Diary for Tuesday August 10, 2004

AAP General News (Australia)
08-09-2004
Diary for Tuesday August 10, 2004
EVENTS LISTED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER AND LOCAL TIME UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED

ADELAIDE
0930 - Port Adelaide media conference with player Josh Carr. Alberton Oval. Contact: Hitaf
Rasheed 0414 826 813.

BRISBANE
No time given - 59th Australian International Movie Convention. Royal Pines Resort, Gold
Coast, August 10-14. Contact: Richard Payten 02 9437 0613.

0645 - Breakfast - Reaching Global Markets - A Bio Perspective. BTP Technology & Conference
Centre, Brisbane Technology Park, 1 Clunies Ross Court (off Miles Platting Rd), Eight
Mile Plains.

0730 - Energex - Meeting the challenges. Brisbane Hilton, 190 Elizabeth St. Contact: 3222 5500.

CANBERRA
1230 - Senate sits.

1400 - House of Representatives sits.

1545 - Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee on Effectiveness
of the Military Justice System in Australia, Committee Room 2S3, Parliament House, Canberra.

Contact: Saxon Patience 02 6277 3538.

1800 - Author Tony Kevin will be present to sign his latest book A Certain Maritime Incident
- the sinking of SIEV X. Paperchain Bookstore, Franklin Street, Manuka. Contact: Tony
Kevin 0414 822 171.

1930 - Senate Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts References
Committee on Budgetary and Environmental Implications on the Government's Energy White
Paper, Committee Room 2S1, Parliament House, Canberra. Contact: Michael McLean 02 6277
3526.

MELBOURNE
0730 - The Australian Consumers' Association to launch new independent website: www.flickyourbank.com.au.

Flinders Street Station, (beneath clocks). Contact: Catherine Wolthuizen 0411 670 329.

0900 - Minister, Department of Primary Industries, Bob Cameron to open the Sir Mark Oliphant
conference: International Frontiers of Science and Technology. Duxton Hotel, 328 Flinders
Street. Contact: Richard Gill 9505 6528, 0417 477 244.
0930 - The Australian Children's Television Foundation to launch Kahootz, a three-dimensional
multi-media authoring software. Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI). Federation
Square. Contact: Meredith King 9416 0122.

1100 - ABC's Australia All Over presenter Ian "Macca" McNamara to announce new additions
to Australia's Register of protected documents. Experimedia, State Library of Victoria,
328 Swanston Street. Contact: Chris Hornsey 0419 513 432.

1930 - National Science week: Great Big Science Gig, touring regional centres. Trades
Hall, New Council Chambers, cnr Lygon and Victoria streets. Contact: Chris Krishna-Pillay
9252 6264.

PERTH
1930 - Australian Labour Party WA hosts a dinner to celebrate the 100th anniversary of
the party in WA, with honoured guest Gough Whitlam to be joined by Premier Geoff Gallop
and other party personalities. Hyatt Regency Hotel, 99 St George's Tce, Perth. Contact:
Fran Laine 9328 7222.

SYDNEY
1100 - Minister for Regional Development David Campbell to launch Country Week. Speaker's
Garden of the NSW Parliament. Contact: Lisa Carty 9228 3777, 0409 407 421.

1200 - Professor Shlomo Mor-Yosef, the director-general of Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem
to speak on Mass Casualty Management in an Urban Setting. Kerry Packer Education Centre,
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Missenden Road, Camperdown. Contact: Hazel Macrae 9252 3900.

1230 - Lunchtime seminar presentation by Professor Ruth Soetendorp on IP Management and
Awareness for Professionals and Institutions. UTS Haymarket campus, Quay Street, Ultimo,
Moot Court, Ground Flood, Faculty of Law. Contact: Amrita Mukhopadhyay 9514 3750.

1230 - The Office of Public Affairs, US Consulate General to hold talk, The US and Australia
in the Global Economy with Ambassador Derek Shearer, Stuart Chevalier Professor of Diplomacy
and World Affairs at Occidental College. US Consulate General, Level 59, MLC Centre, 19-29
Martin Place, Sydney. Contact: rsvpsyd@state.gov.

1300 - Giant same sex kiss-in to oppose the federal government's bill to ban same sex
marriage. Amphitheatre, Martin Place. Contact: Emelia Holdaway 0418 496 084.

1730 - Political commentator for The Sydney Morning Herald online Margo Kingston to give
talk Not Happy, John: Reflections of a Web Diarist, for the Sydney Institute. Museum of
Sydney Theatrette, cnr Phillip and Bridge Streets, Sydney. Contact: 9252 3366.

SPORT
GALLOPS -
Wangaratta
Rockhampton
Taree
TROTS -
Harold Park
Nyah
Albion Park
Northam
GREYHOUNDS -
Gosford
Warragul
Gold Coast
Gawler
Lismore
Horsham
Devonport
Ipswich

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KEYWORD: DIARY TUESDAY AUGUST 10, 2004

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