Events

Terry will outline the current trends that exist in horse racing, focusing on the impact of the sport domestically and globally. He will discuss how the sport can function responsibly, in respect of both horse welfare and its relationship with the gambling industry. He will also discuss the challenge of attracting young people into the sport.

Terry has been racing horses for over 40 years. His horses have won the Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane Cups as well as each mainland state Derby and the New Zealand Derby. His business, OTI Management races horse in Europe, Australia and New Zealand and has won races in nine countries.

Terry has an economics degree in transport and prior to its being sold to French group Vivendi in 1996, he founded and operated Henderson Logistics. He has held numerous board positions in the transport industry and is a past chairman of the Chartered Institute of Transport (Australia).

Charlie Allen APM is well respected within policing for his community-centred approach. He will outline his innovative approach to peacebuilding and strengthening resilience.

Charlie is a facilitation, resilience, leadership, and peacebuilding professional with over 30 years’ experience. His early experience is grounded in the security sector with 35 years with Victoria Police. Over the past decade he has expanded his peacebuilding experience working in south, southeast, and eastern Asia, western and eastern Africa, MENA region and Oceania. His areas of specialty include, peacebuilding, process facilitation, training design and delivery, resilience practice, leadership development, organisational and community systems change.

Creating safe spaces and establishing connection between participants are key components to Charlie’s approach. His education includes Masters in Leadership and Organisational Change, and post graduate studies in Peace and Conflict Prevention, Good Governance and Human Rights. In his recent experience as the Director of Partnerships with Institute for Economics and Peace, IEP, he facilitated Positive Peace workshop with a wide range of partners globally, using the empirically derived IEP Positive Peace framework. He now heads up Space Melbourne shifting focus back to resilience.

Charlie is currently the Immediate Past President of the Rotary Club of Sydney, Australia. He is a peace and conflict prevention technical cadre member, and active in peace building within Rotary.

On September 11, 2001, Kerrie was a recruit in the Victoria Police Academy when the militant Islamist extremist network al-Qaeda carried out the coordinated and deadliest 9/11 terrorist attack against the United States. Watching the reports of hijacked passenger planes fly into the New York Twin Towers and the subsequent global impact of the attack had a profound impact on Kerrie’s determination to ensuring the community not only are safe… but that they feel safe.

Kerrie had a highly successful career in Victoria Police, serving the community and evolving her leadership style over time to one of Leader as Coach. Her policing career included various senior leadership roles eventually leading to the Victorian Joint Counter Terrorism Team Officer in Charge. The combination of community engagement, investigation, and emergency, management experience led to an opportunity to work for UNITAD, leading an international criminal investigation into atrocity crimes committed by ISIL/Daesh against the Iraqi Christian community.

In August 2021, whilst working for the UN in Iraq, Kerrie watched the coverage from neighbouring Afghanistan of people desperately clinging onto and falling from evacuating passenger planes at Kabul airport as the Taliban leaders declared victory, bringing an end to America’s longest war and a new era of security challenges.

It was these two catastrophic global events that led Kerrie to exploring what other contributions she could make to increasing community safety and building peace in the world.

Inspired by the grit and resilience of the communities Kerrie had served in various roles and her passion for developing human potential, she established Gritential Coaching in May 2022.

She works with emerging and executive leaders and their teams in organisations to be even better humans and leaders by empowering them to harness their grit, realise their potential and live their lives well. Kerrie’s coaching counterparts describe her as “Safe. Gentle and strong. Impactful”.

Kerrie is an Accredited Organisational Coach and International Coaching Federation Associate Certified Coach (ICF-ACC). She provides leadership coaching for individuals and teams, conducts evidence-based leadership development workshops, and delivers inspiring keynote presentations. She shares stories from her path to peace that have developed her personal resilience model and inspiration for her audiences to create their own.

Kerrie finds joy in serving the community with her vision for building peace in the world, one coaching dialogue at a time.

Peace Kitchen believes in the power of food to bring people together and foster mutual understanding about sometimes divisive topics. Drawing on Elaine Pratley’s doctoral research on food and peace, this interactive session puts peace theory into practice, showcasing how the language of food can serve as an effective tool for dialogue and self-reflection.

Elaine Pratley is founder of Peace Inc. and Peace Kitchen in Australia. Through Peace Kitchen, she facilitates meaningful conversations over food to promote mutual understanding, connection, and community-building. Peace Kitchen creates fun spaces for corporate teams and community groups to have connecting dialogues about thorny issues across differences and divides. These initiatives support Peace Inc.’s PeacePlay programs in schools, promoting positive conflict skills through fun and experiential learning.

A practising lawyer in Australia and New Zealand, Elaine is a Rotary Peace Fellow, an Asian Peace Innovator with the Salzburg Global Fellowship, and a Rotary Positive Peace Activator with a PhD in food and youth peacebuilding.

Having lived in Switzerland, Malaysia, China, Thailand, Australia, and New Zealand, she has served as Co-chair of the Global Peace Conference, adviser to the New Zealand Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Trade’s aid and development program, Global Partnerships and Outreach Adviser to Women Peace Makers Cambodia, and is an affiliate at Monash University’s Global Peace and Security Centre.

This presentation will cover an initiative to work with relevant agencies and community groups and NGOs to improve public safety in and around public housing, and to work together in all stages of planning for large public housing redevelopments in Ashburton.

As a Senior Sergeant at Camberwell Police Station, Brigette has 30+ years’ service in investigative, frontline and proactive roles. She commenced in 1994 and worked at various frontline locations and divisional crime investigation units. She had involvements as a bushfire arson investigator and worked as a sergeant at frontline and proactive policing unit in outer east. As a Senior Sergeant at Forest Hill HQ Tasking and Coordination since March 2022, Brigette has been Station Commander at Camberwell Police Station.