This year’s speaker …
Bernadette Black AM 2026
Bernadette is a primary prevention specialist, convenor of cross-sector reform, systems-change leader and lead author of Australia’s National Primary Preventative Framework and Prevention Nation: The Strategy, both launched with the Governor-General of Australia in 2026.
Drawing on lived experience and frontline insight, Bernadette works across government, philanthropy and community sectors to advance practical, evidence-informed reform that shifts Australia from crisis response to prevention. She serves as Advisory Member (International) – National Prevention Strategies with the NYU Centre on International Cooperation (CIC) and is an Advisory Member with the Sydney Policy Lab at the University of Sydney.
Bernadette is a Winston Churchill Fellow, a Member of the Order of Australia, Australian Tasmanian of the Year and former Telstra Tasmanian Businesswoman of the Year. She holds an Executive Certificate in Public Leadership from Harvard Kennedy School and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Prayer in the city’s heart
The Tasmanian Parliamentary Prayer Breakfast, this year at the Wrest Point Conference Centre, brings together like-minded people from across Tasmania to pray for our State, our leaders, parliamentarians, businesses, schools, communities, and community organisations; our families, youth, and children. Please join us for this special moment of unity and humility.
Our prayer, “In the name of Jesus, we ask God to grant us the will and wisdom, the creativity and strength we need to care well for each other and to see Tasmania flourish in every dimension.”
Unique networking moment
Rarely does such a cross section of leaders from government, business, community, education, media, and the church gather in one place to express their thanks to God for the past and ask His blessing on the future. So once a year at the Parliamentary Breakfast we provide a special time to acknowledge one another, to connect with each other, and to be encouraged together.
Speakers with integrity
Each year, a recognised public figure who has made a significant professional and leadership contribution is a guest speaker at the breakfast. By sharing something of the story of their lives, each speaker brings something unique of the impact of their upbringing, experience and faith has had on their life and leadership.