The following seminars have been added to the 2025 program.
You need to enrol for each class and there is a charge of $2, which will be collected on entry to the class. This fee is used to provide a gift for the presenter.
Enrolment online is the same process as enrolling for a regular class. Simply login on the website, navigate to Classes 2025, and you will find the seminars listed under the ‘Seminars’ tab. You can also enrol at the Office if you are not confident to enrol online.
Title: Forensic Pathology – Fact and Fiction: What TV Shows Get Wrong and Why
Presenter: David Ranson
Class Code: 09960-01
Description: The media and the TV and film industry seem to be obsessed by crime shows particularly those with a bent towards forensic science, but do they accurately represent what happens out in the real world? In this talk David Ranson sets the record straight: who is a coroner and what does a forensic pathologist do? In this talk the mortuary doors will be ‘opened up’ (so to speak) and you will be able to peek into the world of forensic death investigations.
David has worked as a forensic pathologist for the British investigation team examining the individuals killed in the conflict in Kosovo and has been part of the teams assisting in the forensic pathology work in a number of major domestic violence incidents. He has provided expert medical testimony in a range of courts in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and in many States and Territories in Australia and has provided expert medical testimony in a number of Commonwealth Senate enquiries in Australia.
Date: Thursday 13 February 2025
Time: 13:30–14:50 pm
Venue: The Pines Learning Centre, Room 14
Title: Our Beautiful Australian Democracy: How to Keep it Alive
Presenter: Jim Brown
Class Code: 09966-01
Description: Jim Brown will explain why the Eureka Stockade battle, and more importantly what happened afterwards, laid the foundations for Australia’s democracy which led the world at the time and, with all its faults, is today still the best in the world.
Despite the guardrails Eureka put in place for all of us, it is clear some democracies are failing, and we must defend ours. Jim will explain why we need to bring the Eureka Story back to our education system so future generations can be better informed, and how we can all become involved.
Date: Thursday 6 March 2025
Time: 13:30–14:30 pm
Venue: The Pines Learning Centre, Room14
Title: Universal Tale of Love and War
Presenter: Edita Mujkic
Class Code: 09967-01
Description: Edita Mujkic will discuss her memoir Between, Before and After, a universal and inspirational true story of love conquering life’s greatest challenges during the 1990s Bosnian war. This is a very relevant memoir as current conflicts rage that exile and separate families. It details Edita’s fight for survival as a refugee with two children, while being separated from her husband for 600 days.
Date: Thursday 20 March 2025
Time: 13:30–14:30 pm
Venue: The Pines Learning Centre, Room 14
Title: Downsizing Masterclass
Presenter: Craig Green, with Rachel Lane and Shaun Ganguly
Class Code: 09961-01
Description: Join us as Craig Green, along with Rachel Lane and Shaun Ganguly, present a masterclass summary session as a follow on from a previous Downsizing short course run in 2023. We unwrap changes since then, providing financial, social and legislative updates.
Date: Thursday 15 May 2025
Time: 13:30–14:50 pm
Venue: The Pines Learning Centre, Room 14
Title: Downsizing – Four Week Course
Presenter: Craig Green
Class Code: 09962-01
Description: Craig Green presents a short course designed to equip you with up-to-date information, tools and contacts to better support informed decision making around downsizing, retirement and care options.
Date: Thursdays 14 August, 21 August, 28 August, 4 September 2025
Time: 13:30–14:50 pm
Venue: The Pines Learning Centre, Room 14
Note: $2 to be paid before each session.
Pauline DiNatale
Seminar Coordinator