Mount Lilydale Mercy College Old Collegians' Association Business Breakfast
The Business Breakfast is on again this Tuesday. Come and be inspired by our guest speakers Laura Turner (award-winning journalist, drug reform advocate and Old Collegian) and John Goodfellow OAM (former Principal of the College). Please see below for further details on each of our wonderful speakers. For the first time, the breakfast will be held at the College, hosted and catered by the College VCAL students.
- Date: Tuesday 19 June
- Time: 7.00am
- Venue: Mount Lilydale Mercy College (McAuley Hall)
- Cost: $35 per person
- Bookings: https://www.trybooking.com/VIOM
We hope you are able to join us. In the meantime, if you would like to join our Business Registry, please register here or you can call Lucia Tabacchiera on 03 9735 4022.
Laura Turner
In 2001, Laura Turner graduated from the College, going on to study Journalism at RMIT University. Laura worked for WIN Television and TV3 in New Zealand and received a Rural Press Club Award and Quill Award for her journalism. Laura joined Nine Network Australia and travelled the globe reporting on many big stories including the shooting down of flight MH17, Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines and the disappearance of flight MH370. She became Nine’s US correspondent, reporting on the mass shooting in Orlando, the San Bernadino terrorist attack and the United States Presidential Election campaign. Laura now works on Channel Nine’s A Current Affair and has campaigned for drug reform, while showing enormous courage in sharing her own personal loss since the passing of her sister. Laura’s professionalism, compassion and determination to strive for social justice demonstrates to our students how they can go on to create positive change. In 2017 Laura was inducted into the MLMC Old Collegians' Mercy Honour Roll. We are thrilled to have Laura back at the College again.
John Goodfellow
John Goodfellow OAM was the Principal of MLMC from 1990 to 1995. Appointed the first lay Principal of the College, John has been described as a hugely enthusiastic and energetic leader who empowered staff and allowed them to flourish. In 1996, he became the founding Principal and a longstanding Director of Kardinia International College near Geelong. He retired as Principal at Kardinia College in 2015, having grown student numbers from 26 in 1996 to 1900 at the time of his retirement. He was Principal of four Colleges over a 29-year period, taking his first Principal post at the age of 26. He was also a senior lecturer at Catholic University, Canberra, and Edith Cowen University, WA. He received his Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honours of 2013 for his service to education. He remains very passionate about human values and the important outcomes of education. We look forward to welcoming him back to the College.
