CANBERRA & ONLINE | WEDNESDAY 28TH OCTOBER 2026

Program

Time	What
9:30am	Registrations open
Session 1 – The hidden burden: indoor air as a driver of chronic disease
10:00am	Jason Gale Senior editor and biosecurity correspondent, Bloomberg Welcome and Acknowledgement of Country Plum Stone The Safer Air Project Introduction Hon Rebecca White MP Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care, Indigenous Health and Women Ministerial address Senator Michelle Ananda-Rajah Senator for Victoria Dr Monique Ryan MP Member for Kooyong Co-Chairs Parliamentary Friends of Indoor Air Quality Mark Brooke Lung Foundation Australia Prof Brendan Crabb AC Burnet Institute Ben Harris Private Healthcare Australia Lived experience panel discussion Adj Prof Rebecca Haddock Asthma Australia Mark Brooke Lung Foundation Australia Prof Brendan Crabb AC Burnet Institute Ben Harris Private Healthcare Australia Anne Wilson Emerge Australia
12:00pm – 1:00pm	Lunch
Session 2 – What Australia is doing to improve IAQ
1:00pm	Dr Amanda Cohn MLC NSW Greens Marie Boland Safe Work Australia A/Prof Suman Majumdar Burnet Institute Q&A panel Dr Amanda Cohn MLC NSW Greens Marie Boland Safe Work Australia A/Prof Suman Majumdar Burnet Institute Daniel Sherrell ACTU
2:30pm – 3:00pm	Afternoon tea
Session 3 – From evidence to national reform: delivering a National Healthy Air Strategy
3:00pm	Prof Fay Johnston Centre for Safe Air Dr Bronwyn King AO Air Club Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska THRIVE Q&A panel Prof Fay Johnston Centre for Safe Air Dr Bronwyn King AO Air Club Alison Scotland ASBEC Magali Wardle NABERS Plum Stone The Safer Air Project Closing remarks
4:30pm	Event concludes