The disappearance of art
by Ian Milliss | May 19, 2010
The Evatts, the arts, the websWhen I was initially approached about this lecture my first reaction was disbelief. It wasn't just my natural false modesty, it was knowledge of a...
‘Old Age Without Wretchedness’
by John Keane | Dec 20, 2009
Thomas Paine's vision of growing oldLadies and gentlemen, young and old and in-betweens,You may suppose, with good reason, that silver-haired university professors who lead...
The failure to learn
by Yola Lucire | Dec 9, 2009
There is an answer to fraud: You fight it with science. We have the science. Pharmacogentics.As you saw, Generation RX contained first hand accounts, ignored by authorities and...
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...