Special Presentations and Reports
October 1st, 2024 - "My Favourite Royal Park Plants" - Chris Nicholson.
Annual General Meeting of the Friends of Royal Park, Parkville Presentation. “My Favourite Royal Park Plants” presented by: Mr. Chris Nicholson Horticulture Contract Supervisor - Melbourne Parks & Gardens SERCO Community Services
July 27th, 2024 - Geology of Royal Park - Dr. Susan White OAM
Special Meeting of the Friends of Royal Park, Parkville, Royal Park Protection Group, Parkville Association Inc and Protectors of Public Lands Victoria Inc. “Geology of Royal Park” presented by: Dr. Susan White OAM Geomorphologist, Wakelin Associates Chair, Heritage Subcommittee, Geological Society of Australia
June 22nd, 2024 - Royal Park Protection Group: Grey Headed Flying Foxes - Presented by Tamsyn Hogarth
Tamsyn is the founder of the “Fly By Night Bat Clinic”. It is a DEECA registered wildlife shelter where they rescue, rehabilitate and release Grey Headed Flying Foxes (GHFF) - a threatened species. Tamsyn has been rescuing wildlife since 2007 and rehabilitating GHFF’s since 2012 which led her to be an expert for this species. Tamsyn will be talking about the GHFF’s and the many challenges and obstacles that they face. http://www.flybynight.org.au/
March 16th, 2024 - Royal Park Master Plan Review Special Meeting
City of Melbourne Council officers talk about the outcomes of the wider community consultations, surveys, submissions, etc. undertaken as part of the Master Plan Review process. The Friends of Royal Park, Royal Park Protection Group, Protectors of Public Lands and Parkville Association were jointly hosting the meeting. Speakers: Alicia Otto, Senior Open Space Planner, Parks & City Greening, City of Melbourne Fiona Finlayson, Manager Open Space Planning & Green Infrastructure, Parks & City Greening, City of Melbourne
December, 2023
FoRP submission made in response to the City of Melbourne’s Discussion Paper on the Royal Park Master Plan Review; the link to the Discussion paper and Master Plan review process can be found at: https://participate.melbourne.vic.gov.au/royal-park-master-plan-review
28 May, 2022
- “Superb City Wrens Project”. Dr. Holly Kirk, Ecologist, Post Doctoral Fellow, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University.
22 June, 2022
- “Royal Park Direct Seeding Project”. Katherine Horsfall, Researcher and PhD Candidate, University of Melbourne.
18 March, 2023
- “City of Melbourne Park Rangers and Wildlife Response”. Isaac Dodd, City of Melbourne Park Ranger.
- “National Council of Women (Victoria) Affiliates’ 1988 Bicentennial Planting in Royal Park”. Sheila Byard OAM, Historian.
15 July, 2023
- “(Not) Royal Park”. Associate Professor Alasdair Vance, RCH/University of Melbourne and Associate Professor Janet McGaw, University of Melbourne.
15 July, 2023
“A name for Royal Park – Quor nong?”. Andrew Tanner, Graduate Researcher, La Trobe University.
4 October, 2023
“The Story of the Flemington Rd Lemon-scented Gum”. Robyn Laurie, with Alan Wise.