Events

The Street University is a youth development project created by the Ted Noffs Foundation which provides various community based services and interactive spaces for people aged 12 – 25. Our aim is to help them realise their dreams, harness their potential and to create positive outcomes for their lives and their community.

The Street University’s trained directors, mentors and facilitators use a multifaceted range of youth work, counselling and community development techniques in order to combine progressive approaches to social work with grassroots community participation. We experiment with the artistic and social potential made possible by a uniquely Australian multi-ethnic, inter-faith, socially diverse culture.

Zoom Host: Noel Halford

Victor is a Director of The Centre for Optimism

He believes that 'Optimism is the underpinning of resilience and we need to foster it throughout the community'.

He wrote 'The Case for Optimism: The Optimists’ Voices' to give voice to the yearning for a positive approach to leadership and life. 

Victor's follow up book "Optimism: The How and Why" answered requests for more of 'The How' of optimism.

His life experience includes stints as Commissioner to the Americas, 18 years a parliamentarian, practice as a barrister, mediator, arbitrator, businessman and board service.

**Please Note:  You are asked to wear a hat...funny, serious, modern, classic.  
It's your choice.
There will be prizes for the two best hats!**
Donations appreciated (Australian Rotary Health), but not compulsory
**Plus:
Our speaker, Victor, has asked for us to:
**Ask someone we love and admire "What makes you Optimistic?  
See examples - https://www.centreforoptimism.com/Optimists-and-their-Optimism
Members might like to look at the Nelson Mandela Youth Leadership Summit - one of our projects.  
https://www.centreforoptimism.com/The-third-Nelson-Mandela-Regional-Youth-Summit

Not To Be Missed!

Behind The Badge Talks are always interesting and informative.

BOAB Health Services provide quality multidisciplinary primary health care services in allied health, mental health and care coordination for people in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

Did you know that it is the only non-government health service with a footprint across the entire Kimberley region?

Bernadette, who is a Diabetes Educator of the West Kimberley region of Australia, will give us an insight into the amazing work of 'BOAB'.

Zoom Host: Andrew Crockett

Photo: Liv Bruce

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.

Norm is the Darwin Military Museum Director.

The Museum has been described as 'a powerful, interactive, immersive experience.'

It tells the fascinating history of Darwin's war time involvement during WW2.

Do you know the truth of the 64 Japanese raids that took place on Darwin over almost 2 years?

Discover how these raids were kept a secret from the Australian population and have now been made public. 

Did you know that 188 aircraft were deployed to attack Darwin dropping 681 bombs on the city?

The Darwin Military Museum has celebrated its 50th anniversary. They are looking forward to another 50 years of telling the story of the Territory’s rich military history.

Photo: Darwin Military Museum

Ken Piesse saw his first game of VFL football at old Glenferrie in 1963.

His Dad went to Scotch and barracked for Hawthorn and the ground became a second home for young Ken growing up.

In time he played a game of cricket there, for the Prahran second XI against Hawthorn East Melbourne and as the youngest in the team (16 turning 17)  his job was to fetch the  straight hit balls onto the railway tracks.

He still loves Hawthorn and many of his 80 books have been written on behalf of past Hawk giants from Dermie and Dunstall to the Rat, the Big Fish and Dipper.

Ken is a master storyteller and is Australian sports most published living author with a rare passion for cricket and football.
He will again be working  for P & O cruise lines as a guest speaker, when cruising resumes.

Ken has been the President of the Australian Cricket Society for 15 years

He is a member of the Melbourne Cricket Club Media Hall of Fame and the Australian Football Media Hall of Fame.

Cricket Victoria awarded him its Major Media Award for the third time in 2015 for Cricket’s Cinderella Story, Chris Rogers’ extraordinary comeback, published in the ACS’s ‘Pavilion’ magazine.

There is no more published living sports author in Australasia.

You will have the opportunity of buying a signed copy of his two new books Favorite Football Yarns and Favorite Cricket Yards via Ken’s website: cricketbooks.com.au

Photo: Ken Piesse website

Tilak's suggestion...Prof. Epidem.