Wednesday luncheon with Janet Miller, CEO, Centennial Park
Our weekly lunch meetings are held on Wednesday 12.30pm for 1.00pm at the Adelaide Oval, Cathedral Room, Level 3, Eastern Grandstand, King William Rd North Adelaide.
Guest Speaker: Janet Miller, CEO, Centennial Park
Janet Miller likens her job at Centennial Park to working in a botanic garden. She is surrounded by 40ha of parklands featuring themed gardens, tree-lined avenues and memorials to thousands of people laid to rest.
A chartered accountant by trade, she has 20 years of experience in operational and financial management, strategic planning and implementation, and stakeholder engagement. She was previously chief executive officer of DW Fox Tucker Lawyers, and before that, CEO of the Perks Group (Financial Services).
Wednesday luncheon with Vincent Tremaine, CEO, Flinders Ports
Our weekly lunch meetings are held on Wednesday 12.30pm for 1.00pm at the Adelaide Oval, Cathedral Room, Level 3, Eastern Grandstand, King William Rd North Adelaide.
Guest Speaker: Vincent Tremaine, CEO, Flinders Ports
Vincent has been Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the group since 2002. His experience, transitioning the Port of Geelong from public to private entity and running privatised ports, has made Vincent an advocate of port privatisation.
A qualified accountant, CPA, and Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Vincent also serves the wider business community as Chairman of Business SA, Chairman of Ports Australia and as a Director of the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator.
Wednesday luncheon with Chris Burns AM, CSC - SA Mental Health Commissioner
Our weekly lunch meetings are held on Wednesday 12.30pm for 1.00pm at the Adelaide Oval, Cathedral Room, Level 3, Eastern Grandstand, King William Rd North Adelaide.
Guest Speaker: Chris Burns AM, CSC - SA Mental Health Commissioner
Chris Burns became the South Australian Mental Health Commissioner in July 2016.
He has a passion for improving services and ensuring people with lived experience of mental illness, their families and carers are central to the Commission’s work and ongoing mental health reform.
Wednesday luncheon with Andrew Collett AM - The 1967 Referendum: 50 Years On
Our weekly lunch meetings are held on Wednesday 12.30pm for 1.00pm at the Adelaide Oval, Cathedral Room, Level 3, Eastern Grandstand, King William Rd North Adelaide.
Guest Speaker: Andrew Collett AM - The 1967 Referendum: 50 Years On
Andrew Collett AM was admitted as a legal practitioner in South Australia in 1977 and as a visiting counsel in the Northern Territory in 1980 and has practised as a barrister since 1986, first at Johnston Withers and from 1999 at Murray Chambers. At Johnston Withers from 1979 to 1999 he developed significant expertise and a large practice in personal injury, industrial, Aboriginal, human rights and administrative law. He has also practised as a barrister in Federal Court matters in Western Australia and New South Wales.
Andrew’s commitment to Aboriginal legal rights commenced in 1973 and involved him working as the Executive Secretary of the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement (ALRM) from 1974 to 1976 and being the first ALRM solicitor at Port Augusta from 1977 to 1999.
Andrew is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Flinders University where he conducts a course in Aboriginal Cultural Heritage and the Law.