Conference Proceedings

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• Margaret Alston - Setting the scene - why succession planning is so important (63KB)
• A play, yes but real problems article - courtesy of The Land (1.9MB)
• Alana Johnson - Succession planning as a change process (83KB)
• Jim Ireland - Observations of dialectical dilemmas from the Many Paths conference (97KB)
• The push-pull model of Family Business Succession - Lucio Dana (27KB)
• Many paths poem by Mike Stephens (23KB)
• Walk the walk poem by Mike Stephens (15KB)
• Peter Hayes - Technical panel - Accountant's model  (3.99MB)
• Vicki O'Connor - Technical panel - Financial Planner's Lifeplan (53KB) 
• Dennis Gamble - Survey results on how farm families members work with their advisers (1.72MB)
• Breakout session notes - Day one (340KB)   
• Breakout session notes - Day two (330KB)
• Where to from here? session notes (306KB)
• Young Blood needed in Agriculture article - courtesy of The Land (503KB)
• Splitting up the nice way article - courtesy of The Land (53KB)

Research

• New Directions for Family Farm Businesses, Rural Advisor & Rural Policymakers (2001) - Dennis Gamble, Stephen Blunden & Helen McGowan (284KB)
• Sustaining the Family Farm systems: An integrated approach to linking the social, business & environmental aspects (2003) - Dennis Gamble, Stephen Blunden & Gavin Ramsay (82KB)
• Rural Law online Farm Succession Planning forum Report (2005) (1.17MB)
• Farm Succession & Inheritance: An international comparison (2004)  - Institute for Rural Futures - Dr Elaine Barclay (837KB)
• Wills and their potential to destroy viable family farms (2004) - Geoffrey Tually (128KB)

Resources

• Rural law online  - www.rurallaw.org.au
• Talking families in Business video, Challenge of Change DVD, In-laws Radio National Services - Double CD - www.highresolutions.com.au/resources.html