AAP General News (Australia)
12-07-2000
Diary for Thursday December 7, 2000
EVENTS ARE IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER AND IN LOCAL TIME UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE
ADELAIDE
0900 - Annual Conference of the Australian Sociological Association, Flinders University,
Sturt Road, Beford Park. Contact: Jason Pudsey 0409 783 818.
1400 - Parliament sits.
BRISBANE
0820 - Virgin Blue's inaugural Brisbane-Adelaide flight to depart Brisbane's Domestic
Terminal. Contact: Amanda Bolger 0402 137 071.
1230 - The Queensland and NSW cricket teams to promote this Friday's Mercantile Mutual
Cup match at the Gabba, Myer Centre, Queen Street Mall, Brisbane. Contact: Stephen Gray
0418 885 899.
CANBERRA
0745 - Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation to hand over its final report to Prime Minister
John Howard over breakfast, Great Hall, Parliament House, Canberra. Contact: Liz Potter
02 9223 7900 or 0411 427 651.
0900 - House of Representatives Parliamentary Committee on Employment, Education and Workplace
Relations into Education of Boys, Committee Room 1R3, Parliament House, Canberra. Contact:
Richard Selth 02 6277 4573.
0930 - House of Representatives and Senate sit.
1000 - Senate Employment, Workplace Relations, Small Business and Education Legislation
Committee into Resumption of Budget Supplementary Estimates 2000-2001, Committee Room
2S1, Parliament House, Canberra. Contact: John Carter 02 6277 3520.
1000 - Prime Minister's X1 match, Manuka Oval, Canberra.
1030 - National Archives annual briefing meeting and advance access to the 1970 cabinet
records, National Archives of Australia, Queen Victoria Terrace, Parkes ACT. Contact:
Robert Beattie 02 6212 3979.
1200 - Press Preview of the exhibition `Federation Australian Art and Society 1901-2001,
National Press Gallery, Canberra. Contact: 02 6240 6431.
1315 - Prime Minister John Howard to open the Bradman Stand at the PM's X1 during the
lunch break, Manuka Oval, Canberra
MELBOURNE
0900 - Federal Attorney-General Daryl Williams to open La Trobe University's School of
Law and Legal Studies conference, Beechworth Campus. Contact: Judith Dickson 9479 3760
or Mary Anne Noone 9479 1483.
0900 - Mutagenesis and Experimental Pathology Society of Australasia (MEPSA), LaTrobe
University and the Commonwealth Department of Health international conference: Is Cancer
a Preventable Environmental Disease?, La Trobe Campus, Mt Buller. Contact: 02 9380 9276.
0915 - Environment and Conservation Minister Sherryl Garbutt to hand over keys of ten
fire trucks to Department of Natural Resources and Environment's regional fire fighters,
Forecourt of new Museum, Nicholson Street, East Melbourne. Contact: Sally Gibson 9651
5799.
0900 - Financial Planning Association National Convention 2000,1300 - Allan Fels, ACCC
Chairman, presentation; 1415 - Ziggy Switkowski, Telstra CEO; 1545 - Charles Carrol, Lazard
Assett Management, Managing Director, 1645 - Lisa Curry-Kenny, Melbourne Exhibition and
Convention Centre. Contact: Kelly Treacy 9521 4566 or 0403 023 243.
0945 - Environment and Conservation Minister Sherryl Garbutt to launch Victoria's Rivers
Report Card and Index of stream conditions, Rainforest Gallery, Museum of Victoria, Nicholson
Street, East Melbourne. Contact: Sally Gibson 9651 5799.
1230 - Media preview of 2000 Archibald Prize exhibition, George Adams Gallery, St Kilda
Road level, Theatres Building, Victorian Arts Centre. Contact: Maureen Bathgate 9281 8315
or 0411 604 276
1340 - Housing & Aged Care Minister Bronwyn Pike to address CO AS IT Italian Senior Citizens'
Association's end-of-year Festa, Fogolar Furlan Club, 1 Matisi Street, Thornbury. Contact:
Tim Winkler 9651 5799, 0407 688 632.
1730 - Launch of the 2001 Baileys Melbourne Jazz Festival by Artistic Director Adrian
Jackson and Deputy Melbourne Lord Mayor, Clem Newton, Victorian Arts Centre, St Kilda
Road Foyer Gallery. Contact: Ree Izett 9654 3133, 0418 35 8585, Narelle Sullivan 9652
8641, 0419 154 325 or Jill Riseley 9652 8618, 0402 440 083.
PERTH
0930 and 1030 - Launch by the Derbarl Yerrigan Health Service of a program aimed at reducing
the incidence of diabetes and heart disease in the Aboriginal population of Perth, at
the Clontarf Aboriginal College, 295 Manning Road, Manning. News conference 1030. Contact
Genevieve Evans 08 9421 3859.
1400 - A special handover of Christmas presents to Attorney General and Minister for Justice
Peter Foss on behalf of OUTCARE by Curtin University of Technology's Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor,
Professor Lesley Parker, at the `Santa's Workshop' Warehouse, Unit 5, Number 8 Cohn Street,
Carlisle. Contact Pieta O'Shaughnessy (Curtain Radio 927) 08 9266 2121 or 0419 937 383.
1600 - Lecture by visiting Haydn Williams Fellow 2000 Professor David Hughes of the University
of London on the global food industry, QVI Building, Conference Cwentre, 250 St Georges
Terrace. Contact: Sally Rowe 08 9266 2793 or 0401 103 373.
SYDNEY
0845 - HMAS Tobruk to leave Sydney for a Christmas deployment to the Solomon Islands,
Cruiser Wharf, Garden Island, enter via ADI main gate, Cowper Wharf Road, Woolloomooloo.
Contact: Andrew Herring 9359 2786
0900 - Parliamentary Secretary for Roads Reba Meagher to officially launch the `RoadSafe'
road safety campaign for Western Sydney, Roxy Cinema, George Street, Parramatta. Contact:
Murray Hillan 9218 6862 or 0412 256 973
0900 - Sixth International Symposium on Genital Surgery, `Safeguarding Fundamental Human
Rights in the 21st Century, Sydney University. Contact: Lesley Garton 9840 3768
0900 - 1600 - Minister assisting the Premier for the Central Coast, John Della Bosca,
and other Ministers to attend the Central Coast Moving Forward Forum at the Mingara Recreational
Club, Tumbi Umbi. Contact Andrew Plumley on 9228 4777 or 0438 455 562.
0930 - Launch of Kids and Cancer handbook for primary and secondary school teachers on
schools with a student with cancer, Level 6, NSW Cancer Council, 153 Dowling Street, Woolloomooloo.
Contact: Susan Woodland 9334 1940 or 0411 408 643
1000 - Information Technologies Minister Kim Yeadon at the opening of Macquarie Technologies
$30 million Intel Centre, 477 Pitt Street, Sydney. Contact Warwick Ponder on 9228 3688
or 0409 369 711.
1030 - President of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, Archbishop Francis P.
Carroll, will present the Humanitarian Overseas Service Medal to fourteen Caritas Australia
volunteers and a staff member for their assistance to the people of East Timor during
a ceremony at the Seminary of the Good Shepherd, 50 Abbotsford Road, Homebush. Contact
Stephanie Thomas on 9956 5799 or 0417 284 831 or Jackie brady on 0418 214 752.
1030 - Backyard Blitz's Jamie Durie at the launch of Southern Sydney Waste Board's waste
not want not campaign, Bellevue Park, Birriga Road entrance Bellevue. Contact: Jane Clapcott
8585 8200
1100 - Deputy Premier Andrew Refshauge at opening of Landcom's Energy Efficient Home at
the corner of Ferraby Drive and Nolan Crescent at Melaleuca Estate in Metford, near Maitland.
Contact Toni Rankin 9228 4499 or 0407 455 526.
1200 - Jodie Packer to launch the 2001 Pirelli Calendar, The Ballroom, Establishment,
252 George Street. Contact: Cas Bennetto 9261 8011
1600 - President of the Board of Studies NSW, Professor Gordon Stanley to launch Design
Tech 2000, Level 3 Gallery, Powerhouse Museum, 500 Harris Street, Ultimo. Contact: David
Cashman 9367 8250
1700 - Launch of `The Thinkers' a history of the Physicians and the Development of Scientific
Medicine at St Vincent's 1857-1997, Functions Room, St Vincent's Clinic, 438 Victoria
Street, Darlinghurst. Contact: Shane Dobbin 8382 2866
SPORT
GOLF - to Dec 10 -
Ford Open Championship, Kooyonga Golf Club, Adelaide, SA
SWIMMING -
FINA Swimming World Cup meet, Melbourne
GALLOPS -
Hawkesbury
Cranbourne
Gatton
Penola
TROTS -
Nyah
Gold Coast
Penrith
GREYHOUNDS -
Dapto
Sandown
Albion Park
Angle Park
Cessnock
Shepparton
Hobart
ENTERTAINMENT
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KEYWORD: DIARY THURSDAY DECEMBER 7, 2000
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