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SUMMARY:Double Delicious
DESCRIPTION: \nThe flavours and scents of our favourite dishes wind their way through the deepest recesses of our being and even the thought of a particular meal can transport us back to a pivotal moment in our life. \nDouble Delicious is a sumptuous storytelling and culinary experience from the creators of the critically acclaimed 2014 Sydney Festival hit The Serpent’s Table. Contemporary Asian Australian Performance (CAAP) brings together five storytellers to share the secrets behind the dishes that have proved significant in their lives. \nThe cast is Chinese Australian cooking legend Elizabeth Chong\, writer and media personality Benjamin Law\, preeminent Korean cooking instructor and kimchi specialist Heather Jeong\, performing artist Valerie Berry and performer Raghav Handa. \nBitter and sweet\, each story culminates in an authentic recreation of the storyteller’s chosen dish. Double Delicious offers a taste of the meals that mean everything to these five fascinating public figures — providing audiences with a unique opportunity to ‘taste the story’. \nThe event\, which is part of the three-month long Asia TOPA festival\, engages both your tastebuds and your emotions as the storytellers share their experiences of two cultures — their Asian heritage and living in Australia — in an engaging theatrical style. \nJoin other Melbourne Forum members as these five entertaining storytellers provide intimate glimpses into their lives in an immersive performance that tantalises all the senses. \n(NOTE: The dishes served in Double Delicious are part of the performance and cannot be altered for dietary requirements. The food contains nuts\, meat\, dairy\, gluten and preservatives.) \n  \nMelbourne Forum – Feeding minds and stimulating valuable contributions to Melbourne life. \n
URL:https://melbourneforum.org.au/event/cl-double-delicious/
LOCATION:Rosina Auditorium\, Abbotsford Convent\, 1 St Heliers Street\, Abbotsford\, Victoria\, 3067
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SUMMARY:Celebrating International Women's Day
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with the Kelvin Club\, we are delighted to invite you to celebrate Choosing Optimism for this International Women’s Day on Thursday 5th March 2020. \nHosted by Fiona Patten MP with music by Monique Dimatinna and Rebecca Barnard\, this special event will begin with pre-event drinks at 12:00noon for a 12:30pm lunch. This event supports the International Women’s Development Agency. \nWines by Victorian winemaker Ros Ritchie of Ritchie Wines: Curvee 2013\, Barwite Vineyard Riesling 2018 and Kinloch Vineyard Pinot Meunier 2017. \n  \n  \n
URL:https://melbourneforum.org.au/event/celebrating-international-womens-day/
LOCATION:Venue: Kelvin Club\, 14-30 Melbourne Place\, Melbourne\, Vic\, 3000\, Australia
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DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200317T140000
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SUMMARY:The Australia We Want
DESCRIPTION:“The future is not some place we are going to\, but one we are creating. The paths to it are not found but made. And the making of those pathways\, changes both the maker and the destination.” \nThose words comprised the final statement in Cathy McGowan’s valedictory speech to the House of Representatives in federal parliament in April 2019. \nIn an amazing show of support\, more than 200 people from Cathy’s electorate in north east Victoria travelled to Canberra to hear the Independent member for Indi’s final parliamentary speech. \nA rural consultant and farmer\, Cathy first came to national recognition when she won the seat of Indi in 2013 — a seat that had been a conservative party stronghold since 1931. The community backed her again in 2016 and she became the first female independent to sit on the crossbench. \nDuring her time as a politician\, Cathy actively worked with the government to develop policy around regional development\, a national integrity commission and a code of conduct for members of parliament. \nShe was also a strong advocate for constitutional change for first nations people and a solution to the indefinite detention of asylum seekers. \nCathy holds a masters degree in agriculture and regional development and a bachelor degree in economics and history. \nIn 2004 she was made an Officer of the Order of Australia ‘for service to the community through raising awareness of and stimulating debate about issues affecting women in regional\, rural and remote areas’. \nShe is a proud graduate of the Australian Rural Leadership Program\, a Churchill fellow and lives very happily on a farm in the Indigo Valley in north east Victoria. \nAt this Melbourne Forum lunch\, Cathy will draw on her experiences over six years in federal politics as well as her role as an advocate for regional development and rural communities to explore her vision for “the Australia we want”. \n
URL:https://melbourneforum.org.au/event/cathy-mcgowan/
LOCATION:Venue: To be confirmed closer to the date\, Victoria
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200318T183000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200318T200000
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SUMMARY:Issues in forensic evidence — is there too much reliance on it?
DESCRIPTION:Late last year\, Justice Chris Maxwell called on governments around Australia to urgently change their laws\, so that judges were once again authorised to consider the reliability of forensic evidence before it was shown to juries. \nPresident of the Victorian Court of Appeal\, Justice Maxwell believes innocent people may have been jailed because too much faith is placed on forensic techniques whose reliability is unproven.  Lindy Chamberlain is just one example of this. \nThe rise of popular television shows\, such as CSI and NCIS\, has given many jurors the idea that forensic evidence could identify criminals with 100 per cent accuracy. As a result\, when ‘CSI-style’ evidence is presented\, jurors are more likely to believe it — even if the science behind it is imperfect. \nHow is the justice system reliably prosecuting the right people?  Join us for what promises to be a fascinating Melbourne Forum dinner where he will provide his own analysis of forensic evidence. \n
URL:https://melbourneforum.org.au/event/chris-maxwell/
LOCATION:Venue: To be confirmed closer to the date\, Victoria
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200325T123000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200325T140000
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SUMMARY:Improving Australia’s plateaued school system
DESCRIPTION:The recent release of the 2018 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) evaluation has heightened the intense scrutiny and deep concern in relation to Australia’s school and early childhood educational structure and performance. Additionally\, our National Assessment Program-Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN)\, initiated in 2008\, also confirms long-term\, ‘flatlined’ educational performance and engagement across the country. \nWe are scrambling to adjust school-based curriculum\, pedagogy and assessment to take into account the realities of a turbulent world rapidly transitioning based upon the advent of artificial intelligence\, robotics and digital process automation. With a growing anxiety and deep concern about the impacts of climate change and geo-political destabilisation\, many are questioning whether our Australian schools systems are providing the contemporary preparation essential for our next generations and indeed\, to sustain Australia’s economy and our place in the world. \nFrom his first job as a teacher in a rural Indigenous classroom in his home state of Western Australia to his appointment as the Dean of the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne\, Professor Jim Watterston brings more than 35 years of successful experience across a diverse range of educational roles and sectors. \nJim spent his first ten years in the profession as a teacher before being promoted to the position of principal in a range of primary and secondary schools. He then progressed to the role of Regional Director in WA and Victoria before he was appointed as the Deputy Secretary of the Victorian Education Department\, and Director General of both the ACT and\, most recently\, Queensland Departments of Education and Training. Jim was awarded a Doctorate in Education at the University of WA in 2004. \nIn addition to appointments to many educationally related Boards\, Professor Watterston has previously served for six years as the National President for the Australian Council for Education Leaders\, and is recognised as an influential advocate for the education sector. His contribution to education has been acknowledged both nationally and internationally with awards from a number of professional bodies and educational institutions including the highly prestigious Order of the Palmes Académiques (Chevalier) by the French Government in 2014 for a distinguished contribution to education. \nThis concise presentation provides an overview of the current state of education in Australia\, focussing from a national perspective on the performance evidence\, organisational constraints and the opportunities potentially available to significantly enhance the lives of our young people as they go forward into a globalised and uncertain world. \n
URL:https://melbourneforum.org.au/event/jim-watterston/
LOCATION:Venue: To be confirmed closer to the date\, Victoria
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SUMMARY:Single Ladies
DESCRIPTION:Set in the sanitised grunge of Collingwood\, Single Ladies is a buddy story of lone women in the city told over the course of a day\, from award-winning writer Michelle Lee. \nDeveloped through Red Stitch’s INK program\, Single Ladies will celebrate its Australian premiere season at Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre as a part of the 2020 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. \n“Ya used to get mugged around here. In the 70s\, and the 80s. Even into the 90s. All types. The Aboriginals. The Serbians. Punks. Skips. You’d just punch on. People were tough around here. People were surviving.” \nAnne\, Lilike and Rachel are from different generations and backgrounds and hold different allegiances to their neighbourhood\, but a chance happening outside Coles sets them on the path to an improbable friendship. \nLee’s 2017 play Rice won the 2018 Australian Writers’ Guild Best Original Stage Play award\, while her 2018 play Going Down was a finalist in the same award as well as both the Victorian and New South Wales premier’s literary awards. \nEstablished in 2002\, Red Stitch performs contemporary Australian plays and award-winning new writing from around the world. It also plays a vital role in the development and presentation of new Australian works through the INK playwriting program. \nJoin other Melbourne Forum members in supporting this contemporary independent theatre company at the world premiere of Single Ladies in a unique and intimate venue. \n  \nMelbourne Forum – Feeding minds and stimulating valuable contributions to Melbourne life. \n
URL:https://melbourneforum.org.au/event/cl-single-ladies/
LOCATION:Red Stitch\, Rear\, 2 Chapel Street\, St Kilda East\, Victoria\, 3183
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SUMMARY:Women's liberation — the only successful revolution of the 20th century
DESCRIPTION:What was it like to be involved in the heady days of the ‘second wave’ of feminism in Australia — when the role of women at home and work changed decisively? \nIola Mathews OAM is a co-founder of the Women’s Electoral Lobby\, a former journalist at The Age and was a leading ACTU advocate for women workers during the Hawke-Keating Government. \nShe was one of the first generation of women trying to ‘have it all’ with a career and children. \nBill Kelty recruited Iola to the ACTU in 1984 as an industrial officer and advocate specialising in women’s employment. She spent the next decade fighting for women’s rights at work for which she was awarded an Order of Australia Medal. \nMore recently Iola established writers’ studios in the National Trust property ‘Glenfern’ in East St Kilda. \nShe is the author of four books\, including Winning for Women: A Personal Story published by Monash University Publishing in 2019. In this book\, Iola takes readers inside the groundwork required to bring about reforms in areas like affirmative action\, equal pay\, superannuation\, childcare\, parental leave and work-family issues. \nJoin us at this Melbourne Forum lunch where Iola will provide an insider’s account of reforms for women from the 1970s to 1990s and discuss what more needs to be done. She will also initiate discussion on whether we now need men’s liberation. \n
URL:https://melbourneforum.org.au/event/iola-mathews/
LOCATION:Venue: To be confirmed closer to the date\, Victoria
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SUMMARY:The future of publishing in a digital age
DESCRIPTION:Are past predictions of the end of publishing as we have known it and changes to the way we consume information going to come true? \nThe digital era is often described as ‘disruptive’ and this is certainly true of the way we read books. The traditional paper book now competes with other technologies — including the Internet and e-books that have their own attractions and drawbacks. \nWhile physical book sales dropped markedly a decade ago as the popularity of e-readers grew\, that trend began to slowly reverse from 2014. Today\, it is estimated that e-book sales make up around 15-20 per cent of the Australian consumer book market. \nWith that market valued at $1\,973 million in 2018 and expected to reach the $2 billion mark in 2021 there is obviously a lot to play for. \nAnd there is certainly no shortage of content being produced for readers in what is an extremely competitive landscape. \nSignificantly\, the internet has made it easy for self-publishing authors to control their content and traditional publishers dealing in books\, newspapers or magazines have had to find new ways to avoid becoming obsolete. \nGary Pengelly has worked in publishing for 35 years — including time with global powerhouses HarperCollins and McGraw-Hill — and is a leader in the Australian publishing industry. \nHe spent 15 years building PacStream — the industries ‘e-commerce’ service — which he sold to New Zealand Post before joining Thorpe-Bowker as general manager. Following 12 years in that role Gary purchased parts of the Thorpe-Bowker business and now owns and runs industry trade magazineBooks+Publishing. \nJoin us for this informative Melbourne Forum lunch where Gary Pengelly will share his profound knowledge of the Australian publishing industry and explore the future of publishing in a digital age. \nMelbourne Forum – Feeding minds and stimulating valuable contributions to Melbourne life. \n
URL:https://melbourneforum.org.au/event/the-future-of-publishing-in-a-digital-age/
LOCATION:Venue: To be confirmed closer to the date\, Victoria
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