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Pictured left
Victorian Governor Linda Dessau
with the Trust’s first transgender
recipient Jeremy Wiggins who is
a leading LGBTIQ advocate.
Pictured below Good
attendance at the 2016
Melbourne Info Session
Pictured left
2016 Victorian Churchill Fellows
were announced by Her Excellency
the Honourable Linda Dessau AC
Governor of Victoria at Government
House, Melbourne.
It has been a pleasure to introduce the Churchill Breakfast format
to the CFAV calendar of events during my time as CFAV President.
In August 2016, an audience of 40 Fellows and their guests
listened intently at the second Churchill Breakfast to acclaimed
Walkley Award winning journalist and 2015 Fellow, Nick McKenzie’s
fascinating insights into corporate corruption and the nexus
with national and international government oversight. Nick also
reflected on how his Churchill Fellowship helped him take time
to step back and consider the craft of journalism and its future in
Western democracies from a broader perspective.
With the launch of the new CFAV website in 2015, the CFAV
committee have embarked on an archival project which has so
far resulted in back-issues of ‘The Bulldog’ from 2004 to 2015
being made available to download via the CFAV website. We
are continuing to source and scan older editions which will be
uploaded in coming months. The CFAV committee is also working
on an Operations Manual, spearheaded by committee member,
Martin Hardy (2008 Fellow), to document and streamline the many
tasks performed behind the scenes by the CFAV committee to
ensure our events run smoothly.
The success of this event each year is due in huge part to the
efforts of CFAV committee member Dean Cox (2005 Fellow).
Thanks also to Catina Adams and David Glazebrook (2014
Fellows) and Dee Riddington and Nick McKenzie (2015 Fellows)
for sharing their insights and anecdotes with the 2016 Fellows.
The annual Churchill Fellowship Roadshow sessions have
proved very popular in Victoria, with the CFAV committee in
liaison with the Churchill Trust, presenting three sessions
in February and March in Bendigo (for the first time) and
Melbourne twice reaping over 380 attendees. Thanks to the
staff at Churchill House and CFAV committee members Julie
Rees (2002 Fellow), Anne Hooker (2007 Fellow), Daphne
Cheah (2002 Fellow), CFAV Secretary, Andrew Nixon and CFAV
Treasurer, Shane Ringin (2000 Fellow) for helping to keep the
show on the road.
It has been an honour to serve as the CFAV President and when
I pass the reigns over to President-Elect Anne Hooker at the July
AGM, I will do so knowing they are in good shape and safe hands.
Special mention and thanks must go to CFAV Treasurer, Shane
Ringin for his constant support during my time in the role and
enormous contribution to the CFAV over many years. Huge thanks
also to all the CFAV committee members mentioned earlier in this
report for your support during the last twelve months and to all
the Victorian Fellows who attend our events and through various
efforts, continue to build upon the legacy of Sir Winston.
Ben Nicholson [2008 Churchill Fellow]
VIC CFA President
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