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Communicator of the Year 2010
Tickets are now available for the RMIT Communicator of the Year Breakfast 2010.
The award recognises an Australian who has used communication to outstanding effect to achieve an important community outcome.
The finalists for RMIT Communicator of the Year 2010 are journalist, academic and human rights commentator Waleed Aly, FebFast founder Fiona Healy, and film director, screenwriter and cinematographer Warwick Thornton.
In addition to the presentation of the 2010 award, this year’s event will include a discussion on the relationship between politics and public relations entitled ‘Corridors of power or halls of mirrors: who controls the political message?’
Panelists include:
- Lyn Allison, former Senator and leader of the Australian Democrats
- John Armitage, Auspoll director and Bracks Government pollster
- Niki Savva, former political reporter and media adviser to Peter Costello
The RMIT Communicator of the Year Breakfast 2010 will be held from 7.15am to 9am on Thursday 29 July at the Hotel Windsor, Melbourne. Tickets are available until 5pm Monday July 19.
Registration fees:
- $70 per person
- $60 per person (PRIA and IABC members)
- $50 student
- $550 table of 10
To register phone RMIT Training on 03 9925 8111 from 9am to 5pm weekdays.
Or book online via RMIT Training. Please note you will be required to register your details to pay online, but this will only take a few moments.
Contact Liz Breen directly if you have special dietary requirements, 03 9925 9045 or elizabeth.breen@rmit.edu.au
Download the invitation here (PDF 178KB)
Former Communicator of the Year winners
2009
Former High Court judge Michael Kirby and community activist and m.a.d.woman founder Melina Schamroth were named joint winners of RMIT Communicator of the Year 2009.
2008
Undergraduate Public Relations program director Philippa Brear (second left) with representatives of RecLink, the not-for-profit organisation that worked with Communicator of the Year 2008 award recipient Jonathon Welch to support the Choir of Hard Knocks.
2007
Australian of the Year Tim Flannery was presented with the 2007 Communicator of the Year award for his campaigning on climate change.