The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre
South Australia's largest education institution, the University of South Australia has developed the Hawke Centre as a cornerstone of its key strategic commitment: engaging our communities.
The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre, named after Bob Hawke, South Australia's only Prime Minister, represents an important engagement with local and international communities through public learning activities such as lectures and seminars, alliances, and research projects. The Centre attracts national and international speakers and offers informed viewpoints on key concerns for the 21st century, including sustainable societies, global citizenship, democracy, youth leadership, mediation, and responsible economic development.
Politically non-partisan and strongly endorsed by current and past public leaders for its role in promoting understanding of democratic processes and civic obligations, the Centre challenges Australians to consider ideas and develop solutions for a sustainable society.
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I will do all I can to help make the Centre an institution of which we can all be proud, not as a memorial to an individual, but as another small but important bridge to understanding, compassion, and good policy. |
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The Centre’s themes are:
Strengthening our democracy - Valuing our diversity - Building our future
Special features
- The Hawke Centre's Civic
Gallery has been generously endowed by the family of the late Kerry
Packer, a highly influential figure in Australia’s media industry
history, and superbly designed by outstanding architect, John Wardle in
association with Hassell Adelaide. The Gallery will double as a
public viewing and gathering space and displays will be closely related
to the Hawke Centre public program and themes.
- The Hawke Centre's Public Program
serves the broad community through a
lively calendar of national and state lectures, partnerships, special
government and business briefings and this website, providing a unique
public learning opportunity.
Many of the presented lectures are available as
transcripts on this
website accessible through the event listings.
While the views presented by speakers within the Hawke Centre public program are their own and are not necessarily those of either the University of South Australia or The Hawke Centre, they are presented in the interest of open debate and discussion in the community and reflect our themes of: strengthening our democracy – valuing our diversity – and building our future.
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