2-Day Program, Speakers & Panellists

Day 1 - Day Session. Bicentennial Hall, 253 Crawford St, Queanbeyan NSW.

7.45am Doors OPEN for 8.15 start. Coffee cart on site.

MC Suzannah Cowley (NVIRO Media) will commence proceedings.

Welcome to Country.

Paul Girrawah House (Ngambri-Ngunnawal custodian of the Canberra region with Wiradjuri, Walgalu and Ngunnawal ancestry).

Welcome and Introduction.

Matt Egerton-Warburton (Chair Mulloon Institute & Mulloon Law Committee).
Carolyn Hall (Mulloon Institute CEO and Managing Director).

Film: Mulloon Rehydration Initiative and landholder involvement.

Panel: Mulloon Rehydration Initiative (MRI) – Landholder benefits, challenges and outcomes of catchment-scale landscape rehydration. Facilitated by Suzannah Cowley.

Panellists: Peter Hazell, Gerry Carroll, Sue Tuisk, Marty Shelley.

Discussion: Landscape Rehydration and restoration education building capacity across Australia. Facilitated by Jono Forrest.

Mulloon Institute’s Dr Laura Fisher, Tam Connor + Erin Healy

Speaker: Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

Speaker: Simon Goodhand, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

10:10–10.40 Morning tea and display booths open in the foyer. Mulloon Catchment diorama display and stream table.

Speakers: Mulloon Rehydration Initiative – Presentation of Results

Speaker 1 – Peter Hazell (Mulloon Institute) – Monitoring the MRI - an overview.

Speaker 2 – Dr Leah Moore (Mulloon Science Advisory Committee/Australian National University) – Hydrology results from the MRI to date.

Speaker 3 – Phil Tickle (CIBO Labs) – Satellite imagery and biomass change.

Panel: Mulloon Rehydration Initiative – Results so far. Facilitated by Carolyn Hall.

Panellists: Peter Hazell (Mulloon Institute), Phil Tickle (CIBO Labs), Dr Leah Moore (Mulloon Science Advisory Committee/Australian National University), Dr Paul Cooper (Australian National University) – invertebrates, Sam Patmore – frogs, Damon Oliver (NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water) – birds.

Film: CReST.

Chris Inskeep (Mulloon Institute) discusses the CReST (Catchment Rehydration Selection Tool) with Carolyn Hall.

12:15 – 13.15 LUNCH

Panel: The opportunities and challenges of funding large scale landscape restoration. Facilitated by Carolyn Hall

Panellists: Skye Glenday (Climate Friendly), Carmel Onions (CBA), Andrew Ward (Regen Farmers Mutual), Hannah Tilakumara (Eco Markets).

Film: Climate Friendly.

Keynote Speaker: Law and Policy

Rob Stokes (Former NSW Minister for Planning and Public Spaces)

Panel: Regulatory reform for scaling landscape rehydration and restoration. Facilitated by Dr Gerry Bates (Mulloon Law Committee)

Panellists: Matt Egerton-Warburton, David Holmes (Umwelt), Wilfred Finn (Mulloon Board Director and Law Committee), Dr Emma Carmody (Mulloon Law Committee).

14.55–15:25 Afternoon tea and display booths open in the foyer. Mulloon Catchment diorama display and stream table.

Keynote Speaker: Finding the Mulloon message: 19 years of observation, reflection and learning.

Stuart Naylor– WaterNSW.

Panel: Our Landscape Restoration work across Australia. Facilitated by Jono Forrest (Mulloon Consulting).

Panellists: NT – Fiona McBean, WA – Warren Pensini, Mike Clarke – Top End Conservation Management, David Gallacher – Charles Darwin University/ Northern Hub, Lance Mudgway (Mulloon Consulting).

Panel: Bridging science and community for whole of system approaches. Facilitated by Emeritus Professor Stephen Dovers (Chair Mulloon Science Advisory Committee).

Panellists: Professor Justin Borewitz (Mulloon Science Advisory Committee), Turlough Guerin (Landcare NSW), Andrew Walsh (NT LLS), Ben Taylor (Nature Glenelg Trust).

Film: Catch Water Restore Land.

Closing remarks.

Carolyn Hall.

Day 1 - Evening Session. Bicentennial Hall, 253 Crawford St, Queanbeyan NSW.

17:30 Cocktail drinks and canapes, Foyer at Bicentennial Hall.

Networking drinks.

18:30 Dinner, Auditorium at Bicentennial Hall.

Connect with like-minded professionals and expand your circle over great food and conversation!

Day 2 - Field trip to Mulloon Creek Natural Farms

8:15–8:30 Coaches collect everyone from Queanbeyan.

Welcome to Country.

Tour at site 1 – Duralla hill walk.

Tour at site 2 – Leaky weir on Honeymoon Crossing, Mulloon Creek at Pelarang.

Back on bus, travel to the Barn at Home Farm for morning tea, rest rooms, enjoy the gardens and lake.

Welcome to Mulloon Home Farm.

MC – Suzannah Cowley.

Welcome to Mulloon Creek Natural Farms.

Carolyn Hall.

Presentation: Mulloon Rehydration Initiative – Exploring the importance of community in farming.

Peter Hazell.

Panel: Mulloon Landholders – the Catchment community. Facilitated by Suzannah Cowley.

Panellists: Peter Hazell, Gerry Carroll, Sue Tuisk, Marty Shelley.

12:35–13:45 Lunch.

14:00 Board coaches and return to Queanbeyan.

15:00 Arrive Queanbeyan and depart for home.

The Mulloon Institute has been recognised by the United Nations Sustainable Solutions Network as being one of five projects globally, as a demonstrator of sustainable, profitable and productive farming. The Mulloon Rehydration Initiative is jointly funded through the Mulloon Institute and the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program and is supported by the NSW Government’s Environmental Trust.