Order Communities in Control Videos or DVDs
For those of you who might have missed a Communities
in Control Conference - or who want to revisit some of the inspiring
presentations from the past, videos or DVDs for each of the conferences
are available.
2011
The 2011 Communities in Control Conference DVD features speakers including:
- Hon. Damian Drum MLC,
Victorian Parliamentary Secretary for Regional Development
- Linda Lavarch
Chair, Australian Government Not-for-Profit Sector Reform Council
- Hugh Mackay
Pyschologist, social researcher, writer
- Miriam Lyons
Executive Director, Centre for Policy Development
- Sharan Burrow
General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) & former ACTU head
- Mark Scott
Managing Director, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
- Phil Ruthven
Founder & Chair, IBISWorld
- The Hon Joan Kirner AM
Former Premier of Victoria and Victorian Communities Ambassador
- Cr Stephen Mayne
Manningham City Councillor, Crikey Founder & shareholder activist
- Luke Ryan
writer & comedian
- Cr Samantha Dunn
Shire of Yarra Ranges Councillor & President, Victorian Local Governance Association
- Angela Savage
Executive Officer, Association of Neighbourhood Houses and Learning Centres
- Brett de Hoedt
Mayor, Hootville Communications
- Elizabeth Broderick
Sex Discrimination and Age Discrimination Commissioner
- Simon McKeon
2011 Australian of the Year, entrepreneur, business and community leader
The DVD can be ordered in the Shop.
2010
The 2010 Communities in Control Conference DVD features speakers including:
- The Honourable Jenny Macklin
Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
- David Hetherington
Executive Director, Per Capita (Australia's independent progressive think tank)
- Rebecca Huntley
Social reseacher & commentator; Director of Research, Ipsos Mackay
- Kate Smither
Head of Planning, George Patterson Y&R advertising agency
- Mary O'Hagan
Mental health consumer expert & advocate and former New Zealand Mental Health Commissioner
- 'Nukkan.Kungun.Yunnan' ('See, Listen, Speak') - Change Media
2010 Kookaburra Award winner - Project
- Andrew Heslop - Founder, Neighbour Day
2010 Kookaburra Award winner - Individual
- Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
2010 Kookaburra Award winner - Community Group
- The Honourable Lily D'Ambrosio MLA
Victorian Parliamentary Secretary, Community Development
- Emeritus Professor Richard Wilkinson & Professor Kate Pickett
Social epidemilogists & authors, 'The Spirit Level'
- Brett de Hoedt
Mayor, Hootville Communications
- Hugh de Kretser
Executive Officer, Federation of Community Legal Centres
- Paul Bird
Director, Mission Australia
- Stephen Mayne
Crikey founder & shareholder activist
- Monique Hardinge
President, Melbourne University Debating Society
- Dr Anne Summers AO
Writer, journalist, author
- Christine Nixon
Chair, Victorian Bushfire Reconstruction & Recovery Authority; former Victoria Police Commissioner
- The Hon. John Cain
Former Premier of Victoria
- Simon Mansell
Poet and choir member, Choir of Hope & Inspiration
The DVD can be ordered in the Shop.
2009
The 2009 Communities in Control Conference DVD features speakers including:
- The Honourable Jenny Macklin
Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
- Professor Len Syme PhD
Professor of Epidemiology and Community Health (Emeritus), University of California, Berkeley
- Catherine Deveny
Comedian & Columnist
- Major David Eldridge
Chair, National Youth Commission Inquiry into Youth Homelessness
- The Honourable Lily D'Ambrosio MLA
Victorian Parliamentary Secretary, Community Development
- Lucy Filor & Daryl Taylor
Kinglake Ranges Peak Community Group (KANGO)
- Professor Mick Dodson AM
2009 Australian of the Year
- Richard Watson
Futurist, business adviser and author
- Hon. Joan Kirner
Victorian Community Ambassador
- Clare Martin
CEO, ACOSS
- Brett de Hoedt
Mayor, Hootville Communications
- Joan Hughes
CEO, Carers Australia
- Lesley Hall
CEO, Australian Federation of Disability Organisations
- Jonathon Welch
Director, Choir of Hope and Inspiration
The DVD can be ordered in the Shop.
2008
The 2008 Communities in Control Conference DVD features speakers including:
- The Honourable Jenny Macklin,
Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
- Professor Tim Flannery,
2007 Australian of the Year, scientist, global warming activist, adventurer
- Dr Noel Purcell,
Special Advisor to Westpac
- Michele Levine,
Chief Executive, Roy Morgan Research
- The Honourable Bill Shorten MP,
Parliamentary Secretary for Disability and Children's Services
- Community Idol Finalists,
Ian Roberts, Blyth Regional Cinema; Desley Casey, Consumer Activity Network (Mental Health) Inc.; Michael Linke, RSPCA ACT
- Julian Morrow,
The Chaser
- The Honourable Peter Batchelor MP,
Victorian Minister for Community Development
- Pat Turner AM,
CEO, National Indigenous TV (NITV)
- Professor Fran Baum,
Head of the Departmentof Public Health, Flinders University
- The Honourable Joan Kirner,
Former Premier of Victoria, Victorian Community Ambassador
- Meredith Carter,
Kindergarten Parents Victoria
- Debbie Kilroy,
Director, Sisters Inside
- Jenny McGregor,
Chief Executive, Asialink
- Stella Young,
Journalist, TV presenter & educator
- Kate Gilmore,
Executive Deputy Secretary-General, Amnesty International
The DVD can be ordered in the Shop.
2007
The 2007 Communities in Control Conference featured speakers including:
- Angela Glover Blackwell
- Dr Jack Mundey AO
- Senator The Hon. Kay Patterson
- Sharan Burrow
- Sam Lipski AM
- Tom Bentley
- The Honourable Peter Batchelor MLA
- Bernard Salt
- Eva Cox AO
- Heloise Waislitz
The DVD can be ordered in the Shop.
2006
The 2006 Communities in Control Conference featured speakers including:
- Bryce Courtenay
- Amanda Sinclair
- Meredith Minkler
- Barry Jones
- Jacqui Katona
- Christopher Newell
- Phil Ruthven
- Kevin Sheedy, and
- The three Community Idol finalists
The DVD can be ordered in the Shop.
2005
The speakers at the 2005 Communities in Control Conference included:
- Judy Rogers
- Geraldine Doogue
- Robert Manne
- Chris Sarra
- Fiona Smith
- Rick Farley
- Dick Estens
- Neville Norman, and
- The three finalists from the first Community Idol contest
The DVD can be ordered in the Shop.
2004
The 2004 Communities in Control Conference featured speakers including:
- Sir David Henshaw
- Shelley Martin
- Phillip Adams
- Richard Eckersley
- Clive Hamilton
- Hugh Evans, and
- Simon Longstaff
The DVD can be ordered in the Shop.
2003
The inaugural Communities in Control Conference featured speakers including:
- Lisa Berkman
- Len Syme
- Sir Gustav Nossal
- Fiona Stanley
- Amanda Vanstone, and
- Stephen Mayne
Limited stocks of the video are still available. To order, contact Alan Matic at Our Community on (03) 9320 6805, or via email alanm@ourcommunity.com.au.
