Guest Speakers

The Right Rev’d Dr Vicentia Kgabe
PGDE, D.D. (hc) PhD 

Vicentia Refiloe Kgabe is a native of Soweto, South Africa, and currently serves as the Diocesan Bishop of Lesotho. She was ordained as a Priest in the Diocese of Johannesburg in June 2002. Prior to becoming a Bishop, she worked as Rector and Principal of the College of Transfiguration Theological College for seven years. The college is in Grahamstown, the only residential seminary and training centre in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa. As part of her duties, she taught courses in Pastoral Care and Counselling and Youth Ministry and facilitated the College of Transfiguration Leadership Development Programme. She has served as a parish priest in eight parishes in the Johannesburg Diocese, as an Archdeacon, and as the Director of the Ordination Process within the same diocese. 

Vicentia has previously held positions as Chairperson of the Board for HOPE Africa (Social Development Programme 2014 – 2015), Co-Chair of Makhanda/Grahamstown Circle of Unity (2019 – 2021), Member of the Rhodes University Council (2018 – 2021) and Deputy Chairperson of the Rhodes University Council. (2020 – 2021). 

Vincentia currently serves as a Research Fellow at the Desmond Tutu Centre for Religion and Social Justice. She is strongly interested in leadership, social justice, and promoting active citizenship. 

Miranda Threlfall-Holmes

Miranda Threlfall-Holmes is an Anglican priest who has been the Archdeacon of Liverpool since 2023 and previously served in the Dioceses of Durham and Newcastle as a parish priest, a university chaplain and Area Dean of Durham. Miranda is also a historian interested in how we comprehend contemporary concerns through understanding the development of church doctrine and practice. She is the author of a number of well received books including her most recent ‘How To Eat Bread: 21 Nourishing Ways to Read the Bible’.  Miranda serves prominently on General Synod, and is interested in broad issues relating to diversity in the church, and in the theology of difference. 

Stan Grant

Stan Grant is Vice Chancellor's Chair of Australian-Indigenous Belonging at Charles Sturt University. Prior to this appointment, Professor Grant was Chair of Indigenous Affairs at Charles Sturt since 2016.  

Professor Grant has also worked in Global Affairs at Griffith University and has a highly respectable, 30-year career in journalism, including a former position as ABC's Global Affairs and Indigenous Affairs Analyst. He is one of Australia's most respected and awarded journalists, with experience across radio, television news and current affairs. With a strong reputation for independence and integrity, one of his most significant positions was as a Senior International Correspondent for CNN in Asia and the Middle East. 

Stan has been awarded three Walkley awards, two Peabody awards, four Asia TV awards, an Australian TV Logie award, International Indigenous Trailblazer award, two Australian Academy of Cinema Television awards, an Australian Heritage Literature award and an Association of International Sports Journalists award, among many others. 

Professor Grant has also published four critically acclaimed and best selling books on identity and Australian Indigenous history, and in 2019 wrote, and featured in, the full-length documentary film, The Australian Dream. The documentary won the AACTA Award for best feature documentary in 2019. 

Phyllis Marsh

Phyllis Marsh is Learning Innovator – Indigenous Perspectives at West Moreton Anglican College and a MaMu woman from the Mundubarra people. She is currently studying a Master of Education and has a Diploma of Business, a Diploma of Project Management and a Certificate IV Training and Assessment. 

 West Moreton Anglican College is a national trailblazing educational leader in empowering students with the tools and language to develop deep knowledge, understanding and skills concerning the cross-curriculum priority of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures. Phyllis Marsh spearheads the College’s  strategic vision to ensure a thorough embedding of spiritual and cultural histories to raise students’ knowledge and enhance educational outcomes. 

Brad Chapman

 Brad Chapman is Education Missioner at Anglican Board of Mission.  

Kim Kirkman

After originally training as a violist, Kim moved to voice and became co-owner, musical director and member of The Ten Tenors. He taught strings, composition, conducting, music technology and voice at the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music, CQ University from 2004 to 2012. Kim currently lives on the Sunshine Coast and conducts the Inspiration Choir, Inspiration Project Choir, Caloundra Community Choir, the Caloundra Chorale and Caloundra Community Choir and is musical director at St George’s Anglican Church Maleny. He is in high demand as an adjudicator and vocal workshop leader. Kim gives over 100 performances a year either as a conductor, singer, violinist or harpist.