Our presenters for the evening are Dr Roger Welch and Cathryn Nitschke.

Roger is a leading Ophthalmic Surgeon who runs a large practice called The Vision Centre with offices in Southport and Robina. He is also a cattle farmer in the Eastern New England Region.

Cathryn Nitschke is a holistic health practitioner, and this year was invited to join the National Rational Energy Network (NREN) as a South Australian representative.

Roger has previously presented to the CAER group regarding his successful leadership in opposing a Wind Project at Wongwibindi.

At this meeting, Roger will be presenting another successful pushback against a
“Managed Retreat” Project at Wolli Beach, located near Grafton. These projects often rely on fraudulent claims of sea-level rise or assumptions about worse floods and rainfall in the future. It is presented to residents
as a ‘fait accompli’, but Roger will show how residents can protest this.

Cathryn began her career inside the halls of power as a political staffer for a South Australian Senator. Her time in Canberra was an eye-opening initiation into how decisions are really made, who influences them, and the gap between political theatre and the truth of governance. Following that, she pursued her passion for holistic health and, in response to COVID, founded a My Place group in the Adelaide Hillsa .
Her recent work includes writing parliamentary submissions on food security and exposing the misuse of "mis/disinformation" narratives in climate change policy.

Cathryn has a knack for distilling undecipherable bureaucratic jargon into plain truth and for unpacking the often diabolical impacts these policies can have on the everyday lives of Australians.

There will be a Q&A, and Roger and Cathryn are happy to discuss wider issues as well as questions related to their presentation subjects.

Please come along and join us.