Sport and Major Events

Series

Ideas for Melbourne

Where

The Wheeler Centre

When

Friday, 17 Feb 2012, 06:15pm - 07:15pm

Event Status

Past event

With city elections looming in 2012, we’re kicking off this year’s programming by turning the spotlight on some of Melbourne’s biggest civic issues. Over the course of a week, we’ll be asking the city’s most controversial questions, giving you the chance to ask the city’s best placed commentators, experts and policy-makers the questions that will decide this year’s elections. Our aim is simple: to generate public conversation on the issues that matter to Melbournians most.

Melbourne once prided itself on its major events. Can we still claim the crown of the world’s best city for sporting events? Or is it all a colossal waste of money? Angela Pippos, Perry Crosswhite, Gideon Haigh and others discuss.

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Featuring

Angela Pippos

Perry Crosswhite

Gideon Haigh

Featuring

Angela Pippos

Angela is an award-winning journalist, presenter, documentary-maker, author and MC. Her most recent documentary, The Record, follows Australia’s dramatic Women’s T20 World Cup campaign and the audacious bid to fill the MCG for the final on International Women’s Day 2020. The two-part documenta... Read more

@angelapippos

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Perry Crosswhite

Perry Crosswhite AM is the head of the Australian Commonwealth Games Association.

Gideon Haigh

Gideon Haigh has been a journalist 32 years, published 32 books and edited seven others. His latest is book is Stroke of Genius: Victor Trumper and the Shot That Changed Cricket published in 2016 by Penguin Random House.