The Samuel Griffith Society
Twenty-second Conference Programme
Perth, 27-29 August 2010
Friday 27th August, 2010
6.45 pm Registration and Drinks
7.30 pm Dinner: Chairman: Sir David Smith, KCVO, AO
Sir Harry Gibbs Memorial Oration: Bryan Pape - Stopping Stimulus Spending or is the Sorcerer's Apprentice now controlling the Executive?
Saturday 28th August, 2010
8.30 am Registration (for those unable to attend the opening Dinner)
8.50 am Conference Opening Remarks: Julian Leeser
Session 1: Commonwealth Delivery of State Government Services
9.00 am Andrew Podger AO: The Case for Greater Commonwealth Involvement in Healthcare
9.30 am Discussion
9.45 am Dr Dan Norton: The Case for less Commonwealth Involvement in State Government Services
10.15 am Discussion
10.30 am Morning Tea
Session 2: Property Rights
11.00 am Lorraine Finlay: The Attack on Property Rights
11.30 am Discussion
11.45 am Hon Keith de Lacy AM: Ramifications of the Resources Super Profits Tax for the Mining Industry and the State
12.15 pm Discussion
12.30 pm Luncheon
2.15 pm Grant Donaldson SC and Richard Douglas: The National Broadband Network and the Acquisition of Property
2.45 pm Discussion
Session 3: Fiscal Federalism
3.00 pm Professor Jeff Petchey: Revisiting proposals for a state income tax
3.30 pm Discussion
3.45 pm Afternoon Tea
Session 4: Papers in honour of John Stone and Nancy Stone
4.15 pm Des Moore: John Stone Federalism and the Commonwealth Treasury
4.45 pm Discussion
5.00 pm Adjourned
Free Time
7.00 pm Drinks
7.30 pm Dinner: Chairman: Sir David Smith, KCVO, AO
Address: Hon Justice JD Heydon AC - The Public Life of John and Nancy Stone
Sunday 29th August, 2010
Session 5: Chapter III of the Constitution and Federalism
9.30 am Hon Justice John Gilmour: The Ramifications of the Kirk case
10.00 am Discussion
10.15 am Morning Tea
Session 6: International Law
10.45 am Hon Christian Porter MLA: International Documents and the Sovereignty
of State Policy
11.15 am Discussion
CLOSING ADDRESS
11.30 am Hon Colin Barnett MLA: Federalism in 2010
12.00 noon Concluding Remarks: Sir David Smith, KCVO, AO
12.15pm Conference Concludes.
Post Conference Tour:
1.00pm-2.00pm Constitutional Centre of Western Australia led by Centre Chairman,
Malcolm McCusker AO, QC
Speakers
Hon Colin Barnett MLA - Premier of Western Australia
Hon Keith de Lacy AM - Chairman, Macarthur Coal former Labor Treasurer of Queensland
Grant Donaldson SC - President, Western Australian Bar Association
Richard Douglas - Barrister, Western Australian Bar
Hon Justice John Gilmour - Judge, Federal Court of Australia
Lorraine Finlay - Lecturer, Murdoch University School of Law
Hon Justice Dyson Heydon AC - Justice, High Court of Australia
Malcolm McCusker AO, QC - Chairman, Western Australian Constitutional Centre
Des Moore - Director, Institute for Private Enterprise former Deputy Secretary Commonwealth Treasury
Dr Dan Norton - former Secretary, Department of Premier & Cabinet in Tasmania
Bryan Pape - Senior Lecturer in law University of New England and litigant in Pape v The Commonwealth
Professor Jeff Petchey - Head of School, School of Economics and Finance, Centre for Research in Applied Economics, Curtin University of Technology
Hon Christian Porter MLA - Attorney-General for Western Australia