Next Meeting:
Speaker:
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Background |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Jan | Raj Bajpai | Community Ambassador - NBN(tm) local NSW | Raj Bajpai will speak to explain the NBN Rollout and answer questions as it relates to us personally.
The presentation will include:
· What is the nbn™? · How does it impact your phone and internet connections? · What do you need to do to get connected? · How to avoid scam calls related to NBN. |
| 18 Feb | Dominic Case | Australian Film History | Dominic will share insights into the Australian Film Industry, having worked at Atlab (now Deluxe) and at the National Film and Sound Archive; he was also a Board Member of the Australian Film Commission from 2003 to 2008. He currently works as a film technology and strategy consultant. |
| 17 Mar | AGM | No speaker will be booked. |
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Background |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Feb | Peter Nonnenmacher | Financial Planner | |
| 19 Mar | Charles Lindstrom | The Windjammer | The only windjammer left today in the world in sailable condition. |
| 16 Apr | Gillian Lewis | Maritime Museum | Story of the Maritime Museum and what they do there. |
| 21 May | Living with the Enemy | My mother and father both worked for the resistance. Their home was used to shelter allied servicemen and Jewish families. | |
| 18th Jun | Fergus Haynes | Official visitor to NSW prisons | Since stepping down from the role of Official Visitor Fergus has been advocating for the reform of sentencing, incarceration and rehabilitation. |
| 16th Jul | Pauline Keyvar | Huntington's NSW | What is Huntington's Disease /who is affected/what support is offered to families/how the organisation reaches out to support families. |
| 20th Aug | Jo-Anne Berthelsen | Authors Journey | Jo-Anne will be speaking about her journey as a writer of both fiction and non-fiction. She grew up in Brisbane and worked as a high school teacher, editor and local church minister in Sydney before beginning her writing career around twelve years ago. |
| 17th Sep | Trevor Wood | Vietnam | After nine years as an aircraft technician/instructor in the R.A.N. Dr Trevor Wood then spent 40 years as an educator. Ten years ago he and his wife, Kay, went to Vietnam, initially for him to train teachers at a university in Hanoi. However, shortly after arrival he 'found' two Vietnamese ladies who wanted to build a K-12 school as a destination for the children moving on from their existing kindergartens |
| 15th Oct | Tina Hyman | Jewellery | Tina has been designing and making jewellery for 30+ years’. She will talk about her journey, how she makes her jewellery and will be displaying/selling her jewellery |
| 19th Nov | Kathryn Zerk | Kathryn will talk about her musical journey and about the Drummoyne Community Choir. | Choral leader of Drummoyne Community Choir. Kathryn lives in Abbotsford with her partner and two children and may be known to a few of our members. |