income? Education? Medical Research? Management / Financial Services? All good, but they won't put bacon on the table to feed us all, so I hope that like the graziers around Roma (recent Radio National report), other farmers groups and friends will find mutually beneficial ways to develop our CSG resources.
Cheers, and End of Friendly Rant
al
Unfortunately from what we have seen so far, it's an all in dash for cash Al. This should probably be back on the CSG thread anyway but the evidence emerging of the rushed EIS approvals with huge pressure placed on senior public servants to approve major projects in just a few weeks, shows how shonky it all is. And there is a parallel to that with the actual LNG plants on Curtis Island and the dredging in Gladstone Harbour. Too much too soon producing cumulative effects on the environment and unfortunately in some cases, on human health. Are the graziers around Roma dealing with the multiplicity of wells and huge diameter pipelines now associated with the CSG/LNG export industry, or earlier (dating back many years) domestic supplies to places such as Brisbane which probably have been successfully handled. I was part of a media resources tour back in the 80's which visited the fields near Roma.
ReplyDeleteAnnouncement of further presentations
ReplyDeleteQueensland Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestries, John McVeigh will give a presentation.
Basin Sustainability Alliance will also give a presentation in regards to water and the coal seam gas industry.
The agenda has been shuffled about a little. The Action group workshop electives have been brought forward to earlier in the day and will end at 4pm for afternoon smoko.