National Trust Corporate Breakfast Series 2009

Join us for our Corporate Breakfast Series,featuring speakers Kristina Keneally MP, Brad Hazzard MP, and Sylvia Hale MLC with special guest MC, Quentin Dempster – Presenter, Stateline NSW, ABC TV, at the Intercontinental Sydney, 29 April 2009.

 

Speaking on:
Committing to our Heritage: a Balancing Act for Political Parties
(what our major political parties think come election time)

 

Date: Wednesday 29 April | Time: 7.30 to 9.00am
Place: Intercontinental Sydney, 117 Macquarie Street, Fort Macquarie Room

Cost: $60 NT Members

$80 Non Members

$600 table of 10

 

Hurry now and book your spot for this event. Spaces are limited to be quick to avoid disappointment. Click here for the booking form

For more information or to book via email please contact Natalie Gross: ngross@nsw.nationaltrust.org.au


Speakers:

The Hon. Kristina Keneally MP

Minister for Planning | Minister for Redfern Waterloo | Member for Heffron

Kristina Keneally MP is the Member for Heffron in the New South Wales Parliament and the NSW Minister for Planning and Minister for Redfern Waterloo.

As Planning Minister, Kristina’s focus is on urban renewal, land supply and supporting the Government’s commitments to deliver jobs closer to home. She leads the Government’s major projects, such as urban renewal in Redfern and Waterloo, and the development of the 22ha waterfront precinct in Sydney’s CBD, Barangaroo.

Kristina was the NSW Government Spokesperson for World Youth Day 2008, helping to successfully deliver the year’s biggest global event after the Olympics. World Youth Day included some 225,000 visitors and up to 400,000 attendees, spanning six days and multiple venues across Sydney.

She holds a BA in Political Science (Hons) and a MA in Religious Studies, and has published several academic and other articles on her area of speciality, feminist theology. She has also worked as the NSW Youth Coordinator for the Society of St Vincent de Paul and taught school in a ‘teacher shortage area’ in rural New Mexico. In Government, she has previously held the portfolios of Minister for Ageing and Minister for Disability Services.

 

 

Mr Brad Hazzard MP

Shadow Minister for Planning | Shadow Minister for Infrastructure
Shadow Minister for Redfern Waterloo

Brad Hazzard was elected to the NSW Parliament in 1991 as the State Member for Wakehurst on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.

He started his professional life as a science teacher at North Sydney Boys High and taught in various metropolitan high schools while he studied law at the University of NSW. He graduated with a Bachelor of Laws in 1976 and was admitted as a Solicitor in 1977. In 1984 he graduated with a Master of Laws from Sydney University.

He became the Chairman of the high profile road safety committee StaySafe and led a number of highly public campaigns for improved road safety.

In 1995 he became Shadow Minister for Emergency Services and Corrective Services and has since held 15 portfolios. He currently serves as the Shadow Minister for Planning, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Shadow Minister for Redfern-Waterloo.

He was appointed Shadow Minister for Planning in April 2007 and has been active in the review of planning legislation in 2008 and the current Government’s changes to heritage in NSW.

 

 

Ms. Sylvia Hale MLC (NSW Legislative Council)

NSW Greens | Spokesman on Planning and Heritage


Sylvia Hale was elected to the NSW Legislative Council in 2003. She is the NSW Greens spokesperson on Planning and Heritage.

Prior to being elected to parliament, Sylvia served two terms as a Councillor on Marrickville Council as well as establishing and running an independently-owned Australian publishing company and one of the country’s larger specialist book printers.

Sylvia has been campaigning for changes to the state’s planning laws to increase environmental and heritage protections, remove conflicts of interest and promote greater community involvement. In 2008 Sylvia introduced a private members bill aimed at banning political parties and candidates from accepting donations from the property development industry.

 

 

Quentin Dempster AM – Presenter ABC TV’s Stateline – N.S.W

 

Quentin Dempster, is an ABC broadcaster, journalist and author with extensive experience in television (18 years) and print media (15 years).

After joining the ABC in 1984 as associate producer Nationwide in Queensland, he became Queensland political editor for The National and the State edition of The 7.30 Report. 

He was appointed Queensland presenter of The 7.30 Report in late 1987 and wrote and produced for the national network daily re-enactments and analysis of evidence before the Fitzgerald inquiry into police and political corruption.

In 1990 Quentin moved to Sydney to present The 7.30 Report in New South Wales.  In 1995 he headed a national investigative unit for The 7.30 Report and exposed unsafe practices in offshore petroleum operations, a fuel spill at BHP Manganese Groote Eylandt facility, the Moura mine disaster and the use of tax havens by major Australian corporations.  From 1996 to 2000 he was a state and national correspondent for the Australia-wide edition of The 7.30 Report as well as presenting Stateline in New South Wales with a 6 p.m. Friday timeslot.

Quentin Dempster is the author of several books, some of which are:   Honest Cops (1992 ABC Books), Whistleblowers (1997 ABC Books) –and Death Struggle (2000 Allen and Unwin). Quentin has written as a columnist for The Telegraph, The Sunday Mail, The Sun Herald, aCorrespondent for The Bulletin and anOccasional Contributor The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald.