Past Events

If you loved our Cultural Life event at Free to Feed last year - you will love this experience. This intimate evening offers the opportunity to hear the story, the journey and the music of Daniel Jauregui - over a traditional Middle Eastern dinner with friends.…

Twenty years ago, 16 boards and tribunals merged into one ‘Super-Tribunal’ and VCAT was born. VCAT hears over 80,000 applications every year and sits in over 50 locations around Victoria. Media attention is focussed on planning appeals, but there is so much more. In December…

Initial thoughts of natural disasters, declining social cohesion and risks to essential services come to mind when considering a resilient city, but where are we now with environmental and climate adaptation, a zero-emissions economy, a rapidly growing and transforming population, increasing social inequality, lack of…

Terry Moran AC is one of the most influential leaders ever to come out of Victoria, leaving a lasting legacy of public sector reform and an exemplar of commitment and integrity in service to Australians. Over a wide-ranging 40-year career, Terry Moran has occupied a…

Melbourne, like many global cities, is under significant pressure to change. This is driven by major urban stresses such as population growth, infrastructure shortages, economic restructuring towards a knowledge based economy and the housing affordability crisis. The identification of new urban renewal precincts in central…

Australian adult prisoner numbers continue to rise. The Australian Bureau of Statistics updated their key findings this month. The number of prisoners in adult corrective services custody increased by 4% from 41,202 at 30 June 2017 to 42,974 at 30 June 2018, between 2017 and 2018…