Thank you to you and our speakers and our sponsors for making this a wonderful event. It was exhausting but exhilarating, and now we’re pleased to share these video recordings.
Your event organisers,
Jenny Goldie
Rod Taylor
Stephen Curtain
Walter Jehne
Ben Fox
Phil Lee
Day 1 – Thursday 17 March
Regenerative agriculture chaired by Jenny Goldie
Welcome to Conference – Jenny Goldie, SPA President
Welcome to the Academy’s Shine Dome – Dr TJ Higgins
Welcome to country – Shane Mortimer
Official Opening – Prof John Hewson
Keynote – Dr Charles Massy author: Call of the Reed Warbler
Australia’s soil, water and vegetation as strategic assets chaired by Prof Robyn Alders AO
Admiral Chris Barrie, ANU and former head of Australian Defence Forces
The Hon Penny Wensley AC, National Soils Advocate
Walter Jehne, Regenerate Earth/Healthy Soils Australia – Whither Australia’s Agriculture 2030?
Indigenous Farming chaired by Prof Barbara Norman
Dr Patrice Newell author: Who’s minding the farm?
Farming today chaired by Prof Barbara Norman
Matthew Evans author: Soil
Gabrielle Chan, author Why You Should Give a F**k About Farming
Restoring the soil chaired by Bethaney Turner
John Feehan – Improving soil with dung beetles
Dr Wolfram Buss – The role of biochar
Guy Webb, SoilCQuest – Restoring the Soil