Orations

2015
Hearing the Voice of Vulnerable Children
Bernie Geary, Principal Commissioner, Victorian Commission for Children and Young Persons

Other Orations

2026
Changing Minds and Changing Attitudes: Reframing Systems to Close the Gap for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children
Catherine Liddle, CEO SNAICC: National Voice for Our Children
2025
The State as the Corporate Parent: Raising or Managing. How to turn around the ‘post care’ life trajectories of Young People raised in State Care
Paul McDonald CEO of Anglicare, Victoria,
2024
Enhancing Mental Health for Children and Adolescents: Exploring the Potential of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the 21st Century
Ruth Wraith and Dr Jennifer Re, Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists
2023
The Privilege of the Mental Health Clinician entering the Seriously Playful World of the Child Within the Family
Associate Professor Campbell Paul
2022
The Elephant Leaves the Room
Professor Frank Oberklaid AM
2019
Mental Health & Schooling
Professor Field Rickards, Dr Lisa McKay-Brown, Associate Professor Peggy Kern

Dr. Winston Rickards AM

A life of advocacy for the young (1920 - 2007)
Inaugural President