Forums

2017 Forums

Combined Government & Business Forum – “Towards a Shared Future” – 26 September 2017

Agenda

Speaker Presentations

Photos

: Jarrod Bleijie MP and Mark McMahon

: Henry Pike, Adrian Allen and Chris Mountford

: Dean Sherwell and Darrell Edwards

: Cr Peter Cox and Mayor Tony Wellington

: CGBF Panel Mayor Tony Wellington

: CGBF James Tuma

: Sandy Zubrinich and Cr Greg Rogerson

: Mark McArdle MP and Andrew Powell MP

: Lynda Tanner and Ted O’Brien MP

Think tank Series 3 – Protecting the diversity and richness of the Sunshine Coast Region beyond its economic value.

Think Tank Series 3 Session 1 – 29 May 2017

Agenda

Speaker Presentations:

Think Tank Series 3 Session 2 – 26 June 2017

Agenda

Speaker Presentations:

Urban Evolution of the Sunshine Coast conference, Thursday, 8 June 2017

Urban Evolution Brochure

Presentations

Photos

: Bruce Bennett and Tony Vickers

: Kate Meyrick and Stephanie Wyeth

: Lachlan Grantley and Brad Davies

: Matthew Glossop and Michael Danieluk

: Narelle McCarthy and John Hare

: Sandy Zubrinich and Malcolm Snow

: Todd Mumberson and Lynda Tanner

: Tony Sowden and Jarrod Bleijie

Annual Strategy Member Discussion held on 9 March 2017

Agenda

Presentations

Photos

: Ted O’Brien MP (Federal Member for Fairfax), Sandy Zubrinich (Chair of the Sunshine Coast Business Council) and Fiona Simpson MP (State Member for Maroochydore)

: Kerrie Bryant-Adams (Sunshine Coast Business Council) and Mayor Tony Wellington (Noosa Mayor)

: Michael Hurley (Aria), Michael Shadforth (Sunshine Coast Chamber Alliance) and Tony Scanlon (Scanlon Property Group)

: Darrell Edwards (RDA Sunshine Coast) and Gary McCulloch (Telstra Business Sunshine, Moreton and Central Coasts)

: Paul Wilson (TAFE East Coast) and Don Maconachie (University of the Sunshine Coast)

: Ben Simpson (Stockland) and Adrian Allen (Stockland and Property Council of Australia)

: Roz White (White’s IGA) and Leanne Layfield (Caloundra Chamber of Commerce)

: Adrian Just (Australian Institute of Architects Sunshine Coast) and Evan Aldridge (Sekisui House)

: Gary McCulloch (Telstra Business Sunshine, Moreton and Central Coasts) and Tony Vickers (Midson Construction)

: Tony Sowden (Sunshine Coast Business Council) and Tony Scanlon (Scanlon Property Group)

: John McKewin (NAB) and Michael Hurley (Aria)

2016 Forums

Annual General Meeting and Christmas Function held on Thursday 24 November 2016

Chair’s Report 2016

: (l-r) Tony Sowden, Narelle McCarthy, Mayor Tony Wellington, Tony Scanlon

: (l-r) Anne Lawrence and Paul Burns

: (l-r) Bill Darby and Barrie Adams

: (l-r) David Oliver, Hayden Rudd, Fiona Simpson MP and Steve Dickson MP

: (l-r) Hayden Rudd, Tony Vickers and Dustin Welch

: (l-r) John McKewin and Jason Powell

: (l-r) Lynda Tanner and Nathan Percy

: (l-r) Patrick Sherwood and Darren Walters

Combined Government & Business Forum held on Wednesday 24 August 2016

Forum Program

Speaker presentations

Media Coverage

Sunshine Coast Daily – Private sector should build light rail: Uni expert

Forum photos

: Deputy Mayor Cn Tim Dwyer SCC, Ted O’Brien LNP Federal Member for Fairfax, Sandy Zubrinich Chair SCBC, Jarrod Bleijie Member for Kawana (LNP), Mayor Tony Wellington, Noosa.

: Cn Steve Dickson Member for Buderim (LNP) and Tony Sowden SCBC board member

: Simon Latchford CEO VisitSunshineCoast & Jarrod Bleijie

: Jarrod Bleijie, Simon Lachford, Andrew Wallace LNP Federal Member for Fisher, Tony Sowden, Cn Steve Dickson, Ted O’Brien, Prof Greg Hill VC USC, Fiona Simpson Member for Maroochydore (LNP)

: Sandy Zubrinich and Prof Peter Newman Curtin University

: Jenna Cairney Sunshine Coast Daily and Bill Darby Rumba Resort

: Prof Greg Hill and Andrew Wallace

: Evan Aldridge Sekisui House, Michael Whittaker CEO SCC & Cn Rick Baberowski SCC

: Prof Tim Smith & Mayor Tony Wellington, Noosa

Ripple Effect Conference

Realising The Ripple Effect conference brochure

Speaker Presentations

Media Coverage

Media Release – Government and business meet for strategic forum

Courier Mail Commentary – The Ripple Effect Conference

Conference photos

: Crowd shot

: Prof Marianne Wallis, USC

: Mr Brian Haratsis, Executive Chairman Macroplan Demasi

: Ms Linda Delamotte, Kawana Chamber of Commerce

: Mayor Mark Jamieson, Sunshine Coast Council

: Anne Lawrence and Maya Gurry

: Brett Mills, Kelly Pendlebury and Rob Outridge

: Courtney Aspland and Matt Jones

: Kelly Lambert and Andrew Squires

: Kimberley Lynch, Tracey Wilson and Linda Delamotte

: Richard Alarcon and Tim McGee

: Sandra Reardon and Kerrie De Clara

Think Tank Series 2 – Increasing the effectiveness of community engagement to deliver outcomes and positive changes for shared benefit to the community, business and government. What needs to change?

Think Tank Series 2: Session 1

Background

Participants Bios

Agenda

Speaker Presentations:

Think Tank Series 2: Session 2 – Increasing the effectiveness of community engagement

Agenda

Presentation Storyline

Speaker Presentations:

Matthew Stevenson

Media article – Coast ‘think tank’ to consider role of community

2015 Forums

Annual General Meeting held on Thursday 26 November 2015

Chair’s Report 2015 part 1
Chair’s Report 2015 part 2

Symposium 2015: Human Rights equals Prosperity

Business Luncheon

Gender equality is important for everybody – and for our economy. Yet it is proving painfully difficult to achieve. We know that unconscious bias is costly. It causes us to make decisions that are not objective. It deprives us of talent and causes us to miss opportunities. Strong leadership is essential if we are to address the impacts of unconscious bias.

Business luncheon (1.2Mb PDF)
Paper delivered by the Hon Catherine Branson QC

Conference

There has been an array of legislative and policy changes over the decades promoted by various governments and companies, with the intent of addressing gender inequality in the workplace. Women make up over 50% of the workforce, are better educated, yet women still face inequalities. There is still a gender wage gap and women are still significantly under-represented in positions of power in both the public and private sectors.

The conference hears from women on how they successfully built their careers and how they approached the issues of their time. It considers the legislative changes over the decades and how this legislation fits with a fast changing society and modernising economy. A lot has changed, but is it enough?

Conference (1.5Mb PDF)
Paper by the Hon Catherine Branson QC

Public Lecture

Recent events in Europe have shown that the irregular immigration crisis that the world is facing has barely touched Australia. Yet although Australia has a proud history of humanitarian resettlement, our policies towards irregular immigrants are probably the harshest in the world and breach our international human rights obligations. Does Australia have a moral obligation to do more to support world efforts to resettle those forced from their homes by conflict and violence? Can we continue indefinitely to detain in appalling circumstances men, women and children whose only ‘crime’ is to have travelled to Australia by boat to seek asylum? Can the cost of doing so be justified in our thriving multicultural country in which 6.6 million of the population (28%) were born overseas?

Public lecture (1.1Mb PDF)
Conference paper delivered by The Hon Catherine Branson QC

Symposium photos

: Speaker The Hon Catherine Branson QC

: Dr Kirsten Baulch, The Hon Catherine Branson QC and Kristan Conlon

: Courtney Aspland, Leisa Hart and Maria Woods

: Anne Lawrence and Feda Adra

: Courtney Aspland and David Birmingham

: Gem Lewis and Narelle McCarthy

: Hayden Rudd, Nathan Percy and Ben Simpson

: Jarrod Bleijie, Sandy Zubrinich, Peter Chenoweth and Leisa Hart

: Nicky Graham and Kerrie De Clara

: Sandy Zubrinich, Cr Sandy Bolton and Alison Barry Jones

The Challenges for Regional Australia in a competitive Investment Market – Conference, June 2015

Program

Speaker presentations:

Ivan Calhoun
Stephen Fourth (60Mb – download to view) . The pdf is best viewed after download – video may not work in some browsers but does work on download.
Nicole Dawson
Mark Steinert

Conference photos

: Getting started arrival and registration

: Starting the day

: Getting started

: Alex Lever Shaw SCC with SCBC Directors Vickers, Rudd and Welch

: Simon Ambrose (Sunshine Coast Destination Ltd) with Peter Pallot (Sunshine Coast Airport)

: SCBC Chair Sandy Zubrinich

: Mayor Mark Jamieson – SCC

: Stephen Forth – Sapient Nitro

: Nicole Dawson – AMP Capital Infrastructure

: Ivan Colhoun – NAB

: Mark Steinert – Stocklands

: Matt Cranston – AFR Reporter

: Audience members

: The IM Panel

: Panel Question Time

: Panel Question Time

: SCBC Director Tim Boag

Networking

Media

: Sandy Zubrinich with the media

: Media Coverage with Stephen Forth

: Media coverage with Ivan Colhoun

Protecting the diversity and richness of the Sunshine Coast Region beyond its economic value: balancing growth | development | environment

Think Tank Session 1 – Establishing the challenge and options, held on 30 March 2015

Agenda Session 1

Participant bios

Speaker presentations:

Opinion Piece 1 by Sandy Zubrinich, Chair SCBC

Think Tank Session 2 – Drilling down on some of the ideas / options, held on 4 May 2015

Agenda Session 2

Speaker presentations:

Opinion Piece 2 by Sandy Zubrinich, Chair SCBC

Think Tank Session 3 – Research, Options and Recommendations, held on 22 June 2015

Agenda Session 3

Opinion Piece 3 by Sandy Zubrinich, Chair SCBC

Think Tank Session 4 – Agreeing Recommendations

Agenda

2014 Forums

Annual General Meeting and Christmas Drinks held at the TAFE Mooloolaba, 26 November 2014

The Annual Sunshine Coast Business Council Annual General Meeting and Christmas Drinks was well attended by more than 50 members and invited guests. The AGM also included a presentation on the findings of a recent survey commissioned by the Council on Investment Markets. The findings and research will be the basis for a forthcoming conference to be held on the 4^th June 2015. Drinks were held in Cartwrights Restaurant at the TAFE.

: (l-r) Sandy Zubrinich, Ben Simpson, Malcolm Aikman and Jenna Cairney

: (l-r) Hayden Rudd, Russell Mason and Craig Matheson

: (l-r) Swain Roberts, David Oliver, Alex Lever-Shaw

: (l-r) Barrie Adams, Ross Hepworth, Greg Laverty

: (l-r) Dustin Welch, Peter Bolton-Hall, Michael Hopkins, Maya Gurry

: (l-r) Peter Bolton-Hall, Michael Shadforth, Tony Sowden, Bill Darby

Youth Prosperity Forum, 21 May 2014

A follow up from the first Youth Prosperity Forum conducted on 12 November 2013. The purpose of this forum is to review what has changed and agree on a way forward.

Click here to view the Agenda

Click here to view the Round Table presentation

Agribusiness Conference, March 2014

The Sunshine Coast Business Council presents the Future of Agribusiness on the Sunshine Coast conference.

This event will bring together local industry representatives from across a wide range of sectors to contribute their expertise and knowledge in planning the future of agribusiness in terms of expansion and investment opportunities.

Click here to view the Agribusiness Conference Presentation – 25 March 2014

Click here to view the Agribusiness Conference brochure

Click here to view the Agribusiness Conference pre-reading material