Executive producer of the ABC Country Hour

Sally grew up in the rich horticultural region of Sunraysia on the Murray River, with it's the extensive dried fruit, grape, wine and citrus industries, bordered by the mallee, with it's salt bush, sheep and wheat.
Signing up with the rural department began a journey across ABC regional radio networks through the Hunter, the Central West, the northern Tablelands, the Central Coast and the North Coast of New South Wales, working on the early morning rural report.
The focus shifted to lunch time when Sally took up a long held desire to get to know Tasmania, and became the presenter of the Tasmanian Country Hour. Now that she's onto a good thing, Sally has continued on in Hobart as the executive producer, combining her vocation with a family farm, growing cherries, berries and cut flowers.
Sally's interest in rare breeds was capped off when she was invited to be the patron of the newly formed Tasmanian Rare Breeds Poultry Club in 2006, and now she can be seen at poultry show's learning the finer points of Indian Runner Ducks and the blue egg laying South American Araucania.

Panel Participants:

CEO Tasmanian Farmers & Graziers Association (see below)

Organic Industry Development Manager (see below)

Dairy Tas Executive Officer (see below)

Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water & Environment (see below)

Vyv Alomes is the Executive Officer of Rural Alive & Well Inc, and has over 20 years experience working in suicide prevention and education, counseling men with abusive behaviors and relationship counseling.
Rural Alive & Well is a community well being and suicide prevention project that was developed in the Southern Midlands and Central Highlands of Tasmania. It addresses the emotional and physical trauma experienced by rural men their families and the general community.
Vyv also sits on the Tasmanian Suicide Prevention Steering Committee as a community representative.

Andrew Bailey is a Senior Wool Industry Development Officer with the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture . He is an animal nutritionist by training, but his position with TIAR covers all aspects of the wool and prime lamb industry.
He has also worked in the intensive sheep industries with experience in feedlotting and live sheep export. He is state coordinator for the national Making More From Sheep program.
He current operates a Wiltipoll and Wiltshire Horn sheep stud near Exeter

This paper contributes to an improved understanding of contemporary extension and specifically considers how extension can add to capacity and resilience of Australian rural industries and their associated communities.
It provides perspectives on how extension, capacity-building and resilience are conceptually linked, and gives examples of where extension has played a capacity and resilience building role, using the Tasmanian sheep industry as a detailed case study. This study focuses on an industry-resourced extension program that commenced in 2003, the 8x5 Wool Profit Program now SheepConnect-Tasmania, funded by Australian Wool Innovation.
The Tasmanian case study utilises the findings of an independent external review, together with supporting documentation from agencies closely linked to the extension program. Evidence from this study confirms that rural extension services can function in capacity building roles in communities that far exceed simply achieving changes in on-farm agricultural production or natural resource management practices.
Extension agents are investments that do not just benefit specific rural industries in isolation, but add value and capacity to the communities that rely on them. When industries and associated communities are subject to adversity, extension resources can and do provide vital accessible skills to stakeholders in negotiating challenging circumstances.
Retention of core agricultural extension capacity and expertise at regional levels should therefore be a strategic objective for rural community stakeholders and industry and government policy makers

Foundation member 1960, Past President (2 terms), Life Member. Tasmanian Section Councilor 1965 – current.
National Council and Aviation Committee 1976 – 1989.
National Board 2002 – 2008. RFDS
Rev. John Flynn Fellowship Award (National) 2009.
Tasmanian Aero Club 1956 – current Past President, Life Member.
Orchardist (retired) Farmer.

With the growth in the marketing of local produce there is mixed messages now being employed with marketing of produce at the local level.
This talk will explore the different levels of produce in farmers markets, and engage the community in knowing how to talk to the farmer about his produce!

Mark has been Executive Officer for DairyTas for the past 8 years and have worked in different roles in the industry for 18 years including project management, communications, transport and human resources.
DairyTas is a levy funded industry service organization that operates to support the growth and development of the Tasmanian dairy industry at the farm gate level.

Mark will present an array of facts about the leading agricultural industry sector in Tasmania. Where the industry is headed and why Tasmania must continue to support its agricultural based industries into the future.

A presentation on how agriculture is important to all Tasmanians, from the farmer to the person consuming the product.
Information on what is produced in Tasmania, the value of that produce and how it is produced

Presentation that will include information on the vulnerability of Tasmania's natural environment to climate change, and highlight climate related information including current Tasmanian research

A presentation on how agriculture is important to all Tasmanians, from the farmer to the person consuming the product.
Information on what is produced in Tasmania, the value of that produce and how it is produced

MAICD, BHS - Health Education, University of Canberra
Leonie joined beyondblue as CEO in July 2003 with the responsibility of consolidating its development and leading the national, independent organisation through successful evaluations to achieve the organisation's second and third funding terms, to 2015.
Leonie has strengthened beyondblue’s national leadership, to increase the capacity of the community to improve knowledge of depression and anxiety - opening eyes to depression across Australia