Dear all,<br><br>It would be interesting to know who they are targeting/reaching. Presumably, there is an audience who can afford to pay the $1000-$4000 for such a conference. Government? Mining? Corporate sector? The who and why are interesting questions. We can assume they want to learn about these issues and the organisers have put together a strong selection of presenters.<br>
<br>If any of our members are amongst the presenters (e.g. KLRC, Qld Indigenous knowledge centre, NT libraries), could you give us some feedback?<br><br>cheers,<br>Margaret<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Paul Paton - VACL <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ppaton@vaclang.org.au">ppaton@vaclang.org.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">We get these all the time and I simply throw them straight in the bin for the main reason of the registration fees.<br>
Totally disconnected from communities it seems..<br>
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Paul Paton<br>
Manager<br>
Victorian Aboriginal Corp for Languages<br>
295 King St Melbourne 3000<br>
P 03 9600 3811 | F 03 9600 4277 | M 0418 897 842<br>
<a href="http://www.vaclang.org.au" target="_blank">www.vaclang.org.au</a><br>
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From: KJ Olawsky [mailto:<a href="mailto:manager@mirima.org.au">manager@mirima.org.au</a>]<br>
Sent: 11 August 2010 12:52<br>
To: David Nash; <a href="mailto:r-n-l-d@unimelb.edu.au">r-n-l-d@unimelb.edu.au</a>; Margaret Florey<br>
Subject: RE: conference announcement<br>
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Dear David and RNLD mob<br>
<br>
I agree that this looks like a business model and quite frankly I'm appalled at the rates. It is the second such offer we received in a month and it seems organizers and business people have understood there is serious money in anything branded Indigenous knowledge transfer or cross-cultural training.<br>
Mirima Language Centre offers a similar course (as a more locally specialized "product") for a fraction of the fee. In fact, I wonder who'd be able to afford an expense of this size.<br>
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Knut<br>
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Dr. Knut J. Olawsky<br>
Senior Linguist/Manager<br>
Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring,<br>
Language and Culture Centre<br>
P.O. Box 2420<br>
Kununurra, WA 6743<br>
Phone: (08) 9169 1029<br>
E-mail: <a href="mailto:manager@mirima.org.au">manager@mirima.org.au</a><br>
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> -----Original Message-----<br>
> From: David Nash [mailto:<a href="mailto:David.Nash@anu.edu.au">David.Nash@anu.edu.au</a>]<br>
> Sent: Wednesday, 11 August 2010 10:00 AM<br>
> To: <a href="mailto:r-n-l-d@unimelb.edu.au">r-n-l-d@unimelb.edu.au</a>; Margaret Florey<br>
> Subject: Re: conference announcement<br>
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> Thanks for this Margaret, first I'd heard of it. Do you know if they<br>
> had a call for papers?<br>
><br>
> I emailed the address you provided and received a reply this morning<br>
> with a PDF brochure (no URL); I've now found the brochure is at<br>
> <a href="http://www.tonkincorporation.com/images/Eureka/ALIABrochure.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.tonkincorporation.com/images/Eureka/ALIABrochure.pdf</a>,<br>
> linked from <a href="http://www.tonkincorporation.com/?m=5&id=636&t=14" target="_blank">http://www.tonkincorporation.com/?m=5&id=636&t=14</a><br>
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> On page 4 of the brochure the prices are tabulated; the range is from<br>
> $2748.90 to $4288.90 ... I guess it includes accommodation; I don't<br>
> see a price without accommodation, or a day rate perhaps they do allow<br>
> this if oine inquires).<br>
><br>
> As much as some of the speakers and titles are attractive, the overall<br>
> picture seems to be a business model tapping into well-padded expense<br>
> accounts.<br>
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> David<br>
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