With this diverse range of voices on climate change and sustainability issues you are sure to be inspired.

About Our Speakers:

David Spratt is a Melbourne businessman, climate-policy analyst, co-founder of Carbon Equity and the Climate Action Centre. He is the co-author of Climate Code Red and has extensive advocacy experience in developing community-campaign communication and marketing strategies.

Senator Christine Milne is the Australian Greens spokesperson on climate change, was elected to represent Tasmania in the federal parliament at the 2004 election after a distinguished career in the Tasmanian state parliament where she served as Leader of the Greens from 1993-1998.  Christine was elected as a Global Vice-President of the IUCN in February 2005, and represented the IUCN at the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention at Montreal, Canada, in December 2005.

Amelia Young has worked to protect Victoria's forests for over a decade. She has been involved in students politics, worked for regional conservation groups, founded non-violent direct action forest collectives, and has researched and written about a range of social and environmental justice issues. Amelia currently works for The Wilderness Society, focusing on lifting the profile of the ongoing logging of Victoria's native forests in the broader community, and on using the latest science and economic scopes to lobby for forest protection. She currently campaigns against the logging and land clearing of native savannah on the Tiwi Islands as well.

David Cameron has worked for the Victorian public service since 1978, and for the past decade has been the curator of the Flora Information System maintained by the Department of Sustainability and Environment. David has also conducted research investigations into rainforest ecology and contributed significantly to our current understanding of the status of Victorian rainforest. In his current role as Senior Botanist in the Threatened Species and Communities Section, David is charged with the ongoing review of the conservation status of Victorian flora.

Alberto Gomes is an associate professor in anthropology at La Trobe University. He has conducted research among forest-dependent Malaysian Aborigines (Orang Asli). His Malaysian Aboriginal friends taught him that the relations between the forest and people is like the relations between a parent and a child, the forest as the parent and humans as its children. Orang Asli are socialised to respect the forest as they would their parents. To destroy the forest is therefore tantamount to patricide or matricide, which is not just a criminal act but an act of moral and social self-destruction.

Jack Lomax - I was born at the beginning of the Great Depression in 1929 in a place made famous by George Orwell's Road to Wigan Pier. I first became an activist in 1946. I became alarmed about what was then called The Greenhouse Effect in the early 80s. I am convinced that unless we undertake wide-scale intelligent peaceful community protest including civil disobedience against global warming catalysts, we will not be listened to until it is too late.