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4 attendees at the ARC Conference give their impressions and ask for your feedbackDear , In just over a week three of our directors, and former director Amanda Stoker will report on the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship Conference held in London at the beginning of this month at a function to be held in our offices on Wednesday November 22 at 6:30 for 7:00 pm. Some of you will already know about our event because a notice went out over EventBrite, and others won’t because I’ve only gotten back from Europe this week and have been a bit slow. So my apologies. Despite the smaller distribution the response has been very good and I’m expecting our auditorium to be close to full, so if you haven’t booked, get in quickly. (Date is Wednesday November 22, and time is 6:30 pm at Unit 2B, 50 Logan Road, Woolloongabba.) Amanda was one of the organisers of the conference, and Campbell Newman, Dan Ryan and I attended as well. It was great to be at the conference with 1,499 other attendees from all over the world, including a surprising number from Eastern Europe and Africa. If you want more than a flavour of what happened you can go to YouTube to the ARC channel https://www.youtube.com/@arc_forum. They have posted a number of speeches, although not all. Some of my favourites are by Konstantin Kissin, Kemi Badenoch, and Jacinta Price. The opening statement was by Baroness Phillipa Stroud, which outlines the purpose fairly succinctly. And of course, Jordan Peterson was omnipresent. Unfortunately, the interview with John Howard has not been posted. It’s also worth reading some of the ARC’s research papers and ideas. To get involved in the discussion you might also like to complete their qualitative survey where they pose six questions about Vision and Story, Responsible Citizenship, Family and Social Fabric, Free Enterprise and Good Governance, Energy and Resources, and Environmental Stewardship. We don’t normally hand out homework before a function, but the bookings we have had already suggest a high degree of interest and excitement in this conference. It was certainly unusual in my experience in combining performances of music and poetry, and discussions of art, along with speeches on philosophy and policy. If you’re interested in some critiques you could do worse than read Rebekah Barnett’s take. Jennifer Marohasy also has an interesting blog post. From these you can take it that there was a variety of opinions about how useful the conference was, and where it should go. Hope to see you next Wednesday so we can discuss this unique event and the opportunities it opens up. I also note that there was talk about having an Australian ARC conference sometime next year. So stay tuned. Details again are: Date and time: November 22, 2023 at 6:30 for 7:00 pm Regards, 
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