Lecture Series Transcripts

Commencing in 1996, the Hunter Valley Research Foundation's annual Lecture Series is an annual community event featuring lectures from leading, well-respected Australians on a range of topics under the broad umbrella topic of" Democracy and a Civil Society".

2011 Lecture Series

  • Tim Costello, CEO World Vision Australia
    Lecture Title: Rediscovering Democracy in 21st Century Australia - Download lecture transcript

  • The Hon. Catherine Branson QC, President and Human Rights Commissioner
    Australian Human Rights Commission
    Lecture Title: The empowered citizen: the importance of education and equality for a modern democracy - Download lecture transcript including Q&A session

2010 Lecture Series

  • Ronni Kahn
    Harvesting the Legacy - Download lecture transcript

  • Bernard Salt 
    Is Bigger Better? What Might Population Growth Mean for our Future in Australia and the Hunter?
    Bernard's presentation is available from the HVRF on request - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
     
  • Prof. Patrick McGorry 
    Topic: Mental Health and Civil Society - Download lecture transcript

Previous series are listed below and the transcripts are available on request

2009 Series

  • Marcus Westbury - Creative Initiative: Culture, Democracy and Change
  • Wendy Machin - Democracy: Why it's important for Australia's largest mutual
  • Dr John Williams - Our Landscapes, Our Future

2008 Series

  • David Bassau AM - Why a civil society needs to reach out to its poorer neighbours?
  • Professor Steffen Lehmann - Buildings and Cities: How can we achieve sustainable urban growth for the post-industrial city?

2007 Series

  • Dr Anne Summers - Are women better than men?
  • Dr Tim Flannery - The Matter of Climate Change: a global and local update to September 2007

2006 Series

  • Hugh McKay - What kind of society are we becoming?
  • Patrice Newell - Creating community through conflict: how environmental issues can bring a town together

2005 Series

  • Graeme Wise - Business and Society: great partners
  • Hugh Evans - The Oaktree Foundation: young people learning through partnership

2004 Series

  • Dr Keith Suter - Two Revolutions: globalization and technology - the implications for democracy and a civil society
  • Professor Ed Blakely - Civic culture and the community economy

2003 Series

  • Ambassador Richard Butler - Australia, United States & Iraq: fact or fiction in foreign policy
  • Elaine Henry - Social Capital: the new investment portfolio
  • Fred Hilmer - The media in a democratic and civil society

2002 Series

  • Gabi Hollows - Fred Hollows Foundation: ten years on
  • Pru Goward - Democracy, human rights & women's choices

2001 Series

  • Rev. Dr Gordon Moyes - How do we know we are a humane society?
  • Dr Simon Longstaff - On saving democracy from itself
  • Lieutenant General Peter Cosgrove - Insights into the practice of higher leadership in changing times

2000 Series

  • Father Chris Riley - The impact of modern society on our youth
  • Mr Steve Pratt - The Ordeals of a Prisoner of War: forced confessions and the dangerous world of international emergency aid
  • Dr Freda Whitlam - One Squirt of Colour: educating for a democracy

1999 Series

  • Mr John Foote - The miracle of science
  • Mr Peter Garrett - Australia in the 21st Century: mega malls and concrete coasts or a garden of eden in the southern hemisphere?
  • Rev Tim Costello - What courage does it take to be a mere generalist?

1998 Series

  • Professor Ian Lowe - Citizenship in the twenty-first century: the new demands of technological change and globalisation
  • Dr Pat O’Shane - A Crisis in Australian Democracy - who’s responsible?
  • Mr Paul Kelly - The problems facing the Australian democracy

1997 Series

  • Dr Malcolm McIntosh - Australian science for the 21st century
  • Mr Thomas Keneally - The Republic - is it a quality of life issue?
  • Hon. Susan Ryan - The quality of life as it relates to Australia’s ageing population

1996 Series

  • Mr Hugh Mackay - Where do our values spring from? - community and morality
  • Mr Phillip Adams - Can Australia survive its media? How mass media and new technologies are destroying our nation.
  • Professor Geoffrey Blainey - Quality of Life in Regional Australia: yesterday and tomorrow.