LL:DDV: AFS Education Conference
FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES: EDUCATION AND INCLUSION. A national conference for people who have at heart the well-being of education and the future of Australia's children, organised by the Australian Fabian Society. WHEN: Friday and Saturday, 30 and 31 March. WHERE: Cato Conference Centre, 489 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne. COST: Standard: $70. AFS Members $60. Concession $50. CONFERENCE DINNER. Tom Bentley on "Education and Inclusion: The Blair Government Experience". Venue: Cato Conference Centre. Cost: Standard $35, AFS Members $30, Concession $27.50. BYOG. WHO'S WHO ON THE SPEAKERS LIST * Jill Anwyl is the Manager of Education and Youth Policy, Major Projects, Victorian Department of Education, Employment and Training. * Clarice Ballenden is the Executive Director of the Admin Training Company an independent not for profit organisation specialising in learning and assessment in the workplace. * Tom Bentley is the Director of the influential Demos think-tank in London, and has advised the Blair government on education policy. * Mary Bluett is the secretary of the Australian Education Union. * Brian Caldwell is a Professor of Education at Melbourne University and advised on the Victorian "Schools of the Future" program. * Kim Carr is a Labor Senator for Victoria who has specialised in education policy. * Tony Coady is a Professor of Philosophy at Melbourne University, and edited the much discussed "Why Universities Matter: A Conversation about Values, Means and Directions". * Mark Considine is an Associate Professor of Political Science, at Melbourne University, and co-author ( with Professor Simon Marginson) of "The Enterprise University", which has just received a major US award as the best book of last year in its category. * Mary Delahunty is the Victorian Minister for Education. * Paul James is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at Monash University and a co-founder of the Association for the Public University. * Tony Keenan is the president of the Independent Teachers' Union. * Lynne Kosky is the Victorian Minister for Finance and Minister for Post-Compulsory Education, Training and Employment. * Alison McClelland is an Associate Professor of Social Work and Social Policy at Latrobe University, and former Director of Social Action and Research at the Brotherhood of St Laurence. * Ann Morrow is a doctoral student in the Centre for Public Policy at Melbourne University, Convenor of Australian Schools Lobby and a former Chair of the (Commonwealth) Schools Council and CEO of the Victorian Ministry of Education. * Frank Oberklaide is a Professor in the Medical School at Melbourne University, and Director of the Centre for Community Child Health at the Royal Children's Hospital. * Gaye Ochiltree is a leading early childhood development researcher, who has written and spoken widely for the Institute of Family Studies. * Helen Praetz is Pro-Vice-Chancellor of RMIT University and has written and spoken widely about post-compulsory education and training. * Dahle Suggett is Director, The Allen Consulting Group. * Richard Teese is an Associate Professor of Education at Melbourne University, and author of the key recent Australian study of educational inequality and exclusion "Academic Success and Social Power: Examinations and Inequality". PROGRAM Day 1 - Friday, 30 March. 8:45 to 9:15 Registration 9:15 to 11:00 Tom Bentley Keynote Address: " For the Rest of Their Lives: Education and Inclusion". 11 to 11:30 Morning Tea 11:30 to 1:00 The Hon Lynne Kosky, MP. "Post-Compulsory Education and Training: An Agenda for Inclusion". 1:00 to 2:00 Lunch 2:00 to 3:15 Professor Helen Praetz "Learning and Re-learning: Education and the Workplace. Panellists: Clarice Ballenden 3:15 to 3:30 Afternoon Tea. 3:30 to 4:45 Associate Professor Mark Considine "Universities and Inclusion: More Than a Meal Ticket?". Panellists: Tony Coady and Paul James. 7:00 Tom Bentley Conference Dinner Speech on "Education and Inclusion: The Blair Government Experience". Day 2 - Saturday, 31 March. 8:45 to 9:15 Registration. 9:15 to 9:30 The Hon. Mary Delahunty, MP. Welcome. 9:30 to 10:45 Dr Gaye Ochiltree "The Right Start: Inclusion and the Early Childhood Development Experience" Panel: Associate Professor Alison McClelland and Professor Frank Oberklaide. 10:45 to 11:15 Morning Tea. 11:15 to 12:30 Associate Professor Richard Teese "Breaking Down the Barriers: Schools and Inclusion" Panel: Ann Morrow and Mary Bluett. 12:30 to 1:30 Lunch 1:30 to 2:45 Professor Brian Caldwell "Inclusion and Diversity: New Models for Inclusion" Respondent: Jill Anwyl and Dahle Suggett 2:45 to 3:00 Afternoon Tea. 3:00 to 4:15 Senator Kim Carr "Missing Out: The Politics of Exclusion and Inequality" Respondent: Tony Keenan 4:15 Closing Remarks. REGISTRATION FORM Four Easy Woys to Book: 1. Print out the registration form and fax it to to (03) 9826 0104. 2. Mail the form to: The Australian Fabian Society, GPO Box 2707X,
LL:DDV: Wednesday Night at the New International Bookshop
I'm copying hereunder - and also attaching in rtf to preserve the formatting - the program for the first three months of a new "Wednesday Night at the New International Bookshop" series of weekly political and public policy events which may be of interest to you, and which you may wish to draw to the attention of your friends, workmates and other associates. Best wishes, Race Mathews. "WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE NEW INTERNATIONAL BOOKSHOP" A New Joint Venture by the Australian Fabian Society (Victorian Branch), the New International Bookshop, Arena and Overland Magazines and the Labour History Society. For a six month trial period from 31 January, 2001, there will be forums and other events on key political and public policy issues every Wednesday at the New International Bookshop. The aim of the program is to raise political consciousness, promote informed discussion and provide a meeting place for getting to know one another and exchanging views. Wednesday, 31 January: AFS Event: ALP Federal Shadow Minister for Industrial Affairs Arch Bevis will speak on "The Future of Enterprise Bargaining". and join Melbourne Trades Hall Council Secretary Leigh Hubbard and Australian Workers' Union (Vic) secretary Bill Shorten for a panel discussion and questions. Wednesday, 7 February: NIB Event: Warren Fahey (musician, folklorist and professional larrikin) leads a celebration of protest songs, convict ballads and scurrilous verses collected in his new book Ratbags Rabblerousers. Join us for a musical trip through Australian history, from 'The Balls of Bob Menzies'. to "Joh's Were The Days". Special guests to be announced. Wednesday, 14 February: AFS Event: - For the People: Reclaiming Our Government. Co-editors of the long-running Fabian Society "Labor Essays" series, Dennis Glover and Glenn Patmore, join MP contributors Craig Emmerson and Lindsay Tanner for a panel discussion of Labor Essays 2001 and a launch by Victorian Treasurer and Minister for State and Regional Development, John Brumby. Wednesday, 21 February: AFS Event: "Dancing with Wolves: The Untenable Tenets of the Third Way". Political scientist Hugh Emy and Labor MP Mark Latham debate issues about the Third Way raised by Hugh in a notable December 2000 address to the Tasmanian Branch of the AFS. Wednesday, 28 February: Arena Event: "Beyond Blue - the Depression Epidemic and Contemporary Life". Guy Rundle - journalist, social commentator, Arena Magazine editor and script writer for Max Gillies - discusses : Is there a depression 'epidemic'? What does it tell us about contemporary society if there is? Will the cure turn out to be worse than the disease? Wednesday, 7 March: NIB Event: Australia in Accord? Professor Ken Wilson - director of the Workplace Studies Unit at Victoria University - introduces his new book on the Prices and Incomes Accord of the Hawke/Keating years and joins a panel for discussion and questions Wednesday, 14 March. Labour History Society Event: Crusade or Conspiracy? Bruce Duncan talks about his new book on the 1954/55 Labor Party split and joins fellow authors Paul Ormonde (The Movement, 1972) and Bob Murray (The Split, 1970) for a panel discussion and questions about B.A. Santamaria and his legacy today Wednesday, 21 March. Overland Event: "The Australian Labor Party: 'Temper Democratic, Bias Australian'" Melbourne University's Professor Stuart Macintyre delivers the first of a series of four major public lectures organised by the editors of Overland. Wednesday, 28 March. Arena event: "Third Way - Turnoff Ahead?: An Alternative Politics of Community". Arena Assistant editor and AFS Research Committee member Chris Scanlon takes up the Third Way theme from Hugh Emy and Mark Latham. 4, 11, 18 25 April: Venue required by the Melbourne Comedy Festival. Program resumes Wednesday 2 May. 6pm for 6:30pm, New International Bookshop Centre, Trades Hall, Victoria Street, Carlton. Admission: Members/Subscribers $5, Others $6, Concession $2. Want to know more about the Australian Fabian Society and receive a sample copy of the society's journal Fabian Newsletter? Write, to Box 2707X, GPO, Melbourne, 3001, fax (03) 9553 0148 or e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Dr Race Mathews, Senior Research Fellow, International Centre for Management in Government, Monash University/MountEliza School of Business and Government. Postal Address: 123 Alexanda Avenue, South Yarra, Vic, 3141, Australia. Phone/Fax: (03) 9826 0104. -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink LL.VA
LL:DDV: AFS Update
I'm copying hereunder flyers for three forthcoming Australian Society functions which may interest you - perhaps you could also draw them to the attention of friends and associates who may want to attend. Best wishes, Race Mathews. The Kennett Years: Scorched Earth or Creative Destruction? A Conference Organised Jointly by the Australian Fabian Society and the Labour History Society Speakers: Stephen Mayne, Race Mathews, Dick Gross, Mary Crooks, Brendan O'Connor, Bill Russell and David Hayward. Time and Venue: 11 am to 5pm, Sunday, 15 October, at the New International Bookshop Meeting Room, Trades Hall, Melbourne. Cost: AFS and Labour History Society Members $15, Non-Members $20, Concession $10. Reservations (Optional but strongly recommended): Cheque or credit card authorisation by post to The Australian Fabian Society. Box 2707X, GPO, Melbourne, 3001, fax (03) 9553 0148 or e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] When you have finished with the leaflet, please pass it on to somebody else who may be interested. Program 11:00 -12:30 The Kennett Years: Myth and Reality Speakers: Stephen Mayne (Former Kennett spin doctor and business journalist who now publishes crikey.com.au.). Race Mathews (Former Victorian MP and Minister, who sat opposite Kennett in parliament for 14 years). 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch Break 1:30 - 3:00 The Kennett Years: Life on the Hit List. Local Government - Speaker: Dick Gross (Councillor and former Mayor, City of Port Phillip) Government Services - Speaker: Mary Crooks (Executive Director Victorian Women's Trust, Director Purple Sage Project and Public Policy Analyst) Industrial Relations Speaker: Brendan O'Connor (Assistant National Secretary Australian Services Union and Member Victorian Government Best Value Taskforce) 3:00 - 3:15 Coffee Break. 3:15 -4:45 The Kennett Years: Public Interest and Public Sector. Public Sector Finance - Speaker: Bill Russell (well known Melbourne academic, ex-bureaucrat and occasional contributor to policy debate) Public Enterprise - Speaker: David Hayward (Executive Director, Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology and occasional Age columnist). Regional Instability: Australia's Foreign Policy Dilemma A Forum Organised by the Australian Fabian Society (Victorian Branch) Speaker: The Honourable Laurie Brereton, MP, Labor Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs. Time and Venue: 6pm for 6:30 sharp and an 8pm close, Wednesday, 18 October, at the New International Bookshop Meeting Room, Trades Hall, Melbourne. Cost: AFS Members $5, Non-Members $6, Students/Pensioners a Gold Coin. Coffee and Refreshments available at the NIB Cafe. Reservations (Optional but strongly recommended): Cheque or credit card authorisation by post to The Australian Fabian Society. Box 2707X, GPO, Melbourne, 3001, fax (03) 9553 0148 or e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] When you have finished with the leaflet, please pass it on to somebody else who may be interested. Book NOW to Avoid Disappointment!! And Why Not Organise a Table of Your Own? Australian Fabian Society Annual Remembrance Day Dinner Guest of Honour: Former ABC CEO Brian Johns. Topic: THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC BROADCASTING Time and Venue: 7pm, Friday, 10 November, at the Alysa Restaurant, 555 Sydney Road, Brunswick Cost: AFS Members $30, Non-Members $35, Students/Pensioners $25. Reservations Essential. When you have finished with the leaflet, please pass it on to somebody else who may be interested. x Reservation Form Australian Fabian Society, Box 2707X, Melbourne, VIc., 2000. Name: .. ... Address: .. . Please reserve me ... member . non-member .. student/pensioner places for the AFS Remembrance Day Dinner at a total cost of $ ... I enclose my cheque/ authorise debit of my .credit card number: ... expiry date: Dr Race Mathews, Senior Research Fellow, International Centre for Management in Government, Monash University/MountEliza School of Business and Government. Postal Address: 123 Alexanda Avenue, South Yarra, Vic, 3141, Australia. Phone/Fax: (03) 9826 0104. -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink LL.VJ
LL:REM: National Unchain My Mind Conference - Final Program
I'm copying hereunder and also including as an attachment the final program for the AFS/Pluto Press "Unchain My Mind" conference, and I will be grateful if this material can be passed on to anybody else who may be interested. Best wishes, Race Mathews About the Unchain My Mind Forum When: Thursday, 27 July, 9:30am to 6.00pm Where: Trades Hall, cnr Victoria and Lygon Streets, Carlton, Melbourne - Council Chamber Cost: Forum: $25 or $15 concession Dinner: $30 or $25 concession. On the eve of the national conference of the Australian Labor Party in Hobart, many of Labor's foremost thinkers and activists are gathering in Melbourne to present new ideas for Labor in power. Specifically, speakers will be discussing new policy agendas for a twenty-first century Federal Labor Government, and vital reforms to party structure to enhance membership, internal democracy and policy-making. A strong emphasis is on a younger generation of Labor men and women keen to promote new ways of achieving social democracy in a time of rapid change. A critical perspective unites the forum speakers. Topics to be discussed include trade, globalisation, workplace democracy, education, managing cultural diversity, the media and the new information economy, indigenous land rights, unions, party structures, unemployment and foreign policy. Expect a rigorous critique of orthodox economic ideas of both the right and the left, and new left-of-centre perspectives on public institutions that may no longer be meeting the objectives for which they were established. Speakers will sketch alternative models of governance which might better achieve traditional social democratic goals. The aim of the Unchain My Mind Forum is to promote critical thinking, open dialogue and audience participation. A must-attend event for anyone interested in political reform, government, social change and Labor's future. Four easy ways to book: 1. Print out the registration form and fax to: (02) 9519 8940 2. Mail the form to: Tony Moore, Pluto Press Australia, Locked Bag 199, Annandale NSW 2038 3. E-mail the form to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4. Telephone Pluto Press Australia on: (02) 9519 3299 Program 9:30 Opening - Mary Delahunty, Minister for Education and Minister for Arts Session 1 9:45 Labor in a Globalising World: The Cultural Context (1) Chair: Barry Jones Speakers: Guy Rundle: 'The Next Cultural Revolution?' Ken Wark: 'Healing the Cultural Divide' Duncan Kerr: 'Building a National Cultural Policy for the 21st Century' 11:00 Morning Tea Session 2 11:15 Reinvigorating Democracy and Civil Society Chair: Barry Jones Speakers: Lindsay Tanner: 'Party Reform' Sharan Burrow: 'Putting People Back into Public Policy' Race Mathews: 'Recovering Our Roots: Mutualism, Mutuals and the ALP' Michael Gadiel: 'Unions in a Wired World' 12:45 Lunch Session 3 1:30 Labor in a Globalising World: The Cultural Context (2) Chair: Joan Kirner Speakers: Larissa Behrendt: 'Loosening the Colonial Chains: Some Issues for Aboriginal Policy Direction' Rebecca Huntley: 'Who is Labor?: Feminism, Fraternity and the Future' Mary Kalantzis: 'Managing Cultural Diversity: Directions for ALP Policy' 2:45 Afternoon Tea Session 4 3:00 New Structures for a New Age Chair: Joan Kirner Speakers: Tony Moore: 'Reinvigorating Public Culture: Reinventing Public Broadcasting' Kate Lundy: 'Click Here to Reset Your Democracy' Glenn Patmore: 'Industrial Democracy for Australia: Towards a New Form of Employee Representation in the Workplace' Paul Mees: 'Public Transport and Urban Planning' Session 5 4.15pm Towards a New Economy Chair: John Button Speakers: Mark Latham: 'Policies for a Knowledge Nation' Julia Gillard: 'Globalisation vs the People' Andrew Scott: 'A Progressive Economic Policy for Labor in Government' 5:45 Closing Remarks: John Button Conference Dinner and Debate Cafe Firenze, 252 Lygon St, Carlton 7pm for 7:30pm Chair: Kate Lundy Topic: 'The Centre is Mine: Tony Blair, New Labour and the Future of Electoral Politics' Speakers: Jim Claven, Dennis Glover and Andrew Scott Please book promptly, as the organisers need to decide which venue at the Trades Hall is required, and how many places are wanted for the dinner. Dr Race Mathews, Senior Research Fellow, International Centre for Management in Government, Monash University/MountEliza School of Business and Government. Postal Address: 123 Alexanda Avenue, South Yarra, Vic, 3141, Australia. Phone/Fax: (03) 9826 0104. -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
Conference Invitation
UNCHAIN MY MIND FORUM New social-democratic ideas for Labor in government A curtain-raiser forum for the ALP Federal Conference, jointly organised by the Australian Fabian Society and Pluto Press Australia. When: Thursday, 27 July, 9:30am to 6.00pm Where: Trades Hall, cnr Victoria and Lygon Streets, Carlton, Melbourne - Council Chambers Cost: $25 or $15 concession Chaired in three sessions by ALP veterans Barry Jones, Joan Kirner (tbc) and John Button. Speakers include Lindsay Tanner, Mark Latham, Rebecca Huntley, Paul Mees, Glenn Patmore, Andrew Scott, Guy Rundle, Sharan Burrows, Kate Lundy, Julia Gillard, Race Mathews, McKenzie Wark and Mary Kalantzis. Dinner and debate to follow the forum About the Unchain My Mind Forum On the eve of the national conference of the Australian Labor Party in Hobart many of Labor's foremost thinkers and activists are gathering in Melbourne to present new ideas for Labor in power. Specifically, speakers will be discussing new policy agendas for a twenty-first century Federal Labor government, and vital reforms to party structure to enhance membership, internal democracy and policy-making. A strong emphasis is on a younger generation of Labor men and women keen to promote new ways of achieving social democracy in a time of rapid change. A critical perspective unites the forum speakers. Topics to be discussed include trade, globalisation, work place democracy, education, managing cultural diversity, the media and the new information economy, indigenous land rights, unions, party structures, unemployment and foreign policy. Expect a rigorous critique of orthodox economic ideas of both the right and the left, and new left-of-centre perspectives on public institutions that may no longer be meeting the objectives for which they were established. Speakers will be encouraged to sketch alternative models of governance which might better achieve traditional social democratic goals. The aim of the Unchain My Mind Forum is to promote critical thinking, open dialogue and audience participation. A must-attend event for anyone interested in political reform, government, social change and Labor's future. All welcome! Book now! Four easy ways to book: 1. Print out the registration form and fax to: (02) 9519 8940 2. Mail the form to: Tony Moore, Pluto Press Australia, Locked Bag 199, Annandale NSW 2038 3. E-mail the form to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4. Telephone Pluto Press Australia on: (02) 9519 3299 Registration form Name: Address: State: Postcode: Tel: E-mail: Please reserve me [box] seats at the Unchain My Mind Forum - please indicate: [box] $25 full price [box] $15 concession Total payment $[box] [box] I have enclosed a cheque made out to Pluto Press Australia [box] Please debit my credit card - circle card: Mastercard Visa Bankcard Amex Card no.: Expiry date: Signature: Dr Race Mathews, Senior Research Fellow, International Centre for Management in Government, Monash University/MountEliza School of Business and Government. Postal Address: 123 Alexanda Avenue, South Yarra, Vic, 3141, Australia. Phone/Fax: (03) 9826 0104. LL.VG -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
