Services 2010
January 17 BRIAN A. CARTER, Artist, 'A Platform of Honesty and Patience'
January 24 DAVID MILLER, Existentialist Society, 'Existentialism: What Is It?'
January 31 MARION HARPER, Secretary of the Church – ‘Beacon – 60 years of illumination’
February 7 DR JAMES BROWN – ‘Alternative Energy’
February 14 PETER ABREHART, Chairperson of the Church - 'A Freethinkers Guide to the Galaxy'
February 21 KELVIN THOMSON MP, Federal Member for Wills, Member of the Australian Labor Party – ‘Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament in 2010’
February 28 DR JOE TOSCANO, Convenor Anarchist Media Institute – ‘Australia is a Democratic Society? – Fact or Fiction?’
March 7 DR JOHN PERKINS, Secular Party of Australia – ‘Rise of Atheism’
March 14 TILMAN RUFF, Associate Professor, Medical Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War – ‘Danger, opportunity and responsibility: addressing our nuclear crises'
March 21 JEAN BROWN, Humanist Society Victoria – ‘Belief and unbelief: The nature of being human’
March 28 CR STEPHEN JOLLY, City of Yarra – ‘Who runs the government – how does the system work?’
April 4 POETRY SERVICE WITH RUSSIAN CHOIR
April 11 TO BE ANNOUNCED
April 18 ROB WATTS, Professor of Social Policy in the School of Global Studies, Social Sciences & Planning, RMIT University – ‘The poor will always be with us – true or false?’
April 25 VAL NOONE, Research Fellow, History Department, Melbourne University and PAULINE MITCHELL, Secretary Campaign for International Co-operation & Disarmament (CICD) – ‘ANZAC Day: Remembering & Questioning’
May 2 EDGAR PAEZ, National Executive, Colombian Food Workers Union. 'May Day is all about workers rights'
May 9 PAUL MEES, Senior Lecturer, Global Studies, Social Science & Planning, RMIT - ‘The crisis in public transport’
May 16 PAMELA CURR, Campaigns Coordinator, Asylum Seeker Resource Centre – ‘The truth about asylum seekers’
May 23 DAVID SPRATT, Author – ‘Profit or Planet: Can we have both?’
May 30 MARK ZIRNSAK, Director, Justice & International Mission, Synod of Victoria & Tasmania, Uniting Church in Australia – ‘Illegal logging’
June 6 MAREE DELLORA, Church Member – ‘The crisis in Haiti’
June 13 JENNIFER BISHOP, Director of Education, Australian Esperanto Association Ltd. – ‘Origin of Esperanto’
June 20 JOE TOSCANO, National Convenor, It’s Time for a New People’s Bank
June 27 LEV LAFAYETTE, Church Member – ‘The Evolution of the Human Spirit’
July 4 CONCERT – Fundraiser for Medecins Sans Frontieres. Everyone welcome
July 11 MATTHEW WRIGHT, Executive Director, Beyond Zero Emissions – ‘Achieving a 100% Renewable Energy Economy’
July 18 A speaker from Victorian Council of Social Service (VCOSS) – ‘Decent Not Dodgy Campaign’
July 25 Speakers from the Unitarian Social Justice Action Group
August 1 LEV LAFAYETTE, Church Member, 'Faith, Deeds and Salvation'
August 8 KENNETH DAVIDSON, Co-Editor, D!SSENT – A Progress Report on the Election
August 15 MARTIN PRITCHARD, Volunteer at Friends of the Earth – ‘Genetically modified foods’
August 22 REV. GRETCHEN THOMAS, `Walking in Other's Shoes'
August 29 PETER ABREHART and CAROL CAMPBELL, `Planning for Growth and Vitality in The Church'