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Thursday, 21 April 2011 05:48 |
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Watch Dr Peter Shergold's CI2010 presentation!
Dr Peter Shergold AC was a CEO in the Australian Public Service for two decades. For five years from February 2003, Dr Shergold was Australia ’s most senior public administrator, serving as Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Dr Shergold is now the Macquarie Group Foundation Professor at the Centre for Social Impact.
His presentation at CI2010 – “Empowering communities to transform democracy” – is an unquestionably informed and frighteningly real insight into the future of participatory democracy if something does not change.
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Thursday, 14 April 2011 00:00 |
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Watch Austin Williams' CI2010 presentation!
In this presentation addressing the idea of the ‘big society’, Austin Williams questions why the word ‘community’ is now on the national agenda, what communities are and aren’t, and what politicians are trying to capture, bottle and sell back to us.
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Tuesday, 22 February 2011 00:00 |
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Watch Mike Smith's CI2010 Presentation!
Mike Smith is well known in Australia as CEO of ANZ Bank. Before arriving in Australia, Mike was running the most profitable division of HSBC bank in Hong Kong – you could not ask for anyone more equipped to speak about big business!
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Tuesday, 01 February 2011 00:00 |
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Watch Patrick McGorry's CI2010 Presentation!
In this presentation, Professor Patrick McGorry (Australian of the Year 2010) addresses how we get to a 21st Century model of mental health in Australia.
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Thursday, 31 March 2011 03:13 |
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Watch Claire Pennicard's CI2010 presentation!
Claire Pennicard is a pig farmer. You might think that she ended up in this career because it was a family business, or because of location, or any number of other reasons.
But the truth is, Claire is a pig farmer because she chose to be a pig farmer.
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Tuesday, 08 February 2011 00:00 |
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Watch Stephen Heppell's CI2010 Presentation!
'Playful learning; why we all need cheering up.'
Stephen begins his presentation with an anecdote about his friend’s son’s first day of school. The night before the big day, the child’s father found him in his bed, fully dressed in his uniform – backpack on – ready to go. He was SO EXCITED about starting school, he just couldn’t wait....
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Wednesday, 19 January 2011 11:09 |
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Watch Edward de Bono's CI2010 presentation!
If questioned today, many people would say the biggest problem facing humanity is Climate Change. According to de Bono, this is not true. The biggest problem facing humanity is our poor thinking... The only bigger problem is that we don't realise this.
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