Bob Geldof … musician, businessman, humanitarian and activist....
A self-styled campaigner Bob Geldof is tremendously well informed on a broad range of global and national issues. His presentations are highly provocative and he uplifts and inspir...
Brilliant fit for the audience. Integrated all the briefing messages seemlessly whilst still maintaining "Sir Bob".
Ci Events
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Paul Gilding … making sustainability a competitive edge....
Paul Gilding, is an international leader in the fields of environmental and community service. Paul, who became the Executive Director of Greenpeace International after only three ...
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Robert Goodman … economic consultant for Putnam Investments....
Dr. Robert Goodman is an Economic Consultant for Putnam Investments. He is a member of Putnam’s Business Advisory Group, a panel of experts on economic, business and personal finan...
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Mikhail Gorbachev …last President of the Soviet Union (USSR)....
The last President of the Soviet Union and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Gorbachev began the greatest programme of change in the last fifty years. He introduced radical economic...
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Pru Goward … politics with a twist....
Pru Goward became federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner for a five year period in July 2001. Following the introduction of the Age Discrimination Act in 2004, Ms Goward was also ...
We would like to thank you for a wonderful presentation at our inaugural luncheon. Your speech was very informative and amusing. I think you also inspired many of us and have mad...
A/Prof Gishel New, Director of Cardiology, BoxHill
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Nick Greiner …dynamic negotiator....
Nick Greiner was Premier and Treasurer of New South Wales from 1988 to 1992. His government was a world leader in public sector reform, including privatisation, private infrastruct...
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Michael Grose … parenting educator and best-selling author....
Michael Grose knows what it takes to enjoy family-life, and how to bring up and teach kids today. The lights go on when Michael presents his unique family and educational perspecti...
Your style is extremely personable... Your ability to make people contemplate their lives is an enviable skill.
Australia Post
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Richard Hames …futurist, author and corporate philosopher....
Dr Richard Hames is a strategic foresight practitioner and one of the world’s most influential intellectuals. As founder of globally distributed think-tank The Hames Group, Richard...
Richard’s ability to rapidly understand our culture and impart a strategic thinking skills-set to groups with little previous exposure to this were crucial to our very survival.
Datacraft Technologies
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Mark Victor Hansen … reshaping what is possible in our lives....
Many people go through life and never experience their true calling. Mark Victor Hansen is a man who is one of the few to find his absolute life's work. For more than 20 years, Mar...
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Ian Harper …invaluable economic insight....
Ian Harper is one of Australia’s most highly regarded economists, operating at the forefront of economic analysis, commentary and reform.
He is inaugural Chairman of the Austr...
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Max Djarla Dulumunmun Harrison … embracing spiritual growth....
Max Djarla Dulumunmun Harrison is an Aboriginal Elder of the Yuin Nation on the far south coast of NSW. Max encourages people to embrace their own spiritual growth whilst making ch...
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Bob Hawke ...former Australian Prime Minister....
The Rt Hon. Robert (Bob) Hawke AC led the Labor Party to victory in the general election of March 1983 and became Australia's longest serving Labor Prime Minister, winning three su...
As Mr Hawke was speaking to 11/12 year olds, it could have been quite challenging. However, many comments were made by our team, and teachers and parents that were also at the eve...
Young Leaders Foundation Ltd
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John Hewson … economic and financial expert....
John Hewson is an economic and financial expert with experience in academia, business, government and the financial system.
Dr Hewson has worked as an economist for the Australi...
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Gill Hicks … a moving and inspirational story....
Originally from Adelaide, South Australia, Gill Hicks has lived in London since 1992. Former Publishing Director of the architecture, design and contemporary culture magazine, Blue...
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Barbara Holborow … fighting for childrens justice....
Barbara is Australia's most outspoken and committed advocate of children and family rights. A Magistrate on the Bench of the Children's Court for 12 years she was instrumental in s...
A professional, capable and simply outstanding speaker.
Inverell Shire Council
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Gabi Hollows … living for a cause....
Early years
Gabi Hollows grew up on a 25 acre orchard just outside Gosford on the Central Coast of New South Wales. Her interest in health goes back a long way. As a teenager she ...
Gabi was very inspirational
Conference of major Superannuation Funds
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Colin Honey …ethics for life....
Colin Honey is a Senior Research Associate at the Von Hugel Institute at St. Edmunds College in Cambridge, England. He divides his time between Cambridge and his home in Melbourne ...
Mr Honey provided a very interesting presentation relevant to the audience and the event. He followed our briefing and timed the presentation well.
ACT WorkCover
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Adele Hulse …aka The Age's "Sharon Gray"....
It was Adele Hulse's travels in Nepal and India in the early 1970's that instigated an interest in Tibetan Buddhism that she has pursued ever since. She is a board member of the Fo...
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Sohail Inayatullah … international authority on futures studies....
Dr. Sohail Inayatullah, a political scientist, is Professor at Tamkang University, Taipei (Graduate Institute of Futures Studies), Visiting Academic/Research Associate at Queenslan...
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Peter Ivany … former CEO, Hoyts Cinemas....
As Chief Executive of Hoyts Cinemas (1988-1999), Peter grew the company from a small cinema chain with 40 theatres in Australia to a global business with over 2,000 theatres operat...
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Azim Jamal … thought provoking and inspiring speaker and a visionary....
Azim Jamal is the Chief "Enlightening" Officer of his company, a professional inspirational speaker and a bestselling author. He was born in Tanzania and educated in Kenya, UK and ...
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Nadia Jamal … international perspectives....
Nadia Jamal has been a journalist at The Sydney Morning Herald since 1997, and is currently Deputy Chief of Staff.
She has worked on the World news desk, helping to coordinate c...
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Tony Jones … renowned current affairs journalist....
One of the ABC's most experienced radio and television current affairs journalists, Tony Jones has reported for Four Corners, Foreign Correspondent, and other TV and radio current ...
Tony was very professional and made our panelists feel at ease.
Institute of Internal Auditors - NSW
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Stephen Juan … the wizard of odds....
Dr Stephen Juan is Australia’s "Wizard of Odds". He is the author of The Odd Books series (The Odd Body, The Odd Body 2, The Odd Body 3, The Odd Brain, and The Od...
We were very happy with Stephen's presentation, and, although we had time problems requiring us to shorten his session, he provided some fascinating facts and thoughtful insights. ...
Forestville Primary School
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Michio Kaku … vision of the future....
Dr. Michio is the Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics at the City University of New York (C.U.N.Y). He graduated from Harvard University in 1968 (summa cum laude and 1st i...
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Moira Kelly …Australia's Mother Teresa....
Moira Kelly is the Executive Director of The Children First Foundation, which was established in July 1999 to support Moira’s humanitarian work. Moira is truly one of a kind, a rar...
She spoke with a lot of passion and had some great stories.
AMP
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Ros Kelly ...gifted speaker and environmentalist....
Ros Kelly has one of the highest profiles of any woman in Australia and has re-written the history books on many occasions. Ms Kelly began her political career at 24 and served as ...
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Thomas Keneally …the art of writing....
One of Australia's best-known authors, Thomas Keneally's distinguished writing life of non-fiction includes Bring Larks and Heroes, which won the Miles Franklin Awarded (1967); The...
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Paul Kennedy …one of the world’s most provocative historians....
One of the world’s most provocative historians, Paul Kennedy has ignited international debates with his admonitions about the challenges confronting humanity in the 21st Century.
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Jeffrey Kennett …vision and leadership....
Jeff Kennett entered the Victorian State Parliament in 1977. He served in the Liberal Government in the early 1980's as Minister for Housing, Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Af...
Excellent presentation delivered with passion…
Awesome man, awesome presentation. 10 out of 10. A real professional…
A most inspiring and informative session. Excellent presentation…
2005 National public sector Speaker evaluations
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Maddy Kent Dychtwald ...
Maddy Dychtwald is a nationally recognized author, public speaker, marketing executive and entrepreneur. One of the the USA’s leading authorities on generational marketing, she has...
Maddy Kent Dychtwald did an outstanding presentation. The program was very informative and was delivered in a powerful manner. Her insight and knowledge of the financial services i...
AIM Distribution
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Peter Kenyon ... social entrepreneur and community enthusiast. ...
Peter Kenyon is a social entrepreneur and community enthusiast. Over the last decade he has worked with over 1000 communities throughout Australia and overseas seeking to facilita...
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Akhtar Khan …presenter of BBC World's FASTTRACK....
Since August 2003, Ahktar Khan has presented BBC World's FASTTRACK, a weekly global round-up of travel news for both leisure and business sectors.
In addition to fronting...
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Ian Kiernan …clean up the world....
Ian Kiernan is a respected environmentalist, known worldwide as founder and chairman of Clean Up Australia and Clean Up the World. The former solo sailor and builder became concern...
Thank you very much for your participation in our conference and for your contribution to the conference theme through reference to your amazing personal experiences and achievemen...
Australian Public Service Commission
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Joan Kirner … Victoria’s first female Premier....
Joan Kirner co-wrote with Moira Rayner, the best selling book “The Women’s Power Handbook” published by Penguin in May 1999. The text gives women the tools and strategies to get, ...
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Karl Kruszelnicki …popular author and scientist....
Dr Karl Kruszelnicki is the man with the answers when it comes to Science and Technology.
When the announcer on Triple J gives out the phone number for Dr Karl's talkback show "...
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Lex Lasry … renowned Australian lawyer....
In a career spanning more than 30 years, Victorian barrister Lex Lasry, QC, has been involved in many high-profile and important legal proceedings. Admitted to practice in 1973, Mr...
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Ian Leslie …corporate communicator, national identity, a household name....
60 Minutes: 25 Years On
- Keynote speaker
- MC Awards
- Conference facilitating
- Chairing government programs
- Product launches
- Corporate video anchor
- Nationa...
… a most timely, informative and motivational presenter…
Bruce Shankland, Managing Director, Amway Aus
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Stewart Levitt … witty social commentator....
Stewart Levitt is a lawyer, social commentator and urbane humourist.
A tough and effective Sydney lawyer with a cutting-edge litigation practice, Stewart Levitt is as confronti...
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Stephen Lewis ... respected diplomat and passionate humanitarian....
Stephen Lewis returns to the speaking circuit after four years in New York headquarters at the rank of Assistant Secretary General of UNICEF (United Nations Childrens Fund).
It...
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Sam Lipski …leading international commentator....
Sam Lipski is Chief Executive of The Pratt Foundation, President of the State Library of Victoria and a highly respected journalist and broadcaster. It was with GTV 9 that he becam...
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Bob Maguire … discovering insights anyone else would miss....
Visit Father Bob on the web at http://father-bob.blogspot.com
Father Bob Maguire is one of our most unheralded and truly Australian heroes.
They say that the mould was broken...
We would rate Father Bob as a very good to excellent speaker. He was challenging, humourous and arrived on time.
St Saviour's College
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Edwin Maher ...international news presenter....
Edwin Maher won a loyal following largely because of the eccentricity of the pointers he used to indicate weather patterns; from ice sculptures to carrots. He is now in Beijing whe...
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Peter Malcolm …ecologist, explorer and coach....
Peter Malcolm is a climate and social change facilitator, international expedition leader and storyteller. He is Director of coolglobe and is passionately committed to meeting the...
Peter, Thank you for speaking at our team building day last Thursday.
I have received a great deal of very positive (and unsolicited) feedback regarding your presentation, the c...
Allan Hopson, Head of Program Management, ANZ Bank
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Darren Marton … founder of the drug-awareness No-Way Campaign....
Darren Marton is the Founding Manager of The No-Way Campaign which is a Drug & Alcohol Awareness program, primarily focused on prevention, through educating our youth about the rea...
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John Maxwell … entrepreneur, author, and dynamic speaker....
As a cutting-edge entrepreneur, best-selling author, and dynamic speaker, Dr. John C. Maxwell has cultivated an extensive following among the most highly respected and influential ...
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Wendy McCarthy ...a witty and engaging business woman....
Wendy McCarthy AO began her career as a secondary school teacher and remains passionate about the power of education. For 40 years she has been a teacher, educator and change agent...
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Sandy McCutcheon … political author and playwrite....
Sandy McCutcheon was brought up in New Zealand and moved to Australia in the 1970s. Most of his working life has been spent in either radio or theatre. He has written 22 plays that...
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Kim McKay … insights into the environment....
Kim McKay has worked consistently in support of the local and global environment for more than 18 years. It started when she and Ian Kiernan, AO, founded Clean Up Australia, which...
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John McKean … advance your understanding of customers....
John McKean is a best selling author and Executive Director of the Center for Information Based Competition, which provides thought-leadership to help businesses advance their unde...
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Susan McLean ...expert on cybersafety. ...
Susan McLean has an extensive background in law enforcement. As the mother of 3 children aged 20yrs, 17yrs and 14yrs, she is acutely aware of the issue of cybersafety from a parent...
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Derrick McManus …14 bullets later....
Senior Constable Derrick McManus was shot fourteen times with a high-powered semi-automatic. With broken bones and severed arteries he lay bleeding to death for three hours before ...
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Jeffrey McMullen ...international affairs and social responsibility....
Few living writers anywhere in the world have travelled as extensively or gone to as many extremes for a story as Jeff McMullen. For 40 years, he has been one of Australia’s best k...
One of the most outstanding, thought-provoking and moving speeches I have ever heard. This view was echoed by the majority of 300 guests attending the lunch. We have been inundat...
Australian Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong
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Susan Mitchell …the power of praise....
Susan Mitchell is a master of language who has documented and celebrated the vital and dynamic role of women in the history of our society.
She has published eight successful bo...
Susan raised the benchmark for motivational speakers who provide a life changing experience for their audience. She was evaluated as “The Best” at conference.
NSW Primary Principals’ Association
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Graham Molitor … expert futurist and lawyer....
A foremost authority on forecasting government policy, Graham Molitor is president of Public Policy Forecasting, and vice president/legal counsel of the World Future Society.
H...
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Ann-Maree Moodie … corporate governance through leadership....
Ann-Maree Moodie, B.A., FAICD, is the Managing Director of The Boardroom Consulting Group Pty Ltd, a private firm which specialises in boardroom dynamics and communication, as well...
As our workshop facilitator, Ann-Maree Moodie successfully joined with each of us individually and had a clear direction of where to take us collectively. The teaching components o...
Anglicare Sydney
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John Moriarty … a proud Indigneous australian....
John Kundereri Moriarty AM is Chairman and Design Director of Australia’s leading indigenous art and design studio, one that boasts an extensive portfolio of national and internati...
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Paul Murray ...known for asking the hard questions....
Paul was the longest serving newspaper editor in Australia when he resigned from the West Australian in 2000 to become one of Perth's best current affairs broadcasters known for as...
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Michael Nagel ... human development expert....
Dr Michael Nagel is an academic at the University of the Sunshine Coast where he researches and teaches in the areas of cognition and learning, human development and early learning...
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Kobus Neethling … outstanding scholar, writer and creative thinker...
Awarded The International Leadership Award by the Creative Problem Solving Institute (USA) – the most prestigious creativity award in the world - Kobus Neethling holds six degrees ...
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George Negus …the forefront of political journalism....
For the past 25 years George Negus has been at the forefront of Australian political journalism earning considerable recognition as an international correspondent and charming audi...
Our Competing Fairly Forum was a resounding success. Thanks for your contribution as chair
ACCC
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Neville Norman …international economist and business consultant....
Your view of economics will never be the same after listening to Professor Neville Norman. One of Australia's leading economists, Professor Norman discusses the economy and its fut...
Our conference was a great success and much of the credit for making the day so worthwhile was your contribution. There is no doubt that your speech and presentation were the talk...
Farming Conference, Birchup (Victoria)
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Kerry O'Brien …editor and compere of the national 7.30 Report....
Kerry O'Brien is one of the most prominent and respected names in Australian journalism. He has won many accolades, including the top award in journalism, the Gold Walkley. Born in...
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Eva Orner ...2008 Oscar-winning Film Producer....
Eva Orner is an Australian film producer and winner of the 2008 Academy Award for Best Documentary.
Eva is an AFI, Logie and now Oscar-winning Australian producer based in New Y...
…quite amazing for a young woman like this to come to the United States and find herself, purely on the basis of her own talent, on the stage holding an Oscar in such a short space of time…
Sidney Blumenthal, American Journalist
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Michael Pascoe …keeping financial and business perspective....
Michael Pascoe is one of Australia's most respected and experienced finance and economics commentators with more than three decades in newspaper, radio, television and on-line jour...
The head of the SA Zone was a little apprehensive with having Michael because of what has been said about AMP in the news. So he was pleasantly surprised to find Michael was very ...
AMP Services Ltd
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Christopher Patten of Barnes ...former Governor of Hong Kong....
Former European Commissioner for External Relations and Former Governor of Hong Kong
Lord Patten of Barnes was appointed Governor of Hong Kong in April 1992, a position he held ...
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Walt Pavlo ...the inner-workings of white-collar crime....
Exclusive to Saxton in Australia and New Zealand.
Recently released from prison, Walt Pavlo is a former executive, who now specialises in speaking to corporate audiences ...
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Noel Pearson ...inspirational Aboriginal leader....
Noel Pearson was born in Cooktown and grew up at Hope Vale, a Lutheran Mission on south-east Cape York Peninsula.
He attended St Peters Lutheran Secondary College as a boarder a...
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John Peters … a powerful and moving story....
John came to the world's attention in January 1991, when as a POW in Gulf War I his bruised and battered face flashed onto television screens around the world. He has written two b...
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Steve Pratt …daring to CARE....
A former Major in the Australian Infantry, in 1993 Steve Pratt joined CARE Australia. He worked as Area Manager in Northern Iraq providing support to displaced Kurdish families bef...
He gave very valuable and relevant insights into the politics in the regions where he was employed as a CARE worker, which was unexpected and fascinating. He is an excellent speak...
ANU Law Students' Society
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Patrick Quilty … prominent environmental scientist....
Professor Patrick Quilty is Australia's pre-eminent Antarctic research scientist and an administrator with experience in international and domestic policy matters. A distinguished ...
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Graham Rich …political powerbroker....
Graham Richardson's colourful political career took him from branch member to Cabinet Minister and made him one of the Labor Party's key figures before retiring in 1994. Graham ha...
Very knowledgeable and personable presentation. He spoke freely, and was happy to take a Q & A session and covered all topics. An outstanding speaker.
Martec Pty Ltd - Australia
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Jeremy Rifkin … technology displacement expert....
Jeremy Rifkin, president of the Foundation on Economic Trends, is the author of sixteen books on the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, s...
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Sir Murray Rivers QC … Australia's most controversial legal and political figure....
Sir Murray Rivers QC (Retired) is one of Australia's most controversial legal and political figures. He is a former Victorian Supreme Court Judge and an outspoken media commentator...
Bryan's relaxed manner and easy style of entertainment hit the right note with information - overloaded Conference delegates. A pleasure to deal with.
ABARE
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Annie Robinson ...Dreams2Live4....
“On the surface it’s about cancer, but in truth it’s about life” says Andrew Denton of next weeks Enough Rope’s special ‘Can I Write the Ending?’ in which three women talk about th...
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Mary Robinson … former President of Ireland....
Former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson was the first woman elected to this office. As Ireland's Head of State, Ms. Robinson represented her country internationally, developing ...
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Antoinette Sampson …the peace angel....
While career success is often bench marked through sale and distribution of mass commodities, fast foods, sugar drinks, designer labels, what does Antoinette sell? Peace. How doe...
I have just purchased and read and re-read and cried and re-read your book, I have shared it with my best friend and she did the same. At a profoundly appropriate time in my life ...
Darren Scott
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Michael J. Sandel … author, academic, professor and philospher....
Michael Sandel, one of America’s leading public intellectuals, is Professor of Government at Harvard University. He teaches courses on contemporary political philosophy, the histo...
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John Sanderson …former Governor of WA and Chief of Army....
Lieutenant General John Sanderson retired from the position of Governor of his home state, Western Australia, in October 2005 after more than five years in that role. For most of t...
Will book again. Connected well with audience, very interesting subject matter.
Curtin University of Technology
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John Ralston Saul …distinguished novelist, essayist, historian....
Essayist and novelist, John Ralston Saul was born in Ottawa, in 1947. He was educated in the public school systems of Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario before receiving an Honours B.A...
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Charles M. Savage …President, Knowledge Era Enterprises....
Dr. Charles M. Savage, President and Mentor, Knowledge Era Enterprises, Inc., helps companies discover the tremendous potential of knowledge era enterprising. He consults and speak...
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Diana Ser … popular journalist and presenter....
Diana Ser has over a decade’s experience in the television industry, spanning broadcast journalism and entertainment. She’s best known for being presenter and producer of Channel N...
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Dennis Shanahan ...Political Editor, The Australian....
Dennis Shanahan is the Political Editor of The Australian newspaper based in the Canberra Press Gallery.
He has been the political editor for eight years and before that was The...
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Timothy J. Sharp …The Happiness Institute....
The Happiness Institute was established in September, 2003 by Dr. Timothy J. Sharp.
Dr. Sharp (also known as Dr. Happy) is a well-known, highly regarded clinical and coaching p...
If you think being happy is important, you need to check out The Happiness Institute and its Chief Happiness Officer, Dr Tim Sharp. I recently organised a visit from Dr Sharp to a ...
AGSM Melbourne Alumni
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Daniel Silke ...leading South African political analyst. ...
Daniel Silke is one of South Africa’s leading independent Political Analysts and Keynote Speakers. Covering South African, African and Global political and economic issues, his pre...
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John Silvester …pre-eminent crime reporter and writer....
Crime reporter and writer John Silvester has written, edited and published more than 30 crime books - including the best selling Underbelly series. His work was used as the basis f...
Thank you and the Saxton team for arranging John Silvester on our behalf. His presentation was informative, funny and had our audience captivated for the duration. Afterwards he t...
Clubs Victoria
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Ian Sinclair …a leading public figure....
Born in Sydney, educated at Knox Grammar School and Sydney University (BA, LLB) Ian Sinclair was admitted as a barrister in 1952 and bred cattle and sheep at “Glenclair”, Bendemeer...
Thank you for the outstanding job you did as co-chair of the NSW Forum on Ageing… The Forum was very successful not least because of your role in co-chairing. Your capacity to not ...
Department of Ageing, Disability & Home Care
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David Smith …eminent author and film-maker....
Dr David Smith, author, film-maker, zoologist and one-time Channel Seven weatherman, has travelled widely in the cause of science and cinematography. David has written 35 scientifi...
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John Smith … bikie, preacher, businessman, anthropologist, author, advocate....
If ever there were the ideal speaker for the challenges and contradictions of our times, Dr. John Smith is it. At once a business anthropologist, and bikie gang leader, this former...
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Gerry Stoker ...politics and governance expert. ...
Gerry Stoker is Professor of Politics and Governance at the University of Southampton in England. He has authored or edited over 20 books and published over 70 refereed articles o...
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