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The Society has organised many interesting and informative talks over the years. |
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| Year/date | Topic | Who | ||
| 2002 | “Treasures of Wolli” series | |||
| Wed Mar 27 | Birds Of Wolli | Justin Cahill | ||
| Wed July 31 | Native Plants in Wolli | Paul Ibbetson | ||
| Wed Sept 25 | Survival of Wolli | Justin Cahill | ||
| Wed Nov 27 | Jackson Place, Wolli Valley | Judy Finlason | ||
| 2004 | ||||
| Tues Nov 23 | The Future of Wolli Creek (Public Meeting) | |||
| 2005 | ||||
| Sun 19 June | Cooks/Wolli Catchment and the CMA | Bob Junor, Chair CMA | ||
| 2007 | ||||
| Wed Oct 3 | The Struggle for Wolli Valley | Gavin Gatenby | ||
| Wed Oct 31 | The Jackson Place Cottages | Judy Finlason | ||
| Wed Nov 14 | Urban Birds and the Birds of Wolli Valley | Voren O’Brien | ||
| Wed Dec 5 | Biodiversity and your backyard | Peter Stevens | ||
| 2008 | ||||
| Wed May 7 | Grey-headed Flying-foxes | Marjorie Beck & Nancy Pallin | ||
| Tues Sept 23 | NSW Nature Conservation Council | Don White (NCC) | ||
| Tues Nov 18 | Sewerage: Wolli’s heritage and future | Rod Kerr (SWater) | ||
| 2009 | ||||
| Tues Mar 3 | Progress with the Regional Park | Ben Khan (NPWS) | ||
| Tues Mar 10 | Community role in local planning decisions | John Mant | ||
| Tues July 14 | Fish and Wolli | Scott Nichols | ||
| Tues Sept 8 | Darwin in Sydney | Frank Nicholas | ||
| 2010 | ||||
| Tues 9 Mar | Aboriginal history of our region | Heather Goodall | ||
| Wed 14 Apr | Motorway Madness | Michelle Zeibots | ||
| Wed Jun 9 | Flying-foxes in Sydney | Peggy Eby | ||
| And there’s always an interesting speaker at the Annual Dinner | ||||
| Year | Speaker |
| 2019 | Dieter Hochuli (Sydney Uni) “The Vital Importance of Insects in Remnant Bushland“. |
| 2018 | Stephen Gapps (Maritime Museum) “The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the Early Colony.” |
| 2017 | Lizzie Lowe (Macquarie Uni) “Spiders in Backgardens: Why we need them and how we can encourage them.” |
| 2016 | Phil Straw (Birdlife Australia) – “Amazing Shorebirds and Waders” |
| 2015 | Mehreen Fahruqi (Greens MLC) – “Transport and Transparency” |
| 2014 | Richard Major (Australian Museum) – White-fronted Chats in Sydney – |
| 2013 | Ken Searle, artist, “Walking into the landscape” – his approach to painting local scenes |
| 2012 | Michelle Zeibots (UTS) “How joining WCPS changed my life” on personla history, transport issues and the M5. |
| 2011 | Peggy Eby – researcher and consultant:“Going Batty”on our knowledge of Grey-headed Flying-foxes. |
| 2010 | Gavin Gatenby/Jack Mundey – extracts from film Rocking the Foundations on Green Bans + history of motorways. |
| 2009 | Lesley Muir – local historian – The photographic history of old Sydney |
| 2008 | David Kirby: revisiting events surrounding the Kirby Inquiry into the Kyeemagh-Chullora freight corridor. |
| 2007 | Linda Burney ALP MLA – her volunteering portfolio, importance of vols. |
| 2006 | John Kaye – Climate change issues – |
| 2005 | Martyn Robinson (Australian Museum) – on the sex life of invertebrates |
| 2004 | Alexandra de Blas (ABC) – on the work of the ABC environment unit. |
| 2003 | John Dengate (EPA) – importance of places like Wolli Creek Valley to birds. |
| 2002 | Barry O’Keefe (National Trust) – on the effects of bad planning, developers, the RTA, economic rationalism. |
| 2001 | James Woodford – Env Journalist/Author On our knowledge of wombats. |
| 2000 | Heather Goodall (UTS) – On gathering Aboriginal history and reconciliation. |
| 1999 | Mark Curran (Sydney Uni) – On the importance and life cycle of Mangroves |
| 1998 | Ian Brown, environmentalist & adventurer. Talk and photos from his 1997 walk to the South Pole. |
| 1997 | James Broadbent – historian – On defending built heritage |
| 1996 | Jeff Angel (Total Environment Centre) |
| 1995 | Ian Cohen MLC |
| 1994 | Paul Brown – geologist and lecturer in environmental studies at UNSW – on the importance of community groups in preserving heritage, with special reference to Botany Bay. |
| 1993 | Richard Jones (MLC) |
| 1992 | Karenne Jurd (The Wilderness Society) On the work of TWS and community groups generally. |
| 1991 | Peter Newman (Professor, Murdoch Uni) “The urban environment”. |
| 1990 | Ted Mack MP, and maybe Robyn Reed (about to replace him as the independent candidate for North Sydney. |
| 1989 | Alan Morris – Ornithological Soc. NSW – launched Neil Rankins Birds of Wolli Valley |
| 1988 | David Kirby – Kirby reflected on the Kirby Inquiry into proposed roads. |
| Wolli Creek and Bardwell Valley Preservation Society’s first meeting October 1983. | |