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The Great Alumni, Students and Friends Debate 2009

Date: Tuesday 15 September
Time: 6.30 for 7 pm start
Light refreshments will be served
Venue: The Clarendon Ballroom, at The Langham, Melbourne
1 Southgate Ave, Southbank

Download a printable version of the event outline (pdf 132kb).

Welcome to Country

Bill Nicholson Jnr
Member of Wurundjeri Clan

If 50 is the new 40 and 40 is the new 30, is 20 in crisis?

The two teams will include prominent Monash students and alumni drawn from a diverse range of professions, including law, journalism, medicine and entertainment. The debate will be a lively and freewheeling occasion. It will have a similar style and format to the Comedy Debates where the aim is to entertain rather than to conduct a serious battle. The topic will be deliberately broad - with a loose association to university experiences and learning - giving the debaters the freedom to exercise their creativity and flair.

Debaters

Jon Faine (BA 1979, LLB 1981)
Respected ABC journalist and host of the morning program on ABC 774 in Melbourne

Victor Finkel (BMus 2008)
Current Monash aerospace engineering student and President, Monash University's Association of Debaters (MAD)

Professor Arie Freiberg (LLM 1984)
Dean, Faculty of Law, Monash University

Amit Golder
Current Monash arts/law student and twice Australian Champion Debater and comedian

Fiona Lander
Monash medicine and law student

Jo Stanley (BA (Hons) 1996)
Melbourne broadcasting personality and co-host of the 'Matt and Jo' show on FOX FM

Chair

Professor Adam Shoemaker
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education)

To book

Bookings are essential. Complete the registration form to reserve your space.

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