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Commencing in 1996, the Hunter Valley Research Foundation's annual Lecture Series is an important community event featuring a series of lectures from leading, well-respected Australians from a broad range of backgrounds. Three lectures are held over three evenings each year and speakers brings to the series their own unique experiences and ideals under the broad umbrella topic of "democracy and a civil society".
2008 Lecture Series Transcripts contain
- 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 Lecture Series Transcripts contain
- Dr Anne Summers - Are women better than men?
- Dr Tim Flannery - The Matter of Climate Change: A Global and Local Update to Setpember 2007
2006 Lecture Series Transcripts contain
- Hugh McKay - What kind of society are we becoming?
- Patrice Newell - Creating community through conflict: How environmental issues can bring a town together
2005 Lecture Series Transcripts contain
- Graeme Wise
- Business and Society: great Partners
- Hugh Evans - The
Oaktree Foundation: Young People Learning Through
Partnership
2004 Lecture Series Transcripts contain
- 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 Lecture Series Transcripts contain
- 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
Democractic and Civil Society
2002 Lecture Series Transcripts contain
- Gabi Hollows - "Fred
Hollows Foundation: Ten Years On"
- Pru Goward - "Democracy,
Human Rights & Women's Choices"
2001 Lecture Series Transcripts contain
- 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 Lecture Series Transcripts contain
- 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 Lecture Series Transcripts contain
- 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 Lecture Series Transcripts contain
- 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 Lecture Series Transcripts contain
- 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 Lecture Series Transcripts contain
- 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"
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