Venue : Darlington Centre, 174 City Road Darlington, Sydney University Building HO2, between the Sydney University Regiment and the Merewether Institute.

See here for more details and a location map

Admission (including morning tea, lunch, and afternoon tea) is $20, $15 for students. $10 for a half day including one "tea" and no lunch, $5 for students including morning and afternoon tea but no lunch.

Each segment includes a final 5 minutes for questions. 


 9.30  Registration
10.00  John August - Abolishing the states
10.25  Mark Drummond - Subnational governance options for large
       Australian cities
10.45  Morning Tea (5 minutes)       
10.50  Klaas Woldring - The Republic and state abolition - Mezzanine
       level government
11.15  Charles Mollison - Regional goverment
11.40  Max Bradley - Shed a Tier - Remove the States, reform federal
       government

12.05  Lunch (55 minutes)

13.00  Frank Stilwell - Regional government and the promotion of more 
       balanced regional economic development
13.30  A.J. Brown - History of boundaries and state abolition - what do the
       eastern and western boundaries of the NT have to do with a Portugese
       -Spanish treaty signed in 1494 ?
14.00  Mark Drummond - Saving 30 to 45 billion through government reform
14.15  Contribution in absence of Dr. Christine Sharp, read by John August :
       "Salinity : national problem or inter-state squabble ?"
14.20  John August and Max Bradley conduct a mini debate on the issue of 
         "The Murray-Darling, salinity and goverment intervention."
15.00  Afternoon tea (15 minutes) 

15.15  Peter Consandine - the Abolish State Governments ! Party - 
       Realising the vision in legislation - What, Who and How ?	
15.35  A.J. Brown - The Queensland Survey.
15.50  Arthur Chesterfield Evans - Health and 
       cost shifting in the present Federal-State environment.
16.20  Peter Woods - Misunderstandings, real problems and needed reforms
       in Local Government
16.50  Klaas Woldring - options for change and general open discussion
17.20  Close
For further information, contact the congress organisers :

John August, Mobile: 0419 683 353, Email: johna@babel.apana.org.au

Klaas Woldring, Ph. 4341 5170, Mobile : 0407 834 518, Email: woldring@zipworld.com.au

Beyond Federation has the two co-convenors :

Mark Drummond

5 Loddon St, Kaleen, ACT 2617, Ph. 02 6255 0772, Email : markld@ozemail.com.au

and,

Jim Snow

former MP for Eden-Monaro

Mobile : 0419 495 179