Events Diary for Wednesday, August 29, 2007

AAP General News (Australia)
08-29-2007
Events Diary for Wednesday, August 29, 2007
EVENTS LISTED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER AND LOCAL TIME UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED:


ADELAIDE


0945 - Radiation expert Dr Doug Boreham media conference, Toro Energy, Norwood. Contact:
Kevin Skinner 0414 822 631.


BRISBANE


0830 - Leading for the Future. Business and community leaders preparing for climate change
roundtable. Undumbi Room, Parliament House, corner of George and Alice streets, Brisbane.

Contact: Frances Curro 0438 365 873.

1100 - Macarthur Coal Limited year end results disclosure. Macarthur Coal boardroom, level
18, 215 Adelaide Street, Brisbane. Contact: Ian McAleese 1800 064 347.

1800 - Socratic Forum debate "That Canberra is taking too much power from the states".

Legislative Council Chamber, Parliament House, Brisbane (access via Annex, Alice Street).

Contact: Charles Sampford 0408 983 824.

1930 - World Youth Day Cross and Icon. Aboriginal interpretation of the Stations of the
Cross to be staged across Queensland. After the handover from the Brisbane Archdiocese
in Childers, the Cross and Icon will travel to Bundaberg for a midnight street pilgrimage.

Contact: Andy Brown (02) 9368 7277.


CANBERRA


1200 - SBS managing director Shaun Brown will address the National Press Club, 16 National
Circuit, Barton. Contact: 6121 2199.

1230 - Australian National University presents a seminar on Indigenous Victims of Crime,
Humanities Conference Room, AD Hope Building, Australian National University, Ellery Crescent,
Canberra. Contact: Jane O'Dwyer 6125 5001 or 0416 249 231.

1300 - Launch of Muslim Journeys - an online collective biography of early Muslim settlers
in Australia. National Archives of Australia, Queen Victoria Terrace, Canberra. Contact:
Elizabeth Masters 6212 3957 or Marylou Pooley 0412 646 298.


DARWIN


No items listed.


HOBART


No items listed.


MELBOURNE


0730 - Senator Brett Mason, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Ageing,
to announce more than $15 million in funding for two new palliative care initiatives.

Level 5, Suites 1 and 2, Melbourne Exhibition Centre, Southbank. Contact: Carolyn Martin
0417 966 328.

1000 - Melbourne Fire Brigade recruits' graduation. MFB training complex, 619 Victoria
Street, Abbotsford. Contact: Angie Pantazi 0400 919 778.

1030 - Launch of `Victoria's biggest classroom', linking Federation Square with thousands
of Victorian school children who visit the square every year. Contact: Ron Smith 0417
329 201.

1100 - Asbestos Diseases Society of Victoria media conference. ADSVIC office, Level 3,
200 Lygon Street, Carlton. Contact: Craig Regan 0408 936 738 or Jasmine Kaur (02) 9436
2088.

1200 - CEDA lunch presentation, The State of Australia's Energy Sector, with Australian
Energy Regulator chairman Steve Edwell. ZINC @ Federation Square. Contact: Tracey Winn
9652 8412 or 0418 585 652.

1200 - Business lunch meeting and forum, My Business - My People, Managing the Skills
Shortage. Limelight Room, Telstra Dome, Bourke Street. No contact listed.

- Opening of the 9th Australian Palliative Care Conference. Melbourne Convention and Exhibition
Centre. Contact: Fiona Gillies 0407 339 556 or Lina Caneva 0412 316 368.

- Auction of artworks by Howard Arkley, Arthur Streeton and others. Deutscher and Hackett,
105 Commercial Road, South Yarra. Contact: 9865 6333.


PERTH


No items listed.


SYDNEY


0730 - Former NSW premier Bob Carr to release Newspoll survey The Environment and Work.

Cafe Sydney, Customs House, Level 5, 31 Alfred Street, Circular Quay, Sydney. Contact:
Greg Mills 9331 3577.

0920 - Federal Labor communications spokesman Senator Stephen Conroy will address the
Telecommunications Summit. Dockside, Cockle Bay Wharf, Wheat Road, Darling Harbour. Contact:
Craig Macfarlane 8908 8502.

1000 - Telstra managing director of enterprise and government David Thodey will address
the Telecommunications Summit. Dockside, Cockle Bay Wharf, Wheat Road, Darling Harbour.

Contact: Craig Macfarlane 8908 8502.

1000 - Blacktown City Council to launch pedestrian safety program. William Dean Public
School, Yarramundi Drive, Dean Park. Contact: Bianca Clark 0423 023 773.

1000 - BP introduces ethanol fuel blend to Sydney. BP Rozelle, corner of Evans Street
and Victoria Road, Rozelle. Contact: Chandran Vigneswaran 0410 479 002.

1030 - Preview of African exhibition African Impressions. Australian Museum, 6 College
Street, Sydney. Contact: Michelle Britton 9320 6181 or 0421 617 019.

1100 - Media conference to launch National Identity Fraud Awareness Week. Attorney-General
Philip Ruddock to speak. Shangri-La Hotel, The Rocks, Sydney. Contact: Katie Watson or
Sharon Mackenzie (03) 9522 9922.

1100 - Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia media conference. Royal North Shore Hospital
Media Unit, Vanderfield Building, Reserve Road, opposite AFL oval, entry via Pacific Highway.

Contact: Jasmine Kaur 9436 2088 or Owen Craig 0411 584 415.

1225 - F/A-18 fighter aircraft will be training over Sydney Harbour. The aircraft will
approach from the eastern side of the Sydney Harbour Bridge turning above Goat Island.

Contact: Ivan Benitez-Aguirre 0418 269 686 or Raveena Carroll-Kenney 0405 310 176.

1715 - Zimbabwe opposition leader and president of the Movement for Democratic Change
Morgan Tsvangirai to speak. Lowy Institute for International Policy, ground floor, 31
Bligh Street, Sydney. Contact: 8238 9005.

1800 - Federal Labor education and training spokesman Stephen Smith will visit the OTEN
Distance Education at TAFE NSW. Building A, 51 Wentworth Road, Strathfield. Contact: Linda
Simon 0411 550 439 or Tony Hill 9815 3471 or 0433 045 814.

1830 - A Greens forum on a new vision for indigenous rights. Greens Senator Kerry Nettle
and Marcia Ella-Duncan from the NSW Aboriginal Child Sexual Assault Taskforce to speak.

Mechanics Institute, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney. Contact: Jenny Leong 0412 145 215.

1830 - Opposition treasury spokesman Wayne Swan will address the Chinese Australian community
on The Economic Challenges Facing Australia. Marigold Restaurant, Citymark Building, 683
George Street, Sydney. Contact: Dr Soo-Keat Lim 0414 685 082 or Dr Choong-Siew Yong 0418
296 784.


SPORT


SWIMMING - Telstra Australian Short Course C'ships - to September 2
Melbourne Sports & Aquatic Centre
TENNIS - to September 9 -
US Open Tennis, New York
ATHLETICS - IAAF World Championships - to September 2
Osaka Nagai Stadium, Osaka, Japan
ROWING - World Championships - to September 2
Munich, Germany



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