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Welcome by Dr Tania Miletic & Dr Murray Verso    

Dr Lois Peeler AM   Proud Yorta Yorta woman, activist and educator Executive Director/Principal Worawa Aboriginal College

Holger Knaack   Rotary International President Rotary Club of Rotary Club of Herzogtum Lauenburg-Mölln, Germany    

Marion Macleod   President, Rotary Club of Melbourne    

Associate Professor Tilman Ruff AO   Founding chair of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).     “Leaders of the World – How Can We Eliminate Nuclear Weapons Before They Are Used Again?”    

Setsuko Thurlow   Japanese Canadian nuclear disarmament campaigner and survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima.   (Video extract was made available privately to Symposium registrants between. Click here for full version – from 1h 11min 45sec to 1h 30min 30sec)

Dr Emma Leslie AM   Executive Director, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies.     “Building peace in the post COVID 21st Century”    

Facilitator led Q&A discussions.    

Workshop Moderator Robert McGuirk   Speakers Ian Hamm Chair, Board of Directors at First Nations Foundation   Nerita Waight Chief Executive Officer Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service   Neville White Emeritus Scholar at La Trobe University   Reconciliation is a step on the road to a more peaceful and inclusive co-existence between indigenous Australians and those […]

Workshop Moderator Richard Dent Chair, Rotary Foundation Committee Rotary Melbourne   Speakers Associate Professor Troy McEwan Swinburne Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science   Lauren Callaway Assistant Commissioner Family Violence Command, Victoria Police   Dorothy Gilmour Rotary Melbourne & Rotary Safe Families   This session will provide participants with an overview of the Victoria Police and […]