Below is a list of the selected participants for Australia 2020’s “Population, sustainability, climate change and water”.
If you’ve got ideas for this topic; opinions about those participants chosen – or not chosen – by all means use the comments section on this blog to express yourself and let the web know how you feel!
Who are these people? Why do you think they were chosen? Are they good choices? Who is missing?
Here’s the list:
Mr Carl Eric Binning Male WA
Ms Irina Cattalini Female WA
Mr Joe Ross Male WA
Ms Cheryl Batagol Female VIC
Mr Damien Troy Bell Male VIC
Dr Grant Blashki Male VIC
Ms Larissa Brown Female VIC
Mr Russell Ronald Caplan Male VIC
Professor Ross Garnaut Male VIC
Mr Gerry Hueston Male VIC
Mr Andrew Jaspan Male VIC
Honourable Dr Barry Owen Jones Male VIC
Professor David John Karoly Male VIC
Professor Amanda Lynch Female VIC
Ms Robyn Leigh McLeod Female VIC
Dr Pam McRae-Williams Female VIC
Mr Stephen Mills Male VIC
Ms Natasha Palich Female VIC
Mr George Pappas Male VIC
Dr Graeme Ivan Pearman Male VIC
Mr Marcus Randolph Male VIC
Mr Bernard Joseph Salt Male VIC
Mr David Shelmerdine Male VIC
The Honourable John Thwaites Male VIC
Ms Georgina Elise Boon Female TAS
Ms Anne Howe Female SA
Ms Susan Barbara Jeanes Female SA
Adjunct Professor Monica Viviene Oliphant Female SA
Mrs Joanne Louise Pfeiffer Female SA
Ms Ann Kathryn Shaw Rungie Female SA
Mr Michael Peter Berwick Male QLD
Mrs Leith Boully Female QLD
Ms Erin Mara Cini Female QLD
Professor Chris (Christopher Reid) Cocklin Male QLD
Ms Cheryl Desha Female QLD
Ms Melissa-Leigh Jane George Female QLD
Professor Ross Stewart Guest Male QLD
Dr Andrew Kenneth Leonard Johnson Male QLD
Professor Ian Lowe Male QLD
Ms Elizabeth Ann Nosworthy Female QLD
Professor Hugh Possingham Male QLD
Professor John Quiggin Male QLD
Dr Russell Evan Reichelt Male QLD
Dr Lorraine Stephenson Female QLD
Dr Stuart Blanch Male NT
Professor Stephen Thomas Garnett Male NT
Mr Joe Morrison Male NT
Ms Maria Atkinson Female NSW
Professor Marcela Bilek Female NSW
Mr Greg Bourne Male NSW
Ms Petrea Bradford Female NSW
Ms Jillian Broadbent Female NSW
Mr Peter Coates Male NSW
Professor Mary Elizabeth Crock Female NSW
Mr Stewart Ellis Male NSW
Ms Penelope Figgis (AO) Female NSW
Professor Timothy Flannery Male NSW
Ms Tanya Ha Female NSW
Mr Michael Hawker Male NSW
Professor Lesley Margaret Head Female NSW
Dr Judy Isabel Henderson Female NSW
The Hon Roslyn Joan Kelly Female NSW
Professor Shahbaz Khan Male NSW
Mr Ian Bruce Kiernan Male NSW
Mr Eric Ronald Wing-Fai Knight Male NSW
Dr Gabrielle Sarah Kuiper Female NSW
The Hon Susan Mary Lenehan Female NSW
Ms Romilly Madew Female NSW
Ms Sam Mostyn Female NSW
Ms Elaine Prior Female NSW
Ms Tania Ritchie Female NSW
Ms Anna Rose Female NSW
Dr Paul Simshauser Male NSW
Professor Will Steffen Male NSW
Dr Tony Paul Wilkins Male NSW
Emeritus Professor Valerie Anne Brown Female ACT
Dr Peter J Cook Male ACT
Dr Wendy Craik Female ACT
DR Brian Fisher Male ACT
Dr Geoff Garrett Male ACT
Dr Steve Hatfield Dodds Male ACT
Professor Warwick james McKibbin Male ACT
Professor Patrick Nicol Troy, AO Male ACT
Dr Karen Elizabeth Hussey Female
Dr Chloe Munro Female
Dr Bev Ronalds Female WA
2 responses so far ↓
1 Dee // Apr 9, 2008 at 3:35 pm
what I would like to know is WHEN is anyone going to admit that the ever increasing population is unsustainable given our already dwindling resources? When is someone going to stop paying families to have more kids and actually restrict families to one or two children maxium? We already have a major water supply issue, food is ever more expensive each year, available housing is a major problem and people are buying more, using more and creating more waste which is to go where??
Why can’t someone finally admit that we all need to slow down, cut back and reserve all our resources and live more simply because our planet in every way cannot support the ever increasing population?
No-one WILL say it because they’re too afraid of the truth of the situation world wide. Denial is a wonderful thing until the sh..t hits the fan.
2 Michael Lardelli // Apr 13, 2008 at 11:20 pm
There is one idea that seems to be completely and intentionally excluded from Rudd’s 2020 summit – the near certainty that the amount of oil available to buy on the world export market will be much lower in 2020 than today and that this will have severe consequences for Australia’s society and economy.
Last week Martin Ferguson, the federal Resources and Energy minister, told the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association conference in Perth, “With only about a decade of known oil resources remaining at today’s production rates, Australia is looking down the barrel of a $25bn trade deficit in petroleum products by 2015″.
One would think that this would be a hot topic at the summit, but there is not a hint of it in the discussion papers that will frame the debates. There are only a couple of people on the delegate list with any known background in the area of future oil availability and the 10 people who applied to attend from Australia’s foremost “peak oil” organisation, ASPO-Aus, were all turned down. It is clear that the Rudd government is very concerned about future oil supplies for Australia but all discussion at the summit will be based on the false assumption of ready future availability. What hypocrisy!
See this website for more details:
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=7213
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