Day 1: Friday, 21 November 2014
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Day 1: Friday, 21 November 2014
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Session
Speaker
09:00
09:10
Plenary
Welcome to Country
Aunty Di Kerr – Wurundjeri Elder
09:10
09:25
Plenary
Framing the Conference
Mr Robert Tickner – CEO, Australian Red Cross
09:25
09:45
Plenary
Official Opening
Mr Michael Legge – President, Australian Red Cross
Observance of a moment’s silence and reflection for the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement people who have lost
their lives since our last national conference.
The Governor-General, His Excellency General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Retd), to officially open the
Centenary Summit by video.
09:45
10:00
Plenary
Reading of the Fundamental
Principles, & musical performance
Mr Greg Vickery – Chair of the Standing Commission of the International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement
Henry Dunant lecture
Mr Elhadj As Sy – Secretary General, IFRC
My vision for our Federation
Introduction of the Fundamental Principles, supported by diverse Red Cross people, followed by a music performance.
10:00
10:30
Plenary
10:30
11:00
Morning Tea
11:00
11:45
Plenary
Keynote Address
Ms Lucy Manne – Co-Director, Australian Youth Climate Coalition
The trends and challenges in youth activism and climate action today and into the future
11:45
12:30
Plenary
Keynote Address
Ms Dawn O’Neil AM – Managing Director, Dawn O’Neil & Associates
Collective Impact into the future
12:30
13:30
Lunch
13:30
15:00
Workshops
Session 1
Place-based approaches
and Collective Impact
What are these concepts?
This Workshop will detail the progress of Australian Red Cross in implementing place-based approaches in a number
of communities across Australia. This work is focusing on engagement within defined communities to tackle complex
issues of deep intergenerational disadvantage. The emerging and related concept of Collective Impact will also
be explored as a framework for collaboratively working in a targeted way towards a common goal. Australian Red
Cross is undertaking some early thinking and work on this concept in several locations, including Logan (QLD) and
Bridgewater/Gagebrook (TAS).
Ballroom 1
Facilitator: Ms Sue Vardon – Board Member, Australian Red Cross.
Panel:
1. Mr Matthew Cox – Group Manager QLD, Australian Red Cross
2. Dr Kat Faludi-Ball – Manager, Youth and Family Programs TAS, Australian Red Cross
3. Ms Dawn O’Neil AM – Managing Director, Dawn O’Neil & Associates
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Day 1: Friday, 21 November 2014
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Session
13:30
15:00
Workshops
Session 1
Speaker
Voluntary Service
Is there room for
volunteer leaders?
Ballroom 3
We all agree that communities need leaders and leadership. What are the responsibilities of Not For Profit organisations
to build leadership capabilities for the organisation and for the broader community? In implementing a renewed strategic
vision for voluntary service, Australian Red Cross is seeking to empower volunteers to take key leadership roles. Who are
our volunteer leaders and what is their community role? What pathways are there to build volunteer leaders? What are the
cultural, systemic and structural challenges organisations face when engaging volunteers as leaders?
Facilitator: Ms Patricia Pearson – Member of the National Voluntary Service Strategic Reference Group, Australian Red Cross
Panel:
1. Ms Christine Kotur – Leader in Residence, Strategist, Facilitator, Leadership Victoria
2. Mr Chris Kwong – National Youth Advisory Board, Australian Red Cross
3. Mr Chris Steinfort – Director, Human Resources, Australian Red Cross
4. Mr Brett Williamson OAM – CEO, Volunteering Australia
13:30
15:00
Workshops
Session 1
Supporter Engagement
Our Supporters in 2020:
Are we ready for them?
Ballroom 2
Red Cross supporters include financial donors, blood donors, sponsors, members, retail customers, first aid students,
campaign and social media advocates, young humanitarians, volunteers, businesses and providers of pro-bono services.
They are our life-blood, our movement, and our soul. Every day, in every state and territory, we rely on thousands of humble
and generous Australians to support our goals and objectives.
Towards 2020, research is suggesting that supporters are likely to require a different kind of relationship; demanding
a different kind of social contract with Red Cross. While we might continue to make huge investments acquiring new
supporters, if we can’t meaningfully engage their interest and retain their support, we’ll lose their goodwill.
In this Workshop, we’ll consider the demographic, technological, social and cultural challenges most likely to shape
Australian society by 2020. We’ll explore how other organisations are transforming in response to these challenges and
creating new forms of mutual value with their supporters and customers and consider the implications for Australian Red
Cross. This Workshop will set the scene and then invite three presenters to explore the topic through three different themes.
Facilitator: Mr Ross Pinney – Deputy President, Australian Red Cross
Panel:
1. Mr Ali Faraj – Community Engagement Manager, Greater Western Sydney Football Club
2. Ms Ajanta Malhotra – Supporter Research Consultant, Australian Red Cross.
3. Mr Ash Rosshandler – CEO, Goodcompany & Karma Currency Foundation
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Day 1: Friday, 21 November 2014
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Session
13:30
15:00
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Session 1
Speaker
International
Program
Non-Communicable
Diseases (NCDs)
Huntingfield Room
The Workshop will focus on highlighting Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) as a significant health issue as we approach
the post 2015 Millennium Development Goals period. It will present learning from the Australian Red Cross program, in terms of
community driven approach and successful behaviour change strategies employed in Pacific Island countries, and outline some
possible linkages with Australian domestic NCD agencies.
The Workshop will also include a particular focus on the organisational development challenges faced by Pacific Island
National Societies.
Facilitator: Ms Margaret Piper – Board Member, Australian Red Cross
Panel:
1. Professor Rob Moodie AM – Professor of Public Health, Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne
2. Mr Filipe Nainoca – Secretary General, Fiji Red Cross
3. Mr Peter Walton – Head of International Program, Australian Red Cross
13:30
15:00
Workshops
Session 1
Impact of Migration
Detention monitoring
Stradbroke Room
Despite a number of facility closures in recent months, there are currently (as of 30 September) a total of 5,514 people in Australian
and Australian-funded offshore immigration detention facilities, including 789 children. The average length of detention in Australia
on the increase, currently at 413 days, and 57% of people are held in remote centres on Christmas Island, in Nauru, and Manus
Island, PNG.
Australian Red Cross has recently partnered with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to ensure that the
Movement’s broad expertise in monitoring detention is best harnessed for the benefit of people held in PNG and Nauru. As the only
organisation regularly monitoring conditions and the humanitarian impact of detention across Australian and offshore facilities, our
protection role becomes all the more relevant and necessary in the current changeable and challenging environment. As part of
this partnership, Australian Red Cross has also negotiated to offer RFL and Tracing services to the detained populations in Nauru.
In the absence of a Red Cross National Society, addressing these needs and defining the scope of our role is complex, and as
Red Cross funded, independent programs, there are many questions to ask in the current context. How do we effect change in the
current environment? How do we adapt to rapid policy change and its resultant impacts on the overall protection environment? How
can partnerships with ICRC and other Movement actors result in a stronger response?
Speakers will address these issues as well as discuss how Movement policies such as those on Migration and Humanitarian
Diplomacy are essential to understanding our role to advocate, persuade and engage a range of authorities and actors in the
pursuit of humanitarian action on issues of concern.
Facilitator: Mr John MacLennan – Chair of the Migration Programs Advisory Committee, Australian Red Cross
Panel:
1. Ms Megan Goodwin – National Program Coordinator, Tracing, Australian Red Cross
2. Mr Fred Grimm – Head of ICRC Regional Delegation for the Pacific
3. Ms Andreea Lachsz – Humanitarian Observer, Australian Red Cross
4. Ms Vicki Mau – Program Coordinator Immigration Detention, Australian Red Cross
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Day 1: Friday, 21 November 2014
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13:30
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Session 1
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IHL
Women and War
Delacombe Room
Women have had special consideration in international humanitarian law since the first Geneva Convention. However, despite
significant specific and improved protections for women in the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions, as well as in Additional
Protocol I, it was not until 1998, when the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court was agreed, that rape was recognised
as a war crime. This significant advance in the law, combined with an increased awareness of the affect of armed conflict on the
lives of women more generally, led to a series of developments concerning women and war over the last 15 years. This session will explore the emergence of women at the centre of conflict studies in the last 15 years through law and through the
Women Peace and Security agenda initiated by UN Security Council Resolution 1325. The session will give us insight as to the
experience of women in war, the complexities, and provide a view to future action.
Facilitator: Mr Geoff Skillen – Chair, Australian Red Cross National IHL Committee
Panel:
1. Mr Yves Daccord – Director General, ICRC
2. Dr Alan Ryan – Executive Director, Australian Civil-Miltary Centre
3. Dr Nouria Salehi – Founder, Afghan Australian Development Organisation
15:00
15:30
Afternoon Tea
15:30
17:00
Plenary
Panel Discussion:
Youth Engagement:
A Movement,
Not a Moment:
How do we maintain
our engagement with
young people?
19:00
23:00
In November 2013, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies adopted a strategic global framework
providing the foundation upon which the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement could engage with young people, the IFRC Youth
Engagement Strategy. The Strategy recognises the importance of harnessing the capacity of young people as leaders, volunteers
and beneficiaries. This session will bring together thought provoking leaders to provide commentary on what Red Cross needs to
do to bring youth engagement to life in Red Cross in Australia and maintain it.
Facilitator: Ms Julie McCrossin – Respected broadcaster, journalist and former host of Life Matters (ABC Radio National)
Panel:
1. Ms Georgie Ferrari – CEO, Victorian Youth Affairs Council
2. Mr Daniel Hamilton – Internal Review Officer, UN Youth 3. Ms Amanda McKenzie – CEO, Climate Council
4. Mr Benson Saulo – National Indigenous Youth Leadership Academy
5. Mr Chris Wallace – Incoming CEO, Oaktree
Dinner Guest speaker – Associate Professor Munjed Al Muderis
Grand Ballroom, Hilton on the Park Former Iraqi refugee and world leading osseointegration specialist
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