Annual Lectures

Memorial Lecture Series

The 2008 lecture featured Robert Richardson, Christine Forster and Andrew Campbell speaking on who will pay for putting habitat back into the countryside. With the economic crisis and climate change luming on the horizon, this is a question of particular relevance. Click on 2008 to download presentations.

Held annually in the third week of November, the aim of the Norman Wettenhall Memorial Lecture series is to promote dialogue and debate in the environmental arena around the 'big picture' questions that are so often drowned out by the day to day disasters and the mainstream's preoccupation with celebrity sound bites.

Topics covered include achieving sustainability (Lectures 1 and 2); the allocation of water resources (Lectures 3 and 4); optimising biodiversity (Lecture 5); and managing wildfires (Lecture 6).

The lectures are hosted by the Norman Wettenhall Foundation in association with Birds Australia, the Trust for Nature and Museum Victoria - all organisations that champion the environment and with which Norman was intimately involved, either as a chairman or a trustee. Seven lectures have been delivered so far in the Museum Victoria's AGE Theatre.