2025 Annual Oration & AGM:
Ink Against Empire: From Courtroom to Newsroom, Why Human Rights Can’t Survive Without a Free Press
Coinciding with the Annual General Meeting, Conversation at the Crossroads will be hosting its third Annual Oration, to be delivered by Antoinette Latouf, a multi-award-winning journalist, broadcaster, author and mental health advocate who brings clarity, courage and wit to the hardest conversations.
Conversation at the Crossroads is delighted to announce its third Annual Oration, coinciding with our Annual General Meeting (AGM), on Friday, November 14, 2025, from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm.
Event Details:
Date: Friday, November 14, 2025
Time: 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Location: Treacy Centre Melbourne, 126 The Avenue, Parkville VIC 3052
Price: $10-$20, Donations Welcome
Antoinette Lattouf is a multi-award-winning journalist, broadcaster, author and mental health advocate who brings clarity, courage and wit to the hardest conversations. She is co-creator of independent media company Ette Media, co-host of We Used To Be Journos podcast, co-founder of Media Diversity Australia, and a recipient of AFR’s 100 Women of Influence. She has been honoured with Liberty Victoria’s 2024 Human Rights Medal and the 2024 NSW Council for Civil Liberties President’s Media Leadership Award.
Agenda for the Day:
Annual General Meeting (AGM): Our event will kick off with our AGM from 5.30pm, a crucial moment for our organisation as we reflect on the past year's achievements, and chart our course for the future.
Indulgent Light Supper: Following the AGM, join us for a delightful light supper where you can mingle with fellow members and savour delectable treats.
Third Annual Oration by Antoinette Latouf Known for her refusal to dress truth in euphemism, Lattouf challenges systems while sparking national debate—with wit and plain speaking as her signature style.
“Antoinette is an incisive and insightful speaker. Using research, lived experience and creativity, she has the abiity to resonate with a r range of audiences with frankness and humour, even when the subject matter is sensitive.”
Lattouf has worked across both commercial and public broadcasting, her career spanning television, radio, and digital platforms. Whether reporting or commenting on national and international issues, or standing at the centre of one of the country’s most closely watched legal battles Lattouf v ABC, she has used narrative as both scalpel and spotlight—exposing injustice, interrogating power, and making space for voices too often ignored.
Her books, How to Lose Friends and Influence White People (2022) and Women Who Win (forthcoming, April 2026), reflect the same qualities that define her broadcasting. Even when tackling the bleakest stories, she finds a way to slip in lightness — a wry aside, a flash of humour, or a reminder that the absurd often lives right alongside the tragic.