A Life of Daring Adventure: Stories of Courage and Leadership

Talks on Tuesdays: Real lectures in your favourite venues. 45-mins + Q&A with Noel Mifsud JP Adelaide Launch Night! Talks on Tuesdays is a live event series bringing big ideas, real experts, and curious minds together - at your favourite local venues. Think thought-provoking lectures, audience questions, and post-talk mingling over drinks and dinner. This isn’t a uni lecture. It’s a social, intelligent night out.Come alone or with friends, leave with something to talk about. Event Schedule: 6.30pm Arrival & Doors Open 7pm Lecuture Starts 7.45pm Q&A 8pm Talk Concludes 8.30pm Event Closes. *Please arrive close to 6.30pm A La Carte menu and full bar available throughout the night - pay as you go. Your Topic: The Journey This 45-minute collection of stories from the heart carries the listener on a journey from remote Aboriginal communities to the silence of Antarctica, from the wide roads of global travel to the rich classrooms of multicultural education, and from formal leadership roles to the quiet, deeply human lessons that shape a life. Its promise is simple: by the end, the listener will understand that the truest leadership often begins not with certainty, but with listening, humility and curiosity. From conducting surgery in the ice-bound silence of Antarctica and heartbreaking reflections on AIDS victims in Kenya, to wrestling a bull in a Darwin shopping mall and losing his way in the Alaskan wilds, Noel’s stories remind us that life, in all its fear and wonder, is either a daring adventure—or nothing. Your Speaker: Noel Mifsud JP Noel Mifsud JP is Manager of Community Relations for Rex Minerals, Chief Executive Officer of Malteser International Asia Pacific, and a Justice of the Peace in South Australia. He currently serves on six boards, including Chair of the Ministerial Multicultural Education and Languages Committee and Education Standards Board member. Noel is one of the few people in the world to have worked in education and humanitarian relief on every continent, including Antarctica, where he served as Station Leader at Casey Station during the winter of 1992. His colourful career has included service as a Captain in the Army Education Corps, Deputy Coroner in the ACT, and 20 years as principal of two schools in South Australia and in a remote Northern Territory Aboriginal community on the Tiwi Islands. Noel was named one of Australia’s Most Influential Educational Leaders by The Educator in 2024, 2025 and 2026, and was recognised for outstanding service to the South Australian community in 2024. In 2025, Noel delivered an address at the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Conference in New York alongside the former Chief Justice of South Australia.