BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.0.1//EN TZID:Australia/Sydney X-WR-TIMEZONE:Australia/Sydney BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1@austpeaceandsecurityforum.org.au DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240924T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240924T190000 DTSTAMP:20240906T021557Z URL:https://austpeaceandsecurityforum.org.au/events/launch-of-the-australi an-peace-and-security-forum/ SUMMARY:Launch of the Australian Peace and Security Forum: DESCRIPTION:‘The conversation we must have’\nHumanity sits on the cusp of a multi-faceted catastrophe. The peace and security of Australians is b eing undermined by climate disruption\, the erosion of biodiversity\, nucl ear weapons proliferation\, regional conflicts\, cyber threats and pandemi cs.\n\nHow do we avoid catastrophe?\n\nThe APSF Vision is for peace and se curity for all Australians. As a first step\, we want to see a broad natio nal peace and security strategy developed by the Federal Government with i nput by the wider community.\n\nMC:         Matilda Byrne\, Co-Pre sident and founding member APSF\nSpeakers:\n\n Andrew Wilkie MP\, Indepen dent Member for Clark\, Tasmania\n Major General Michael G Smith AO (Retd )\, founding member APSF\n Professor Anne Poelina\, University of Notre D ame WA\, Deputy President and founding member APSF\n Professor Raina Maci ntyre\, UNSW\, epidemiologist\, founding member APSF\n Professor Penny Sa ckett\, ANU\, former Australian Chief Scientist\, founding member APSF\n\n Register here.\n\nSpeaker Bios\nAndrew Wilkie MP\nAndrew was elected to th e House of Representatives for Denison\, Tasmania in 2010\, re-elected 201 3 and 2016\, and elected to the House of Representatives for Clark\, Tasma nia\, in 2019 following electoral redistribution\, and re-elected in 2022. He is an Independent Member of Parliament. Before entering politics Andre w served with the Australian Army from 1980 to 2004. An officer with the R oyal Australian Infantry Corps who had earlier commanded a company of the  6th Battalion\, Royal Australian Regiment. At the time of his entry to p ublic life\, Wilkie was posted to Australia’s Office of National Assess ments as an intelligence analyst. In 2003\, in the lead-up to the Iraq War\, he resigned from his position at ONA because he feared the humanitar ian consequences of invasion. He opposed Australia’s contribution to t he 2003 invasion of Iraq under the Howard government. Among other issu es\, Andrew campaigned for the release of Julian Assange from prison in th e UK\, and continues to campaign for gambling reform.\nMatilda Byrne\nMati lda is the National Coordinator of the Australia Stop Killer Robots campai gn\, based at SafeGround\, an Australian NFP that seeks to reduce the imp acts of legacy and emerging weapons. She is currently completing her PhD o n ‘the application of the Responsibility to Protect’ at RMIT\, where s he is also a sessional lecturer in international relations. Matilda focuse s on disarmament and global governance responses to international and huma n security issues.\nMajor General Michael G Smith AO (Retd)\nMike served f or 34 years in the Australian Army\, including overseas service in Papua N ew Guinea\, Cambodia and Timor-Leste.  In 1999 he was Director-General Ea st Timor\, before being appointed as the inaugural Deputy Force Commander of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor 2000-2001. Mike is the Chair of the Development Advisory Committee of the Calleo Ind igenous Community Fund\, Chair of the Gallipoli Scholarship Fund\, a Non-e xecutive Director of the Institute for Economics and Peace and the Austral ian Respiratory Council\, and a founding member of the Australian Peace an d Security Forum. He is a former CEO of Austcare (now Action Aid Australia ) and the founding Executive Director of the Australian Civil-Military Cen tre. He has served in the United Nations in both military and civilian app ointments and is a past National President of the United Nations Associati on of Australia. Mike holds a BA (Mil) from UNSW and Master of Internation al Relations from ANU. He is a graduate of the Cranlana Leadership Program and Company Directors Course.\nProfessor Anne Poelina\nAnne is Chair of I ndigenous Knowledges and Senior Research Fellow Nulungu Institute\, Univer sity of Notre Dame Australia. She is a Kimberley\, Nyikina Warrwa Indigeno us woman\; Chair\, Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council\, an active community leader\, human and earth rights advocate\, and filmmaker. Anne holds membe rship to national and global Think Tanks. A Peter Cullen Fellow\, Professo r\, College Indigenous Education Futures\, Arts &\; Society\, Charles D arwin University with Visiting Fellowships at the Australian National Univ ersity\, Canberra\, Charles Darwin University and the Institute for Post-C olonial Studies\, Melbourne. Anne was the Murray Darling Basin (MDB) inaug ural First Nations appointment to its independent Advisory Committee on So cial\, Economic and Environmental Sciences (2022). Awarded Kailisa Budevi Earth and Environment Award\, International Women’s Day (2022) recogniti on of her global standing. In 2017 as non-IPCC Scientist gave the Plenary address to UNESCO to speak to the growing uncertainty of Climate Change. A warded a Laureate from the Women’s World Summit Foundation (Geneva\, 201 7). Collaboration with His Holiness\, Pope Francis’s encyclical entitled Laudato Si: On Care of Our Common Home\, with eminent scientific scholars in the Vatican and through the Nulungu Institute\, Kimberley Transition ’. Anne continues to collaborate with Indigenous scholars in New Zealand \, the USA and Canada and the International Global Aboriginal Research Net work GARN.\nProfessor Raina Macintyre\nRaina is Professor of Global Biosec urity\, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow and Head of the Biosecurity Progra m at the Kirby Institute\, UNSW. She leads a research program in control a nd prevention of infectious diseases\, spanning vaccinology\, pandemics\, bioterrorism and emerging infections. She has led the development of EPIWA TCH\, an AI-driven epidemic observatory that has proven capability in earl y detection of serious outbreaks. Raina has received many awards and is cu rrently a member of the WHO SAGE working group on smallpox and Mpox. Her f irst book\, Dark Winter – and insider’s guide to pandemics and biosec urity was published in 2022.\nProfessor Penny D Sackett\nAs Chief Scienti st for Australia (2008-2011)\, Professor Sackett provided independent advi ce to the Australian government on matters of science and innovation\, and was a vocal champion of evidenced-based decision making. She spearheaded the effort to introduce long-term\, cross-portfolio and cross-disciplinary foresight into the Prime Minister’s Science\, Engineering and Innovatio n Council\, and opened new channels of communication to the Australian pub lic on matters of science\, particularly those related to sustainability s uch as energy\, water\, climate change\, food security\, global epidemics\ , and life-long learning.\n\nPenny is a Distinguished Honorary Professor a t the ANU’s Institute for Climate\, Energy &\; Disaster Solutions. Sh e was Director of the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics (a par t of ANU) for five years. In her role as Director\, she was responsible fo r the management of Mount Stromlo Observatory\, ACT (during the rebuilding period after the 2003 fires) and Siding Spring Observatory in Coonabarabr an\, NSW. She is often called as an expert witness in climate change court cases. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Sydney X-LIC-LOCATION:Australia/Sydney BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20240407T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR