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 Residents and organisations in the Condamine River catchment, please consult your calendar for 2008 and let the Condamine Alliance know of any important dates in the natural resource management arena. We want to know your important dates so that we can inform the catchment community of key events and avoid any date clashes. Contact us on 07 46200102.
2008 - Year of the Scout (100 years celebration); International year of the planet Earth
Coming up:
July 21 July 2008 - Condamine Alliance Board Meeting Time to reward TREE-mendous work
Nominations for the 11th Queensland Arbour Day Awards are now open! Do you know an individual, school, business or community organisation involved in helping our environment, by planting or maintaining native vegetation? If you do, why not get a nomination in for a Queensland Arbor Day Award - before Friday 1 August. Guidelines, entry forms at http://www.queenslandarborday.org or call 07 3902 4444. Queensland Wetlands Program - free workshop
4th, Toowoomba
This workshop aims to give landholders an opportunity to view the latest information and tools for managing wetlands.
For more information: Angela Reed at
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or phone (07) 3006 4621. NAIDOC week
6 - 13th, http://www.naidoc.org.au Australian Universities Community Engagement Alliance National Conference
9 - 11th, Sunshine Coast & Fraser Island
Call for abstracts, due 1st March
http://aucea.net.au/traction/permalink/NationalConference1 National Local Government Environment Conference
9 - 11th, Port Douglas
Download event flyer Garnaut Climate Change Review - Draft report release and public forum
11th, 10:00am to 11:30am
Brisbane Town Hall, Brisbane
To register visit www.garnautreview.org.au Three-farm field day
17th, Clifton Allora Top Crop Group has organised a field day, on Willobank, Allora. With a leaning towards CTF systems and installation of GPS, the focus will then shift to Hadstock, Warwick, before ending at the Petersen farm at Killarney. Contact Scott Petersen 0407 622689; or Mike Burgis (07) 4638 5356 and 0428385356. Queensland Spatial Industry Conference 2008
17 - 19th, Gold Coast
http://www.qsc2008.com.au/ Dairy Day 2008 - Conference
22nd, Ipswich
Download event information and sponsor feedback form National Drought Policy Review
23rd, Kingaroy (1.30 Town Common Hall) Productivity Commission public meetings. Green Paper public information sessions
25th, 9:00 am – 12:45 pm Brisbane -- Department of Climate Change free public information sessions phone 1800 057 590 to register. Toowoomba Youth Climate Conference
25th, Toowoomba. To register for the conference e-mail your details to:
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For more information: www.youthclimateaction.pbwiki.com Planet Ark National Tree Day
27th, www.planetark.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- August 18 August 2008 - Condamine Alliance Board Meeting Toowoomba Chamber of Commerce
1st, Elizabeth Nosworthy, Chair of the Queensland Water Commission, guest luncheon speaker. Register and pay online at http://toowoombachamber.com.au/ecommerce.htm . RSVP 3pm Wednesday 30 July. Inquiries to chamber office 46379276. Environmental Excellence Awards - Toowoomba City Council
August
Nominations open 13th November 2007 and close 18th July 2008
For more information visit the Toowoomba City Council website Bunya Mountains National Park Centenary Celebration
2 - 3rd
Market-based Instruments Workshop
4 - 5th, Brisbane. Regional group and government staff are invited to attend a free workshop hosted by Designer Carrots, the national Market-based Instruments Capacity Building Program. www.marketbasedinstruments.gov.au National NRM Network meeting
4 - 8th, Canberra National Drought Policy Review
11th, Gatton. Expert Social Panel, details on 1800 200 876. National Controlled Traffic farming Conference
12 - 14th, Dubbo
www.actfa.net for details and registration Science Week
16 - 24th, www.scienceweek.info.au Australia - New Zealand: Climate Change & Business Conference
18 - 20th, SkyCity Convention Centre
Auckland, New Zealand
www.climateandbusiness.com Dalby two-day Summer Crop Grains Research Update
19 - 20th, Dalby RSL
For more information, visit the Department of Primary Industries & Fisheries website. Queensland Regional NRM Groups Collective Board meeting
21 - 22nd, Brisbane
http://www.rgc.org.au/ Surat Basin Energy Conference 2008
21st-23rd, Energy to Grow – Sustainability in the Surat Basin, Chinchilla Cultural Centre. The Western Downs Regional Development Corporation, Department of Tourism, Regional Development & Industry, and the Chinchilla Economic & Tourism Development event. For further information and to express your interest in attending email:
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, or contact Sandra Hobbs, Conference Coordinator on 0412 454 778. Keep Australia Beautiful Week
25th August - 1st September
www.keepaustraliabeautiful.org.au Holistic Management Training
25th, following on from South African educator Dick Richardson’s recent field days, considering People, Profit and the Land in your business decisions Warwick
Module 1 ~ 25-27 August
Module 2 ~ 8-10 September
Module 3 ~ 6-8 October Roma
Module 1 ~ 28-30 August
Module 2 ~ 11-13 September
Module 3 ~ 9-11 October
This course is a nine-day course. Helen Lewis on 46617393
www.insideoutsidemgt.com.au -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- September 15 September 2008 - Condamine Alliance Board Meeting Landcare Week
Early September - date TBA Save the Koala Month
September 2008
www.savethekoala.com National Weedbusters Week
1 – 7th September 2008
Fact sheets are available from http://www.weedbusterweek.info.au/publications.htm Agriculture GPS/GNSS seminar
2nd, Toowoomba, at University of Southern Queensland, organised by the International Global Navigation Satellite Systems Society, details at http://www.ignss.org/?D=49
National Conference on Volunteering
3 – 5th September 2008
Conference location: Gold Coast, Queensland. More info available at http://volunteeringaustralia.org/html/s02_article/default.asp?nav_cat_id=210&nav_top_id=55 International RiverSymposium
1 - 4th, Brisbane
Call for papers now open, closes 15th February
http://www.riverymposium.com/ Threatened Species Week
1 - 7th, Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service
Ph: (07) 3227 8862 AgShow
2 - 4th, Toowoomba
http://www.agshow.com.au/ National Threatened Species Day
7th, http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/ts-day/index.html Local Government Sustainable Development Conference
10 - 11th, Sydney. www.halledit.com.au National Bilby Day
14th, www.savethebilbyfund.com AgForce 2008 State Conference
16 - 18th, Proserpine
http://www.agforceqld.org.au/conference.asp Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers
19 - 28th, Toowoomba
http://www.toowoombacarnivalofflowers.com.au/ 2008 Queensland Landcare Conference
21 - 24th, Monto
www.landcare.org.au/Conference.htm Queensland GIS Workshop
22 - 27th; Cairns Australian Rangeland Society Biennial Conference
28th Sep. - 2nd Oct., Charters Towers. For more information: Jackie Kyte on (07) 5482 4368 or
Janine King on (07) 5541 0774 Designer Carrots National MBI Forum | | 30th - Oct 1, Registration open for the Designer Carrots National Market Based Instruments Forum - Rydges Southbank. Brisbane. To register, visit the Designer Carrots website. | |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- October 20 October 2008 - Condamine Alliance Board Meeting Green & Healthy Schools 2008 State Awards October
For more information visit the Keep Australia Beautiful Council's website World Habitat Day
1st; http://www.unhabitat.org/categories.asp?catid=564 National Weedbusters Week
4th, http://www.weedbusterweek.info.au Queensland Pest Animal Symposium
19 - 22nd, Cairns
www.dpi.qld.gov.au Veg Futures 08 Conference
19 - 23rd, Empire Theatre, Toowoomba
Contact: Greening Australia at
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National Water Week
19 - 25th
More information: Australian Water Association website National Landcare Awards
23rd, Canberra
http://www.landcareonline.com/page.asp?pID=93 Carbon Market Expo Australasia 2008
30 - 31st, Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre
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Centre for Groundwater Studies (CGS) - Short courses 2008
3 - 7th, DPI&F Conference Centre, Brisbane
Download course information and registration here http://groundwater.com.au National Recycling Week
3 - 9th; www.planetark.com.au Melbourne Cup Day
4th Australian Regional Women Leaders Convention 2008
17 - 19th, Melbourne
Download event information and registration flyer
www.womensforum.com.au or contact 1300 138 037 World GIS Day
19th Queensland Regional NRM Groups Collective Board meeting
20 - 21st, Brisbane
http://www.rgc.org.au/ Condamine Alliance AGM
Date - TBA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- December 15 December 2008 - Condamine Alliance Board Meeting International Volunteer Day
7th; www.australianvolunteers.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2009 16 February 2009 - Condamine Alliance Board Meeting
16 March 2009 - Condamine Alliance Board Meeting
20 April 2009 - Condamine Alliance Board Meeting
18 May 2009 - Condamine Alliance Board Meeting
15 June 2009 - Condamine Alliance Board Meeting
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