Events

Join us for a live panel event that discusses how to keep people living with diabetes healthier for longer.

Type 2 diabetes is the fastest growing chronic condition in Australia and one of the biggest challenges confronting Australia’s health system.

With much already known about how to care for and improve the lives of people living with diabetes, how can we create new, tangible and long-lasting solutions that predict, prevent and reduce the risk of diabetes related complications, improve quality of life and lift the burden on healthcare systems? And how do we ensure new treatments and technologies are available to everyone who needs them, regardless of where they live or their cultural background.

From new diagnostic tools and therapeutics to life-changing lifestyle programs, innovative digital interventions, and a dedicated Diabetes Virtual Emergency Department, join us for a conversation as we explore a future of diabetes prevention and care that seeks to keep people happier, healthier, and out of hospital for longer

This is a live panel event featuring Professor Elif Ekinci (Director ACADI and Head, Department of Medicine, Melbourne Medical School), Ray Kelly (Exercise Physiologist and proud Gamilaroi man), Michael Smith OAM (CEO, Inside PR and Former Editor of The Age) and Simone Patterson (Nurse Practitioner, Credentialled Diabetes Educator). Joined by panel moderator, Natasha Mitchell (ABC Journalist).

This is a hybrid event. Online audiences can watch livestream from 6pm - 7:15pm (AEST). For in-person attendees, light refreshments will be provided in the foyer from 7:15pm – 8pm, with the chance to engage directly with ideas explored in the discussion.

Please join us for the next public lecture with visiting Professor Jane Wolff, Landscape Architect, University of Toronto.

Margolese National Design for Living award winner Professor Jane Wolff will discuss her work to frame public conversations about complex and contested landscapes subject to change. Wolff’s projects envision a role for design that is different from the proposal of specific solutions to singular problems. Instead, they offer widely accessible tools for deciphering, discussing, and reimagining places whose trajectory will be decided through the collective decisions of citizens, policymakers, and technical experts. The goal is to help people recognise their own roles in the ecosystem and consider the impacts of their individual and collective decisions.

In a future made uncertain by local and global forces, landscape literacy and landscape conversations are a means toward conceiving and realising possibilities that are kinder, more just, and more resilient than the status quo.

Please join us in the Brian Lewis Atrium Gallery from 7.30pm-8.30pm following the lecture for the launch of Jane’s exhibition ‘Conversations along the Shore’. Light refreshments will be served.