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 PM Howard heads July/August speaker
list
When
Prime
Minister John Howard addresses CEDA in
Sydney on
Monday, he will be speaking to the largest CEDA audience on record - more
than 600 people. (Registrations for this event have already
closed.)
The Prime
Minister will address topics at the top of CEDA's agenda with a speech on
"Australia's National Challenges: Energy and
Water".
Further major
CEDA events in the next month include:
·
 The Future for Smart
Cities: This
full-day Brisbane conference on Thursday 27 July
will address issues such as your business's place in the future economy,
the future of workplaces and increasing cities' environmental
sustainability. Click for details and
registration.
·
Climate Change - The
Business Case For Early Action: Discussion
with a Melbourne panel including Origin Energy managing director
Grant
King and Australian Conservation Foundation
executive director Don Henry, on
Wednesday, 19 July. Click for details and
registration.
·
 Supply chains ARE the
business: One of the
world's leading experts on supply change management, Dr John
Gattorna (pictured right), speaks to a
Sydney
audience on Wednesday 26 July. Click for details and
registration.
·
Looking beyond tomorrow:
the role of mineral resources in WA's
future: Rio Tinto Iron ore chief executive
Sam
Walsh explains how the resources industry will
help shape WA, in Perth on Tuesday 1 August. Click for details and
registration.
The Business
of Defence arrives early
August
 CEDA trustees
will receive their copy of CEDA's new Growth report, The Business of Defence -
Sustaining Capability, in early
August.
Report
contributor and former Defence Intelligence Organisation head
Professor
Paul Dibb, Defence Capability Development
Group chief Lt General David
Hurley and CEDA chief executive
Catherine
Baldwin will be among the speakers at CEDA's
launch conference in Adelaide on 3
August.
Defence
Minister Brendan Nelson,
who will launch the report at the conference, is planning a shake-up of
defence industry planning. Click for launch
details and registration.
Deveson: Federal-state relations
imperil world-class policy
 In an article
for The Australian, CEDA board
chairman and national president Ivan
Deveson (pictured right) has urged a
permanent fix for the federal-state
relationship:
"...
Australia has become one of
the world's better-run nations. The challenge now is to make it the
best-run. To do that, we need to tackle the biggest remaining problem in
national governance: the relationship between federal and state
governments."
Click
for the full article.
 Next step
in the tax debate
With the
Tax Cuts for
Growth information paper now available (click to
download), CEDA is staging a discussion on The Tax Cuts Australia
Really Needs on Wednesday 26 July with the
paper's author, Lateral Economics CEO Nicholas Gruen,
and Tasman Asia Pacific executive chairman Professor Michael
Porter. Nicholas Gruen's report for CEDA finds
that finds that future tax cuts will do most to boost economic growth if
they target middle and lower income earners. Click for details and
registration.
The growing identity
controversy
·
 Microsoft
Chief Identity Architect Kim Cameron
(pictured right) has emerged as a key global figure in the worldwide
digital identity debate, with his seven "Laws of Identity"
designed to fight the proliferation of online theft and deception. He'll
speak to CEDA in Sydney on 3 August. Click for details and
registration.
·
Human services
minister Joe Hockey is in
charge of Australia's biggest identity
task, the $1 billion project for a new health and social services access
card. He'll address CEDA in Sydney on 24 July. Click for details and
registration.
New speeches and
presentations
If you missed
a CEDA event, speeches and presentations are regularly posted on the
password-protected members' area of the CEDA Web site. (Click here
for the full listing.) Recent additions
include:
·
 The face of
competition and the role of the Australian Competition and Consumer
Commission
Graeme Samuel AO, Chairman, ACCC
Melbourne, 3/07/2006
o
speech
audio (MP3 audio file,
3890kB)
o
question-time
audio (MP3 audio
file, 1260kB)
·
A union
perspective on the new Industrial Relations legislation
Richard Marles,
Assistant Secretary, Australian Council of Trade Unions
Melbourne,
30/06/2006
o
speech
audio (MP3 audio
file, 2511kB)
o
question-time
audio (MP3 audio
file, 2037kB)
·
 Corporate
responsibility perspectives
Christine Charles, Regional Director,
environment and social responsibility, Newmont Australia and New
Zealand
Sydney, 29/06/2006
o
speech
audio (MP3 audio
file, 1147kB)
o
question-time
audio (MP3 audio
file, 2848kB)
·
Should
Australia go nuclear?
Tom
Quirk, Chairman, Virax Holdings Limited
Melbourne, 28/06/2006
o
speech
audio (MP3 audio file,
4211kB)
o
question-time
audio (MP3 audio file,
1535kB)
·
 Vital
signs, vibrant society - Fostering innovation for the knowledge
economy
Dr Craig
Emerson, Member for Rankin and Author Vital Signs, Vibrant
Society
Sydney, 26/06/2006 (Adobe PDF file,
140kB)
·
Renewable
Energy Industry: Trends in Australia & Overseas
Mark Kelleher,
Managing Director, Roaring 40s
Hobart, 20/06/2006 (Adobe PDF file,
877kB)
·
The
role of the arts in economic development
Douglas Gautier, Chief
Executive Officer, Adelaide Festival Centre
Adelaide, 14/06/2006
(MP3 audio file,
1541kB)
·
Managing Australia's water resources
The Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the
Prime Minister
Sydney, 8/06/2006 (MP3 audio file,
3506kB)
o
speech
audio (MP3 audio
file, 2748kB)
o
question-time
audio (MP3 audio
file, 3506kB)
·
PR,
advertising & marketing - where does it all belong?
James
Tuckerman, Editor in Chief, Australian Anthill magazine, chairing a
discussion with speakers including: Ron Barnacle, Managing Director and
Chairman, CHE; Anton Staindl, Founding Partner, Haystac; and Vanessa
Rouse, Marketing Manager, The Comedy Festival
Melbourne, 7/06/2006
·
o
discussion
audio (MP3 audio file,
4994kB)
o
question-time
audio (MP3 audio
file, 3645kB)
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