Melbourne Unitarian Peace Memorial Church

January

• January 7, Poetry & Readings
• January 14, Lev Lafayette, Church Member, "The future of planet Earth"
• January 21, Peter Abrehart, Chairperson of the Church, "Science & Spirituality"
• January 28, Marion Harper, Church Secretary, "1970, where we are at"

February

• February 11, Lionel Bopage, Founding Member of 'Friends for Peace in Sri Lanka', "The conflict in Sri Lanka – Is there A way forward?"
• February 18, Len Cooper, Victorian Secretary Communications Union (CEPU), US War on Terror: What does this mean to us?
• February 25, Senator Gavin Marshall, Human Rights in the Philippines

March

• March 4, Peter Abrehart, Church chair, "God, Fundamentalism and Intelligent Design"
• March 11, Dave Kerrin, Convenor of Union Solidarity, "Union, Community, Solidarity"
• March 18, Simon Chambers, Housing worker, "From Crisis Mentality to stability: My journey as a Housing Worker"
• March 25, Mark Zirnask, Director Justice & International Mission Unit, Synod of Victoria & Tasmania Uniting Church, "Do as we say, not as we do. Wealthy Countries and corruption in the developing world"

April

• April 1, The Hon. Alistair Nicholson, AO RFD QC, "Globalisation"
• April 8, Easter Sunday Poetry, Readings and Music
• April 15, Mary Crooks, Executive Director, Victoria Women's Trust, "Water - the Gold of the 21st Century"
• April 22, Dr. Joe Toscano, "What the heck does anarchism have to do with global warming and global poverty?"
• April 29, Helen Szoke, Chief Executive Officer, Equal Opportunity Commission Victoria, "Why vilification should be against the law"

May

• May 6, Pauline Mitchell, Secretary CICD, "American Bases"
• May 13, Unitarian Extension Movement Forum on Climate Change

June

• June 10, Peter Abrehart, Chairperson of the Church
• June 17, Jack Haddad, Australian Arabic Council, Title to be announced
• June 24, Peter Milton, Former Federal Member for La Trobe (1980-1990) and member of Friends of the ABC – Peter will be speaking on the ABC - Title to be announced

July

• July 1, Venerable Thupten Lekshe (Ivan Milton), Buddhist Monk, 'From Anger to Inspiration – 7 reasons not to hate your enemy, Teachings on peace from The Buddhist tradition'
• July 8, CHURCH CONCERT
• July 15, Jack Haddad, Australian Arabic Council, "Christians and Israel"
• July 22, Paul Dahan, Church Member, "Truth and Lies, The People's Opium"
• July 29, To be announced

August

• August 12 Jacques Boulet, Borderlands, "Community: everyone refers to it, but do we really know what we’re talking about?"
• August 19, Peter Lewis, Secretary for ANTaR & The Manager, Policy, Research & Communications for the Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency, "Protecting Culture, Land and Self-determination as the key to Protecting Aboriginal Children"
• August 26, Extended Service on Climate Change and Global Warming. We hope to have representatives from the Australian Labor Party, Liberals, Democrats and the Greens

September

• September 2, Mary Crooks, Executive Director, The Victorian Women’s Trust, "Our Water Mark - Australians making a difference in water reform"
• September 9, Fred Neumann, Church Member - 'Global Warming scenario & their consequences'
• September 16, Jeff Fieldler, Tenancy Advice Worker, Housing for the Aged (HAAG), "Housing is a health and aged care issue"
• September 23, Rob Watts, RMIT, School of Social Sciences - 'Building a Human Rights Culture'
• September 30, Jenny Davidson, External Relations Manager, International Women's Development Agency (IWDA) - 'Women as a tool for empowerment'

October

• October 7, Mary Crooks, Executive Director, The Victorian Women's Trust - 'Our Water Mark - Australians making a difference in water reform'
• October 14, Hellen Cooke, Women's International League for Peace & Freedom (WILPF) 'When governments plan peace exercises'
• October 21, KERRYN WILMOT, Treasurer Public Transport Users Association - 'A Public Say in Public Transport?'
• October 28, ANTONY GRATIAN - ‘Tamil Liberation Struggle: A Just Cause'

November

• November 4, MARION HARPER, Church Secretary - ‘Is any subject taboo to Unitarians?’
• November 11, ALEX DAFNER, Executive Producer Yiddish Program and Vice President Holocaust Centre, 'Judaism and other ism’s – Jewish Christian Relations’
• November 18, SHELDON RANKIN, Chief Executive Officer International Needs Australia, 'Slavery in the 21st Century’
• November 25, PETER ABREHART, Chairperson of the Church, 'Unitarianism - Relevant or Redundant?’

December

• December 2, MARK ZIRNSAK, Director Justice & International Mission Unit, Synod of Victoria and Tasmania Uniting Church, 'Human Rights: A Uniting Church Perspective'
• December 9, CHANTAL BABIN, Sea of Faith Convenor for Victoria, ‘Introductionto Sea of Faith’
• December 16 Church Concert