Friday 8 September

8.30am

Welcome and Introduction

Mitch Hart

NT Manager, Pew Charitable Trusts

8.35am

Keynote Address

Josie Douglas

general manager, Central Land Council

Theme: Freshwater Futures hosted by Pew Charitable Trusts

9.00am

Panel Discussion: Water below the Berrimah line – listening to the bush

Moderated by Josie Douglas, general Manager, Central Land Council

Maureen Jipyiliya Nampijimpa O’Keefe

Chairperson Running Water Community Press

Adrian Tomlinson and Alex Vaughan

Arid Lands Environment Centre

Sam Phelan

Protect Big Rivers

Miliwanga Wurrben

Rebarranga Traditional Owner

10:00am

Panel Discussion: Water policies for the NT - Doing river and aquifer protection differently?

Moderated by Mitch Mart, Pew Charitable Trusts

Rowan Reilly & Susannah Clement

NT Government, Office of Water Security- Department Parks, Environment and Water Security

Erin O’Donnell

Senior Lecturer and ARC Fellow, University of Melbourne

Emma Carmody

Environmental Lawyer and Co-Founder of Restore Blue

Maryanne Slattery

Slattery & Johnson

11.00am

Morning Tea

Theme: Climate and Just Economic Futures

11.30am

Panel Discussion: Climate and Just Economic Futures

Moderated by Amanda Cahill, CEO, The Next Economy

Tom Quinn

Managing Director, Springmount Advisory

Lauren Mellor

Clean Energy Communities Coordinator, Original Power

Scott McDinny

Ngardara Cooperative Borroloola

Mark Ogge

Principal Adviser, The Australia Institute

12.30pm

Public Lunchtime Address

Kieran Pender

Senior Lawyer, Human Rights Law Centre

Climate Action and Democracy: Threats and Opportunities

1.00pm

Lunch

1.45pm

Special Performance from the Tiwi Dancers

Theme: Extractivism and First Nations resistance

2.30pm

Exhibition: Creative Responses to Extractivism

Facilitated by Ned Bible, Australian Marine Conservation Society

Maureen Jipyiliya Nampijimpa O’Keefe

films

Karrabing Film Collective

films

Jack Green

Garawa Traditional Owner, activist and artist

paintings

Antonia Burke

Indigenous Human Rights Advocate, Lead Barossa campaigner

FILM

3.30pm

Afternoon tea

4.00pm

Closing Panel: What next for the NT's environment?

Moderated by Tess Lea, Dean of Social Sciences, Macquarie University

Mitch Hart

NT Manager, Pew Charitable Trusts

Adrian Tomlinson

CEO, Arid Lands Environment Centre

Alina Leikin

Special Counsel, Environmental Defenders Office

Elanor Fenge

Managing Lawyer, Environmental Defenders Office

Adele Pedder

Australian Marine Conservation Society

5.00pm

Conference Closes

6.00pm

40th Ruby Anniversary party

Grab some post conference drinks and celebrate 40 years of Environment Centre NT with drinks and woodfire pizza.

Bustardtown, 15 Knuckey St, Darwin City