8.45 am
Registration / Viewing of Dr Affie Adagio's artwork
Opening Ceremony
9.15 am
Welcome to Country
Mrs Valerie Weekes
UNAA(NSW) President
9.20 am
Official Opening
The Hon Sir Laurence
Street AC KCMG QC
9.35 am Keynote Address
Professor
Robert Hill National President UNAA
10.15 am
Morning
Tea Break
Session 1:
10.35 am Millennium
Development Goals
Mr
Christopher Woodthorpe: Director, United Nations Information Centre Canberra
11.15 am An Australian Parliamentary Perspective
Mr Rob
Oakeshott MP Federal Member for Lyne; Founder Mid North Coast
Branch
11.35 am
Reflections
on Youth and the UN
Nicky Vreugdenhil National President UN Youth Association
11.55 am
Initiatives for Peace around
the World
Dr
Keith Suter (Author, broadcaster, Former UNAA National President)
Session 2:
12.35 pm
to 2:00 pm UNAA(VIC) International Peace Award
Presentation
to Dr Stella Cornelius AO OBE
Speakers: Mr
Graham Hunter President UNAA(VIC)
Professor
Robert Hill National President UNAA
Presentation: Sir Laurence Street AC KCMG QC
Acceptance: Dr Cornelius
The Award Ceremony comprises a luncheon followed by a
formal presentation
Session 3:
2.00 pm
Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament
Martine Letts, Deputy Director, Lowy Institute
for International Policy
2.40 pm Human Rights Speaker to be
advised
3.20 pm Afternoon tea
Session 4:
3.40 Linking Conservation and Poverty
Dr Robert Fisher, Senior Researcher,
Australian Mekong Resource Centre
4.20 pm Your World & the UN 2010 Panel
Discussion Bring your questions.
Robert Hill, Chair, Christopher
Woodthorpe, Keith Suter, Martine Letts, Robert Fisher and other speakers
5.20 pm Close of Conference
5.30
pm –
7.30 pm Reception