Friday 10 February 2006

7. 30pm - Welcome and buffet dinner
8. 30pm - Edmund Bohan: Knowing our Past; Understanding our Present.
Is history too important to be left to the academics?
Chaired by Hon. Dr Nick Smith, MP

 

Saturday 11 February 2006

9.00am - A Free Press - or a Press Running Rampant?
Professor David Flint: Malice in Medialand
Karl du Fresne: Glorious Imperfections - a Camusian view of the media.
Chaired by Nevil Gibson

10.30am - Morning Tea

11.00am - The March of Folly: Government Incompetence, or Government Fraud?
Gerrit van der Lingen: Telling Lies to Save the Planet: the cult of anthropogenic global warming.
Owen McShane: Junk Science in Support of Junk Policy.
The sad story of environmental science in NZ
Chaired by Marc Alexander

12.45pm - Lunch. Time out follows.

3.30pm - Afternoon Tea

3.45pm - Keith Windschuttle: The Adversary Culture: the perverse anti-Westernism of the culturally elite.
Chaired by Matthew Hooton
Symposium Bar Open

6.30pm - The Being Upstanding Award
Dinner and after-dinner forum.
The new format - the great debate - That This Country is Going to the Dogs -
Affirmative: Amy Brooke, Martha Gray, Kerre Woodham
Negative: Greig Fleming, David Greagg, Alastair Macdonald
Chaired by Mike King

 

Sunday 12 February 2006

9.30am - Other Possibilities - Other Worlds?
David Wiltshire: Playing with the universe.
Chaired by Mike Nathan

11.30am - Morning Tea

11.45am - Book Time
Quentin Wilson, publisher, Hazard Press
Getting Closure.
Leighton Smith

12.30 - 12.45pm - Lunch