2019 Program
| Pre-Conference Forums | |
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| 9:30am - 4:30pm | |
| 9:30pm - 4:30pm |
Murray Darling Basin Forum |
| 5:30pm - 7:30pm | |
| Conference Day 1 - Activating your Potential | |
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| 7:30am - 5:15pm |
Registration Desk |
| PLENARY SESSION | |
| Chair: Cassandra Hughes, Regional Manager, St John Ambulance, Great Southern & SEGRA National Steering Committee | |
| 8:30am - 8:35am |
Welcome to Country |
| 8:35am - 8:45am |
Welcome to SEGRA |
| 8:45am - 9:15am |
Strategic Foresight for Regional Australia: mega trends, scenarios and implications |
| 9:15am - 9:45am |
Drivers and Constraints to Regional Economic Development |
| 9:45am - 10:15am |
Delivering Place-Based Regional Development |
| 10:15am - 10:30am |
SEGRA Challenge |
| 10:30am - 11:00am |
Morning Tea |
| PLENARY SESSION | |
| Chair: Dr Jen Cleary, Chief Executive Officer, Centacare Catholic Country SA & SEGRA National Steering Committee | |
| 11:00am - 11:40am |
Forming Dynamic and Vibrant Healthy Communities |
| 11:40am - 12:05pm |
Lifelong Learning and Employment in Australia |
| 12:05pm - 12:30pm |
Releasing Opportunities at the Border |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch |
| CONCURRENT SESSION 1 - Forming Dynamic and Vibrant Healthy Communities: growing and sustaining regional Australia | |
| 1:30pm - 1:55pm |
Addressing the Structural Issues in Regional South Australia: how one rural locality is creating and growing a sustainable community and economy |
| 2:00pm - 2:25pm |
A Case Study of Community Buildings: designing for community cohesion and engagement in regional QLD |
| 2:30pm - 2:55pm |
Providing Palliative Care in Rural, Regional or Remote Locations |
| 3:00pm - 3:25pm |
Activating Regional Leadership |
| CONCURRENT SESSION 2 - Technology Embraced | |
| 1:30pm - 1:55pm |
Sustainability of Tourism in a Disruptive Digital Age |
| 2:00pm - 2:25pm |
Super Fast Internet for Rural Growth |
| 2:30pm - 2:55pm |
Bridging the Digital Divide |
| 3:00pm - 3:25pm |
Digital Business Value Creation in Australian Small-to-Medium Enterprises |
| CONCURRENT SESSION 3 - Integrated Lifelong Learning and Employment in the Regions | |
| 1:30pm - 1:55pm |
Preparing our Local Workforces for the Future: putting the New Work mindset into action |
| 2:00pm - 2:25pm |
Learning in the Regions: the case of cotton |
| 2:30pm - 2:55pm |
Grow Our Own: from people’s choice to people’s need |
| 3:00pm - 3:25pm |
Curbing the Youth Employment Crisis |
| CONCURRENT SESSION 4 - Regional Economic Development: policy and practice | |
| 1:30pm - 1:55pm |
Europe’s Adoption of Smart Specialisation and the Implications for Australian Regional Development Policy |
| 2:00pm - 2:25pm |
The Positive Impact of Business Accelerators in the Central West |
| 2:30pm - 2:55pm |
Building a Better Life in Australia: adopting a population distribution policy |
| 3:00pm - 3:25pm |
Major Funding Applications by Local Government: what to do and what not to do |
| CONCURRENT SESSION 5 - Advocating for your Region | |
| 1:30pm - 1:55pm |
The Greatest Quest: synergies, collaboration and success |
| 2:00pm - 2:25pm |
Changing the Face of Peterborough |
| 2:30pm - 2:55pm |
Diversification of a Resources Economy Through Tourism |
| 3:00pm - 3:25pm |
Advancing Benalla |
| 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
Afternoon Tea |
| PLENARY SESSION | |
| Chair: Cassandra Hughes, Regional Manager, St John Ambulance, Great Southern & SEGRA National Steering Committee | |
| 4:00pm - 4:10pm |
From Creating Bureaucracy to Battling it: a personal insight |
| 4:10pm - 4:20pm |
Green Banana Community |
| 4:20pm - 5:15pm |
Delegate Challenge Pitches |
| 5:15pm - 6:15pm |
Happy Hour |
| 6:30pm - 9:30pm | |
| Conference Day 2 - Local Solutions for Regional Development | |
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| 7:30am - 5:15pm |
Registration Desk |
| PLENARY SESSION | |
| Chair: Edwina Hayes, Director of Regional Development, Regional Development Australia Murray | |
| 8:30am - 9:00am |
Place-Based Approaches to Regional Development |
| 9:00am - 9:10am |
Place-Based Approaches to Regional Development: case studies |
| 9:10am - 9:20am |
Place-Based Approaches to Regional Development: case studies |
| 9:20am - 9:40am |
Creating a Vibrant and Sustainable ECO Destination |
| 9:40am - 10:05am |
The Social and Economic Value of Country-Based Community Service Organisations |
| 10:05am - 10:30am |
Understanding your Regional Competitiveness |
| 10:30am - 11:00am |
Morning Tea |
| PLENARY SESSION | |
| Chair: Simon Boughey, Consultant, Boughey and Associates & SEGRA National Steering Committee | |
| 11:00am - 11:25am |
Delivering Quality Freight, Logistics, Distribution Services and Connectivity Networks |
| 11:25am - 11:50am |
Leadership: inspiring and fostering our next generation of leaders is the key to successful regions |
| 11:50am - 12:30pm |
Managing Environmental Change in the Murray Darling Basin: implementing best practice landscape scale planning and management |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch |
| CONCURRENT SESSION 6 - Local Solutions to Regional Development | |
| 1:30pm - 1:55pm |
Integrated Planning and Reporting: advancing the co-production of place-based services in New South Wales local government |
| 2:00pm - 2:25pm |
Leaders, Institutions and Advocacy in Place-Based Economic Development |
| 2:30pm - 2:55pm |
How to Turn Collaboration into a Money Magnet for Regional Economic Development |
| 3:00pm - 3:25pm |
Innovation in Developing and Delivering Community Leadership Education |
| CONCURRENT SESSION 7 - Implementing Best Practice Landscape Scale Planning and Management | |
| 1:30pm - 1:55pm |
The Insights that Social Media Data can Deliver to Inform the Design of Healthier Place-Based Buildings |
| 2:00pm - 2:25pm |
Pathways for Collaborative Action: the Northern Adelaide Plains integrated management framework |
| 2:30pm - 2:55pm |
Regional Planning Delivers Catalytic Investment in the Hume Region |
| 3:00pm - 3:25pm |
Understanding what’s Beneath our Feet: the role of the Geological Survey of NSW in strategic land use planning |
| CONCURRENT SESSION 8 - Tourism and Geotourism | |
| 1:30pm - 1:55pm |
Strategic Directions for Geotourism Development in Australia |
| 2:00pm - 2:25pm |
Don’t Let RV Tourism Pass You By |
| 2:30pm - 2:55pm |
Geotales and Geotrails: collaborative geotourism initiatives and implications for regional NSW |
| 3:00pm - 3:25pm |
Protection, Preservation and Promotion: geo-heritage and geotourism opportunity in Northern Australia |
| CONCURRENT SESSION 9 - Best Practice Sustainability | |
| 1:30pm - 1:55pm |
Legislating Climate Change |
| 2:00pm - 2:25pm |
Healthcare Organisations Dispensing with the Traditional Business as Usual Approach to Embrace Innovative Sustainable Practices |
| 2:30pm - 2:55pm |
Not in our Backyard: research detailing how clandestine laboratories may further impact the health and environment of our regional communities |
| 3:00pm - 3:25pm |
The Regional Energy Revolution: a case study in limitations and opportunities at scale |
| CONCURRENT SESSION 10 - Infrastructure Planning | |
| 1:30pm - 1:55pm |
The Ord River Irrigation Scheme Journey |
| 2:00pm - 2:25pm |
What have the Romans Ever Done for us? Innovation in Water Infrastructure Planning |
| 2:30pm - 2:55pm |
42 Shires: a case study of place-based regional collaboration |
| 3:00pm - 3:25pm |
Watts in the Desert? |
| 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
Afternoon Tea |
| PLENARY SESSION | |
| Chair: Cassandra Hughes, Regional Manager, St John Ambulance, Great Southern & SEGRA National Steering Committee | |
| 4:00pm - 4:45pm |
Delegate Challenge Pitches |
| 4:45pm - 5:00pm |
Conference Summation |
| 5:00pm - 5:05pm |
Announcement of Challenge Winner |
| 5:05pm - 5:15pm |
Announcement of Host Region for SEGRA 2020 and Close |
| 5:15pm - 6:15pm |
Happy Hour |
| 7:00pm - 11:00pm | |
| Conference Day 3 - Study Tour - A Region for the Family, a Visitor's Perspective | |
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| 8:45am - 9:05am |
Travel to Tocumwal |
| 9:05am - 9:15am |
Drive around Aero Park and World War II Relics |
| 9:15am - 10:00am |
Visit the Tocumwal Historic Aerodrome Museum |
| 10:00am - 10:20am |
Drive to Thompsons Beach |
| 10:20am - 11:20am |
Cruise the Murray River on the paddleboat “Cobba”. Morning Tea onboard and Tourism forum hosted by Murray Regional Tourism Board CEO Mark Francis |
| 11:20am - 12:20pm |
Drive to Corowa |
| 12:20pm - 1:45pm |
Visit the Corowa Whiskey and Chocolate Factory for Lunch |
| 1:45pm - 2:15pm |
Federation Museum |
| 2:15pm - 3:15pm |
Return to Barooga |
| 3:15pm - 3:45pm |
Afternoon Tea on arrival at Barooga Golf Club |
| Practitioners Round Table | |
| 9:00am - 3:00pm |
Practitioners Round Table |