Visiting WA

Glenn Cooper, executive chair and director of marketing at Coopers Brewery South Australia, to speak at Family Business Australia’s state conference on change and challenges for family businesses in WA, May 25 at the UWA Club. Henry Brodaty, professor of psychogeriatrics at the University of NSW and director of the Australian government’s Dementia Health Priority Primary Dementia Collaborative Research Centre; Murna Downs, professor of dementia studies at Bradford University (UK); Alexander Friedrich Kurz, head of the Centre for Cognitive Disorders at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of Technische Universitaet Muenchen (Munich, Germany); and Emeritus Professor Mary Marshall, retired director of the Dementia Services Development Centre at the University of Stirling (Scotland), to speak at the twelfth national Alzheimer’s Australia Conference, May 29 to June 1 at the Perth Convention Centre. Steve van Barneveld, QLD-based Sedgman Ltd’s general manager engineering services; Tony Willmot, project director Dawson Alliance for QLD-based Anglo Coal; and Prof Bruce Hebblewhite, mining engineer lecturer at the University of NSW, to speak at the Mine Feasibility Summit, May 30 and 31 at the Hotel Grand Chancellor.