Past events

Hugh Mackay AO: The Kindness Revolution

2020 was ravaged by bushfires and a worldwide pandemic, taking a toll on both our mental and emotional health and the economy. Hugh Mackay reflects on the challenges we faced during that year of upheaval and the questions many of us have asked ourselves: What really matters to me? Am I living the kind of life I want? What sort of society do we want to become?

Food Democracy: From Passive Consumers to Active Food Citizens

In a global, industrialised food system decisions are being made every day about what we eat, when, where and how. As food consumers how do we get a say in the way our food system operates? Join Dr Sue Booth online as she introduces the idea of food democracy, enabling food consumers to become food citizens.

The Power of Quality Universal Early Childhood Education: Economic Empowerment, Healthy Relationships and Gender Equality

Thrive By Five CEO and former SA Premier The Hon Jay Weatherill AO will join 2015 Australian of the Year Rosie Batty AO, White Ribbon Australia Executive Director Brad Chilcott and the United Workers Union National President Jo Schofield to discuss the power of high quality, easily accessible and affordable early learning and childcare to help build economic empowerment, healthy relationships and gender equality.

Perspectives: Hayley Millar Baker

Hayley Millar Baker (Gunditjmara, AU) is a cross-cultural research-driven, contemporary artist based in Melbourne, Australia. Her practice reveals a perspective that explores human experiences in a lens that is non-exclusive and non-linear, connected within memory and contemporary storytelling. Constructing complex visual insights to past, present and future realms, storytelling becomes a methodology for her in which to reclaim and reauthor constructs of history, narrating inherited and personal stories.

Elders Speak: What Is The Future of Aboriginal Education?

Join our panel of experts who will discuss the need for a two-way education system that recognises and respects the cultures, languages and identities of Aboriginal children and young people, as set out in Article 14 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Aboriginal Peoples.

Ross Garnaut AC - In-Conversation and Book Launch

Join us for an In-Conversation and Book Launch of Reset: Restoring Australia after the Pandemic Recession, written by Ross Garnaut AC. Renowned economist Ross Garnaut will discuss how the COVID-19 crisis offers Australia the opportunity to reset its economy and build a successful future – and why the old approaches will not work.

Gill Hicks AM MBE In-Conversation with Tory Shepherd

Narrowly escaping death, Gill Hicks was horrifically and permanently disabled by the actions of a terrorist attack in London during the summer of 2005. Gill left her career within architecture, design and the arts, notably a respected curator and publisher in London, to devote her life to deterring anyone from following a path of violent extremism and the destructive ideologies that seek divisive outcomes within our global societies.