Special Presentations and Reports

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.

- “Skink Habitat Site Plans”. Dr. Julian Brown, Research Fellow, Urban Ecology, Ecosystem & Forest Sciences, University of Melbourne.
- “Re-Naturing Royal Park – Matchstick Grasshopper – Vandiemenella viatica”. Professor Michael Kearney, School of Biosciences, University of Melbourne.

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.