District Conference 8-10 March 2024

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Accommodation

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Speakers

Costa Georgiadis

Costa Georgiadis is a landscape architect, environmental educator and television presenter who has an all-consuming passion for plants and people. As co-creator and host of Costa’s Garden Odyssey for SBS, he caught the attention of a nation.

Since 2013, Costa Georgiadis has continued his journey as the much-loved host of one of the ABC's most iconic and Logie award winning programs, Gardening Australia.
 
Costa Georgiadis is a must have TV and radio guest on talk shows, lifestyle programs, current affairs programs, gameshows and brings the comedy gold in unexpected places to audiences young and old.
 
Since 2013, Costa Georgiadis has continued his journey as the much-loved host of one of the ABC's most iconic and Logie award winning programs, Gardening Australia.
 

Lyn Worsley

Lyn Worsley is the Director of The Resilience Centre in Sydney and a Clinical Psychologist and Registered Nurse. She is an engaging and dynamic presenter for people of all ages, helping them to build resilience and hope, learning to cope and thrive through the adversities that affect all stages and transitions in life. She is also the author of “The Resilience Doughnut Book – The Secret of Strong Kids” and “The Resilience Doughnut Book – The Secret of Strong Adults”. Lyn brings humour and real life stories to her talks that are relatable and comforting for the audience.

Clary Castrission 

Social entrepreneur who believes business is the way to improving poor people’s lives in a sustainable and on-going way. Founding Director and CEO 40K Foundation Australia (40K executes tangible projects designed to address poverty-related communities in the developing world based on our core pillars of adventure, interactivity and science). Clary is a young social entrepreneur who will be speaking about the role of westerners in reducing international poverty from his experiences of building a school for poverty-stricken children outside Bangalore, India. Clary was accidently turned into a social entrepreneur when he was studying law at the University of Technology, Sydney. The next step was supposed to be working at a big law firm until one of his professors told him to get over to the developing world and get his hands dirty. After a trip to India, his life took a complete change and he set up 40K. For his work associated with 40K, Clary has received a number of awards including an Order of Australia (2014) and the Australia-India Friendship Award (2012).

Ken Hutt

One in seven people don't survive their attempts at Everest and three people died while the group was on the mountain. Ken Hutt's mission was to raise the profile of and money for Rotary International's End Polio Now campaign. He had a message to leave at the summit of Everest. While he failed to achieve his gliding goal, his message made it to the peak, delivered by the three remaining members of the group.  But the journey was not without further emergencies for remaining climbers: two members of the group had to be airlifted to safety on the descent, drilling in the dangers the mountain poses. Listen to Ken’s extraordinary story…