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2008

March

• Lions Youth of the Year District Final
• Raw Comedy Mildura Heat
• Raw Comedy Victorian Semi-Finals (Melbourne)
• Australian National Bush Poetry Championships
• Class Clowns Bendigo Heat (Bendigo)
• Class Clowns Victorian Final (Melbourne)
• Debating SA Primary School Debating Training (Adelaide)
• Debating SA Secondary School Debating Training (Adelaide)
• Australian National Novice Intervarsity Debating Championships (Sydney)
• Future Classics Radio Script Competition entries close
• Performing Arts Challenge entries close
• NSW Premier's Debating Challenge for Years 5-10 entries close
• Legacy Junior Public Speaking Award entries close
• Adelaide Writer's Week
• Perez de Cuellar Shield heats (NSW)

4th Poetic Justice Meeting (Finest Drop Cellars, Mildura)

6th-8th The Nightwords Festival (Sydney Opera House)

13th Mallee Folk Club meeting (Mildura Bowling Club)

 April

• Raw Comedy Victorian Final (The Evelyn Hotel, Melbourne)
• The Man from Snowy River Bush Festival (Corryong)
• Debating SA Secondary School Debating Training (Adelaide)
• Lions Youth of the Year Quest State Final
• Class Clowns National Final (Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne)
• Deadly Funny Grand Final (Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne)
• Raw Comedy National Final (Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne)
• High School Mooting Competition Melbourne Heat (Melbourne)
• Barmah Muster Yarn Spinning Championship (Barmah)
• Debaters Association of Victoria President's Cup (Monash University, Clayton Campus, Melbourne)
• Ainger Award for Public Speaking Heats (Melbourne)
• High School Mooting Competition Adelaide Heat (Adelaide)
• Central Goldfields Bush Poets Gathering (Whitehorse Hotel, California Gully, Bendigo)
• Strathalbyn Eisteddfod Speech and Drama competitions entries due
• Pearce Prize (Western Victoria) [spectating only]
• Greater Dandenong WordsFest (Dandenong, Melbourne)
• Perez de Cuellar Shield Final (Sydney)

1st Poetic Justice Meeting (Finest Drop Cellars, Mildura)

9th Bayside Rostrum Club 1000th Meeting (Bentleigh RSL, Melbourne)

10th Mallee Folk Club meeting (Mildura Bowling Club)

May

• Mallee Folk Club's Open Blackboard Concert (Oak Valley Winery, Mildura South) 
• Lions Youth of the Year Quest National Final (Sydney)
• Voice of Youth Mildura Heat (Mildura)
• CWA Victorian Public Speaking Competition Final
• Sunraysia Interschool Theatre Sports (Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura)
• Ouyen SC Interhouse Debating Competition (Ouyen SC, Ouyen)
• Royal South Street Competitions entries due
• Balaklava Eistedfodd Speech and Drama competitions entries due
• Williamstown Literary Festival (Williamstown, Melbourne)
• Sydney Writers' Festival (Sydney)
• Thant Trophy Competition heats (Melbourne & Ballarat)

6th Poetic Justice Meeting (Finest Drop Cellars, Mildura)

8th Mallee Folk Club meeting (Mildura Bowling Club)

24th SA Voice of Youth Semi-Final (Our Lady of Sacred Heart College, Adelaide) [spectating only]

June

• Multicultural Perspectives local heat
• NSW Premier's Debating Challenge for Year 12 Regional Final
• Voice of Youth Northern Victoria Semi-Final
• Campfire Singalong & Poets' Corner (Cobdogla Station Caravan Park, Cobdogla)
• Poets' Showcase (Barmera RSL Hall)
• Mildura Eisteddfod Speech and Drama Sections (Mildura Arts Centre)
• Poets' Breakfast (Cobdogla Museum)
• Manningham Eisteddfod entries close
• South Australian Bush Poets Championships (Barmera RSL Hall)
• Central Goldfields Bush Poets Gathering (Whitehorse Hotel, California Gully, Bendigo)
• Most Performing Arts Challenge speech and drama competitions (Crows Nest Performing Arts Centre, Sydney)
• Bill French Award and Jo Davis Cup Northern Qualifying Round (Swan Hill)
• Bendigo Eisteddfod Speech and Drama Competition (Bendigo)
• The Plain English Speaking Competition Mildura Regional Final (Mildura Senior College, Mildura)
• "Urban Overload" MC Battle (Sydney City RSL, Sydney)
• Performing Arts Challenge Public Speaking Championship (Northside Baptist Church, Sydney)
• Adelaide Eisteddfod Speech, Drama and Communication competitions (Norwood Salvation Army Hall, Adelaide)
• Strathalbyn Eisteddfod Speech and Drama competitions (Strathalbyn)
• Voice of Youth Victorian Final
• Legacy Junior Public Speaking Award Mildura heat
• Victorian Regional Writers Festival (Buninyong (near Ballarat))
• Thant Trophy Competition Final (Melbourne)

3rd Poetic Justice Meeting (Finest Drop Cellars, Mildura)

7th-9th Henry Lawson Festival (various venues, Gulgong)

12th Mallee Folk Club meeting (Mildura Bowling Club)

28th SA Voice of Youth State Final (Parliament House, Adelaide) [spectating only]

July 

• Quarter Finals and Semi Finals for the NSW Premier's Debating Challenge for Year 12
• YMCA Victorian Youth Parliament training weekend 
• National Short Storytelling Competition entries due
• Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships
• Valmai Cusden Trophy (Dante's Resturaunt, Fitzroy, Melbourne) [spectating only]
• Australian National Eistedfodd Speech and Drama Competition entries close
• ABC Short Story Project competition opens
• Mildura Writers' Festival (various venues, Sunraysia)
• Ron Kitchenn Trophy (AXA Building, Melbourne) [spectating only]
• ACT Rostrum Annual Dinner and Speaker of the Year Competition Final (Canberra Club, Civic, Canberra)
• Gil Lee-Archer Trophy (ARRB Theatrette, Vermont South, Melbourne) [spectating only]
• Royal South Street Competitions Debating Heats (Diocesan Centre, Ballarat)
• Write Around the Murray Festival (Albury)
• Voice of Youth National Final
• High School Mooting Competition Grand Final (Bond University, Gold Coast) 
• Vibe 3on3 Basketball and Hip Hop Challenge (Mildura Basketball Stadium, Mildura)
• World Schools Debating Championships (USA)
• Regional Sight & Sound Festival (Albury-Wodonga)

1st Poetic Justice Meeting (Finest Drop Cellars, Mildura)

10th Mallee Folk Club meeting (Mildura Bowling Club)

10th-12th SIFE National Conference and Championships (Brisbane Hilton)

13th Rostrum SA Anniversary Lunch (Royal Coach Motor Inn, Kent Town, Adelaide)

26th Voice of Youth National Final (Sydney)

August

• Plain English Speaking Award NSW Final
• SCRAM Competition Victorian Final (Melbourne)
• Goethe Poetry Day (Melbourne) [in German]
• Regional Finals for the NSW Premier's Debating Challenge for Years 9 & 10
• Broken Hill Eisteddfod
• The Plain English Speaking Competition Victorian Final (Treasury Theatre, East Melbourne)
• State Final for NSW Premier's Debating Challenge for Year 12 (University of Sydney, Sydney)
• Words in Winter Festival (Daylesford)
• Balaklava Eisteddfod Speech and Drama competitions (Balaklava Church of Christ, Balaklava)
• Manningham Eisteddfod Speech and Drama competitions (Bulleen Baptist Church, Melbourne)
• Poetry Idol Heats (St Kilda Public Library, Melbourne)
• Manningham Eisteddfod Speech and Drama competitions (Bulleen Baptist Church, Melbourne)
• Performing Arts Challenge Own Short Story, Non Fiction and Verse competitions (Crows Nest Performing Arts Centre, Sydney)
• Central Goldfields Bush Poets Gathering (Whitehorse Hotel, California Gully, Bendigo)
• Poetry Idol Heat (St Kilda Public Library, Melbourne)
• Royal South Street Competitions Debating Semi-Finals (Diocesan Centre, Ballarat)
• SCRAM Competition NSW Final (Sydney)
• ABC Short Story Project competition entries close
• Mildura Penguin Club Anniversary Dinner 
• Jo Davis Cup Grand Final
• Rostrum Victoria Anniversary Dinner
• Tournament of Minds Central Victoria Regional Final (La Trobe University, Bendigo)
• The Plain English Speaking Competition National Final (Canberra)
• Royal South Street Competitions Debating Finals (Diocesan Centre, Ballarat)
• Ursula Frayne Speech Festival
• Melbourne Writers Festival (various venues, Melbourne)
• Rostrum Introduction to Coaching Day (Ashburton Baptist Church, Melbourne)
• Royal South Street Competitions Junior Speech and Drama (Diocesan Centre, Ballarat)
• Mornington Peninsula Writers' Festival (various venues, Mornington Penninsula)
• Overland Poetry Festival (various venues, Melbourne)
• Doris Leadbetter Melbourne Poetry Cup (Dantes, Fitzroy, Melbourne)
• AussieSpeak entries open

2nd-3rd Ninbin Performance Poetry World Cup (Ninbin Oasis Cafe)

5th Poetic Justice Meeting (Finest Drop Cellars, Mildura)

14th Mallee Folk Club meeting (Mildura Bowling Club)

22nd-24th Australian Bush Poetry Championships (Pine Rivers)

September 

• Heywire entries due
• Quarter Finals and Semi Finals for the NSW Premiers Debating Challenge for Years 9 & 10
• Regional Finals for NSW Premier's Debating Challenge for Years 5-8
• YMCA Victorian Youth Parliament residential program
• CJ Dennis Festival (Auburn, Clare Valley, SA)
• Ballarat Writers Festival (Ballarat)
• Poetry Idol Final (Beckett Theatre, CUB Malthouse, Southbank, Melbourne)
• Rusty Nail Bush Verse Festival entries close
• Tournament of Minds Victorian State Final (La Trobe University, Bundoora, Melbourne)
• Rusty Nail Bush Verse Festival (Marong Community Hall)
• Royal South Street Competitions Open Speech and Drama (Her Majesty's Theatre, Ballarat)
• "How to Put Fun and Humour Into Your Presentations" presentation (Melbourne)
• Australian National Eisteddfod Speech & Drama Competition (Canberra)
• NSW Law Society Mock Trial Competition Quarter Finals (Sydney)
• Rural Ambassador Awards final (Melbourne Showgrounds)
• Dietrich Award nominations open
• Hobart Poetry Pot competition (Republic Bar and Cafe, Hobart)
• AussieSpeak entries close

2nd Poetic Justice Meeting (Finest Drop Cellars, Mildura)

11th Mallee Folk Club meeting (Mildura Bowling Club)

October

• Legacy Junior Public Speaking Award Victorian Final
• Rotary 4-Way Test Speech Competition SA Final
• Poets' Breakfasts (Mildura Settlers)
• PJP Monthly Readings (Doms Restaurant, Mildura)
• Overland Poetry Festival (Melbourne)
• Rural Ambassador Award Mildura heat (Mildura)
• Australian Poetry Slam Mildura Workshop (Mildura Library)
• Accelerated Christian Education Victorian Convention (Rawson Village, Rawson)
• Australian Poetry Slam Mildura Heat (Mildura Library)
• Central Goldfields Bush Poets Gathering (Whitehorse Hotel, California Gully, Bendigo)
• Australian Poetry Slam Wagga Wagga Heat (Wagga Wagga City Library)
• Northern Notes Writers Festival (Darebin, Melbourne)
• NSW Rostrum Annual Dinner and Freeman Fred Seamons Competition Final (Lane Cove Country Club, Sydney)
• Tournament of Minds Australian National Final (Australian National University, Canberra)
• Victorian Open Bush Poetry Championships (Benalla)
• State Final for the NSW Premier's Debating Challenge for Years 9 & 10 (Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney)
• NSW Law Society Mock Trial Competition Semi Finals (Sydney)
• Tasmanian Poetry Festival (Launceston)
• Launceston Poetry Cup (Launceston Bowls Club)

1st-3rd SIFE World Cup (Singapore)

7th Poetic Justice Meeting (Finest Drop Cellars, Mildura)

9th Mallee Folk Club meeting (Mildura Bowling Club)

18th SA Rostrum Speaker of the Year (Adelaide) [spectating only]

November 

• Albert Apponyi Impromptu Speaking Competition (Adelaide) [spectating only]
• Legacy Junior Public Speaking Award National Final
• Community Broadcasting Association of Australia Awards
• SCRAM Competition National Final
• NSW Premier's Debating Challenge for Years 5 & 6 Championships (Stanwell Tops)
• Dietrich Memorial Competition (Malvern Town Hall, Melbourne)
• Multicultural Perspectives Years 3 & 4 Grand Final (Sydney)
• Legacy Junior Public Speaking Award National Final (Adelaide)
• Australian Poetry Slam Albury Heat (Albury Library Museum)
• Multicultural Perspectives Years 5 & 6 Grand Final (Sydney)
• Wolfgang Schuller Perpetual Shield and Callanan Cup (Western Victoria) [spectating only]
• NSW Primary Schools State Debating Championships (The Collaroy Centre, Sydney)
• Australian Poetry Slam Victorian State Final (State Library of Victoria, Melbourne)
• Northern Mallee Leadership Program applications close
• NSW Junior State Debating Championships (University of Sydney, Sydney)
• NSW Premier's Debating Challenge for Years 7 & 8 Championships (University of Sydney, Sydney)
• NSW Law Society Mock Trial Competition Grand Final (Sydney)
• Australian Poetry Slam NSW State Final (State Library of NSW, Sydney)
• AussieSpeak winners announced

13th Mallee Folk Club meeting (Mildura Bowling Club)

December

• Mildura Rostrum-Penguin Christmas Party
• Evatt Trophy Competition (Adelaide)
• Australian Parliamentary Debating Championships (Sydney)
• South Pacific Accelerated Christian Education Convention (Christchurch, New Zealand)
• PJP Monthly Readings (Doms Restaurant, Mildura)
• Australian Poetry Slam National Final (State Library of NSW, Sydney)
• NSW Writers' Centre Poetry Sprint 2007 (NSW Writers' Centre, Rozelle, Sydney)
• Debater's Association of Victoria Melbourne Mini (University of Melbourne, Parkville Campus, Melbourne)
• Central Goldfields Bush Poets Gathering (Whitehorse Hotel, California Gully, Bendigo)
• Mallee Folk Club Meeting (Mildura Bowls Club)
• World Universities Debating Championship (Bangkok, Thailand)
• WordFood Slam Delux Final (Woodford, Queensland)

2nd Poetic Justice Meeting (Finest Drop Cellars, Mildura)

11th Mallee Folk Club meeting (Mildura Bowling Club)

 

January

• Poetry Out Loud Slam entries close

Poetry Out Loud Slam (Melbourne) [Gay and Lesbian]

Tamworth Bush Poetry Performance Competition Final (Tamworth)

February

• NSW Law Society Mock Trial Competition begins

• SCRAM Competition begins

• NSW Premier's Debating Challenge for Year 12 entries close

• Central Goldfields Bush Poets Gathering (Whitehorse Hotel, California Gully, Bendigo)

• Poetic Justice Meeting (Finest Drop Cellars, Mildura)
• Mallee Folk Club meeting (Mildura Bowling Club)
• Rostrum Victoria AGM (Melbourne)
• Dunedoo Bush Poetry Compeition Performance Poetry entries close
• Dunedoo Bush Poetry Festival (various venues, Dunedoo)