VETERAN ABC journalist Barrie Cassidy will deliver the 22nd George Briscoe Kerferd Oration titled 'The Fragility of Democracy' at the Beechworth Memorial Hall on Sunday, July 7.
Wangaratta-born Mr Cassidy grew up in Chiltern and undertook his secondary schooling at Rutherglen High.
With a career spanning five decades, Mr Cassidy had been a press secretary to former Prime Minister Bob Hawke as well ...