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Paul Gibbs and Jarrod Fleming gave an in-person talk at the Mary Kehoe Centre, in November 2025. 40 people heard how the Elsternwick Golf Course is being transformed to a Nature Reserve. Paul Gibbs spoke of the story of how this happened...Read More
Saturday Seminar with Andrew Laidlaw Andrew is a Landscape Architect who has worked on projects at the Melbourne Royal Botanic Gardens for over 20 years. He gave an inspiring talk, which was based on his belief that gardens are of critical...Read More
Electrify Your Home: What to Know, Where to Start To electrify our homes, we need to think about the transition from fossil fuel appliances to electric ones, and we were privileged to have James Williams from Australian Energy Assessments to talk to us about...Read More
Presenter: Dr Vera Korasidis Facilitator: Linda Condon The slides from the presentation are here. The video of the presentation is here. Report by Richard Gough on the Saturday Seminar of 16 August 2025 presented by Dr Vera Koresidis, University of Melbourne Dr...Read More
Presentation by Ian Mackay, facilitated by Margo Anderson. Ian Mackay joined us to tell us about Scotland. There was so much I didn’t know. Scotland has 150 distilleries that produce Whisky (no E, and the Scottish way of spelling it is Uisge...Read More
Presentation by Judith Buckrich, facilitated by Michael Perkal. An absolutely fascinating look at the history of the Yarra Birrarung and the changes that have happened since the first picture that Judy could find. The artwork told the story, perhaps better than any...Read More
Artificial Intelligence – How to be SafePhil O’Brien Presenter, Maurita Harney, Facilitator Phil O’Brien, from U3A Darebin, joined us to talk about how to be safe and what to watch out for when using Artificial Intelligence. Phil explained What is AI –...Read More
Report on the February 2025 Saturday Seminar.Why the Outcome Should NOT Be a Surprise Dr Harry Melkonian is an Honorary Associate at the United States Studies Centre. He is a practicing lawyer and legal educator, specialising in the US Constitution. In the...Read More
