[plug] Hedzup for LCA2008 or LCA2009

[Chris Caston]

On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 15:45, Alex Polglaze wrote:
> Ben Jensz wrote:
> > You couldn't do it in Broome for a number of reasons.  The accomodation
> > prices would kill it for a lot of people looking at coming to the
> > conference, as there isn't anywhere that you could really class as
> > "cheap", even during the off season.  Also the only time of the year
> > you'd even be able to find accomodation is in summer (as its booked out
> > solidly during tourist season, i.e. winter), which is the worst time of
> > year in terms of the very hot and very humid weather conditions.  You
> > also run the risk of people being scared off at the last minute by a
> > cyclone forming at that time of year as well.  So yeah, it's not very
> > logistically possible, even though it'd be a nice location :)
> 
> I haven't seen a valid reason here for not considering Broome even in Cyclone season. I
> think Broome has been hit the same amount of times Perth has in the last 30 years.
> 
> They even have electricity and air conditioning, so a conference could be held at any time.
> 
> Yep, I LOVE Broome and would go there for any reason at any time.
> 
> Alex

I hear the that the placement uni of Notre Dame campus there (nursing
and education only) has increased the female:male ratio somewhat.


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