Past Orators & Topics
For more information about any of the following speakers and events, please contact the ELC office via email or phone (08) 8271 0329.
2022: Stan Grant – “The Politics of Identity”
Video available
2020 and 2021: Event cancelled due to COVID
2019: Professor Samar Akkach – “Humanism and the Sacred in search of common ground”
2018: Professor Henry Reynolds – “Australia’s Unnecessary Wars”
Audio available
2017: Julian Cribb – “Surviving the 21st Century” Humanity’s greatest challenge!
Audio available
Written version available
2016: Emeritus Professor Gillian Triggs – “Revitalising a Commitment to Human Rights”
Written version available.
2015: Tanya Hosch – “It’s Time…to Recognise First Australians in the Constitution”
2014: Rev Prof Andrew Dutney – “Are We Still a Fair Go Society?”
2013: Rachael Kohn – “We Are All Believers Now”
2012: Hieu Van Le – “Australia’s Migration – Challenges and Opportunities”
2011: Event cancelled; planned speaker was Dr Tim Flannery.
2010: Hon Michael Kirby – “Why Are Australians So Worried About a Citizen Initiative Human Rights Charter?”
2009: Event cancelled; planned speaker was Hon Michael Kirby.
2008: Sue Park – “The New Empowerment Model and How It Works”
2007: Prof John Hirst – “Living With Difference: the Australian Story”
2006: Prof Colin McMullin – “The Wellbeing of Children Affected by Armed Conflict and Migration”
2005: Dr Lowitja O’Donoghue – “Reconciliation”
2004: Julian Burnside QC – “Human Rights – Yours, Mine or Ours”
2003: Prof David Tacey – “Emerging Spirituality in Australia Today”
2002: Inaugural dinner event with speaker Ian Cox