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Previous speakers and chairmen
at the Summer Sounds Symposium have included:
Hon Roger Hallam, deputy leader of the National Party (Australia) with ministerial portfolios in the Victorian Parliament. Dr Denis Dutton, lecturer in Fine Arts, University of Canterbury, well-known for his work with the New Zealand Skeptics, founder of the Friends of National Radio, inter alia. Dr James Flynn, Professor and HOD Department of Political Studies, University of Otago, Honorary Fellow of the New Zealand Psychological Society, Stuart Distinguished Visiting Scholar – Hoover Institution, Cornell University, inter alia. Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, formerly assistant secretary to the New Zealand Treasury. Stephen Franks, partner in Chapman Tripp Sheffield Young, studied Law and Economics at the Law school of the University of Chicago. The Wizard of New Zealand, a former academic, orator and fun-maker, now a "Living Work of Art" and national icon. Dr Neville Bennett, lecturer in History, especially Japanese History, regular contributor to the National Business Review, and Unlimited, writing on New Zealand economic and social history. Kathryn Asare, Masters degree in business, employed by the NZQA, previously a radio journalist and television presenter. Dr James Allan, lecturer in Law, the University of Otago, degrees in Mathematics and Law, and a Ph.D. in Moral Philosophy, previously practised Law in Toronto and at Middle Temple, London. Karl du Fresne, senior journalist and columnist, assistant editor, the Evening Post, former editor The Dominion and The Dominion Sunday Times. Melissa da Souza-Correa, former Frontline journalist, researcher and writer. George Balani, well-known
nationwide talkback host, broadcaster and columnist.
Jack Hodder, Hons. degree in Law, partner in Chapman Trip Sheffield Young, inaugural member of the New Zealand Law Commission, founding editor of The Capital Letter. Robert Cameron, a principal of Cameron & Company, has led teams involved in major capital transactions in New Zealand. Dr Alastair MacDonald, formerly assistant professor in Population Genetics, University of Southern California, Santa Barbara; Transplant Physician, Ibn al Bitar Hospital Baghad, Iraq; renal physician Wellington Hospital. Karl du Fresne, columnist, assistant editor of The Evening Post, Wellington, former editor of The Dominion and The Dominion Sunday Times The Wizard of New Zealand, formerly lecturer at the university of Western Australia, and teaching fellow at the University of NSW, now to be found as an international attraction and orator in the Christchurch Cathedral Square. Dr Denis Dutton, New Zealand Skeptics, senior lecturer in Fine Arts, University of Canterbury (kindly replaced Sharon Crosbie, chief executive, Radio New Zealand). Jeff McIntyre, director Gemini mortgage brokering, chairman of the New Way Trust. Roger Kerr, executive director, New Zealand Business Roundtable, formerly assistant secretary to the New Zealand Treasury. Guy Salmon, chief executive of the Maruia Society, during the 1970s and 1980s led a successful campaign for the protection of native forests. Rodney Hide, MP ACT New Zealand, formerly an economist for Alan Gibbs and lecturer at Lincoln University. Martha Gray, former
Fullbright scholar and solicitor, Master of Laws degree from Yale
University; solicitor.
David Greagg, scholar, Wizard of Australia, degrees in arts, science and maths education, University of Melbourne. Roger Kerr, executive director, New Zealand Business Roundtable; formerly assistant secretary to the New Zealand Treasury. Chris Trotter, columnist, proprietor and editor, NZ Political Review. Greig Fleming, derivatives strategist, WestpacTrust Investment management, M.A. Asian Economic History, University of Canterbury. Dr Joe Atkinson, senior lecturer in Political Studies, University of Auckland, M.A. University of Canterbury, Ph.D. Yale University. Dr Andy Pratt, senior lecturer in Chemistry, University of Canterbury, former member of the Oxford Centre for Molecular Sciences. Alan Duff, author, screenplay writer, and syndicated newspaper columnist. Jack Hodder, Hons. degree in Law, partner in Chapman Tripp Sheffield Young, inaugural member of the New Zealand Law Commission, founding editor of The Capital Letter. Jim Hopkins, author and commentator, witty Titan of New Zealand broadcasting. David McPhail, television writer, producer and actor, awarded the QSM for public service. David Round, lecturer in Environment Law and Jurisprudence, University of Canterbury. Mike King, comedian and commentator, 1998 Entertainer of the Year, Comedian of the Year, Metro magazine Readers Poll, 1997. Dr James Allan, lecturer in Law, the University of Otago, with degrees in Mathematics and Law, and a Ph.D. in Moral Philosophy, previously practised Law in Toronto and at Middle Temple, London. Karl du Fresne, assistant
editor of The Evening Post, Wellington, former editor of
The Dominion and The Dominion Sunday Times, columnist
for NZ House and Garden magazine
Dr David Novitz, Reader in Philosophy, University of Canterbury, formerly of Rhodes University, author of three philosophical monographs, and co-editor of two books dealing specifically with New Zealand issues. Dr Neville Bennett, lecturer in History, especially Japanese History, regular contributor to the National Business Review, and Unlimited, writing on New Zealand economic and social history. Peter McKinlay, executive director McKinlay Douglas, a Wellington-based firm specialising in public policy and governance. Professor Warren Tate, University of Otago, Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, International Research Scholar of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, inter alia. Head of a large university research department, specialising in the technologies of DNA and proteins. Emeritus Professor Dr James Flynn, former HOD Department of Political Studies, University of Otago, Honorary Fellow of the New Zealand Psychological Society, Stuart Distinguished Visiting Scholar – Hoover Institution, Cornell University, inter alia. Dr Greg Newbold, senior lecturer in Sociology, University of Canterbury, media commentator on crime and and criminal justice issues, author of five books on crime, criminal justice and social history, publishing extensively in international scholarly journals. David McPhail, television writer, producer and actor, awarded the QSM for public service. Mike Hutcheson, executive director of Saatchi & Saatchi, formerly New Zealand's Outstanding Young Advertising Man, co-founded three advertising agencies, was managing director with TV and film production house, Communicado, columnist for The Independent; contributor to industry magazines. Adrienne von Tunzelmann, senior consultant in McKinlay Douglas, advising on public policy, corporate governance and structure and local government, chairs the NZ Women's Refuge. Dr Denis Dutton, New Zealand Skeptics, senior lecturer in Fine Arts, University of Canterbury, edits the scholarly journal Philosophy and literature, as well as the Web page Arts & Letters Daily. Mike King, again voted most popular comedian in the Metro readers' poll 1999-2000, a regular participant on TV One's Game of Two Halves, has appeared in numerous comedy series and specials on New Zealand television, and performed in the Melbourne, London, and Amsterdam comedy festivals. Nevil Gibson, judge of various business awards; on the executive of the Magazine Publishers Association; editor-in-chief of The National Business Review, and the Liberty Press group, with a new, jointly owned magazine, Unlimited, launched in 1998. 2 0 0 1 Elric Hooper spent two years at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, and at the world-famous Old Vic, as actor and assistant to Franco Zeffirelli in his award-winning Romeo and Juliet. An eminent performer, director and teacher abroad, he became Artistic Director of The Court Theatre, Christchurch, in 1979. Jim Hopkins is an acute social commentator, one of New Zealand's funniest and best-loved entertainers. While modestly disclaiming the title Little Father of the Cove, Jim admits that in his absence the annual symposium would be floundering in intellectual confusion. George Balani, best-known host of Radio New Zealand's Nationwide Talkback for 10 years, has had 32 years experience in broadcasting, and set up both CHTV and Canterbury On Air. Owen McShane, B.Arch,1965, Dip TP, 1968 Auckland. MCP UC Berkeley, weekly columnist for the National Business Review, has written papers for the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, the Law and Economics Association of Australia, and the Minister for the Environment. Michael Warby is an Australian public policy analyst and commentator who has published widely on public policy issues, was Secretary to a Parliamentary Delegation to Russia and the Ukraine, and editor of the IPA Review from April 1998 to February 2000. Ross Wilson, President of the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions since October, 1999, a qualified barrister and solicitor, worked in private practice and subsequently in rail and port unions. Ross is joint author of Brooker's legal text on Employment Law. With an MBA in international management, Merepeka Raukawa-Tait, chief executive of Women's Refuge, has spent much of the past 20 years working to develop Te Arawa's tribal assets in and around Rotorua. Merepeka has also been a BOP Regional Councillor. Formerly literary editor of the student newspaper, Critic, (Amy)Agnes-Mary Brooke won a Commonwealth best columnist's placing while seven years a Dominion columnist. A reviewer, radio and occasional TV commentator, she initiated the Nelson Founders Park Book Fair, publishes The Best Underground Press - Critical Review, and organises the annual Summer Sounds Symposium. For her exceptional children's writing see www.amybrooke.tasman.net. Dr Andy Pratt is at the University of Canterbury where he insists he spreads a veneer of knowledge thinly over areas as diverse as chemistry, biochemistry, and the history and philosophy of science. David Greagg (Wizard Dafydd), based in Melbourne, AustraliA, is a refugee from the humanities who devotes his time to mathematical speculation, and music composition. He feels that academic debate should be conducted in Latin; that the Middle Ages were a disastrous error; the Renaissance greatly over-rated and the Post-Industrial revolution the best thing to happen to our species in the last millennium. Having gored and savaged the modern French philosophers, he is currently visiting his wrath upon their illegitimate god-father, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Tim Barnett, MP, obtained a 1981 B.Sc. Econ. (Government) from the London School of Economics, following two years voluntary work in Northern Ireland and the Caribbean. He migrated to New Zealand in 1991, was a member of the NZ Labour Party national executive from 1993-1996 and elected as MP for Christchurch Central in 1996. Suzanne Bevin is a registered nurse and maternity nurse, with post-graduate qualifications. She has had considerable overseas project development involvement. Jeff McIntyre has operated his own mortgage brokerage company Gemini Mortgages for 5 years, and is also Managing Director of 2nd tier commercial funders NZ Commercial Mortgage Nominee Company. He chairs The Youth Trust specialising in adolescent drug/alcohol assessments. Ian Smith, operating his own law practice in Nelson, is Coroner for Nelson and Golden Bay. An experienced Arbitrator and Mediator (Civil Engineering) he was recently short-listed for the award of Nelsonian of the Year. Nick Davidson, QC, former lecturer and tutor at Faculties of Law and Commerce, University of Canterbury, Panel Prosecutor for the Serious Fraud Office and Crown Counsel, is engaged extensively as Arbitrator in commercial matters. He has presented National Seminars on questions of professional obligation, is a member of the Solicitors' Fidelity Fund Management Committee, and has been sitting on, or involved in, a number of community organisations and boards. Christopher Finlayson is a partner in the Wellington Litigation Department of Bell Gully, specialising in private international law and public law litigation, with extensive involvement in Commerce Act and banking legislation. He has appeared in all New Zealand's Courts, including four appearances in the Privy Council, and has recently been appointed to the High Court Rules Committee. Rt. Hon. Winston Peters, member for Tauranga, Leader New Zealand First, is a former member of the National Party, appointed Minister of Maori Affairs following the National Government's win in 1990. He initiated, among other things, the Ka Awatea report, a blueprint for Maori development. Dr Neville Bennett teaches history at Canterbury, contributes regularly to the National Business Review, Unlimited, and several overseas publications, and is a popular public speaker He has written a book on New Zealand social and economic history. 2 0 0 2 Jim Hopkins has an extensive television, radio and print media background, and is now indulging in an outflow of books clearly without literary or cultural merit - since real people actually buy them. Committed to a life that strives to epitomise dynamic inertia, Jim has a disconcerting tendency to turn up at public events, either as a guest speaker or as an M.C. The Hon. Dr Nick Smith MP, first elected to Parliament in 1990, has held the ministerial portfolios of Conservation, Education, Corrections, Associate Immigration, Treaty Negotiations and Social Welfare. Rt. Hon. Winston Peters, member for Tauranga, Leader New Zealand First, is a former member of the National Party, appointed Minister of Maori Affairs following the National Government’s win in 1990. He initiated, among other things, the Ka Awatea report, a blueprint for Maori development. Jeff McIntyre is a finance broker who also chairs The Youth Trust, working with drug-abusing adolescents and their families. Dr Andy Pratt is a science academic at the University of Canterbury. His concern about ignorance of science has led to a series of monthly chats on the National Radio science programme, “Eureka”. Willie Jackson is the leader of Mana Motuhake and an Alliance list MP. In Parliament, he is deputy chairperson of the Maori Affairs Select Committee, a member of the Transport and Industrial Relations Select Committee and was also a major contributor to the Employment Relations Bill and the ACC Bill. Reuben P. Chapple became interested in Treaty of Waitangi issues while undertaking a Masters thesis on property rights, and is currently researching a book on the connection between Marxist-Leninist National Question theory and the move towards race separatism in New Zealand. Mike Hutcheson, co-founder of Colenso Communications, Hutcheson-Knowles Marinkovich Advertsing, Marcoa Direct Advertising, and Director of Communicado, joined Saatch & Saatchi in 1997 as executive director, then managing director. Mike writes a humour column for The Independent and published the modestly titled No 1 Best Seller in 2000. Mark Sainsbury has had 20 year's experience in television journalism, including Close-Up, and One News, covering industrial relations and politics. He spent three years as Europe correspondent covering the Middle East, Bosnia, and Northern ireland. Ron Mark MP, a former army officer selected for SAS training, distinguished himself in his first foray into politics by slashing the majority of the then Minister of Finance, Ruth Richardson. Ron is the New Zealand First spokesperson for Defence, Law and Order, Social Welfare, Internal Affairs, Civil Defence, Disarmament & Arms Control, Veteran Affairs, Sport, Fitness & Leisure. An international financial journalist, Rod Oram is currently contributing editor at Unlimited, a columnist for the Sunday Star-Times; a correspondent for the Financial Times of London; and a regular broadcaster on radio and television. An adjunct professor in the New Zealand Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Unitec, he contributes to regional economic development projects. Peter Westmore, publisher of the Australian publication News Weekly and President of the Australian National Civic Council, graduated as Master of Engineering Science from Sydney University. From 1976-82 he was personal assistant to Mr B.A. Santamaria, and is an occasional contributor to Quadrant, AD2000, National Observer, and other publications. One of New Zealand’s most popular performers, speakers, entertainers, and social commentators, Mike King has for the past four years hosted the award-winning TV series Pulp Comedy (awarded Best Comedy Series 2000). His Auckland-based The Comedy Agency Ltd performed in Timor for the United Nations and NZ Defence Forces. Nick Davidson, QC, former lecturer and tutor at Faculties of Law and Commerce, University of Canterbury, Panel Prosecutor for the Serious Fraud Office and Crown Counsel, is engaged extensively as Arbitrator in commercial matters. He has presented national seminars on questions of professional obligation, is a member of the Solicitors' Fidelity Fund Management Committee, and has been sitting on, or involved in a number of community organisations and boards. Ian Wishart is a publisher and Radio Pacific Talkback host. His work on the Winebox investigation at TVNZ resulted in the 1994 Frontline documentary on European Pacific. Ian has been a multiple finalist or winner in both national and international journalism awards, most recently when INVESTIGATE magazine was runner-up as best News-stand Magazine at the Qantas NZ Media Awards. His books are all top ten bestsellers. Dr Greg Newbold is a senior lecturere in Sociology at the University of Canterbury. A crimonologist of repute, he has written 40 book chapters and journal articles in local and international publications, and six books. Nevil Gibson is Editor-in-Chief of the National Business Review, New Zealand’s leading business publication - and Liberty Press Group, publishing weekly newsletters on management, commercial property, the law, and local government. Nevil judges a large number of business awards, is an executive member of the Magazine Publishers Association, and represents that body on the NZ Journalists’ Training Organisation.
David Greagg – Wizard Dafydd - is a mathematician and refugee from the humanities, holding degrees in science, mediaeval studies and maths education. His recent public offerings include "Literacy for adolescents: the parallel teaching approach and "The Sybil's prophecy: a new translation from Old Icelandic". His current campaign is that scientists need to be more open-minded, but the minds of popular mystics should remain closed. Greg O'Connor
is a Senior Sergeant of Police seconded full time to the NZ Police
Association National Office in Wellington where he has been president
since elected in 1995. Patrick Morgan, writer, academic and historian, lectured in English at Monash University 1969-1999. Patrick is an award-winning author, council member of the National Archives of Australia, Canberra; vice-president of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria; former council member of the Australia Council, inter alia. With more than 20 year's experience as a financial journalist in Europe and North America, Rod Oram is a contributing editor at Unlimited magazine, a columnist for the Sunday Star Times, and an adjunct professor at Unitec's NZ Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Dr Alastair Macdonald graduated from Edinburgh University in 1968. A senior renal physician, his interests now include the maintenance and development of medical professionalism, involving the radical concept that the secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient. Dr Peter Brooke, a Fellow of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners, and examiner for the statutory civil aviation agencies in New Zealand and Australia, has watched the degradation and deconstruction of medicine from a profession to a service industry, at the hands of politicians, bureaucrats, economists, managers, and pressure group activists. His thesis is that everyone is the loser when appropriate care for people is obstructed. Hon. John Tamihere, MP, the Minister of Youth Affairs, Land Information and Statistics, Associate Minister of Maori Affairs, and Associate Minister of Small Business was METRO magazine's Man of the Year (1999), voted New Zealander of the Year by North & South magazine (1998), and voted Person of the Year by the Sunday Star TImes (1997). Prior to his election to parliament he was CEO of Te Whanau O Waipareira Trust. Graeme John Hunt is editor-at-large of the National Business Review, writer, commentator and author of a number of books. He is the NBR's main leader writer and, since 1994, editor of the paper's annual Rich List. Reporting extensively for the paper from abroad, Graeme has won numerous journalism awards and a Chevening-David journalism fellowship. Ian Wishart is a publisher and Radio Pacific Talkback host. His work on the Winebox investigation at TVNZ resulted in the 1994 Frontline documentary on European Pacific. Ian has been a multiple finalist or winner in both national and international journalism awards, most recently when INVESTIGATE magazine was runner-up as best News-stand Magazine at the Qantas NZ Media Awards. His books are all top ten bestsellers. Marc Alexander, MP, (United Future) has a background in broadcasting, some regional television work, and running his own restaurants in New Zealand and Australia. With his passionate interest in the criminal justice system, he is an avid spokesman for the Sensible Sentencing Trust, the party spokesman in related portfolios, and deputy chair of the Law and Order Select Committee. Mike King – A stand-up comedian, Master of Ceremonies, radio guest commentator and businessman, Mike appears in some of New Zealand's highest-rating television programmes, including the sports show quiz Game of Two Halves. In 2001 his nationwide tour of An Audience with the King was a sell-out success. Dr Gerrit van der Lingen studied geology at Utrecht University. A private consultant, he is also a research ssociate at the University of Canterbury. Funded for the last 13 years for paleoclimate research by the Foundation for Research, Science & Technology, he has become an anthropogenic global-warming skeptic. The Hon. Nick Smith, MP, representing Nelson, was first elected to Parliament in 1990. He has held ministerial portfolios of Conservation, Education, Corrections, Associate Immigration, Treaty Negotiations and Social Welfare. Kerre Woodham is the 8pm to midnight host on NewsTalk ZB, while doing a double major in History and Political Science. She writes a weekly column for the Sunday News and hosts a Sunday morning current affairs/lifestyle show on NewsTalk ZB. Kerre reviews for She magazine and the Good Morning show on TVNZ and is a regular on the after-dinner speaking circuit. The Wizard of New Zealand spent a brief stint in the RAF as a Pilot Officer, and after many years backpacking around Europe and the Middle East, was headhunted by the University of WA, subsequently directing the Festival of Perth. He joined the staff of the University of NSW in 1967, pioneering new teaching and reform techniques which culminated in his being appointed the first official University Wizard. After starting an experimental department of interdisciplinary studies at the University of Melbourne, he moved to New Zealand.
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