Australia’s silent killer
by Matt Peacock | Nov 9, 2009
Right now, Australia's in the grip of a silent epidemic. It's an epidemic of the most painful and deadliest cancer you can imagine. It's a thin, near-invisible, sheet-like cancer...
The way forward
by John Faulkner | Apr 8, 2009
Open governmentFirst let me acknowledge the traditional owners of this land, and pay my respects to their elders past and present.Parliamentary colleagues, distinguished guests,...
The future of Africa
by Quentin Bryce | Apr 8, 2009
We are the ones we have been waiting forMinister for Community Services, the Honourable Linda Burney MP, Minister for the Status of Women, the Honourable Tanya Plibersek MP,...
Making it accessible
by Melissa Boyde | Apr 8, 2009
Mary Alice Evatt & Australian modernist artIn his autobiography art historian Bernard Smith recounts how, as a young art teacher posted to a school at Murraguldrie in country...
Democracy’s pre-conditions
by Pete Hay | Mar 8, 2009
And why they are not in placeThe British Scientist, James Lovelock - described by New Scientist as 'one of the great thinkers of our times', tells us that, by the close of the...
The Doc, the UN & the UDHR
by Christopher Sheil | Nov 11, 2008
Reflections on the 60th Anniversary Introduction I should begin by making the basis of my words clear. The Evatt Foundation was founded in 1979 as a memorial to Dr Herbert Vere...
Celebrating what it is to be human and free
by Phillip O'Neill | Nov 11, 2008
Herbert Vere ('Doc') Evatt was born in East Maitland in 1894. He is probably the Hunter region's most famous politician, perhaps the region's most important international figure...
Banks must be kept in check
by Evan Jones | Oct 10, 2008
Where is competition when we need it?The government should reject Westpac's bid to takeover St George, argues Evan Jones.Last February, Gail Kelly, long-time chief executive of...
A second Enlightenment?
by Paul Keating | Aug 9, 2008
War, peace & prosperityA prestigious American think tank told us recently that 66 per cent of humanity lives in high income or high growth countries; up from 25 per cent...
H. V. Evatt & the UN after 60 years
by Michael Kirby | Aug 4, 2008
H. V. Evatt Lecture 200An Australian achieverI can boast of several links with Herbert Vere Evatt. Like me, he attended Fort Street Boys' High School in Sydney, the oldest public...