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Repair Cafe Opening

South

19 October 2019

“Toss it? No Way!” This event marks the inaugural launch of the Hobart Repair Cafe at Kickstart Arts! The global Repair Cafe movement has made it to Hobart (with ongoing Repair Cafe sessions planned to…

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Maritime Engineering Design Project Presentation Day

North

18 October 2019

All are invited to come a long and listen to the fourth-year AMC engineering students present their final year design projects. Learn about a completely new barge design which has the potential to revolutionise the…

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Averting Climate Catastrophe: People power

South

17 October 2019

In 2018 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that we have only 12 years at current global greenhouse gas emission rates before our chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C are seriously at risk.…

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Climate Reality: The climate crisis

North

17 October 2019

Climate change is the biggest global-health threat of the 21st century.  It will affect everyone. But worst hit will be those who are already vulnerable.  We need action to reduce the public health burden of climate change…

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2040 special screening with Q&A

South

16 October 2019

Clarence Climate Action invites you to a special screening of 2040. Award-winning director Damon Gameau embarks on journey to explore how the future would look by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best…

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Food Security, Health and Climate Change

North

15 October 2019

Unlike countries that practice social partnership governance (e.g. Norway, Sweden, Germany), adversarial Westminster-style governance produces policy gridlock, most evidently in the field of climate change. In this interactive presentation, Sandy Murray will outline the dysfunctional…

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Projects in the Pub: Hobart

South

15 October 2019

Do you like to hear about interesting engineering projects and the challenges and learning outcomes from these projects? Do you like to catch up with other engineers in a more relaxed environment (than the office,…

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Eddie Woo: Wootube and the World of Maths

North

14 October 2019

Arguably Australia’s most famous mathematics teacher, Eddie Woo makes maths fun. The head mathematics teacher at Cherrybrook Technology High School, the largest secondary school in NSW, Eddie started posting videos online in 2012 for a…

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Mind the Gap: Climate response vs science

North

14 October 2019

This lunchtime talk will include information included in the IPCC and UN reports on climate warming and biodiversity loss. Attendees will then participate in an interactive discussion identifying reasons for the gap between science and…

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National Missing Persons Hackathon 2019

South

11 October 2019

What is the National Missing Persons Hackathon? The AustCyber Canberra Innovation Node has partnered with the Australian Federal Police, the National Missing Persons Coordination Centre and Trace Labs to conduct a missing person capture the flag (CTF) event (aka Hackathon) on Friday 11th…

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Nobel Peace Prize Winner Dr Tilman Ruff AO

South

10 October 2019

Physician, academic and co-founder of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons presents a special public lecture.

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Unimportant? Six Physics Topics and Why They Matter

South

10 October 2019

Following the publication of two books, commissioned by World Scientific Publishing Company, Professor Robert Delbourgo will pick out six topics from his first book that have resonated within the physics community: Barcarolle – On stability…

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