BEECROFT FORUM DINNERS

One of the activities of MIAT in Sydney, is to hold dinners with guest speakers covering a diverse and challenging range of topics.

The list of guest speakers has been:

2001	January	Donald McDonald AO Chairman of the ABC Board
	May	Hon. Philip Ruddock MP Local Federal Member, Minister for Immigration
	August	Dick Smith AO Entrepreneur and Adventurer
	November	Jeff McMullen ABC Journalist and Author
2002	February	John Coutis Motivational Speaker (severely handicapped)
	May	Robin Morrow Children’s Literature authority
		Haruo Goto Suzuki Method Violin Teacher
	October	Jack Mundey AO Environmentalist & Green Bans instigator
	November	Chris Johnson NSW Government Architect & Town Planner
2003	May	Graham Blewitt Deputy Prosecutor for the Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague
	September	Dr. Ian Paterson Headmaster, Uniting Church, Jewish & Muslim Schools
2004	February	Ali Kazak Head of the Palestinian Delegation to Australia
	June	Rev.Tim Costello CEO World Vision, Australia
	November	Margot Kingston Journalist and Author
2005	February	Russell Thirgood President, Amnesty International Australia
	May	Rev. Dr. John Bell Member of the Iona Community, Glasgow, composer, activist
	September	Senator Kerry Nettle NSW Greens Senator
2006	May	Professor Barry Leal Ecotheologist
		Professor Steven Leeder Professor of Public Health & Community Medicine
	July	Dr. Bernard Sabella Fatah Member of the Palestinian Legislative Council
	September	Dr. John de Gruchy South African,Truth and Reconciliation Commission Think Tank, expert on Dietrich Bonhoeffer
	November	Professor John Hirst Australian Historian
2007	April	His Grace Rev Dr Peter Jensen Anglican Archbishop of Sydney
	July	The Hon John Dowd QC AO President of Australian Section, International Commission of Jurists, Chancellor, Southern Cross University,
	November	His Eminence Cardinal George Pell Catholic Archbishop of Sydney
2008	April	Professor Ian Harper Chairman, Fair Pay Commission
	August	Phillip Adams Journalist, Broadcaster, Controversialist!
		Steve Killelea Founder, Global Peace Index
	November	Hon. Philip Ruddock Federal Member for Berowra
2009	April	Mark Scott Managing Director of the ABC
	May	The Hon. Michael Kirby Retired High Court Judge
	August	Randa Abdel-Fattah Australian Muslim Author, Lawyer, Human Rights Activist
2009	November	PANEL DISCUSSION: “War and Christianity” Panellists: Senior Naval Chaplain Barrie Yesberg, Reverend Siôn Gough Hughes Minister of the Welsh Presbyterian Church in Melbourne (who, before entering the ministry was a professional soldier seeing active service with the SAS in the Middle East) Reverend Moriah Hurst, a Mennonite minister and leader of a peacemaking community in Canberra Camilla Schippa, Senior Vice President, Global Peace Index
2010	March	Aneurin Hughes Former EU Ambassador to Australia, Diplomat & Raconteur
	May	Mark O’Connor Australian Poet, Environmentalist & Author of “Overloading Australia”
	July	Constantine Dabbagh, Executive Secretary the Middle East Council of Churches in Gaza
	November	Professor Louise Baur AM Sydney University “Obesity — the Millenium Disease”
2011	March	Nicholas Cowdery AM QC, NSW Director of Public Prosecutions — “Human Rights in Criminal Justice and Politics”
	May	Robert Newton, former Australian Ambassador to Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, Libya and Sudan — “Understanding the Middle East: A Personal Reflection”
	August	Professor Jake Lynch, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney