Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

National Library of Australia
Light breakfast will be served on arrival

• Professor Linda Rosenman, CHASS President, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research and Region), Victoria University, Melbourne
• Matilda House, Ngambri elder
• Jan Fullerton, Director-General, National Library of Australia

CHASS has invited core member organisations, and sector leaders to open discussion on the issues and opportunities which will be priorities from 2010 to 2012 and the strategies required to promote and build recognition of the humanities, arts and social sciences.

• Professor Linda Rosenman, CHASS President, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research and Region), Victoria University in Melbourne
• Professor Stuart Macintyre FAHA FASSA, President, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
• Professor Ian Donaldson FAHA, President, The Australian Academy of the Humanities
• Professor Anthony Cahalan, President, The Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
• Dr Julianne Schultz AM, Member of the Minister for the Arts' Creative Australia Advisory Group and Editor, Griffith Review

• Chair: Helen O'Neil, CHASS Executive Director

Read biographies

This session will open up for discussion of CHASS' paper 'HASS Issues and Priorities 2010'. Professor Rosenman will brief the delegates on the activities of CHASS over 2008-09 and the strategic plan for 2009-2012.

• Chair: Professor Linda Rosenman, CHASS President

Read 2010 issues for HASS sector

An Australian Cultural Policy to 2020

The Hon Peter Garrett AM MP, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts

This session will look at where humanities, creative arts and social sciences should be making a major contribution to meeting the policy challenges before Australia. An expert panel will look at effective approaches for the sharing and exchange of knowledge between government and university based researchers, in order to enhance the evidence-base upon which Government policies are designed, implemented and evaluated.

• Professor Penny D Sackett, Chief Scientist for Australia
• Emeritus Professor Meredith Edwards AM FASSA, University of Canberra, CHASS Board
• Dr Jeff Harmer, Secretary of the Department of Family, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA)
• Chair: Professor Ross Homel AO FASSA, CHASS Vice-President, Foundation Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University

Read biographies

Delegates to meet partners accompanying them to meet with MPs. The next session will guide delegates in describing their work and its significance. Partners are encouraged to attend this session together to help develop the approach they will take in their meeting.

This panel has leaders in the field of how to set the agenda in public affairs and how to influence public opinion in contemporary Australia. The aim of the session is to assist registrants to describe their work and its significance in simple succinct terms.

6 delegates will be invited to give one minute presentations on what they will present to Ministers in their meetings. The panel will give comments and responses on the presentations. Delegates will then take the advice and feedback into the following day's meetings at Parliament House.

• Panel: Professor Catharine Lumby, CHASS Board, Director of Journalism and Media Research Centre, UNSW
• Panel: Professor Stuart Cunningham FAHA, CHASS Board, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, QUT
• Panel: Neil Lawrence, STW Communications Group Ltd
• Panel: Brett Gale, Executive Director, Tourism & Transport, Victoria
• Chair: Helen O'Neil, CHASS Executive Director

Read biographies

The Annual General Meeting will consider changes to governance provisions in the Constitution resulting in adoption of a new Constitution, the President's Report, the Auditor's Report, and election of the 2009-2010 Board.

• CHASS President: Professor Linda Rosenman
• CHASS Secretary: Mr Stuart Hamilton AO

Read the Annual General Meeting papers

Bus 1 North: University House, Civic
Bus 2 South: The Kurrajong, Brassey House, Hotel Realm

Ginger Room, Old Parliament House, Capital Hill

Registrants with an 8:00am meeting are to be at the security desk by 7:40 am to collect your security pass and go directly to the room of your meeting.

Collect your security pass and meet at the Main Committee Room

The Main Committee Room will be the main venue for the day's program and will also be the base room for the day. Delegates are asked to return to this room between appointments.

• Professor Linda Rosenman, CHASS President

The Parliamentary Secretary address to delegates

• Senator the Hon Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research
• The Hon Richard Marles MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Innovation and Industry
• The Hon Maxine McKew MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Infrastructure
• Mandy Martin, Artist
• Chair: Professor Linda Rosenman, CHASS President

Topic: Language and cultural awareness

The roundtable will focus on the teaching of foreign/community languages other than English in schools and universities, issues surrounding Indigenous languages in bilingual education, and the critical need for an improved effort for English as a Second Language (ESL) provision in schooling. The main aim is to interact with policy makers linking research to practical problems. This session will bring together academic and practitioner leaders in fields being debated in the media or of public interest with the aim of making research and knowledge accessible to them.

• The Hon Laurie Ferguson MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Multicultural Affairs and Settlement Services
• Mr Mark Dreyfus QC, MP - 10:45 am to 11:45 am
• Ms Maria Vamvakinou MP, Federal Member for Calwell
• Ms Kerry Rea MP, Federal Member for Bonner
• The Hon George Brandis MP, Senator for Queensland
• Professor Kent Anderson FAHA, Director of the Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University
• Professor Richard Fotheringham FAHA, Executive Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Queensland
• Associate Professor Helen Moore, School of Education, The University of New South Wales
• Adriano Truscott, Deptartment of Education and Training, Western Australia
• Ms Misty Adoniou, Lecturer in Language and Literacy Education, Faculty of Education, University of Canberra
• Mr Matthew Absalom, Lecturer - Italian Studies, The University of Melbourne and Representative of the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Association
• Kathe Kirby, Executive Director, Asialink, University of Melbourne
• Chair: Professor Joseph Lo Bianco FAHA, Chair Language and Literacy Education at the University of Melbourne

Read Discussion paper and biographies

Read MP and Senator statements

Delegates are invited as audience to the roundtable discussions

(concurrent session)

Topic: Social inclusion in education: The challenge of creating capable students in higher education

The roundtable will discuss the key programs and policies needed to achieve the Bradley Review target of 20 per cent participation in higher education from socio-economic groups disadvantaged through low incomes, remoteness and other barriers and implications for how Australia supports families and children.

• Senator the Hon Urusula Stephens, Parliamentary Secretary for Social Inclusion and the Voluntary Sector - 11:00am to 11:20am
• Ms Anna Burke MP, Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives
• Senator Trish Crossin, Senator for Northern Territory
• Senator Rachel Siewert, Senator for Western Australia
• Ms Sharon Bird MP, Electoral Division of Cunningham (NSW)
• Dr Merryn Davies, Co-Director of Victoria University's Access and Success Project
• Associate Professor Marian Baird, University of Sydney
• Professor Cathryn McConaghy, Dean, Faculty of Education, University of Canberra
• Mr Sam Sellar, Post Doctoral Research Fellow, University of South Australia
• Professor Jennifer Bowes, Institute of Early Childhood, Macquarie University
• Professor Faith Trent AM FACE, Executive Dean, Faculty of Education, Humanities, Law and Theology, Flinders University
• Ms Dianne Peacock, Director - Student Income Support Policy, Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
• Mr Jason Coutts, Branch Manager - Equity Performance and Indigenous, Higher Education Group, Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations

• Co-chair: Professor Trevor Gale, Director, National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education, University of South Australia
• Chair: Professor Ross Homel AO FASSA, CHASS Vice-President, Foundation Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University

Read Discussion paper and biographies

Delegates are invited as audience to the roundtable discussions

Meetings with MPs and Senators continue throughout the day

Board meeting for incoming CHASS board members

All registrants are invited to attend Question Time in the House (or Senate)

Delegates will have the opportunity to speak with Shadow Ministers and to hear their ideas about Australia's innovation and education systems.

• Malcolm Turnbull, MP Leader of the Opposition, to speak to delegates
• Senator Eric Abetz, Shadow Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, to speak to delegates
• Chair: Professor Stuart Cunningham

CHASS secretariat to collect feedback sheets and discuss meetings in the Main Committee Room
Some delegates may have late meetings with MPs