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Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins won both the Royal Society of Literature Award and the Los Angeles Times Literary Prize in 1987 for The Blind Watchmaker...
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Phillip Adams
A lifelong atheist, Phillip Adams started writing on the joys of disbelief, the merits of the meaningless universe and the sins of religion half a century ago...
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Taslima Nasrin
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Peter Singer
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Catherine Deveny
Catherine Deveny is a comedy writer, stand-up comedian, and an opinion columnist in The Age newspaper since 2001...
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PZ Myers
PZ Myers is an American biology professor at the University of Minnesota Morris (UMM) and the author of the science blog Pharyngula ...
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Sue-Ann Post
Sue-Ann Post has created her own brand of information charged comedy that has shocked and delighted audiences around Australia, New Zealand, the UK and the USA...
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Kylie Sturgess
Kylie started her working life as an award-winning English teacher and has continued to keep busy with the weekly podcast The Skeptic Zone...
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Dan Barker
Dan Barker is co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation and author of Godless: How An Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists...
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John Perkins
Dr. John L Perkins is an economist and atheist activist and a regular contributor to freethought magazines. He has qualifications from universities in Melbourne and London...
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Tamas Pataki
Dr. Tamas Pataki is honorary senior fellow at the University of Melbourne and honorary fellow of Deakin University...
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Russell Blackford
Russell Blackford is an Australian writer and editor. His publications include novels, short stories, academic monographs, and numerous book chapters...
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Stuart Bechman
Stuart Bechman is completing his first year as president of the board of Atheist Alliance International, and the first AAI conference under his direction...
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Max Wallace
Max Wallace is Director of the Australia New Zealand Secular Association (ANZSA). His idea for the first conference on the lack of constitutional separation of church and state...
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Ian Robinson
Ian Robinson is President of the Rationalist Society of Australia and for a number of years edited the Australian Rationalist...
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AC Grayling
Anthony Grayling MA, DPhil (Oxon) FRSL, FRSA is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford...
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Robyn Williams
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Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor defines the difference between sleight of hand and sleight of mind magic. Through studies in psychology, practice of hypnosis and experience in the performing arts...
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NonStampCollector
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Julian Morrow
is a co-founder of The Chaser, a satirical media empire which rivals Rupert Murdoch's News Corp in all fields except power, influence, popularity and profitability....
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Craig Reucassel
was a founding editor of The Chaser newspaper. With the Chaser he has gone on to do shows on the ABC such as The Election Chaser, CNNNN and The Chaser's War on Everything. ...
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Lyn Allison
was a member of the Australian Senate from 1996 to 2008, representing the state of Victoria and was the last federal parliamentary leader of the Australian Democrats....
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Dr Leslie Cannold
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Maggie Millar
is an Honours graduate of RADA in London, having won a scholarship to study there, and in her graduation year she won the 'Gertrude Lawrence Award for Best Performance'....
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Jane Caro
wears many hats; including author, lecturer, mentor, social commentator, columnist, workshop facilitator, speaker, broadcaster and award winning advertising writer.....
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Tanya Levin
grew up in the church that became Hillsong, the country's most ambitious, entrepreneurial and influential religious corporation. Tanya Levin is now a social worker and atheist....
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Mark Tier
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A presentation of the Atheist Foundation of Australia Inc and Atheist Alliance International
The 2010 Global Atheist Convention
Melbourne, Australia
12-14 March at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
Presenters will include: Richard Dawkins, Catherine Deveny, Phillip Adams, Taslima Nasrin, Peter Singer, PZ Myers, Dan Barker, Stuart Bechman, Sue-Ann Post, Kylie Sturgess, John Perkins, Tamas Pataki, Max Wallace, Russell Blackford, Ian Robinson, AC Grayling, Robyn Williams, Simon Taylor, NonStampCollector and Craig Reucassel and Julian Morrow (The Chaser). In addition, a panel of women chaired by Maggie Millar will feature Lyn Allison, Tanya Levin, Leslie Cannold and Jane Caro.
"The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science … We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organized ignorance …"
Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion
Introduction to the Richard Dawkins Foundation
"The number of churchgoers in Australia is about 9% and dwindling, the diversity of spiritual belief is flourishing and atheism is going off like a frog in a sock."
Catherine Deveny
The Age, Melbourne
February 18, 2009
The 2010 Global Atheist Convention will be the biggest ever atheist event in Australia’s history.
This is your chance to hear world-class atheist speakers, and meet Australian and internationally acclaimed atheists, skeptics, humanists, rationalists and academics in one of Australia’s most vibrant and exciting cities.
The bigger we can make this convention, the stronger the signal it will send to Australia's religious and political institutions that atheism and secularism are forces to be reckoned with.
See you in Melbourne!
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