Past Events
Melbourne Forum offers members an unrivalled program of speaker events each year. Peruse the past years' program below.
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Dangerous Dinner - Authenticity or Adaptation? Who Gets to Be Themselves at Work?
The 2025 Rapid Child Safety Review - Observations, learnings and next steps - Pam White PSM
Bringing off difficult reform - Prof Graeme Samuel AC
What is the point of a public service? - Prof Glyn Davis AC
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future by Dan Wang
Inside Melbourne's Hidden Jewel: An Exclusive Evening at Villa Alba
What difference would an Australian Human Rights Act make?
Rethinking the Victorian public sector – the urgent need for change
Transforming the Housing Sector: Building for a Better Future - Cath Evans & Dr Jonathan Spear
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bergman
The Promise of Fusion Energy - Dr Edward C Morse
Dangerous Dinner - The 4B Movement: Challenging Traditional Gender Norms
POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying To Keep Him Alive
Sustaining one of Australia's Great Newspapers - Patrick Elligett
An Evening with the ABC Chair - Kim Williams AM
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science by Dava Sobel
2025 Federal Election - What Can We Expect? - Emeritus Professor Paul Strangio
Dangerous Dinner - Ministers Stegall, Spender, Ryan and Daniel?
Where next for health care in Victoria? - Dr Stephen Duckett AM & Michael Gorton
D'Lan Contemporary - Private Viewing of SIGNIFICANT with D'Lan Davidson
Australia’s National Science Agency - Dr Doug Hilton AO
Great Game On: The Contest For Central Asia and Global Supremacy by Geoff Raby
43 Years Answering Melburnians' Legal Questions - David Whiting
Dr Geoff Raby AO in Conversation - Great Game On: The Contest for Central Asia & Global Supremacy
Dangerous Dinner - Labor in power: Ambition or predictability?
Dangerous Dinner - The Elusive Perfect Goodbye - Death, Dying, and What We Control
Seeking a better Melbourne - John Denton & The Hon Ted Baillieu AO
Mapping Social Cohesion in a World in Turmoil - Anthea Hancocks
Customer-First AI: Beyond the Tech Hype - Pearl Tang
The Bracks Timor-Leste Governance Project - The Hon Steve Bracks AC
Dangerous Dinner - Strategic Drift or Strategic Choice? Australia at the Crossroads.
Unsettled: A Journey Through Time and Place by Kate Grenville
How do we improve Australia’s productivity? - Danielle Wood
Human Rights in a Time of Outrage and Overwhelm - Marlo Baragwanath
Separating the Signal from the Noise: US Foreign Policy & Implications for Australia
Martin Grant: Melbourne to Paris, and Back
We Should be So Lucky: Why the Australian Way Works - Andrew Low
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed The World by William Dalrymple
Keeping the Lights on in the Energy Transition - Paula Conboy & Alistair Parker
Signature Dinner with The Honourable Linda Dessau AC CVO
Celestial Conversations: Stargazing with Dr Rebecca Allen
Dangerous Dinner - Climate Action: How Far Are You Willing to Go?
Generational Welfare: How we can learn from progressive Indigenous Australians - Anthony Cavanagh
Our National Crisis: Violence against Women and Children - Prof Kate Fitz-Gibbon
Dangerous Dinner - Are Our Universities Built for Australia’s Future?
The Art of being Responsibly Fashionable - Lisa Barron OAM & Todd Anthony
An Evening with Hon Jacinta Allan MP, Premier of Victoria
AI in Medicine: Benefits and Challenges - Prof Meng Law