Click on each speaker for a copy of each speech. All titles are correct for the time the lecture was given.

 

• 2023 Panel event: Rachel Perkins, Tom Calma and Teela Reid moderated by Elizabeth Broderick
• 2022 Panel event: Natalie Walker, Zahra Al Hilaly, Bobbie Trower, moderated by Elizabeth Broderick
• 2021 Webinar: Tanya Hosch and Dean Parkin, moderated by Danny Gilbert AM
• 2020 Webinar: Linda Burney and Nakkiah Lui in conversation with Larissa Berhendt
• 2019 Professor Tim Soutphommasane, Former Race Discrimination Commissioner and Political Theorist
• 2018 Helen Clark, Former New Zealand Prime Minister, Former Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme
• 2017 Linda Burney MP, Shadow Minister for Human Services and Member for Barton

• 2016 Emeritus Professor Gillian Triggs

• 2015 The Hon Julia Gillard

• 2014 The Hon Penny Wong

• 2013 The Hon Justice Virginia Bell AC

• 2012 Waleed Aly, Academic, author and political and social commentator

• 2011 Sam Mostyn, sustainability change strategist

• 2010 Elizabeth Broderick, Sex Discrimination Commissioner and Commissioner for Age Discrimination

• 2009 Her Excellency Quentin Bryce AC, Governor General of Australia

• 2008 Hon Elizabeth Evatt AC

• 2007 Professor Marcia Langton AM

• 2006 Mary Gaudron, former High Court Judge

• 2005 Evonne Goolagong Cawley in conversation with Linda Burney MP

• 2003 Frank Brennan SJ, AO, Jesuit priest, lawyer and activist

• 2004 Sir William Deane, former Governor General

• 2002 Maha Krayem-Abdo, President, Muslim Women’s Association

• 2001 Justice Marcus Einfeld, former Federal Court Justice

• 2000 Noeline Brown

• 1999 Lowitja O’Donoghue, AC, Visiting Fellow at Flinders University and Former chair of ATSIC

• 1998 Evelyn Scott, Chair, Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation

• 1997 Dr Faith Bandler, OAM

• 1996 Jennie George, President ACTU

• 1995 Ruth Pierce, Assistant Secretary, International Organisations, Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade

• 1994 Dr Jean Blackburn, Convenor of the SA Women’s Suffrage Centenary Committee

• 1993 Pat O’Shane AM, Magistrate in the NSW Local Court

• 1992 The Hon Jeannette McHugh, MP, Minister for Consumer Affairs

• 1991 Justice Elizabeth Evatt AC, President, Law Reform Commission

• 1990 Quentin Bryce AO, Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Human Rights & Equal Opportunities Commission

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