What’s the solution to the trust deficit in Australian politics?

Join us online for this free event to discuss why integrity, accountability and transparency are crucial to finding the best solutions to the serious issues of our time.

Host:

Lisa Forrest is an Olympian & Commonwealth Games dual gold medallist in swimming. After retiring from competitive swimming in 1982 she has also had success as a sports commentator, actor, reporter, author, and media personality and is currently a life and mindfulness coach.

Panellists:

Dr Helen Haines MP is the Independent Federal Member for Indi. She was elected in May 2019 – the first Independent to succeed another in the same electorate since Federation in 1901.

Before Parliament, she was a nurse, midwife, health administrator and rural health researcher in Victoria’s North East. She completed a doctoral degree in Medical Science in 2012.

Helen lives with her husband, Phil, on a small beef farm by Wangaratta’s King River, where they raised three children.

She is a member of the House Select Committee on Regional Australia and Joint Standing Committee on the National Broadband Network.

She is also co-chair of these Parliamentary Friends’ groups: Climate Action, Bushfire Recovery, Preventive Health, Regenerative Agriculture, and Cycling.

Richard Denniss is the Chief Economist and former Executive Director of The Australia Institute. He is a prominent Australian economist, author and public policy commentator, and a former Associate Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University in Canberra.

Greg Mullins AO AFSM became a major national figure in the 2019–20 bushfire crisis. He is an internationally recognised expert in responding to major bushfires and natural disasters.

During his 39-year career he served in a multitude of roles including: President, Vice President and Board Chair of the Australasian Fire & Emergency Service Authorities’ Council, Deputy Chair of the NSW State Emergency Management Committee, Australian Director of the International Fire Chiefs Association of Asia, NSW representative on the AEMC, Australian representative on the UN’s International Search & Rescue Advisory Group, and as a member of the NSW Bushfire Coordinating Committee. He is currently Chair of the NSW Ambulance Service Advisory Board. In early 2019 he formed Emergency Leaders for Climate Action.

His first book, Firestorm, has recently been published.

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Please send your questions for the panellists to info@mackellarrising.org

The zoom link will be emailed to you on 24 October

We look forward to seeing you there

The Mackellar Rising Team