2020 Summit Objectives

[2020hindsight]

things you'd like to see come out of this weekend's conference?
http://www.theage.com.au/news/natio...y-top-of-agenda/2008/04/17/1208025382147.html

heath experts want obesity to top the agenda

http://sl.farmonline.com.au/news/na...ummit-whats-on-agricultures-agenda/85112.aspx

Rising world food prices, climate change, water shortages and rural population growth will top the agenda for agriculture at this weekend's 2020 Summit in Canberra.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23558982-5005961,00.html

INDIGENOUS leaders at the Australia 2020 Summit will lobby for new peak Aboriginal organisation to replace the abolished Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission

Water buyback Scheme
GM genetically modified crops

Classes where kids can give the teachers some Sex Education, etc

and I'd like to think we'd wake up Monday a Republic at least

gun laws, bushies vs city
gay rights vs the church
pro-choice vs pro-life etc etc.
(Some things they couldn't sort out in a week if they just stuck to that one topic!)

 

[2020hindsight]

PS I'm guessing the oldies will want to raise the voting age (and the drinking age, and probably the consenting sex age, and the driving age)

And of course the younsters will want to lower them.

:topic Gotta feeling that in US and possibly here you can or could get a pilot's licence at 16 years, but had to wait till 17 for driver's licence?

 

[metric]

looks to me like more taxes, more laws, and more gov control.

 

[Julia]

looks to me like more taxes, more laws, and more gov control.

Yep, just gotta love the nanny state.

 

[Happy]

Hope some disscussion will be saved for energy, agriculture and infrastructure.

 

[Gspot]

Change our governmental system for the 21st century, rather than keep the same from the 19th century. Then we can save billions of $$ anually to spend on the important issues like water, enviroment.

 

[2020hindsight]

Change our governmental system for the 21st century, rather than keep the same from the 19th century. Then we can save billions of $$ anually to spend on the important issues like water, enviroment.

gspot, delete state govts y reckon?

 

[2020hindsight]

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2008/s2221358.htm

'Best and brightest' get ready for summit
PM - Friday, 18 April , 2008 18:10:00
Reporter: Sabra Lane
MARK COLVIN: Participants in the 2020 ideas summit have started arriving in Canberra for the opening of the big talk-a-thon tomorrow morning.

People have sent in more than 8,000 submissions for consideration. Some of them have been made public already.

a four-day working week,

the capping of executive salaries

a federal charter of rights

an independent entitlements commission - an independent body modelled along the same lines as the Reserve Bank to set pensions and unemployment benefits.

more public policy to encourage bike riding with the twin objectives of decreasing carbon emissions and tackling obesity....

etc

 

[Pronto]

Where $ capital flows, people will follow. Meaningful tax breaks for major businesses moving into country towns would stem the continuing stream of (especially young) people into capital cities.

 

[Superfly]

looks to me like more taxes, more laws, and more gov control.

yep.. that what one gets when they vote in a socialist government...

 

[njc.corp]

looks to me like more taxes, more laws, and more gov control.

thats always the case-more everything for the government-

Nick--

 

[2020hindsight]

couple of things
a) the people attending are doing it for free.
b) it's a clever ploy surely ..
how the heck can the opposition come up with an idea in the near future that hasn't been canvassed or discussed - and hence can't be accused of being a plagiarism and/or (rightly or wrongly) traced back to this summit.
c) ps who knows - maybe something extremely worthwhile will come out of this.
the 1000 are, after all, our best and brightest minds (allegedly anyways)

This from John Hartigan , CEO News Ltd

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/19/2221542.htm?section=justin
2020 summit will 'change the country'
Posted 5 hours 46 minutes ago
Updated 5 hours 33 minutes ago
News Limited chief executive officer John Hartigan says ideas generated at this weekend's 2020 summit will change the country.

Mr Hartigan is leading the session on Australia's governance and he told ABC 1's Lateline that those present at the summit will be keen to have their ideas heard.

"A lot of these issues have been kicked around for a long time but they haven't been enacted," he said.

"I think today we'll see just how mobilised Australians are towards giving them that extra push, and therefore the Government being in a position to reflect that."

The summit, which will be attended by 1,000 chosen delegates, officially begins this morning in the Federal Parliament's Great Hall.

The participants will meet in one big group in the morning, before breaking into smaller clusters to discuss their areas of expertise.

Each group will try to generate one big idea, three policy ideas and three goals for the next 12 years.

Participants have two days to come up with something that will catch the eye of a Government that says it is keen to transform ideas into policy.

http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/sunday/feature_stories/article_2358.asp?s=1

 

[2020hindsight]

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23564311-5016657,00.html

ACTOR Cate Blanchett took an extra participant along to the Australia 2020 summit today - her newborn son.

Blanchett told the 1002 delegates taking part in the creative stream of the summit she expected six-day-old Ignatius Martin Upton to benefit from the ideas coming out of it.

Ignatius Martin? - wouldn't you think she'd call him "Ignatius Summit" at least?

"He will be starting high school by 2020," Ms Blanchett said. "He is a lucky bugger - I hope."
Ms Blanchett is co-chair of the weekend meeting of actors, artists, academics, and representatives of the cultural sector.

Opening the meeting, and occasionally interrupted by a vocal Ignatius, Ms Blanchett admitted bed had been a tempting option this weekend.

"It is a measure of my belief in the weekend that I am here at all, as you could imagine I would rather be in bed," she said.

"I believe really strongly in a long and meaningful relationship between arts and government.

"The opportunity that this weekend represents is great."

Actor Hugh Jackman praised Ms Blanchett on his way in to the talks.

"Introduce next speaker - feed Ignatius
Introduce next speaker - feed ..." etc

PS Could have been worse I guess - Ignatius might have been 6 or 7 days late lol.
Still as long as the contractions happened between speakers - and she didn't start hootin and hollerin - it wouldn't have been so bad I guess

 

[Smurf1976]

gspot, delete state govts y reckon?

Local govt is the one that makes most of the stuff ups, imposes ridiculous regulations for the sake of it and bends over backwards for anyone with a fist full of $.

As for other things, how about an end to nonsense reporting in the media. It seems that every major issue is at best messeed up if not outright hijacked up by the media. Hence Joe Public ends up without a clue and the media has an incredible degree of influence on national policy as a result.

So start making policy based on fact and proper research, not whatever agenda the media is pushing this week.

 

[2020hindsight]

So start making policy based on fact and proper research, not whatever agenda the media is pushing this week.

speaking of global warming ( lol)
I note that David Karoly (IPCC) is proposing a tidal flow generator at the mouth of Sydney Harbour
... I'm all ears
(PS I admire the man)

 

[Julia]

As for other things, how about an end to nonsense reporting in the media.
So start making policy based on fact and proper research, not whatever agenda the media is pushing this week.

Yes, well. Just don't hold your breath, Smurf.

 

[2020hindsight]

gee but we're positive thinkers round here aren't we

 

[Happy]

From ABC, 20 Apr. 08

Julia Gillard says 2020 summit will spark renewed debate about the republic issue.

I think we have more pressing issues than spending millions of dollars to rearrange deck chairs.

Somebody said it will be Talk-Fest and sure it is.

 

[2020hindsight]

1. I think we have more pressing issues than spending millions of dollars to rearrange deck chairs.

2. Somebody said it will be Talk-Fest and sure it is.

1. shouldn't cost much for a referendum on the republic (although they say they might do it as a two phase thing - firstly gauge the interest in republic, then the details.)

ps just tack it onto some of the upcoming byelections. - might save 10% or so

2. and happy, as to whether or not it's just a talkfest - let's wait until they publish the suggestions shall we? - or do you already know what they are?

 

[Superfly]

I think we have more pressing issues than spending millions of dollars to rearrange deck chairs.

Somebody said it will be Talk-Fest and sure it is.

They are not even changing the deck chairs, they are talking about the idea of changing the deck chairs, nothing more than ideas and a place for Rudd / Gillard to showboat....