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Program

Thursday 22 July 2010
10.00 Bus Transfer from Melbourne Airport to The Sebel Heritage
11.00 Bus Transfer from Melbourne Airport to The Sebel Heritage
   
10.00 Registration Commences
12.00 Lunch
2.00 Conference Opening and Welcome to Country
2.30 Danielle Green MP, Parilamentary Secretary for Police and Emergency Services and State Labor Member for Yan Yean
3.30 Afternoon Tea
4.00 Keynote Address
Christine Nixon,
Chair, Victorian Bushfire Reconstruction and Recovery Authority
5.00 Close of Day 1
5.30 Welcome Reception
 
Friday 23 July 2010
   
7.30 Breakfast
  Health Bodies, Minds, Workplaces and Communities Building Strength Same But Different
9.00 MFB ‘Protecting the Community’: Primary Prevention of a Different Kind, Steve O’Malley AFSM, Metropolitan Fire Brigade, VIC Women and Activism In The Fire Service and Union, Marina Findeis, New South Wales Fire Brigades, NSW The Recruitment and Inclusion of Women in Full-time Firefighting Within Queensland Fire and Rescue Service (QFRS), Janine Taylor, Queensland Fire and Rescue Service Recruitment, QLD
9.50 ‘Ashes of the Fire Fighters’ If you Stop Laughing you Start Screaming, PTSD and Fire Fighters, Vivien Thomson AFSM, Thomson Coaching/Consulting Services Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting (ARFF) Culture Review, Brooke Chisholm, Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting and Kim Papp, Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting Gender Inclusion at the Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Board, Melbourne, Graham Fountain, Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Board, VIC
10.30 Morning Tea
  Health Bodies, Minds, Workplaces and Communities

Builing Strength

Same But Different
11.00 Self-efficacy and Mastery, Glenn Melvin, Monash University, VIC and Ann Locarnini, Monash University, VIC A Guardian Angel is Looking Over Me, Agnès Castaigns, New South Wales Fire Brigade (retained), NSW LEADERSHIP IN POLICING: How to Walk Confidently In Sexy High Heels, Jenny Pavlou, Victoria Police, VIC
11.50 Industrial Fire Fighting - from Mining to Petrol Refining, Siobhan Woolley, Caltex Refineries, NSW Diversity in Firefighting Workforces, and Industrial Organising by Firefighting Unions - Complementary or Competing?, Jim Casey, New South Wales Fire Brigade Employees’ Union, NSW The Women and Fire Mentoring Program - Building Capacity and Sustainablity for Rural Brigades, Julie Winzar, Country Fire Authority, VIC
12.35 Lunch
2.00

Indoor Workshop

Outdoor Workshop
Reslilence - The Power of Optimistic Thinking, Paul Smith, Peak Performance Mini Challege


3.30 Afternoon Tea
4.00 Black Sturday How and Why - Challenges for the Future
Rod Stebbing, Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Board, VIC
5.00 Close of Day 2
7.00 Conference Dinner
 
Saturday 24 July 2010
7.30 Breakfast
9.00 Women and Firefighting Australasia, Annual General Meeting
9.45 Keynote Address
Janine Shepherd AM, Awakening Human Potential
11.00 Morning Tea
11.30

How Women Break Glass Ceilings
Paul Smith,
Peak Performance

12.45 Conference Closing
1.00 Lunch
2.00 Bus Transfers to Melbourne Airport
2.30 Bus Transfers to Melbourne Airport