2024

January – Allan Drummond – South Sudan

February – George Petrou OAM – The Art of Sacrifice

March – Matthew Etty-Leal – Cobb and Co

April –  Alan HallFour Men and the Walrus

May – Graham O’RourkeSir 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

January – Fiona McDonald – The Australia Institute

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

January – Anna Davey – Forensic Science

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

2021

January – Leigh Hay – Author and Poet

February – Katelyn Fryer – The Future of Food Management in Boroondara

March – Emma Dawson – Per Capita Think Tank

April – Ken Tsirigotis – With the Australian Army in Afghanistan

May – Bernardo Tobias – OzHarvest

June – Thomas Currie – Actor, Singer, Producer

July – Dr. Nicholas Opie – The Brain Device ‘Stenrods’

August – Prof. Richard Broome – Aboriginal History

September – Martin Semken – Chelsea Gardens

October – Chris Hayward – Narrowing the Canals of England

November – Colin Neave – Reflections of a Career in the Public and Private Sectors; A Contrast

2020

January – Jenny Yates, The Lifelong Impact of Domestic Violence

February – Frances Deng, Sudanese Refugees – The ‘Lost Boys’

MarchMeeting cancelled due to COVID19

AprilNo meeting due to COVID19 restrictions

May – Paresa Spanos, State Coroner

June – Getting to know Club members Paul Nieuwenhuizen and Eric McGee

July – Stephen Fontana, Assistant Commissioner Crime Command

August – Sandra Erickson, Dementia

September – Prof. Greg de Moore, Changes in Psychiatry Over 100 Years

October – Joy Braybrook, John Batman: Inside Story of the Birth of Melbourne

November – Prof. Nicholas Cox, Matters of the Heart