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RE-FORGING AUSTRALIA'S FUTURE EVENT SERIES - AUTUMN / WINTER 2007
END GAME IN IRAQ – scenarios for peace – Thurs 26th April 2007, Mercy Theatre, ACU
Professor Imad Moosa has lectured in Economics and Finance at the University of Sheffield and was professor of Finance at La Trobe University before joining the Department of Accounting and Finance at Monash University. He has published nine books and numerous papers in international journals. He has served in many advisory positions, including as economic advisor to the US Treasury and to the government of Iraq. For the text of his talk click here.
Dr Scott Burchill is Senior Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Social and International Studies at Deakin University. He has worked in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Indo-China and Europe desks), and taught at the University of Melbourne, Monash University and the University of Tasmania. He is the author of The National Interest in Theories of International Relations, and co-author of Theories of International Relations. Click here for the text of his talk.
TRUTH VS SPIN – framing & framed - Thurs 31st May 2007, Mercy Theatre, ACU
Professor Rob Watts is Professor of Social Policy in the School of Global Studies Social Sciences and Planning. He is the Discipline Leader for social sciences in the School as well as director of teaching and learning for one part of the recently amalgamated Schools. After teaching at Latrobe University and the University of Melbourne in the 1970s he taught in Colleges of Advanced Education in Melbourne and in Canada and also helped establish what became Victoria University in 1987. He has been with RMIT since 1993-4.
Matthew Ricketson, media and communications editor, The Age
Matthew has worked on staff as a journalist at Standard News, The Age, The Australian, The Sunday Herald and Time Australia magazine. Before taking up his current position at The Age in June 2006, he ran the Journalism program at RMIT for 11 years. He has a Master of Arts (communication studies) from RMIT and is writing a PhD about book-length journalism at Monash University. His biography of the Australian author Paul Jennings was published by Viking in 2000. He has written a textbook entitled Writing Feature Stories (Allen & Unwin) and has edited an anthology of journalism entitled The Best Australian Profiles (Black Inc).
RELIGION & POLITICS – the new relevance - Thurs 28th June 2007
Oratory Room, Newman College, 887 Swanston St, Parkville
Professor Tony Coady is Deputy Director of the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at The University of Melbourne. He has been a Visiting Lecturer and Visiting Fellow at numerous universities including Oxford and Cambridge, Princeton University and University of Maryland, and in 1999-2000 the United States Institute of Peace in Washington DC. He has published on Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Ethics and Political Philosophy. His book Testimony: A Philosophical Study was published in 1992.
Brian Howe A.M. is a Professorial Associate at the Centre for Public Policy at Melbourne University. Elected to the federal parliament in 1977 Brian represented the seat of Batman until 1996. Elected to the Ministry in 1983 and appointed to the Minister for Defense Support he subsequently served in social policy related Ministries including Social Security, Health and Housing. He was one of only four ministers who served continuously in the Hawke and Keating Ministries from 1983-1996. He was Deputy Prime Minister from 1991-1995. Since leaving politics in 1996 Brian has researched and taught social policy at Melbourne University. He is currently a member of the Board of the Australian and New Zealand School of Government and Chairman of Victorian-based Disability Housing Trust.
RENEWING THE EARTH – spirituality & climate change - Thurs 26th July 2007
Oratory Room, Newman College, 887 Swanston St, Parkville
Father Charles Rue worked for many years in South Korea and later in Jamaica as a Columban priest, after early experience as a farmer. He has a masters degree in Environmental Planning and a doctorate in history. On his return to Australia he has been active in environmental work especially as related to religion. He works out of the Centre for Peace, Ecology and Justice in Sydney. He published a paper on 'Catholics and Nature' (2006) in the Catholic Social Justice Series and a DVD on GM food production and labeling. Click here for an overview of the talk.
Penny Evans, main presenter of ‘Stop Global Warming! Group’- a concerned group of Melbourne citizens strongly influenced by Tim Flannery's book, The Weathermakers. Penny is a couple counselor with a private practice, and is the professional education manager for Relationships Australia - Victoria, currently completing her Masters Degree in Couple Counseling. Her main priority is for the Australian Government to set emissions targets and sound strategies for achieving them, including carbon penalties, energy efficiency and realistic investment by government and business in the research and development of alternate energy. Penny is also part of the Kooyong Climate Action Coalition.
A FAIR GO FOR FAIRNESS – restoring equity - Thurs 30th August 2007
Oratory Room, Newman College, 887 Swanston St, Parkville
Father Peter Norden SJ AO is the Associate Director of Jesuit Social Services, and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Social Science and Planning at R.M.I.T. University. He is a National Board Member of A.C.O.S.S. (Australian Council of Social Service) and the Convener of the Victorian Criminal Justice Coalition. On Australia Day 2007 Fr Peter Norden SJ was appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia for “service to community development through social research and programs to help marginalised young people and offenders, to the mental health sector and to the Catholic Church”.
Dr Ray Cleary, Chief Executive Officer at Anglicare Victoria. Community leader, over 38 years experience within community service agencies. After several senior positions in the field, he took up his current appointment at Anglicare Vic. Dec. 2000. Currently Chair of the Social Responsibilities Committee Anglican Diocese of Melb, for a number of years chaired Victorian Churches Gambling Task Force. 2001 Ray chaired Vic. Government’s Ministerial Advisory Committee on Homelessness. Chair of Anglicare Australia - national network & peak body, Anglican welfare and justice.
November 2006 Event
EVALUATING THE G-20 – key issues and the implications for us - Saturday 25th November 2006
St. Ignatius Centre, Richmond
Tim Colebatch has been The Age’s economic editor for the past 13 years. He began working with The Age in 1971, and has reported in Australia and as a foreign correspondent in Washington. He has won numerous awards for his columns on economics and foreign policy issues including the Melbourne Press Club Quill Award for the best columnist in 2000. He has reported widely since on state and federal politics, the environment, urban issues and world affairs before specializing on the economy. He has shown a marked interest in questions of aid, trade and development, the international efforts to reduce hunger and poverty.
Click here for an overview of the talk.
John Langmore is currently Professorial Fellow in the Political Science Department at the University of Melbourne. He has had a distinguished career as Assistant Director of the National Planning Office in Papua New Guinea, and later Economic Advisor to the Australian Treasurer before becoming MP for the ACT seat of Fraser in the House of Representatives. He then became Director of the UN Division for Social Policy and Development, and Representative of the International Labour Organisation to the United Nations. He has published extensively on social and economic policy in Australia and Papua New Guinea, as well as global issues, especially in the context of the United Nations. His most recent book was Dealing with America: the UN, the US and Australia (Sydney: UNSW, 2005), and he is currently writing on financing for development. Click here for John Langmore's text.
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