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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.
John Howard Public Lecture - Politics and the Media: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Former Prime Minister Mr John Howard recently delivered a public lecture at the University of Melbourne on the role of the media in covering politics. The lecture was hosted by the University’s Centre for Advanced Journalism.
Professor Pat Anderson delivers Social Justice Initiative Annual Lecture
Professor Pat Anderson, co-author of the Little Children Are Sacred report about child abuse in the NT delivered the annual Social Justice Lecture at the University of Melbourne recently. On the second anniversary of the so-called "Intervention", she says governments have not acted on any of the recommendations from the report.
Fixing the Planning System in Victoria
Fixing the planning system in Victoria requires more than “discussion”, says Dr Carolyn Whitzman.
