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Climate change, China booms and Australia's governance struggle in a changing world
The following text comes from the 2010 Hamer Oration held at the University of Melbourne on Thursday August 5, 2010. The speech was given by Professor Ross Garnaut, a Vice Chancellor's Fellow and Professorial Fellow in Economics at the University.
The Privacy Imperative in the Information Age ‘Free for All’
Address by Hon PJ Keating for the Centre for Advanced Journalism, University of Melbourne
4 August 2010
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"Privacy in a broad sense is under attack these days on a range of fronts: electronic surveillance, terrorism laws, growing police powers, business practices associated with information mining and marketing, and new technologies.
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Professor Loane Skene on genetic research, embryos and the Australian context
Recently, The Age reported in ‘DNA first gives hope on genetic diseases’ (see here)that research by Newcastle University in the UK had shown that embryos created with two mothers may offer a breakthrough that could eradicate a host of hereditary diseases.
Professor Gerry Simpson on the 2010 British Election
Professor Gerry Simpson is the Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Military Law at the Melbourne Law School, and is a Professor of Public International Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In this piece, he analyses how the 2010 British Election could unfold.
You can read more about Professor Simpson at http://bit.ly/cWR9pj
Australian Aid: Improving, but Could Do Better - Op Ed by Peter Singer
Australia is still a lucky country. Our per capita income is higher than that of many affluent nations, including Sweden, Denmark and the United Kingdom. On the broader Human Development Index, which includes health and education levels alongside our material standard of living, we rank second, with a score virtually indistinguishable from that of the top-ranked Norway. We reside in some of the world’s most livable cities.
Women in Education, Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce, AC, Governor-General of Australia
Following is the transcript of the Janet, Lady Clarke Oration at the University of Melbourne, 13 October 2009
See a video of the Oration at: http://live.unimelb.edu.au/episode/women-education-lecture
The Fall of Rome: Media after Empire, Mark Scott, Managing Director, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Following is the transcript of the A.N. Smith Memorial Lecture in Journalism 2009 at the University of Melbourne, Wednesday 14 October 2009, 6.30 pm.
See a video of the lecture at: http://live.unimelb.edu.au/episode/smith-lecture-journalism
The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All
The following is the full text from the 2009 Law Week Oration by Professor the Hon Gareth Evans QC AO, held at the Melbourne Law School on 22 September 2009, in conjunction with the Victoria Law Foundation.
Video of the lecture can be accessed at http://live.unimelb.edu.au/episode/law-week-oration-2009.
Why homebirth is important to women?
A natural birth experience, control of the environment and management of birth, and avoidance of medical technologies have been persistent themes in current research of women's views of home birth. Whatever women’s reasons for wanting to birth at home, the right to give birth in the place of one’s choice is fundamentally a feminist issue for Australian women.
Protecting our common humanity
To help commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions (established August 1949) the International Red Cross ran an essay competition on the importance of international humanitarian law. The following is the winning essay by Sarah Horan, a final year Media & Communications/Law student at the University of Melbourne, on the the development of international humanitarian law since the establishment of the Geneva Conventions.
