Gerard Tucker Oration
The Gerard Tucker Oration is held each year at Christ Church in South Yarra. It celebrates BSL and the legacy of our founder, who was born in this vicarage in 1885.
Delivering the 2019 Gerard Tucker Oration, Kasy Chambers, Executive Director of Anglicare Australia said:
“The Brotherhood of St. Laurence is in a unique position to stand alongside people, not only to campaign for monetary wellbeing but to address those other poverties of aspiration, belonging and franchise. We must let people know that their voice does count, because many others are telling them it doesn’t.”
The most recent Oration, Beyond Tucker: poverty and hope in modern Australia was delivered on Sunday 18 August 2019.
Previous Gerard Tucker Orations
Sunday, 19 August 2018
Delivered by the Most Reverend Dr Philip Freier
Read the 2018 Oration (PDF, 433KB)
Sunday, 20 August 2017
Delivered by the Reverend Helen Dwyer
Read the 2017 Oration (PDF, 323KB)
Sunday, 21 August 2016
Delivered by the Venerable Jan Crombie
Read the 2016 Oration (PDF, 255KB)
Sunday, 16th August 2015
Delivered by Reverend Dr Stephen Burns on 16 August
Read the 2015 Oration (PDF, 122KB)
Sunday, 17 August 2014
Delivered by the Right Reverend Philip Huggins on 17 August
Read the 2014 Oration (PDF, 345KB)
Sunday, 17 November 2013
Delivered by the Reverend Jeffrey O’Hare on 17 November
Read the 2013 Oration (PDF, 173KB)
Sunday, 18 November 2012
The inaugural Oration was delivered by the Right Reverend Dr Peter Hollingworth, AC OBE