This month's featured speakers are:
Prof. Janet McCalman, AC, a teacher and researcher in interdisciplinary history at the University of Melbourne
Richard Harrison, Australian author, speaker and cricket umpire.
If you have an interesting speaker at your club that you would recommend to other clubs, please contact Speaker Bank Chair, Jill Weeks (Hawthorn) via the Speakers Bank page: https://rotarydistrict9800.org.au/sitepage/speaker-bank (Available only to members logged on to the District website)
Professor McCalman's book Vandemonians: The Repressed History of Colonial Victoria, is published by Melbourne University Press. She also co-edited, with Emma Dawson, What Happens Next: Reconstructing Australia after COVID 19 in 2020. In 2018 she was made a Companion of the Order of Australia.
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Richard Harrison is a keen horse racing fan and a very modest punter. In the summer months he umpires Women's Premier Cricket (with some of the best female cricketers in the world) and in the winter he can often be seen at the MCG cheering on the Magpies in the AFL. He is the author of three books. His latest work, Stumped is the story of his cricket umpiring endeavours in both England and Australia (with a brief but eventful village cricket playing career thrown in).
Stumped is a very funny and truly unique memoir.