by John Faulkner | Apr 8, 2009 | Issue 3, Journal, Papers, Volume 9
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, ladies and gentlemen, there was once a time when it was a serious offence to report what...
by Quentin Bryce | Apr 8, 2009 | Issue 2, Journal, Papers, Volume 9
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, Chair of the Jessie Street Trust, Ms Jeanette McHugh, original Chair, Ms Mavis Robertson, Ms...
by Melissa Boyde | Apr 8, 2009 | Issue 2, Journal, Papers, Volume 9
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 New South Wales (NSW) in the mid 1930s, he tried unsuccessfully to borrow books on modern...
by Pete Hay | Mar 8, 2009 | Issue 1, Journal, Papers, Volume 9
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 century, the current population of Planet Earth will have been reduced by...
by Christopher Sheil | Nov 11, 2008 | Issue 4, Journal, Papers, Volume 8
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 Evatt, or ‘the Doc’ as he was universally known, with the aim of upholding the...
by Phillip O'Neill | Nov 11, 2008 | Issue 4, Journal, Papers, Volume 8
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 of all time. Sixty years ago, on 10 December 1948, in Paris, Doc...
