Lunchbox / Soapbox: Christine Nixon on the Nature of Leadership

Lunchbox/Soapbox returns for its third season in 2011 with former Victorian Police Commissioner Christine Nixon reflecting on the nature of leadership. In her recently released memoir, Fair Cop, Christine Nixon reflects on her journey of a woman into a man’s world. In it she shares the public and private stories of Christine Nixon – woman, spouse, citizen, constable – on a journey marked by tragedy, corruption, ambition and humility.

Lunchbox/Soapbox is a simple idea: an old-fashioned Speakers’ Corner in the middle of the city, in the middle of the day.

At the Wheeler Centre we’re keen to showcase our writers as thinkers and as artists, as people with passions and peccadilloes. So we’ve come up with Lunchbox/Soapbox: a weekly space for them to sound off on a topic of their choice. Think of it as a 20-minute piece of polemic to give lunching CBD folk something to chew on.

Presenter

Christine Nixon

Christine Nixon APM is the former Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police, serving between 23 April 2001 and 27 February 2009.