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Programme 2010 |
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FRIDAY March 19, 2010 7. 00 pm Welcome and buffet dinner 8. 30 pm Professor David Flint - The Essence of Freedom Chaired by Nevil Gibson SATURDAY March 20, 2010 9. 00 am Professor James Allan – The Decline of Democracy Dr Andy Pratt - Transparency and the Manager’s New Clothes Transparency is widely used as a feel-good term by politicians, managers and the like. Often there is a darker side to their ministrations which involves the conscious or unconscious shackling of creativity within a quicksand of administrivia. This will be a brief effort to try to shed light on this murky underworld and its implications. Chaired by Greg O’Connor 10. 30 am Morning Tea 11. 00 am Jeff McIntyre – Will Bush Be Vindicated? A Case for the Iraq War Dong Li – How the Rise of China as a “Successful Dictatorship” Would Affect Us All. Chaired by Owen McShane 12. 45 pm Lunch. Time out follows. 3. 30 pm Afternoon Tea. 3. 45 pm Hal Colebatch - Is the Survival of the West Actually Guaranteed? Bill Muehlenberg - The Threat of Secular Humanism Chaired by Dr Neville Bennett Symposium Bar Open 6. 30 pm Dinner and after-dinner forum - The Being Upstanding Award Greig Fleming, Amy Brooke “Courage, my friends; ‘tis not too late to build a better world...” SUNDAY March 21, 2010 9. 30 am John Ballantyne - Champions of Family-Centred Economics – a discussion of the important contributions of 20th-century thinkers such as: Eleanor Rathbone, Wilhelm Röpke, Colin Clark - “These three thinkers put the family at the heart of their proposed social and economic order — a priority that is notoriously overlooked by libertarian economists such as F.A. Hayek, Milton Friedman and Murray Rothbard.” Greig Fleming - “Direct Democracy - A Natural Park of the Spirit” Chaired by Marc Alexander 11.30 am Morning Tea. 11. 45 am Book time Quentin Wilson, Phoenix Publishing Dr Muriel Newman - Getting Closure 12. 30- 12.45pm. Lunch  Cognos Ltd  Amy Brooke Dircetor, Cognos Ltd |