Barrie Cassidy

Veteran Australian political journalist, as well as a radio and television host and presenter and commentator for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation leads our final Leading the Agenda for 2017 'Are We Over Governed?'

His panel:

Dr Andrea Carson
Lecturer in Media and Politics at the University of Melbourne. She is also an honorary fellow at the University's Centre for Advancing Journalism. Her research interests are newspapers and the business model of print journalism; journalism studies; media ownership and regulation; media effects and political agenda setting; investigative journalism; media theory; political communication; elections and election reporting.

Senator the Hon Scott Ryan
President of the Senate.

Dr Marcus Spiller
Marcus is a founding partner at SGS Economics & Planning He has extensive experience in public policy analysis as an urban economist and planner.

Joel Deane

Poet, novelist, journalist and speechwriter. His latest book is Catch and Kill: The Politics of Power.

Nicholas Reece
Principal Fellow at the Melbourne School of Government, Director Strategy and Policy and Projects.

Nick's area of expertise include public policy, political science, advocay and public sector management.

He is a commentator with Sky News and is a councillor at the City of Melbourne

The VLGA AGM will precede this event at 5pm