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Highlights of the ASBA National Conference, Sydney, September 2017

Over 700 delegates - and more than 70 from WA - assembled in Sydney in September to participate in the ASBA National Conference, with the very appropriate theme of "Charting the Course"

Highlights included:

  • The ASBA WA Pre-Conference Get-Together at The Pumphouse at Darling Harbour. A fun night was had by all WA membrs and WA sponsors who attended (over 80 guests!)
  • The keynote on the Opening Day by Matt Church, on the Leading in the Age of Disruption - an excellent insight into the changes and challenges ahead
  • Harbour ride out to Cockatoo Island - with its range of spectacular industrial/street art performers set in the superbly old, atmospheric Cockatoo Island shipbuilding yards
  • Innovation & Change keynote by Simon Breakspear on the second morning - engaging!
  • Simon Hammond and his take on leading culture in schools... set to music!
  • The courage, determination and wit of crime journalist, Kate McClymont
  • The closing session "School under Pressure" Hypothetical led by Dr Norman Swan... a lesson in humility and hubris...and watching people squirm
  • The Gatsby Gybe gala event... ASBA folk love a dress-up occasion!

Extra Special Highlight:

  • The ASBA WA State Breakfast on the second morning, where we gathered to chat and laugh, and honour the two WA recipients of the Chairman's Chapter Awards for Outstanding Service:  Des Hardiman, and Michael Burgess.  Congratulations!!
  • Chairman Chapter Awards: Michael Burgess with Shaun Sargent
    Chairman Chapter Awards: Michael Burgess with Shaun Sargent
  • Chairman Chapter Awards: Des Hardiman with Shaun Sargent
    Chairman Chapter Awards: Des Hardiman with Shaun Sargent
  • WA State Breakfast, National Conference Sydney 2017
    WA State Breakfast, National Conference Sydney 2017
    .... hands up who partied too hard the night before?