State of our rivers
The Melbourne Town Hall Alumni function was one of a number of second semester University public lectures featuring high-profile graduates and other speakers. In mid- October award-winning entertainer and actor John Doyle gave the Jonathan Mann Memorial Lecture on the Albury-Wodonga campus.
In 2006 he and environmentalist Professor Tim Flannery – a La Trobe alumnus who in July delivered the annual Kerfed Oration on the Beechworth campus – took a ‘tinnie’ from the Darling River in Queensland to the mouth of the Murray in South Australia. In his lecture, The Murray-Darling: a Flawed Vision, John Doyle shared his observations of the state of the river and its environs during the two-month voyage. The event coincided with the screening on ABC television of his and Professor Flannery’s latest adventures in that well-travelled tinnie, Two in the Top End.
For more about the Alumni Lecture and forthcoming events for graduates, see the La Trobe Alumni website.