Keynote Presentations

Keynote Address: Building partnerships 

David Thompson AM - Chair, Not for Profit Roundtable Board and CEO, Jobs Australia download presentation here: JA David Thompson Presentation.ppt
Joe Morrison, CEO, North Australia Indigenous Land and Sea Management Association

Keynote Addresses: NRM is good business for primary production
Rohan Sullivan - President, NT Cattlemen’s Association download presentation here: Rohan Sullivan NRM forum pres 100420.ppt
Jane Lovell - Managing Director, TQA Australia. Here is the Synopsis of
her Keynote address: download presentation here: Jane Lovell NRM knowledge conference 20 April 2010.ppt and: Jane Lovell Draft framework version 6 4.pdf

Keynote Address: Improving Biodiversity values off reserve
Keith Bradby, Gondwana Link download presentation here: Keith Bradby NRM Darwin April 10.ppt

Keynote Address: Measuring Progress –Resource Condition
Prof. Gene E. Likens - Founding Director and President Emeritus of the Institute of Ecosystem Studies. download presentation here: Gene E Likens Darwin.ppt
Mick Murphy OAM, Chair, Victorian Catchment Management Council (Victoria’s Catchment Condition Report) download presentation here: Mick Murphy 100421 MM to National NRM Conference.ppt
Professor Ted Lefroy, University of Tasmania (Landscape Logic) download presentation here: Lefroy_21 April 10.ppt
Jane McDonald - Wentworth Group (Accounting for Nature)

Discussion session & Case Study Presentations

1. Building partnerships in a competitive environment

1.1       Discussion Session:  NRM and Indigenous Partnerships

1.1.1    QMDC and Aboriginal Communities “Caring for our Country”
Tim Knox, Queensland Murray-Darling Committee.

1.1.2    West Arnhem Land Fire Abatement Project
Ben Lewis, Northern Land Council

1.1.3    Indigenous Engagement in Urban Areas (ACT)
Anna van Dugteren, ACT Natural Resources Management Council 

1.2       Discussion Session:  Multi Stakeholder and Cross Regional Partnerships

1.2.1      Reef Rescue - A new approach to integrated sustainable rural land use focusing on triple bottom line outcomes (QLD)  
Robert Cocco, Reef Catchments – Mackay Whitsunday (on behalf of the GBR Reef Regional bodies and Regional Groups Collective) download presentation here: Reef Rescue  A new approach to integrated v2.ppt

1.2.2      Listening to the Managers - a collaborative partnership between landholders, scientists and government (NSW)
Rod Campbell, Central West CMA download presentation here: INSResearch
Program_20042010.ppt

1.2.3      CMA response to recovery from a natural disaster – 7 February bushfires 2009
Sarah Canham, Port Phillip and Westernport CMA download presentation here: PPWCMA Bushfire Case study_NRM conferenceApril 2010.ppt

1.2.4      Rangeland Alliance
John Gavin, South Australia Arid Lands NRM download presentation here: Rangelands NRM Alliance Presentation Draft 2 v2.ppt

1.3       Discussion Session:  Private Sector Partnerships

1.3.1      Funding NRM Business through an Australian Land and Water Foundation (QLD)
Bob Frazer, NQ Dry Tropics.  Burdekin Dry Tropics Region download presentation here: NRM Foundation presentation Darwin 2010 (2).ppt

1.3.2      Building a Resilient Socio - Ecological System with Bega Dairy Farmers (NSW)
Noel Kesby, Southern Rivers CMA download presentation here: Presentation Darwin 2010- Bega Cheese 4.ppt

1.3.3      Doing NRM Business – building partnerships in a competitive environment (VIC)
Mark Cotter, Goulburn Broken CMA download presentation here: Doing NRM Business.ppt

1.3.4      Successfully leveraging new investment through sustainable partnerships and corporate relationships (VIC)
Shane Scanlon, Port Phillip and Westernport Catchment Management Authority download presentation here: Sustainable Corporate Relations.ppt

1.4       Discussion Session:  Community Partnerships

1.4.1      Knowing Your Market: Stakeholder Profiling in Gippsland (VIC)
Martin Fuller, West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority download presentation here: National NRM Conference WGCMA Stakeholder Profiling Presentation - With Photos.pptx

1.4.2      Audience segments for NRM
Carl Glen, Sustainable Communities and Landscapes Division, DERM QLD download presentation here: Audience segments for NRM.ppt

1.4.3      Understanding progress and investment at the regional scale (VIC)Rod McLennan, Goulburn Broken CMA download presentation here: Understanding Progress Rod McLennan.pptx

1.4.4      The Land Management Program; A South Australian Experience in engaging Rural Landholders in NRM (SA)
Michael Garrod, Adelaide & Mt Lofty Ranges Natural Resources Management Board download presentation here: Nat NRM Knowledge Conference.The LMP.Michael.Garrod.ppt

2. NRM is good business for primary production

2.1       Discussion Session: Climate Change response

2.1.1      The Role of NRM Bodies in the Regional Aggregation of Carbon (QLD)
Alan Dale, Terrain

2.1.2      Translating climate change and carbon knowledge into farm systems (TAS)
James McKee, NRM North

2.1.3      Planning for significant change (QLD)
Donald Coventry, Southern Gulf Catchments Ltd download presentation here: Peak oil and future thinking low res.pdf

2.2       Discussion Session: Improving Production through Improved Land Management

2.2.1      Integrated mimosa control in Top End
Caroline Biggs, NT NRM and Steve Wingrave, Department of Natural Resources, Environment, The Arts and Sport (NT) download presentation here: Integrated Mimosa Control.ppt

2.2.2      The war on feral animals (QLD)
Darren Marshall, Queensland Murray-Darling Committee

2.2.3      NACC case-study NRM is good business for primary production - Working Together through Incentives (WA)
Jackie Gill, Northern Agricultural Catchments Council download presentation here: Jackie Gill TIP for National NRM Conf.pptx

2.2.4      A McKell Medallist perspective on Land Management and Productivity
Kevin and Alice Knight, Pittong, Victoria

2.3       Discussion Session: Tools for Practice Change

2.3.1      Ecological Management Understanding - Empowering pastoralists to manage for productive and sustainable landscapes
Natalie Turner and Glenis McBurnie, Centralian Land Management Association download presentation here: EMU presentation.ppt

2.3.2      Design and Delivery of MBI programs (VIC)
Marc Thompson, Wimmera CMA download presentation here: WCMA MBI.ppt

2.3.3      Woodland BushBids – a tool for extending our reach
Sarah Lance, South Australian Murray-Darling Basin Natural Resources Management Board download presentation here: Woodland BushBids Darwin.pptx

2.4       Empowering People through Information and Learning

2.4.1      Getting serious about managing NRM information and knowledge (QLD)
Reuben Sinclair, Queensland NRM Regional Groups Collective download presentation here: managing information and knowledge.ppt

2.4.2      NT Web-based Tools: Getting the best outcome in NRM information projects
Gabriel Crowley, Charles Darwin University & NRMB (NT) download presentation here: NT Web-based Tools.ppt

3. Improving Biodiversity values off reserve

3.1       Coastal and Wetland Biodiversity

3.1.1      Corner Inlet Connections a partnership committed to a healthy inlet (VIC)
Michelle Dickson, West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority download presentation here: NRM forum Presentation Corner Inlet Connections Final.pptx

3.1.2      How to protect a Ramsar wetland with a large dairy farm on it - Multi-stakeholder coastal and Ramsar wetland management in Tasmania’s North East (TAS)
Emma Williams, NRM North download presentation here: Multi stakeholder wetland management.pps

3.2       Landscape Biodiversity

3.2.1      Protecting Woodlands and Derived Native Grasslands in the Macalister Landscape Zone – Stage 2 (VIC)
Gaby Mitchell West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority download presentation here: Protecting Woodlands and Derived Native Grasslands.ppt

3.2.2      Wimmera Biolink Projects - Linking Landscapes for over a Decade (VIC)
Rob Moir, Wimmera CMA download presentation here: WCMA Biolinks.ppt

3.2.3      Conserving Biodiversity on Private Land
Fiona Marshall, Hunter-Central Rivers Catchment Management Authority download presentation here: Conserving Biodiversity on Private Land.ppt

3.2.4      Threatened Grassy Woodlands Project, North East Victoria
Mary Munro, North East CMA download presentation here: Threatened Grassy Woodlands - Darwin.pptx

3.3       Dealing with Threats to Biodiversity

3.3.1      Project Dieback; A case study on NRM delivering positive outcomes with regard to the management of an invasive species (WA)
Rob Edkins, South Coast Natural Resource Management download presentation here: Project Dieback.ppt

3.3.2      Invasive Ant Management in the NT
Ben Hoffman, Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems download presentation here: Invasive Ant Management.ppt

 3.3.3 National Environment Law
Ross Rowe, Environment Liaison Officer, National Farmers Federation/Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts download presentation here: Ross Rowe NRM Natl knowledge Conf Darwin Apr 2010- slides only.ppt

3.4       Discussion Session: Information and Decision Support Tools for Improving Biodiversity Values

3.4.1      Planning and managing for the multiple values of ecosystems and biodiversity (QLD)
Simone Maynard, SEQ Catchments Ltd download presentation here: Multiple Values of Ecosystems.ppt

3.4.2      Choosing between green and furies without emotion - Decision support for threatened species investment (TAS)
Andrew Baldwin, NRM North download presentation here: Choosing between green and furires.pptx

3.4.3      INFFER Decision Support
Geoff Park, North Central CMA download presentation here: INFFER.ppt

National NRM Knowledge Conference 19 - 21 April 2010