January – Allan Drummond – South Sudan
February – George Petrou OAM – The Art of Sacrifice
March – Matthew Etty-Leal – Cobb and Co
April – Alan Hall – Four Men and the Walrus
May – Graham O’Rourke – Sir Redmond Barry
June – Elida Brereton – My Life as a School Principal
July – John Cavedon – The Melbourne Observatory
August – Justice David Harper – Ethics in Government
September – Dr. Peter Johnston – Healthy Ageing
October – Sheree Marris, Marine Biologist
November – Hon. Ted Baillieu – Our State in a Snapshot
2023
February – Ros Otzen – Melbourne’s Extraordinary Women of the 1850s and 60s
March – Geoff Widmer – Honorary Consul South America
April – Em. Prof. Dr. Mike Regan – Designing and Deploying Automated and Autonomous Vehicles: Opportunities and Challenges
May – Dr Jodie Long – Doing schools differently
June – Amie Marom – Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Watch Commission
July – Charlotte Sterrett – Yarra Riverkeeper
August – Justice David Harper AM – Courtroom Consequences
September – George Deutsch OAM – Courage to Care: A Holocaust survivor’s family story
October – Lorraine Smith – Journey of a Lost Manuscript
November – Geoff Chambers – Colours of Jazz
2022
February – Catherine Kelly and Sue Matthews – Advance Care Planning
March – Dr. Sue Schofield – Free the Bears
April – Carolyn Pethick – To Hell and Back; A Policewoman’s Story
May – Peter Philp – The History of Australian Radio Serials
June – Dr. Brian Gunn – Rottnest Island: An Icon of Western Australia
July – Jennifer Porter – Artefacts and Archaeological Sites
August – Prof. Richard Broome – Remembering Melbourne
September – Dr. David Hay – A Story from World War 1 of Major Henry Farrar
October – Lian Buchanan – Victorian Commissioner for Children and Young People
November – Jill Gallagher – Uluru Statement From the Heart and Victorian National Treaty Proposal