Michelle will take centre stage at The Gazebo at the Murrumbidgee Turf Club to help the committee build on the $25,000 it has already raised for cancer awareness.

Her many career highlights include sharing the Melbourne Press Club's lifetime achievement award with Laurie Oakes in 2008 for being the outstanding political correspondents of the past 40 years.

Michelle, who first joined The Age in 1970, received the Graham Perkin Award for Journalist of the Year in 1988.

She became Australia's first female editor of a metropolitan daily newspaper when appointed to the role at The Canberra Times in 1993 and has since worked at The Age, The Financial Review and The Sydney Morning Herald.

Michelle's most recent books include Reconciliation and Australian Prime Ministers (2000), and Back on the Wool Track (2004).

The fundraising event will be held from 6.45pm and will include a two-course dinner. Tickets, costing $45, are still available until lunchtime today.

For further information contact Christie Kozlik at Cargill on 6938 3000.