RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.
RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.
Dr Les Baxter, Director of Agriculture R&D at Tasmanian Alkaloids will present – Commercialisation of New Agricultural Crops in Tasmania: Some Lessons from the Past and Present – in the Meeting Room, QVMAG at Inveresk at 2.00 pm Sunday 25th October 2015
Admission: $6 General Public, $4 Friends of the Museum and Students
Free for members of The Royal Society of Tasmania
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Tasmania’s climate, agro ecology, available resources and expertise make it ideally placed for the commercialisation of a range of new crop species. To date the results from attempts to commercialise many of these opportunities has been mixed. Using case studies from a range of successful, unsuccessful and nascent new crops developments, this presentation considers the factors which have contributed to the success and failure of these ventures and how they may be more effectively managed in the future.
Dr Les Baxter is currently the Director of Agricultural R&D at Tasmanian Alkaloids. He has over 35 years experience in both the public and private sectors in horticultural agronomy, research and development, extension, commercialisation of new crops and industry development. Les has worked in Australia and overseas on a wide range of agricultural crops including temperate and tropical fruits and vegetables, essential oils, green tea, wasabi, extractive and plantation crops. He has worked for over 15 years in the agricultural sector in Tasmania including General Jones, Essential Oils of Tasmania, Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, Horticulture Australia and Tasmanian Alkaloids.
The Royal Society of Tasmania acknowledges, with deep respect, the traditional owners of this land, and the ongoing custodianship of the Aboriginal people of Tasmania. The Society pays respect to Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that Tasmanian Aboriginal Peoples have survived severe and unjust impacts resulting from invasion and dispossession of their Country. As an institution dedicated to the advancement of knowledge, the Royal Society of Tasmania recognises Aboriginal cultural knowledge and practices and seeks to respect and honour these traditions and the deep understanding they represent.
On 15 February 2021, the Royal Society of Tasmania offered a formal Apology to the Tasmanian Aboriginal people.