May 28th, 2024

Mr. Geoff Nadin: Retired Business Consultant and Author

Subject: "The Story of Treasure House"

• This is the story of Stewart Dawsons: watchmaker and jeweller, Australian pioneer of the Jazz Age  culture and entertainment, property tycoon and philanthropist who counted stars of stage and screen, earls and princes among their connections

June 25, 2024

 Pam Forbes and Greg Jackson from The Australian National Maritime Museum.

Subject:  "The Wreck of the Dunbar"

• On a stormy night in 1857 the sailing ship "Dunbar" was thrown by raging seas against the sheer sandstone cliffs of South Head, her passengers returning to Sydney were only moments from safety after a three month voyage. The devastating wreck, killed 121 of the 122 on board.

July 22, 2024

Dr. Christopher Chisholm-Maxwell

Subject "The Intelligent Mr. Kinghorn"

• Alexander Kinghorne was a child of Scottish enlightenment, an agricultural innovator, surveyor and incurable romantic. But at the age of 54, driven by adversity and hope, he chose to take his family to the Penal Colony of N.S.W. 

August 26th, 2024

Susan Alexander: International Tennis Player

• Susan shares her story with honesty and humour about her memoir. A Spanish love affair which follows her journey from Narrabeen to the centre court at Wimbledon, and the adventure that led her to Spain