Live @ Melbourne

Centre for Public Policy Forum Series 2012

Courts and Democracy - Just another Government Agency?

Speaker: The Honourable Marilyn Warren AC, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria

Respondent: Professor Simon Evans, Pro Vice-Chancellor (International), University of Melbourne

This interactive Q and A forum is hosted by the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences. It is a part of the Australia's Role in the World series, which is a partnership initiative of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, The University of Melbourne and UN Youth Australia.

2012 Kenneth Bailey Memorial Lecture

Presented by Professor Matthew Craven 

The General Act of the Berlin Conference of 1884-5 is generally recalled as an instrument enabling the partition of Africa and the establishment of colonial rule. In this lecture Professor Craven revisits that history, asking whether it might not better be understood as a regime of extraction whose logic may be tracked in various locations in contemporary international law. 

This event is part of Australia's Role in the World, a partnership initiative between The University of Melbourne, the Australian Institute of International Affairs and UN Youth Australia.

In this forum renowned philosopher Peter Singer will discuss our individual and collective responsibility to address faraway injustices such as global poverty. Daniel Lewis-Toakley of the new anti-poverty campaigh, Live Below the Line, will draw out Singer's views on the implications of recent events in this area.

Centre for Public Policy Forum Series 2012

Talking about racism: Equality and social cohesion in Australia

Speaker: Dr Helen Szoke, Race Discrimination Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission
Respondent: Dr Millsom Henry-Waring, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Melbourne

Presented by Julian Disney AO, Chair, Australian Press Council

Hosted by the Melbourne Graduate School of Education in partnership with the Australian Education Union and the Australian College of Educators. 

Presented by Dr Ben Levin,

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

University of Toronto 

On Wednesday 7 March, a panel of experts including Maxine McKew, Jack Keating and Ben Jensen explored issues like what the Gonski Review of School Funding means for the future of our schools, what to make of the Government’s response so far, and what the nature of the public debate tells us about our views on education in Australia.