Program
The 2018 National Landcare Conference offers three days of knowledge sharing, insightful discussion, as well as informative presentations by pioneers, leaders of NRM bodies, scientists, academics, government, and environmental, climate and biodiversity experts.
With the theme ‘Landcare – Building a Better Tomorrow’, the four streams that will be covered include;
- Sustainable Agriculture – Innovation and Conservation in a Changing Landscape
- Community in Action – Grassroots with a Purpose
- Partnerships – Collaboration for Successful Outcomes
- Environment – Improving and Protecting our Natural Assets
The conference program is now available and will continue being updated over the coming weeks.
We look forward to welcoming you to Brisbane in October.
Call for abstract submissions
Share your story at the 2018 National Landcare Conference
If you have a story that showcases the Landcare approach to natural resource management or sustainable agriculture, we invite you to submit an abstract. With the theme ‘Landcare – Building a Better Tomorrow’, we are seeking presentations that fit the following stream topics:
- Sustainable Agriculture – Innovation and Conservation in a Changing Landscape
- Community in Action – Grassroots with a Purpose
- Partnerships – Collaboration for Successful Outcomes
- Environment – Improving and Protecting our Natural Assets
Whether you’re a farmer, volunteer, Landcare group, natural resource management organisation, primary industry representative, environmentalist and conservationist, academic, or researcher, we encourage all Landcarers who have something valuable to share to submit an abstract today.
Poster Presentations We are also offering conference participants the opportunity to contribute to our poster exhibit which illustrates outcomes and lessons learned from Landcare or national resource management projects. If you have a poster which you would like to display at the conference, we also invite you to submit an abstract. You can view poster guidelines here.
By contributing to the conference, whether it be a presentation or poster exhibit, you’ll be helping to create an engaging program for all involved, while helping build a better tomorrow.
Submissions close Sunday, 8 July 2018.
For more information contact abstracts@landcareaustralia.com.au
Session Streams
Sustainable Agriculture – Innovation and Conservation in a Changing Landscape
Farmers manage over half of the Australian landscape, and, in order to ensure a better tomorrow, innovation and conservation are critical for managing land and water assets.
This stream will focus on how agriculture is adapting to an ever increasing range of challenges, including climate change, and, how Landcare is developing and implementing innovative farming practices to sustainably manage our productive natural assets.
Environment – Improving and Protecting our Natural Assets
Australia’s natural resources are unique, irreplaceable and finite. As stewards of the Australian landscape we are obligated to develop innovative and diverse approaches to protect our natural assets for a better tomorrow. This stream will demonstrate how various Indigenous, Bushcare, Coastcare and other Landcare community groups are contributing to successfully meet these challenges.
Community in Action – Grassroots with a Purpose
Community participation is at the heart of Landcare.
This stream will showcase the achievements of individual Landcare community groups and projects that demonstrate the value delivered from investing in communities.
Partnerships – Collaboration for Successful Outcomes
The significant local knowledge, experience and commitment within the grassroots Landcare movement is a proven valuable resource.
This stream will focus on successful partnerships that leverage collaboration and investment for greater impact.
2018 National Landcare Conference and Awards Program
Wednesday 10 October
Field Trips to various locations
Welcome Reception 6.30pm – 8.00pm
Thursday 11 October
First day of Conference (plenary and streams)
Junior Landcare Excursions
National Landcare Awards Gala Dinner 7.00pm – 11.30pm
Friday 12 October
Second day of Conference (plenary and streams)
THURSDAY 11 OCTOBER 2018
8:00 am
Registration Opens
9:00am – 9:10am
MC Welcome
9.15am – 9.25am
Official Welcome
9.25am – 10.15am
Opening Plenary
9.55am – 10.30 am
Plenary 2
10.15 am – 10.45 am
MORNING TEA
10.45am – 11.50am
Sustainable Agriculture Innovation and Conservation in a Changing Landscape
10.45am – 11.05am
Farming smarter not harder -Challenges and opportunities for natural resource management in Australia.
ABARES Executive Director Steve Hatfield-Dodds
11.10am – 11.30am
Feeding Hungry Soils” – Soil health, cover crops and green manures for small farms in sub-tropical Australia
Stephen Burgess, Wurraglen Nature Refuge in Dagun, Queensland
11.35am – 12.00pm
The Environmental Stewardship Program – has it influenced practice change?
Emma Norman, Department of the Environment & Energy
Community in Action Grassroots with a Purpose
10.45am – 11.05am
‘Keeping it in Kin Kin’– A Community’s drive to undertake science based restoration practice
Rachel Lyons, Noosa & District Landcare Group
11.10am – 11.30am
Quantifying the economic value and the return on investment that supported Landcare Networks provide to NSW
Sonia Williams, Landcare NSW
11.35am – 12.00pm
Wiyn–Murrup Yangarramela – Fire Spirit Comes back: A joint fire project
Angela Jeffery BEnvSc, Glenelg Hopkins CMA
Partnerships Collaboration for Successful Outcomes
10.45am – 11.05am
TBC
11.10am – 11.30am
Collaborations in Cattle Country – Innovation for controlling Parkinsonia and maintaining biodiversity
Stephani Grove, Barkly Landcare and Conservation Association
11.35am – 12.00pm
The Wet Tropics Major Integrated Project
Monica Haynes, Terrain Natural Resource Management
Environment Improving and Protecting our Natural Assets
10.45am – 11.05am
The Atlas of Living Australia – A national platform for biodiversity knowledge
Peter Brenton, CSIRO, Atlas of Living Australia
11.10am – 11.30am
Creating the River Murray Dark Sky Reserve – what does the night sky have to do with Landcare?
Chris Tugwell, Mid Murray Landcare SA
11.35am – 12.00pm
Quandamooka Presentation
12.00pm – 12.30pm
Austcover Young Landcare Leader Award Presentations
Australian Government Partnerships for Landcare Award Presentations
Coastcare Award Presentations
Fairfax Media Landcare Community Group Award Presentations
12.30pm – 1.30pm
LUNCH
1.30pm – 2.40pm
Sustainable Agriculture Innovation and Conservation in a Changing Landscape
1.30 pm – 2.40 pm
Carbon in Agriculture panel
Community in Action Grassroots with a Purpose
1.30 pm – 1.50 pm
A MOVEMENT OF YOUTH – ENABLING THE NEXT GENERATION OF LANDCARERS
Martha Gouniai, Western Landcare NSW
1.55pm – 2.15pm
A critical approach to the Intrepid phenomenon of Landcare: implications with youth engagement
Naomi Edwards, Intrepid Landcare
2.20pm – 2.40pm
From all walks of life
Mathew Townsend, Nature Freedom
Partnerships Collaboration for Successful Outcomes
1.30 pm – 1.50 pm
Partnering to overcome the effects of isolation in the nations backyard
Kate Forrest, Rangeland NRM Alliance
1.55pm – 2.15pm
Corporate partnerships: What are the trends in CSR and how can Landcare benefit?
James Link, Landcare Australia
2.20pm – 2.40pm
Farm Biosecurity Project – a partnership between Animal Health Australia and Plant Health Australia
Ryan Diesel, Animal Health Australia
Environment Improving and Protecting our Natural Assets
1.30pm – 2.15pm
Panel session: Landcare responses to supporting recovery after the drought
2.20pm – 2.40pm
Working on Water in Whian Whian: Collaboration, innovation and how constructed wetlands could improve Macadamia orchard health.
Hannah Rice-Hayes, Richmond Landcare Inc
2.40pm – 3.10pm
Australian Government Innovation in Agriculture Land Management Award Presentations
Rio Tinto Indigenous Land Management Award Presentations
Australian Government Excellence in Sustainable Farm Practices Award Presentations
Australian Government Individual Landcarer Award Presentations
3.15pm – 3.45pm
AFTERNOON TEA
3.45pm – 4.45pm
Plenary Session: Getting the most out of your Network
4.15pm – 4.45pm
Plenary
4.45pm
Conference Closes
7.00pm – late
2018 National Landcare Awards Gala Dinner – BCEC
FRIDAY 12 OCTOBER 2018
8.30am
Registration Opens
9:00am
Welcome Day 2
9.10am – 9.50am
Plenary session: Aboriginal Agriculture
10.00am – 11.00am
Panel session: Women in Landcare
11.00am – 11.30am
MORNING TEA
11.30am – 12.30pm
Sustainable Agriculture Innovation and Conservation in a Changing Landscape
11.30am – 11.50am
TBC
11.50am – 12.10am
TBC
12.10pm – 12.30pm
A Productive Groundswell in South Australia
Eliza Reiger, Natural Resources SA Murray-Darling Basin
Community in Action Grassroots with a Purpose
11.30am – 11.50am
Supporting generational change in the Woady Yaloak Catchment
Cam Nicholson, Woady Yaloak
11.50am – 12.10am
Supported and Connected Communities Deliver Great Outcomes
Jennie Coldham, Landcare NSW
12.10pm – 12.30pm
Barren lands to Urban oasis
David Sparks, Westgate Biodiversity: Bili Nursery and Landcare
Partnerships Collaboration for Successful Outcomes
11.30am – 11.50am
The journey from revegetation to restoration in Gondwana Link
Keith Bradby
11.50am – 12.10pm
Strengthening biodiversity: Examining volunteer engagement in local government community nurseries
Paul Marshall, Triple B
12.10pm – 12.30pm
Revegatting Mayi Budan – Working with Aboriginal ranger groups to restore endangered monsoon vine thickets (Mayi Budan) of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley.
Kylie Weatherall, Environs Kimberley
Environment Improving and Protecting our Natural Assets
Morning presentations TBC
12.30pm – 1.30pm
LUNCH
1.30pm – 2.30pm
Sustainable Agriculture Innovation and Conservation in a Changing Landscape
1.30pm – 1.50pm
Farming acid soil champions ‘next steps’ methodology
Mary Crawford, Eyre Peninsula Natural Resources Board
1.50pm – 2.10pm
New technology links cattle production with sustainable grazing land management.
Sally Leigo, CRC for Developing Northern Australia
2.10pm – 2.30pm
Conventional farming can do great things for the environment
Fiona Conroy & Cam Nicholson
Community in Action Grassroots with a Purpose
1.30pm – 1.50pm
Landcare Voices: an Oral History
Susan Campbell OAM
Pam Robinson OAM
1.50pm – 2.10pm
How do you get a Community to Care!
Luise Manning, Springfield Lakes Nature Care INC
2.10pm – 2.30pm
TBC
Partnerships Collaboration for Successful Outcomes
1.30pm – 1.50pm
Supporting Landcare – The Victorian Local Landcare Facilitator Initiative – the results are in!
Dr Kaye Rodden, Landcare Victoria Inc
1.50pm – 2.10pm
Seqwater source protection partnership program (SPPP)
Sean Kadel, Seqwater
2.10pm – 2.30pm
TBC
Environment Improving and Protecting our Natural Assets
1.30pm – 1.50pm
Investigating the Potential of International Landcare
Dr Mary Johnson, RMIT University
1.50pm – 2.30pm
Panel: Expanding Landcare Overseas – Our Responsibility
Rob Youl, ALI
2.30pm – 2.45pm
AFTERNOON TEA
2.45pm – 3.15pm
Closing Plenary
3.15pm
Conference Close