OUR SPEAKERS
The course will invite respected speakers of hight quality from all over Australia including
Dr Zareh Ghazarian
Head of Politics and International Relations, School of Social Sciences MonashUniversity
Prof. James Walter
Emeritus Professor of Politics at Monash University
Ms Ruth McGowan OAM
Author of Get Elected
Dr Michelle Ananda-Rajah MP
Federal Member for Higgins
Ms Cassandra Fernando MP
Federal Member for Holt
Ms Dai Le MP
Federal Member for Fowler
Senator Fatima Payman
Federal Senator for WA
The Hon. Harriet Shing MP
Victorian Minister for Housing, Water, and Equality
Victorian State Member for Eastern Victoria
Mr David Southwick MP
Victorian State Member for Caulfield
Deputy Leader of the Opposition
Ms Samantha Ratnam MLC
Leader of the Victorian Greens
Victorian State Member for Northern Metro
Mr Trung Luu MLC
Victorian State Member for Western Metropolitan
Mr Aiv Puglielli MLC
Victorian State Member for North-Eastern Metropolitan
Ms Elizabeth Lee MP
ACT Leader of the Opposition
Mr Jason Yat-Sen Li MP
NSW State Member for Strathfield
Ms Jenny Leong MP
NSW State Member for Newtown
Cr Anne-Marie Cade
Councillor and Mayor of Glen Eira City Council
Cr George Hua
Councillor of Kingston City Council
Cr Andy Xing
Councillor of Burnside City Council, South Australia
Mr Bob Fairclough OAM
Former Councillor and Mayor
of Wyndham City Council
Mr Walter Villagonzalo
Former Councillor and Deputy Mayor of Wyndham City Council
Mr Bwe Thay
Deputy Chairperson of the Victorian Multicultural Commission (VMC)
Ms Jill Morgan AM
Deputy Chair of the Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria (ECCV)
Deputy Chair of the Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Council of Australia (FECCA)
Ms Kat Henaway
CEO, Politics in Colour
Dr Chuyang Liu
Former Trade Commissioner at Australian Embassy in China
Dr Jimmy Li
President of the Chinese Community Council of Australia Victorian Chapter (CCCAV)
Mr Bill Papastergiadis OAM
President of the Greek Community of Melbourne
Dr Michael Khairallah
Chairperson of the Victorian Lebanese Community Council
Ms Tammy Nguyen
Head of Museum Operations at the Vietnamese Museum Australia
Mr Rakesh Raizada
Founding Director of the Vedic Global
Mr Kingsley Liu
National President, Asian Australian Lawyers Association
