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Australia Unlimited 2010 Summit
30 June & 1 July 2010, Melbourne

Peninsula, Central Pier, 161 Harbour Esplanade, Docklands, VIC 3008


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Left: The Hon Warwick Smith AM, Chairman, The Global Foundation

Right: The Hon John Brumby MP, Premier, Government of Victoria

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Left: Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong, Secretary General, Boao Forum for Asia; former Chinese Ambassador to the United States and to Australia

Middle:Mr Siddharth Varadarajan, Strategic Affairs Editor, The Hindu

Right: Mr John McCarthy AO, former High Commissioner to India; former Australian Ambassador to Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, the United States and Vietnam

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Left: The Hon Lindsay Tanner MP, Minister for Finance & Deregulation, Government of Australia

Middle: Dr Selena Ng, Director, Asia-Pacific Business Development, AREVA

Right: Lt General John Sanderson AC, Chairman of the Advisory Council, The Global Foundation

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Left:The Hon Tony Abbott MP, Leader of the Federal Opposition

Right: The Governor-General of Australia, HE Ms Quentin Bryce AC

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Left: Mr Rob Grant, Chief Executive Officer, Pacific Hydro

Right: Mr Ian Noble, Lead Climate Change Specialist, World Bank

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Left: Ms Shirley Yu, CCTV, China

Right: Mr Steve Howard, Secretary General, The Global Foundation

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Mr David Thodey, Chief Executive Officer, Telstra Corporation Limited

 

Speakers in plenary session 1

 

Summit participants

 

Plenary Session 2

 

The Hon Warwick Smith AM, Chairman, The Global Foundation, The Hon Tony Abbott,
Leader of the Federal Opposition and Mr Steve Howard, Secretary General, The Global Foundation

 

Participants in “low carbon” working group

 

Participants in “governance” working group

 

The Hon Tony Burke, Federal Minister for Agriculture, Mr Michael Luscombe, CEO,
Woolworths and Mr Anthony Pratt, Executive Chairman, Visy Industries

 

Ms Shirley Yu, Mr Stve Howard and Professor David de Kretser, Governor of Victoria

 

HE Ms Quentin Bryce AC meets Lt. Gen. John Sanderson AC

 

Lt. Gen John Sanderson AC, HE Mr Zhang Junsai, Chinese Ambassador to Australia,
HE Ms Quentin Bryce AC, Mr Steve Howard

 

HE Ms Quentin Bryce AC and The Hon Warwick Smith AM

 

Participants in Plenary Session 3; Mr Gerry Lawson, Chairman, SunRice speaking

 

Participants in Plenary Session 3

 

Mr Steve Howard, HE Ms Quentin Bryce AC and The Hon Warwick Smith AM

 

Participants in Plenary Session 3

 

Ms Bev O’Connor with the Melbourne Sings Choir

 

Major General Michael Jeffery, former Governor-General of Australia

 

Ms Bev O’Connor, Major General Michael Jeffery and Mr Graeme Liebelt

 


 
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