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19 & 20 May 2008Parliament House Canberra

“A people’s inherent wealth lies in nature: fresh air, clean water for drinking and cooking, green places to walk, a beautiful scene, a fishing hole, a place to row a boat or swim, to pick wild berries, to hunt. No matter how great the disparities in wealth, these are things one always assumed could not be taken away – from anyone” Robert F. Kennedy Jnr.

19 & 20 May 2008 Parliament House, Canberra

“…the outcome of any crisis is usually determined by one dominant global player that has the innovators who can churn out the technology, the financiers who can back it and the diplomatic clout to pull the rest of the world along” Time

‘…looking beyond the short term & beyond a single-minded focus on short-term profit maximisation. It means being prepared to make trade-offs for the sake of future gains’. David Morgan, Westpac

“We come to believe that we can’t do anything about the environment because it is out-there, large and powerful, the sole concern of experts and politicians. We forget that the environment is about people, that an unhealthy environment is people without a future, and that we can always do something for and with other people, especially when they are people we know and care about, people very much like ourselves” (Kelly & Sewell)

“… remember that the future is not somewhere we are going, it is something we are creating. Everyday we do things that make some futures more probable and others less likely”. Lowe 2000