Events

Tony Walker ASM is Chief Executive Officer of Ambulance Victoria. He is a Registered Paramedic with over thirty-five years’ experience working in a range of senior clinical, operational and leadership roles within the ambulance sector. 

Over the past six years Tony has led significant transformation at Ambulance Victoria to improve the health and wellbeing of their workforce and the response they provide to the community.  He holds an adjunct appointment as Associate Professor in the College of Health and Biomedicine at Victoria University and is a Fellow of the Australian College of Paramedicine and a Board Director of the Emergency Services Foundation, the Australasian Council of Ambulance Authorities and the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia.

Tony is a recipient of the Ambulance Service Medal (ASM) for his contribution to the development of ambulance services at a state and national level and has also been awarded the Australian Resuscitation Council Medal for his significant contributions to improving resuscitation practice and outcomes. Tony was also a finalist for the Australian Mental Health Prize in 2019 in recognition of his work in improving paramedic mental health and wellbeing.

MC: Julie Collette

*NB: ZOOM Meeting For All*

Photo Credit: Ambulance Victoria

Not to be missed!

A day of Olympic fun, plus we have a great speaker, Mr Graham 'Smokey' Dawson who has covered four Olympics Games:
three Games for the Australian Radio Network and one Olympic Games for Channel 7.

MC: Peter England

Photo:  Alex Smith 

Kerry will take you through the laugh out loud stories of her life writing humour for newspapers, TV and radio, the absurdities of writing funny books, the surreal experiences of being interviewed on TV and radio and her insane role as the light relief speaker at serious but dull conferences around Australia.

Come and listen to a Behind The Badge talk

These are always popular.

MC:  Noel Halford

futurist

Futurology spkr?

'Burwood Brickworks has been recognised as the world’s most sustainable shopping centre'

'Burwood Brickworks is a mixed-use development incorporating a range of sustainability measures including a large solar PV system, an embedded thermal and electricity network, wastewater treatment, and over one thousand independently vetted construction materials. The retail centre at Burwood Brickworks is on its way to be the world’s most sustainable shopping centre with 13,000 sqm of retail, including anchor tenants Woolworths, Dan Murphy’s and Reading Cinemas.

Located 19 kilometres from Melbourne’s CBD, Burwood Brickworks is home of Australia’s first rooftop farm in a shopping centre environment, acre farm & eatery. The development focuses around a civic boulevard fronting the al fresco dining precinct of the integrated retail centre. Burwood Brickworks is a dynamic community encompassing diverse housing choices, open space and parklands, community facilities and amenities.

It will be one of Victoria’s and Australia’s most sustainable communities with the mixed-use project creating 2,945 jobs during construction and 718 ongoing jobs within the shopping centre'.

Photo Credit: Frasers Property 

More to come!

Photo Credit: Karolina Grabowska

Dr Suresh Marcandan is the Rotary District 9800 Chair for Australian Rotary Health (ARH). 

Suresh has been a member of the Rotary Club of Melbourne since returning to live in Melbourne in May 2019. He also has a very keen personal interest in the subject of mental health and in November 2019, made a submission to the National Productivity Commission suggesting alternate holistic therapies for dealing with mental ill-health.

He is also currently a Multicultural Ambassador for the Mental Health Foundation of Australia. In March 2021, Suresh was appointed as the D9800 Chair for Australian Rotary Health and is in the process of planning a series of inclusive events to support ARH and research into mental ill-health in Victoria, in particular

M.C.  TBA

Stay tuned

Photo Credit: Pixabay

Melbourne Cup Day is Australia’s best known horse racing event. Since 1861 it has been held on the first Tuesday of November at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne. It is an annual public holiday in the state of Victoria. This event, popularly dubbed as “the race that stops the nation”, is a 3,200 metre race for three-year-olds and over, is said to be the richest ‘two-mile’ handicap in the world and is one of the richest turf races.  More than 100,000 people usually attend Flemington Racecourse, and the race is televised live to an audience of about 650 million people worldwide'.

Did you know? The 1875 winner, Wollomai, came from Phillip Island?, (which is located around 135 kilometres south-east of Melbourne and is better known for its penguin colonies). In earlier days, prior to a ferry service between Phillip Island and San Remo, animals were swum across to the Narrows.

It was thought that Wollomai had very little chance of winning, but jockey Bob Batty rode the horse to success, in a time of three minutes and thirty eight seconds, before a crowd of 70,000 people.

The owner, John Cleeland, returned to Cape Woolomai  with £22,000 pounds, having given the jockey and trainer £500 each.

Photo Credit: foxsports.com.au

Melbourne Cup Day is Australia’s best known horse racing event. Since 1861 it has been held on the first Tuesday of November at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne. It is an annual public holiday in the state of Victoria. This event, popularly dubbed as “the race that stops the nation”, is a 3,200 metre race for three-year-olds and over, is said to be the richest ‘two-mile’ handicap in the world and is one of the richest turf races.  More than 100,000 people usually attend Flemington Racecourse, and the race is televised live to an audience of about 650 million people worldwide'.

Did you know? The 1875 winner, Wollomai, came from Phillip Island?, (which is located around 135 kilometres south-east of Melbourne and is better known for its penguin colonies). In earlier days, prior to a ferry service between Phillip Island and San Remo, animals were swum across to the Narrows.

It was thought that Wollomai had very little chance of winning, but jockey Bob Batty rode the horse to success, in a time of three minutes and thirty eight seconds, before a crowd of 70,000 people.

The owner, John Cleeland, returned to Cape Woolomai  with £22,000 pounds, having given the jockey and trainer £500 each.

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Australian Football League legend and co-founder of Life Again, Gareth Andrews played football for Geelong and Richmond, was CEO of Richmond Football club, was Vice President of the Geelong Cats for 15 years, worked in the media and was a successful businessman.

However, life was not as rosy as it may have seemed. Gareth’s story is an important one. The Life Again foundation, ‘aims to inspire men to be their best’.Gareth and his foundation give hope and inspiration to many. 

Photo by Adam Trafford/AFL Media

Stay tuned for more information. 

Photo Credit: Port of Melbourne