The Evatt Foundation was launched in the Great Hall of the University of Sydney on 27 September 1979. Before a large audience of supporters. inspirational speeches were made by: Sir Richard Kirby, the inaugural President of the Evatt Foundation, Sir Zelman Cowen, Governor-General of Australia, Neville Wran, QC MP, Premier of New South Wales, Bill Hayden, MP, Leader of the Federal Labor Party, Hal Missingham, former Director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Bob Hawke, President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, and Faith Bandler, leader of the successful campaign to remove discriminatory provisions of the Constitution in the 1967 referendum on Aboriginal Australians. The vote of thanks was moved by Gough Whitlam AC QC, former Prime Minister of Australia. To mark the 40th anniversary, this booklet publishes the five surviving original speeches. The guiding hand of the Foundation’s policy direction and management has been the Executive Committee. The names of all office holders since inception are recorded at the end of this commemorative booklet.

Sheil, Christopher (ed.) (2019), 40 years 1979-2019, Evatt Foundation, Sydney, booklet, 20 pp.

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