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 of us whose Australian heritage is more recent. It involves acknowledging the first nation status of all Aboriginal people, and recognition of their ancestral and cultural links to this land. It also involves the creation of the opportunity to be heard and participate fully and equally in our society.

The 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart was the culmination of several years of consultation with indigenous people from all parts of Australia. This statement is the first such collective expression by our indigenous Australians of the next steps required to take us forward on the road to reconciliation.

This session will consider the current environment for reconciliation and what needs to be done to assist this process. It will consider what can be done by business and government, what might be required in terms of our legal and governance structures and by our society in general. It will also consider this from the perspectives of geographically diverse indigenous communities. Importantly, it will help guide Rotarians on how community service organisations can engage in the reconciliation process and support the aspirations of indigenous Australians.

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 community approach to holding family violence perpetrators to account, keeping victims safe and addressing children’s needs. The panelists will outline their roles and approach to influencing a systems response to family violence, implementing an evidence-based risk assessment for prioritising the police response and the community prevention focus of Rotary SAFE families. This session will offer a unique insight into an evidence-based response by frontline and specialist police resources and opportunities for Rotarians to mobilise community in the prevention of family violence as a Rotary SAFE Ambassador.