7 and 8 September

2023

George Brown Botanical Gardens

Event Centre

Northern TerriTory

State of the environment conference

Larrakia coUntry, darwin

environment Centre NT

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Why you should come to this conference

The decisions we make today will change the course of the Northern Territory for generations to come. This conference will provide an opportunity to come together, build community, and collectively reimagine a just future as we confront the biodiversity and climate crises. Don't sit back, be a part of the solution.

The conversation will revolve around these 4 themes:

Extractivism and Development

Next generation nature laws, multi-species justice, land clearing and biodiversity in the north, nature and wellbeing, state of the environment reporting, biodiversty markets

The critical minerals conundrum, how Tiwi people slayed a giant, McArthur River Mine and slow violence, northern development, best practice mining law and policy

Climate and Just Economic Futures

Freshwater

Futures

Health impacts of climate change, alternative economic futures, housing, renewables and climate justice, new gas projects and net zero in the Northern Territory, climate integrity, climate grief

Rivers and legal personhood, below the Berrimah Line, water law reform, First Nations water governance, floodplain harvesting, groundwater extraction and development, protection v management

Who will be at this conference

Community members passionate about the Northern Territory's environment, people who work in the environmental field, ENGO employees, land managers, community sector employees, government employees, peak bodies, researchers and Traditional Owners

Hear from a range of provoking speakers who will challenge us to configure the NT's future differently including academics, First Nations leaders, environmental thought leaders, artists and scientists. The list is growing.

Professor Tess Lea,

Dean of Social Sciences, Macquarie University

David Morris

CEO, Environmental

Defenders Office

Dr Amanda Cahill, CEO of The Next Economy

Dr Erin O'Donnell,

Senior Lecturer and ARC Fellow, University of Melbourne

Dr Emma Carmody

Environmental Lawyer and Co-Founder of Restore Blue

Dr Josie Douglas,

General Manager,

Central Land Council

Josie Davey Green

Gudanji Traditional Owner and advocate

Jack Green

Garawa Traditional Owner

and advocate

Ben Abbatangelo

Gunaikurnai and Wotjobaluk creative, impactor, investigative journalist and correspondent

Mark Wakeham

Australian Program Director, the Sunrise Project

Martin Pritchard

Environs Kimberley

Director of Strategy

Dr Gavin Mudd

Assosicate Professor

Environmental Engineering RMIT University

Kieran Pender,

Senior Lawyer,

Human Rights Law Centre

Anna Boustead

CEO, Indigenous Carbon

Industry Network

Antonia Burke

Indigenous Human Rights Advocate

Lead Barossa campaigner

Professor Karen Edyvane

Marine Ecology

ANU College of Science

Sam Banks

Professor, REIL

Charles Darwin University

Mark Ogge

Principal Adviser

The Australia Institute

Adrian Tomlinson

CEO, Arid Lands

Environment Centre

Maryanne Slattery

Slattery & Johnson

Alex Vaughan

Policy Officer

Arid Lands Environment Centre

Gundjeihmi Aboriginal

Corporation

Tom Quinn

Managing Director of Springmount Advisory

Wagiman Rangers

Rowan Reilly

NT Government

Office of Water Security,

Dept Parks, Environment and

Water Security

Susannah Clement

NT Government

Office of Water Security, Dept Parks, Environment and

Water Security

Jane Quinlan,

Senior Lawyer, Environmental Justice Australia

Rachel Fletcher,

Scientist

The Wilderness Society

Elanor Fenge

Managing Lawyer NT

Environmental Defenders Office

Scott McDinny

Ngardara Cooperative Borroloola

Adele Pedder

Protected Areas Manager

Northern Territory, Australian Marine Conservation Society

Alina Leikin

Special Counsel, Safe Climate Team, Environmental Defenders Office

Dr Natalie Rossiter

Professor, REIL Team

Charles Darwin University

Lindsay Hutley

Professor, REIL Team

Charles Darwin University

Jabul Huddleston

Wagiman Traditional Owner

Theresa Bandison

Wagiman Traditional Owner

Lorraine Williams

Danggalaba Larrakia Traditional Owner and Larrakia Project Lead, Darwin Living Labs, CSIRO

Allana Brown and

Jessica Black,

Nature and Water Campaigners, Environment Centre NT

Dr Kirsty Howey, Executive Director, Environment Centre NT

Mitch Hart,

NT Manager Pew Charitable Trusts

Tibby Quall

Danggalaba Larrakia Traditional Owner

*If cost is a barrier to entry email lou.demattia@ecnt.org to request a subsidised ticket.

Environment Centre NT has worked tirelessly for 40 years to advocate for a thriving nature for all of us.

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