Events

Dr. John Bruni is the Founder and CEO of SAGE International (SAGE).  SAGE is South Australia’s only privately operated, online, NFP geopolitical think tank and consultancy.  Dr. Bruni has long-term experience in teaching international relations, politics and security.  His primary area of expertise is in defence acquisition, having authored a book on this topic, ‘On […]

Peter Greste is a dual Latvian – Australian academic, memoirist and writer.   Formerly a journalist and foreign correspondent, he worked for Reuters, CNS, the BBC, Al Jazeera, predominantly in the Middle East, Latin America and Africa.  In December 2013, Greste and 2 other Jazeera journalists were arrested by Egyptian authorities in Cairo.  Six months later, […]

Professor Prior was born in rural South Australia and has been a farmer shopkeeper, librarian and an academic.  Professor Prior was educated at Kapunda High School and at the University of Adelaide where he obtained an Honours Arts degree in 1974 and a PhD in 1979. Professor Prior was a visiting research fellow at the […]

Rod Bunten grew up in Cornwall and Gloucestershire.  He studied Physics at Oxford University, before starting a diplomatic career at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office.  Mr. Bunten undertook successful diplomatic postings in a number of regions, including New York, Taiwan and Hong Kong.  During this period Mr. Bunten married Her Excellency the Honourable Frances […]

Tom Silvers has been CEO of the Adelaide Football Club since 2021, and has nearly three decades of experience as a highly driven sports executive. Tim is known as a strong and authentic leader, with a history of fostering high performance teams.  Currently Tim is overseeing the Crows’ move towards a new state-of-the-art headquarters in […]

Dr. Geoffrey Raby is an economist and was Australia’s Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China from 2007 to 2011.  Prior to this appointment, Dr. Raby held a number of significant ambassadorial positions and several senior positions in DFAT, including Deputy Secretary from 2002-2006.  After completing 27 years in the public service, Dr. Raby completed […]

Our Speaker:  Lieutenant Read’s military career began when he entered the Royal Australian Navy as a Boy Seaman in early 1964, undertaking 2 months training at HMAS CERBERUS in Victoria.  He was then posted to HMAS SYDNEY, which was readying itself to transport the 1st Battalion RAR to Vietnam, sailing from Sydney in May 1965. […]

Program: Meet in the Goodman Building in the Adelaide Botanical Gardens – off Hackney Road at 3:00pm Parking – in front of the old MTT building or in Pine Tree Drive, Hackney Michael Harvey, the Director of the Botanical Gardens, will give a talk about the exhibition Afternoon tea Walk into the Gardens to view […]

Ben Wadham is a Professor of Defence and Veteran Studies at Flinders University.  Ben is also Director of Open Door: Understanding and Supporting Service Personnel and their Families.  Ben served in the Australian Regular Army for five years as an infantry soldier and military policy corporal, leaving in 1992.  Ben has led large national research […]

Hilton Koppe’s Workshop - Details   Write Your Life to Right Your Life – Reflective Writing Workshop Are you looking for creative ways to overcome some of life’s persistent, pestering unhelpful thoughts? Or looking for ways to transform minor irritations and annoying memories into something joyful? Or perhaps you are just feeling stuck with pen […]