A Tax Won’t Fix Climate Change

- Recorded debate – live audience and voting

Holy ozone layer, Batman! Are climate films like The Day After Tomorrow and 2012 purely fiction, or are we headed for an environmental apocalypse? Time for the public to decide…

Simon Longstaff of the St James Ethics Centre will host this important and topical debate with a panel of climate change crusaders and sceptics- all with a different point of view. Using a filmed debate run recently in Melbourne in which each speaker has nine minutes to address their side of the topic (Oxford Rules ladies and gents), the local (live) audience has the opportunity for input, and a vote will be taken on the outcome.

Speakers
Tim Flannery – Writer, Scientist, Explorer and 2007 Australian of the Year.
Sinclair Davidson – Professor in School Economics, Finance and Marketing at RMIT University, Melbourne, Senior Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs
Adam Bandt – Greens MP and Federal Member for Melbourne
Matthew Wright – author of ‘Zero Carbon Australia Plan’, and 2010 Young Environmentalist of the Year

The Screen is Mightier than the Sword

- Live debate – live audience and voting

Can world events be influenced by Facebook, Twitter and TV? Can films change lives? Or is the power of money, military might and political deals the real source of power? You will be provoked, stimulated and informed. Then you decide!
Simon Longstaff of the St James Ethics Centre will host a debate around how film and television does / doesn’t influence us. Each speaker will have nine minutes to address their side of the topic (Oxford Rules, ladies and gents), and then the audience has the opportunity for input, and a vote will be taken on the outcome.

Speakers
Jonathan auf der Heide – Actor, Writer, Teacher and Director (‘Van Diemen’s Land’ 2009. ‘Hells Gates’ 2008)
Marcia Langton – Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies, The University of Melbourne and actress ‘Here I Am’
Brian Rosen – President of the Screen Producers Association, Australia, filmmaker and philanthropist
Major General (ret’d) Jim Molan – Coalition’s Chief of Operations during combat in Iraq and author of the best seller ‘Running the War in Iraq’
Dr Natasha Cica – Director, Inglis Clark Centre for Civil Society, University of Tasmania, social columnist on culture and politics for The Age, The Australian, and the Australian Financial Review.