Presentations
The 2021 National Landcare Conference program
7.00am – 5.00pm | FIELD TRIPS | |||||||
8.00am | Registration Opens for National Landcare Youth Conference | |||||||
9.00am | National Landcare Youth Conference commences | |||||||
3.00pm | Registration Opens for 2021 National Landcare Conference | |||||||
4.00pm | National Landcare Youth Conference concludes | |||||||
6.00pm – 7.30pm | Welcome Reception sponsored by Weedtechnics | |||||||
DAY 1 CONCLUDES |
7.30 am | Registration Opens for National Landcare Conference | ||||
8.30am | DAY TWO COMMENCES | ||||
8.30am – 8:45am (15mins) | MC Welcome: Costa Georgiadis with Welcome to Country | ||||
8.45am – 8:50am (5mins) | Doug Humann AM, Landcare Australia Chair to Welcome Guest Speaker | ||||
8.50am – 9.10am (20mins) | Conference Opened by Guest Speaker | ||||
9.15am – 10.00am (45mins) | Keynote Speaker | ||||
10.00am – 10.30am (30mins) | MORNING TEA | ||||
10.30am – 11.30am (60mins) | Bushfire & Resilience Recovery Panel | ||||
11.30am – 11.40am (10mins) | CHANGE OVER FOR NEXT SESSION | ||||
Sustainable Agriculture Stream | Environment & Climate Change | Community Partnerships in Action Sponsored by Saving Our Species | Landcare Impact | ||
11.40am – 12.05pm (25mins) | Overcoming the tyranny of distance and time: Phantoms in the Rangelands – Roxane Blackley, Desert Channels Queensland | Regional Horizons: Farming communities leading the recovery – Peter Holding, Farmers for Climate Action | From Litle Things Big things Grow, Habitat Recovery Alliance, Kim Thompson Upper River Torrens Landcare Group | Jallukar Native Grasslands In Action – Angela Turrell, Jallukar Landcare Group | |
12.05pm – 12.10pm (5mins) | CHANGE OVER FOR NEXT SESSION | ||||
12.10pm – 12.35pm (25mins) | What is Multi Species cover cropping? – Michael Godden, Local Land Services | Bangalow Koalas Community Wildlife Corridor: protecting the Northern Rivers Koalas, Linda Sparrow Bangalow Koalas Inc | Project Hindmarsh: a 22 year journey reconnecting the Little Desert and Big Desert regions in Victoria’s wild west – Jonathan Starks, Hindmarsh Landcare Group | Volunteers: their significant contribution to the management of Perth’s environmental values – Ingrid Sieler, Perth NRM | |
12.35pm – 1.35pm (60mins) | LUNCH | ||||
Sustainable Agriculture Stream | Environment & Climate Change | Community Partnerships in Action – Sponsored by Saving Our Species | Landcare Impact | ||
1.35pm – 2.00pm (25mins) | Cotton Landcare Tech Innovations 2021 – Stacey Vogel, CottonInfo | Greening the Hill, so as to bring about community-wide behavioural change – Simon Richard Molesworth AO QC, Landcare Broken Hill | Why the way we are engaging youth just isn’t working anymore – Saskia Gerhardy, YACCA | The potential of International Landcare – Mary Johnson, RMIT and Clinton Muller | |
2.00pm – 2.05pm (5mins) | CHANGE OVER FOR NEXT SESSION | ||||
2.05pm – 2.30pm (25mins) | Grazing Systems: 30 years of change in Australia – Terry McCosker, Resource Consulting Services | Biological control of environmental weeds: a long-term investment to protect and manage natural assets – Louise Moran, CSIRO Health & Biosecurity | Making seagrass sexy. How a world-first partnership between landcare and the commercial fishing industry is restoring Corner Inlet’s seagrass meadows – Scott Elliot, Yarram Yarram Landcare Network | Wild wellbeing: personal and community resilience in a disrupted world Megan Rowlatt, Intrepid Landcare | |
2.30pm – 2.35pm (5mins) | CHANGE OVER FOR NEXT SESSION | ||||
2.35pm – 3.00pm (25mins) | Restoring degraded saline land through the development of a saline bush foods: paddock-to-plate supply chain – Ella Maesepp, Katanning Landcare | Increasing stakeholder capacity and skills to carry out fire as a restoration tool that will mitigate wildfire intensity, thereby preparing for climate change – Xuela Sledge, Greater Sydney Landcare Network | Taking Care of Our Place – Shelley McArdle, Capricornia Catchments | The profound impact of a garden in the ascent of culture, community and health – Vicki Horstman, Fitzroy Basin Association | |
3.00pm – 3.30pm (30mins) | AFTERNOON TEA | ||||
3.30pm – 4.30pm (60mins) | Wellbeing & Mental Health Panel | ||||
4.30pm – 4.40pm (10mins) | Closing Remarks | ||||
4.45pm | Conference Day One Closes | ||||
6.30pm – 11.00pm | 2021 National Landcare Awards Gala Dinner – ICC |
8.30am | Registration Opens for National Landcare Conference | |||||||
9.00am | DAY TWO COMMENCES | |||||||
9.00am – 9.10am (10mins) | MC Costa Georgiadis Welcome Final Day | |||||||
9.10am – 9.40am (30mins) | Plenary Speaker | |||||||
9.45am – 10.45am (60mins) | Landcare Farming Panel | |||||||
10.45am – 11.15am (30mins) | MORNING TEA | |||||||
Sustainable Agriculture Stream | Environment & Climate Change | Community Partnerships in Action – Sponsored by Saving Our Species | Landcare Impact | |||||
11.15am – 11.40am (25mins) | Care for the land in drought, what the farmers say – Jennifer Laffan, NSW DPI | Healthy environment, healthy landscapes, healthy people: why biosecurity matters to Landcare – Ian Thompson, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment | Empowering rural women to influence decision making both on and off farm – Karen O’Keefe, Corangamite CMA | The Gondwana Connections Art Program: Giant Paintings Mapping Special Country – Basil Schur, Green Skills | ||||
11.40am – 11.45am (5mins) | CHANGE OVER FOR NEXT SESSION | |||||||
11.45am – 12.10pm (25mins) | Farming Forecaster: dynamic data to improve pasture and grazing decisions to avoid over grazing – John Klem, Chair, Farming Forecaster Steering Committee and Deputy Chair, Tablelands Farming Systems | The Landcare Illawarra Woodlands and Rainforest Project – Richard Langley Scarborough, Landcare Illawarra | Connecting and collaborating through a dedicated online community for Landcarers – Trish O’Gorman, Landcare Australia | The NSW Landcare Program: What are the critical elements that continue to enhance its IMPACT beyond local coordinators? Chris McCulloch, Local Land Services and Natasha English, Landcare NSW | ||||
12.10pm – 1.10pm (60mins) | LUNCH | |||||||
Sustainable Agriculture Stream | Environment & Climate Change | Community Partnerships in Action – Sponsored by Saving Our Species | Landcare Impact | |||||
1.10pm – 1.35pm (25mins) | Management of high country native pastures – Caroline Love, Agriculture Victoria | Making business work with biodiversity: leveraging the financial sector to improve conservation outcomes – Natasha Cadenhead, The University of Queensland School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, UQ |
Breaking the barriers between landcare in NSW and our First Nations peoples: Recognition, Value, Collaboration – Craig Aspinal, Landcare NSW | We don’t just grow trees, we grow people – Phillip Moran, Noosa & District Landcare Group | ||||
1.35pm – 1.40pm (5mins) | CHANGE OVER FOR NEXT SESSION | |||||||
1.40pm – 2.05pm (25mins) | On-farm value of biodiversity through sustainable agriculture practices – Danny Pettingill, Loddon Plains Landcare Network | Increasing the salty feet canopy in the Lower Hawkesbury through a multidisciplinary partnership – Ana Rubio, Hornsby Shire Council | Aboriginal Cultural Heritage and Landcare in West Gippsland – Belinda Brennan, West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority | Have we made a difference? Landcare and landscape change in the Holbrook region – Kylie Durant, Holbrok Landcare Group | ||||
2.05pm – 2.10pm (5mins) | CHANGE OVER FOR NEXT SESSION | |||||||
2.10pm – 2.35pm (25mins) | Integrating timber production with Landcare practices for conservation and profit – Rowan Reid, Bambra Agroforestry Farm | Seeds: getting back to landcare roots – Dr Lucy Commander, Australian Network for Plant Conservation | Roving Restorers: a win-win for nature, landholders and community – Susi Duncan, Hinterland Bushlink | Landcare Impact: the Gully an Aboriginal Place a story of community resilience and wellbeing – David King, Gully Traditional Owners | ||||
2.35pm – 3.0pm (30mins) | AFTERNOON TEA | |||||||
3.00pm – 4.00pm (60 minutes) | Cultural Land Management Panel | |||||||
4.00pm – 4.10pm (10mins) | Closing Remarks | |||||||
4.10pm (5mins) | MC Closes Conference | |||||||
4.15pm | CONFERENCE CONCLUDES |