Hawke Centre visitors
Newsletter Number 9
May 2005
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The Hawke Centre has been extremely busy in the first quarter of 2005 with 7
lectures held in just 4 months!
Highlights have included a joint event with The Don Dunstan Foundation,
presenting Sir Michael Tomlinson CBE FRSA, Chair of the UK Government
Working Group on 14-19 Reform - discussing key aspects of the 14-19
Curriculum and Qualifications Reform proposals that were presented to the UK
government in October 2004 and some of the issues and challenges they are
designed to address.
Transcript
March offered a discussion on museums and their impact on social thinking with Viv Szekeres from the Migration Museum in Adelaide and Helen Light travelling from the Jewish Museum of Australia in Melbourne. Transcripts
We were extremely proud to be able to present Tim Costello, World Vision Australia, in March to a packed audience at the Adelaide Town Hall. Tim delivered an inspirational lecture on the globalisation of giving - Human Rights: the ethical underpinning of globalisation. His final comment challenged us to follow the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in our daily lives. "Imagine, for a minute, that no decision by an organisation or body in which you were associated, did not refer to it in any decision that they made – as to whether any part of that decision would negatively impact on someone’s human decency, their inalienable rights. And if your conscience allows you, treat it for a while as a religious creed, a charter for humanity that you are upheld to protect. Not as some personal moral creed that applies only to you, but as a Charter for Humanity that we all have some responsibility in protecting. Imagine what difference that will make to your consumer choices, your career choice and your lifestyle choices. What difference would it make?" Transcript
April offered our second UNIFEM Informs seminar - with two speakers who were able to offer an insight into their experiences 'on the ground'. Dr Joy O'Hazy described her 6 months with Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without borders) in Iran and the obstacles she had to overcome to help the people there. While Professor Roger Byard showed how even an experienced pathologist was deeply affected by the suffering caused by the Asian Tsunami but inspired by the tremendous support given to the people of Thailand by volunteers from many countries and backgrounds. Notes
Kirsty Sword Gusmao, the First Lady of East Timor, delivered an emotional presentation on Timor-Leste's women. Transcript and UniSA News article
The Adelaide Thinkers in Residence public lecture program delivered another fascinating and entertaining lecture with Peter Wintonick, a Canadian documentary film maker. This lecture series is co-presented by the Hawke Centre, and form an important part of the Thinkers time in Adelaide - allowing the general public to access their thoughts and ideas. Transcript
Reconciliation: take the next step was jointly presented by Reconciliation South Australia Inc; The Journey of Healing and The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre, UniSA.
Two extremely well respected and strong advocates for the journey of healing and reconciliation spoke about what taking the next steps meant to them. Transcript
Elliott Johnston QC AO was admitted as a legal practitioner in 1940 and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1970. He became a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia in June 1983 and retired in February 1988. He was the Commissioner for the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. He has always had a strong commitment to social justice and Reconciliation South Australia Inc is delighted that he is a Co-Patron of the organisation along with Professor Lowitja O’Donoghue AC CBE.
Doris Pilkington - Nugi Garimara winner in 1991 of the prestigious
David Unaipon Award for her first book Caprice: A Stockman’s Daughter and
also internationally recognised for her second book in 1996 Follow the
Rabbit-Proof Fence. Doris, like her mother, was forcibly removed from her
family and through her works she has been able to educate many individuals
about the traumas and hurt felt by the stolen generations. She is currently
the Co-Patron of the Journey of Healing along with the Rt Hon Malcolm Fraser
AC CH.