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Day 1 - Wednesday 8 September 2010

900 Registration Opens
1000 Professional Development Program
1200 Lunch
1230 Professional Development Program
1430 Coffee Break
1600 Professional Development Program
1600 Workshop/seminar program Close
1700 Opening Ceremony
1800 Conference Cocktails & Expo Opening

Day 2 - Thursday 9 September 2010

Stream 1 Stream 2 Stream 3 Stream 4
0800 Registration
0845

Opening Keynote

After the fires die down and the lawyers
depart

Justice Michael Kirby, AC CMG



0945 Coffee Break
1015 Executive Stream
Shared responsibility

Simon Longstaff
St James Ethics Centre
Africa
Indigenous Fire Management
People, poverty & fire use in Africa

Alexander Held, AfriFireNet
DC-10 large air tanker evaluation
Victoria 2010

Matt Plucinski
AFAC
The First Seven Years of the
Metropolitan Fire Brigade

Emergency Responder Program
Colin Bibby
Metropolitan Fire Brigade, Victoria
1045 The Emergency is Now
Dr Ed Blakely
United States Studies Centre,
University of Sydney

Learning from the heart of the people of
Timor and Sumba

Prof Ferry Fredy Karwur
Satya Wacana Christian University
Indonesia

Fire Detection Cameras
Stuart Matthews
CSIRO
A history of Alternative Solutions and the
NSW Fire Brigades

Benjamin Hughes-Brown
NSW Fire Brigades
1125 Executive Leadership
Tom Rogers
Australian Institute of
Police Management
Hope for the future: how cooperation
with locals has transformed fire
regime in Arnhem Land

Michael Carter
Bushfire NT
Towards a national policy on
fire in the landscape

Ewan Waller
Department of Sustainability &
Environment, Victoria
Managing and delivering a major
PPC Project
Phil Taylor
Metropolitan Fire Brigade, Victoria
1200 Lunch
1300

Keynote

The Policy Cat - and the many ways to
skin it when in govt.

Professor Clare Martin
Northern Institute, Charles Darwin
University, NT



1355

Coastal inundation
and climate change in Australia

Barbara Norman
University of Canberra

The NAFI website: a dynamic,
user-driven tool for monitoring
landscape-scale fires

Peter Jacklyn
Charles Darwin University, NT
Deep survival in the Victorian
bushfires of 7 Feb 2009.

Jim McLennan
Latrobe University, Melbourne

Double Session
The Mental Health Effects of Trauma in

the emergency services
Prof Mark Creamer
Australian Centre for Post Traumatic
Mental Health

1430 Wildland science and technology
trends amd initiatives:
A global
perspective
Jim Gould
CSIRO Forest Biosciences
Improvements to fire management on
Aboriginal lands in central Australia

Grant Allan, Busfires NT
& Gina Broun, Central Land Council
A Fire Learning Network
cultivating local expressions of capacity

Matt Campbell
Department of Sustainability
& Environment, Vic
1500 Coffee Break
1530

Letting facts get in the way of a
good story: informing bushfire
policy through strategic research

John Schauble
Office of the Emergency Services
Commissioner, Victoria

Landscape-Scale Wildland Fire
Modelling Research and Applications

Janice Coen
National Centre for Atmospheric
Research, Colorado, USA
Fire & Carbon Sequestration
Burning credit? - Fire & carbon
sequestration in tropical savannas

Dr Lindsay Hutley
Charles Darwin University

55 years of flood rescue in NSW.

The story so far, but what does
the
future hold for the next 50 yrs?
Peter Cinque & Keith Fitzgerald
NSW State Emergency Service

1605

Dont be afraid: the psychology of
bushfire responses
Danielle Clode
University of Melbourne

The trench effect and eruptive
wildfires: lessons from the King's
Cross Underground disaster.

Jason Sharples
ACT Rural Fire Service
Fire & carbon sequestration
in the High Country

Prof Mark Adams
University of Sydney
The future of flood emergency
management in Australia.

Andrew Gissing
Victoria State Emergency Service
1640

Operation NOMAD - The South Aust. Police
response to the threat of bushfires

John McMahon
South Australia Police

Meteorological lessons learned from
‘Black Saturday'

Claire Yeo & Tony Bannister
Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne
Fire & carbon risk management
in tall temperate forests

Dr Stephen Rox Burgh
CSIRO Canberra
Time modelling of flood evacuation
operations

Steve Opper
NSW State Emergency Sevice
1710 Close
1900 Conference Gala Dinner

 

Day 3 - Friday 10 September 2010

 

Stream 1 Stream 2 Stream 3 Stream 4
0800 Registration
0900 Victoria’s Bushfires – Changing our
Landscape

Mick Bourke
Chief Executive Officer
Country Fire Authority, Victoria
1005 Impact of climate change on fire in
US National Parks

Dick Bahr
Wildlife Fire Branch,
US National Park Service

International Search and Rescue
Australian USAR Response to the
Sumatra Earthquake
John Cawcutt
Queensland Fire & Rescue Service

Tipaula Laupe
Samoa FRS

Awake, Smoky, and Hot:
occupational stressors during
bushfire suppression

Brad Aisbett
Deakin University, Victoria
1045 Coffee Break
1120

Outcomes of the Vic Bushfire
Royal Commission implications
for emergency services

Catherine Dunlop
Maddocks Lawyers, Melbourne


Cyclones
Why Some buildings perform well in
cyclones and others fail

Cam Leitch
Manager CTS, James Cook
University, QLD
Savannah Burning
Greenhouse gas abatement______ _

Joe Morrison (CEO, NAILSMA)—current
status and development of savanna burning

projects across northern Australia
Its learning .... but not as we
knew it
Peter Wilding
New Zealand Fire Service
1155 Sleeping with the enemy
Stuart Ellis
Leading Emergency Services, SA
Tropical Cyclone Threats –
Present and Future
Dr.
Bruce Harper
GHD

Kevin Anderson and David Hinchley
(Carpentaria Land Council, QLD)—fire
management issues, institutional
arrangements, and challenges in the
QLD Gulf

Planning, preparation and response
to emergencies in large tunnels
Shan Raffel,
Queensland Fire and Rescue
1230

Legal Consequences from the
2003 Canberra fires

Michael Eburn
University of New England, NSW

Estimating Cyclone Intensity
Garry Cook
Principal Research Scientist
CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems
Mick Meyer (CSIRO)—global context of
savanna burning and status of scientific
work and challenges

Peter Whitehead (NTG)—status of
national / state policy developments
and challenges

The Sofa Super Store - Rising
from the
Ashes of Tragedy

Tim Sendelbach
Nth Vegas Fire Department, USA
1305 Lunch
1400

Debate
That Inquiries Teach Us More
Than Experience

Graham Fountain, MFB Melbourne
Catherine Dunlop, Maddocks Lawyers
Mike Hall
, CEO NZFRS
Charlie King, ABC Darwin
Michael Ebern, ANU
Michael Grant, Solicitor-General, NT

1500 Plenary - Keynote
The chemistry of Success
Matt Church
1600 Closing Ceremony
1630 Conference Close