hell yes !Do you think the 2020 summit was successful?
1. The Productivity Agenda – education, skills, training, science and innovation
2. The Future of the Australian Economy
3. Population, sustainability, climate change and water
4. Future directions for rural industries and rural communities
5. A long-term national health strategy – including the challenges of preventative health, workforce planning and the ageing population
6. Strengthening communities, supporting families and social inclusion
7. Options for the future of indigenous Australia
8. Towards a creative Australia: the future of the arts, film and design
9. The future of Australian governance: renewed democracy, a more open government (including the role of the media), the structure of the Federation and the rights and responsibilities of citizens
10. Australia’s future security and prosperity in a rapidly changing region and world.
Agreed, looks like a good list, now how do we contribute to these areas of discussion so that the passion does not lose momentum? If this now goes to a committee the topics will surely be dominated by those with vested intersts, agendas, extreme views and will be politics all over.
Apologies for being ill informed as to the procees here.
Also how did they choose the 'brightest and best" to attend the summit? For example how many disabled people were represented as a percentage of the 1000 attendees? compared to the community? and were women under represented as previously reported.
hey doogie - if you'd been on your toes, and if you'd told em that last week , they could have deleted a couple of those groups as duplications/irrelevant/superfluous, and 200 of the thousand could have stayed home for the weekend.Actually, looking twice the list is poorly cross referenced, surely prosperity in 10 is the same as in 2. The geography of population as should be discussed as part of 2 makes the rural one seem redundant, especially if you are already talking about skills and productivity.
The lighter side of 2020
Doug Conway | April 20, 2008 - 6:28AM
Few would have guessed the first major recommendation of the 2020 summit - that Sydney AFL star Barry Hall should have been suspended for only six weeks instead of seven.
That, at least, was the humorous spin from actor Rhys Muldoon when he hosted an end-of-day-one plenary session which showed delegates had a lighter side.
As they filed into parliament's Great Hall somewhat tardily, Muldoon informed those present he would be talking to members of the summit's productivity stream - "when they get back from lunch".
He then said he had long harboured an ambition to host a show called "Plenary Session Two".
Fellow actor Hugh Jackman piped up from the floor: "Plenary Session Two sounds like a good title. I'm a big believer in sequels."
Jackman also asked delegates what they thought happened to an 80,000-year-old ice core displayed by Governor-General Michael Jeffery in his opening address this morning.
Holding up a glass of water, he said: "It went back into the creative stream. This ice core is eight minutes old."
Other summiteers joined in the spirit.
Health delegate Peter Brookes, addressing the need to fund disease prevention, said: "In 2020 I'm going to be 75, and I'll need the health system. I also looked at my superannuation last week, and I'm still going to be working in the health system."
One creative delegate, asked what she expected from the summit, replied: "I thought we would get a hot meal for lunch."
Referring to the absence from the evening plenary session of actor Cate Blanchett, who gave birth to her third child last week, Muldoon said: "Cate's back at home having three or four more children as we speak."
Nation's brightest brain-storm at 2020
April 19, 2008
Aborigines with didgeridoos and wearing loin cloths opened a summit of Australia's brightest minds today, with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd urging fresh ideas to solve indigenous inequality and ease climate change.
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Other issues include how to cope with droughts, how to spend billions of dollars from the country's China-driven resource export boom and how to keep economic growth rolling at near 3.9 per cent a year.
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Power participants included the chief executive of mining giant BHP Billiton, Marius Kloppers and Australia's richest man and Fortescue Metals mining head Andrew Forrest.
Aboriginal Ngambri tribe elder Matilda House-Williams, wearing a cape of possum fur, opened the summit with a challenge to improve the lives of indigenous people, who often live in remote settlements with poor access to health and education.
From ABC, 21 Apr. 08
2020 SUMMIT 'A PR STUNT'
The Australian Institute of Public Affairs (AIPA) says the weekend's 2020 summit was just a public relations stunt by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
The conservative think-tank's executive director John Roskam told ABC radio's The World Today program that the summit was a blatantly political exercise.
He said contributors had been handpicked to provide Labor with a "false mandate" for policies involving more government spending and regulation.
Mr Roskam said Federal Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson was a lone cynical voice among the contributors.
"I don't think that anyone can claim that the Rudd Government has got a mandate from anyone other than its hand-selected friends," he said.
Mr Roskam accused Dr Nelson of falling into a Labor party trap by attending the summit and said it would have been much better for democracy if the Opposition Leader had stayed at home.
Warwick Smith, a former Howard government minister who co-chaired the group looking at ideas to boost productivity, has dismissed criticism of the summit.
Mr Smith says he is confident a wide range of views were canvassed.
"Brendan Nelson was there and Warren Truss was there and other representatives," he said.
"I saw the Leader of the Liberal Party in the ACT was there so I think it's not quite right to say it wasn't broadly diverse.
"Everyone had the opportunity to register, to go and others encouraged to go along and we had broad views from business as well."
What disappoints me with all the hype is that I haven't heard a mention of infrastructure such as national rail, roads, dams, wharves etc. Seems to me there was too much time taken with airy fairy politically correct discussion. I expected them to top the list of projects we need now as well as by the year 2020.
Warwick Smith, a former Howard government minister who co-chaired the group looking at ideas to boost productivity, has dismissed criticism of the summit.
Mr Smith says he is confident a wide range of views were canvassed.
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"Everyone had the opportunity to register, to go and others encouraged to go along and we had broad views from business as well."
depends which sentence you were refering toCouldn’t say that better myself,
As if we didn't know for good part of last century that tax system, health, education, rail – roads, soil erosion, water shortages need fixing.
All any Government needs to do is pull the finger out and do it.
Superfly ,
I'm guessing deep dowm
in your heart of hearts
you wouldn't put your house on the possibility of Brendan becoming PM
in fact , I'm guessing you wouldn't even put $5 on it
hey - Turnbull - now that's another matter !
(depends if you 're a republican lol)
maybe you'll be able to claim that you're good friends with the publican and is that near enough ?
Who wants a ban on plastic bags anyway. What will you do without them. I can't get enough. They are recycled in the garden, in the kitchen and in my workshop. They hold vegies in the fridge, line bins, protect new plants, kill fruit fly in fallen fruit, protect my fishing gear and lots of other uses.Rudd can not even get a national ban on plastic shopping bags, with all Labour states...
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