QUESTnet '96

Social Program

The Organising Committee has put together a comprehensive social program as part of the QUESTnet '96 Conference. These events are included in the Conference Registration.

Should you be interested in a Partner's Program, please contact the organising company, who are also handling the pre- and post-conference tours, by e-mail to Conference and Events Management, by telephone on (077) 21-2377 or 1 800 811 904, or by fax on (077) 21-4936. The included Social Program is:

• Tuesday, 2 July 1996. The "Welcome Nightcap." An informal function, 8-30 to 10-30 p.m., for those attending a Pre-Conference Tutorial or arriving the day before the Conference starts. It includes drinks (beer, wine and soft drinks) and snacks -- certainly not dinner but enough to keep the worms at bay for a while. A way to meet old friends and make new ones in a convivial atmosphere. Held in the Junior Common Room and adjacent verandah area at University Hall, which is upstairs in the University Hall Annex.

• Wednesday, 3 July 1996. The Conference dinner. Buses depart the University at 6-00 p.m. for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority's Aquarium, where delegates alight for pre-dinner drinks and an inspection of this world class facility. Inspect the reef tank, where a natural coral reef, complete with reef creatures, is growing in a huge aquarium. Walk through the reef tank and the predator tank in a transparent underwater tube. Touch the creatures in the touch tank. View the smaller aquaria and static displays. Something not to be missed.

  The Conference Dinner commences at about 8 o'clock in the Aquarium Theatre. Be entertained by Mr Max Burnet from Digital Equipment Corporation, who has kindly consented to be our after dinner speaker. The title of the talk is An Illustrated History of Early Australian Computers and those who have heard Max speak will not want to miss this.

  Buses depart the Aquarium from about 10-45 p.m. and travel via the Sheraton Hotel and Casino for the University. Those wishing to alight -- the Casino will be open and willing to take your money -- should make their own way home.

• Thursday, 4 July 1996. A BBQ dinner at the Billabong Sanctuary. Following the visit to the Australian Institute of Marine Science, buses take delegates and their guests to the Billabong Sanctuary. Here, visitors will see crocodile feeding and go on a nocturnal walk to visit animals in as natural location as is possible. Included is a bar-b-que dinner and drinks. Buses will leave around 9-30 p.m. to return to the University.

The weather in July is usually fabulous -- av. 25 deg max, 14 min with a very low probability of rain. Why not plan to tack on a holiday to the Conference? There is much to see and do in and around Townsville. Send e-mail to Conference and Events Management for more details.