Canberra 2025 Program
Tuesday 5 August Evening
5:00pm |
6:30pm |
Registration, Drinks & Welcome – Yana de Valle / Karen Viggers |
Wednesday 6 August Day 1
9:00am |
9:30am |
Welcome to Country – Wally Bell, Ngunawal Traditional Custodian Keynote Speaker – Jacqui Marlow. |
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9:30am |
10:00am |
IFAW |
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10:00am |
10:30am |
Dianna & Warwick Bisset – Raising Resilient Wombats: From Rehabilitation to Release in a Changing Climate. |
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10:30am |
11:00am |
Morning Tea |
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11:00am |
12:00noon |
Lauren Bassett – Wildlife Health Australia and Wildlife Rehabilitators: Update and Next Steps. Francis Carlton – What is Moral Injury and Do I Have It? |
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12:30pm |
1:30pm |
Lunch |
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1:30pm |
2:00pm |
Steve Garlick & Rosemary Austen – Wildlife caring and learning about nature revitalisation: A possible lacuna in our climate change concerns. |
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2:00pm |
2:30pm |
Peggy Rismiller – Of Monotremes and Monitor lizards: Two climate change survivors. |
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2:30pm |
3:00pm |
Loriann Shibish – The Gathering Storm: Caring for Wildlife in Uncertain Times. |
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3:00pm |
3:30pm |
Ellen Rasidi – Survival of a wedge-tailed eagle after hallux talon amputation – a case report. |
Thursday 7 August Day 2
8:30am |
9:00am |
Keynote Speaker – Greg Gordon |
9:00am |
9:30am |
NWC – Emergency Response for Wildlife - 5 Years on from the Black Summer Fires - Where are we now? |
9:30am |
10:00am |
Megan Johnston – Lorikeet Paralysis Syndrome (LPS) |
10:00am |
10:30am |
Joanne Connolly & Jacqui Marlow – Pre-Release Health & Post-Release Fate of Rehabilitated Macropods |
10:30am |
11:00am |
Morning Tea |
11:00am |
11:30am |
Peggy McDonald – The Gang-gang |
11:30am |
12:00noon |
Yolandi Vermaak – Wombat Abundance: Perception vs. Reality in a Changing Climate |
12:30pm |
1:30pm |
Lunch |
1:30pm |
2:30pm |
Panel |
2:30pm |
3:00pm |
Kerryn Parry-Jones – Do Rehabilitated and Hand-reared Flying-foxes Survive in the Wild? |
3:00pm |
3:30pm |
Fiona Ryan – Building Capacity for Assessing Native Wildlife within General Practice Veterinary Professionals |
Drinks 6:30pm |
Dinner 7:00pm |
Dinner – Genevieve Jacobs |
Friday 8 August Day 3
9:00am |
9:30am |
Vicky Wilkinson – Bird flu |
9:30am |
10:00am |
Rebecca Millsteed – Human activity in the urban environment impacts habitat choice and survival of Tiliqua rugosa rugosa within the Perth Metropolitan Area. |
10:00am |
10:30am |
Morning Tea |
10:30am |
11:00am |
Joanne Connelly – Diseases in Marsupials |
11:00am |
11:30am |
Zara Bennett – Victorian Wildlife Rehabilitation Guidelines |
11:30am |
Lunch |
Announcement for next conference, farewell and lunch |
