Manning Clark House Papers:
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• Acton, Prue 2008. Is it Beauty That Asks the Question?
• Allison, Lyn 2005. Science and Ethics: Can Homo sapiens Survive?….or Good Planets Are Hard to Come By
• Archer, Robyn. 2009. The Price of Survival

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• Ball, Desmond 2005. The probabilities of 'On the Beach'; Assessing 'Armageddon Scenarios' in the 21 ^st Century
• Bain, Simon. 2003. Are Animals a Resource or a Responsibility?
• Bearlin, Margaret 2005. Educating the Young for a World of Change
• Behrendt, Larissa 2008. Do Indigenous Australians Enjoy Full Citizen Rights Today?
• Bishop, Julie MP. 2003. The Psychology of Fear
• Blakers, Andrew 2005. Solar energy in the built environment
• Blaskow, Nikolai 2005. Can Humanism Survive A Cybernetic Society?
• Boyden, Stephen 2005. Science, ethics and the natural environment
• Brennan, Frank 2006. 5 R's for the Enlargers: Race, Religion, Respect, Rights and the Republic.
• Brennan, Frank 2007 Ethics and Morality: What makes a civil society?
• Brennan, Gerard 2006. The way to a Republic.
• Browning, George. 2008. What’s the future for Australian Citizenship?
• Burns, Ron 2009. Fuelled by Sport: Getting Everyone Involved
• Bryant, Chris. 2003. 'Science Communication - Is Science too Hot to Handle?' Part 1.

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• Carment, David 2004.  History, Identity and Politics.
• Castelo, Carmen. 2001. Seminar "Australia in Spain, 1936 - 1939". Introduction.
• Chaney, Angela. 2003 Moving Forward in a Time of Fear
• Chaney, Fred. 2003 Moving Forward in a Time of Fear
• Clark, Anna. 2002. First Dymphna Clark Lecture.
• Clark, Axel. 2001. The Idea of a University: Enterprise or Academy.
• Clark, Dymphna. 1994. A Simple House - An interview with Dymphna Clark about 11 Tasmania Circle, Forrest, broadcast on ABC radio circa 1994, and several times since.
• Clark, Andrew. 2000. Judah Waten national story-writing competition.
• Clark, Andrew. 2003. Living with the Clarks
• Clark, Katerina. 2003. The Annual Dymphna Clark Lecture
• Clark, Manning Guide to the Papers of Manning Clark in the National Library of Australia
• Clark, Manning Lecture by Manning Clark to Moore Theological College, Newtown
• Clark, Sebastian. 2002. Mabo Day Monday 3 June 2002. Welcoming Remarks
• Clark, Tom. 2003. Grammatical socialism
• Clelland Gray, Pamela. 2003. Working in Canberra in the 21st Century
• Collins, Paul 2006 Consciousness and theology: the creation of Gods and myths in the human mind
• Costello, Tim 2004.  Daniel Mannix Lecture, October 14^th 2004 Melbourne University
• Cox, Eva. 2003. Our Population Our Future - People Issues
• Cullen, Peter 2005. Water Futures for Canberra: Moving Towards Sustainability?
• Cullen, Peter. 2000. Mutual Obligations - Making Partnerships Work in Resource Management.
• Curnow, Ric. 2006. Living in extremes

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• Davidson, Iain 2006. In our own image [Power Point 12.2 MB]
• Davidson, Robyn 2006. The essence of northness
• Davies, Geoff 2005. Playing with Superfire - Misapplication of Technology to Complex Natural Systems
• Davies, Geoff 2006. New Science and Old Wisdom - Minds In and Of the World
• Denborough, Mike 2005. The nuclear arms race is madness: diagnosis and cure
• Denniss, Richard 2005. People and population - the challenge for sustainability
• Denniss, Richard. 2003. Our Population Our Future - Australia's affluence, consumption trends and indicators of progress
• Djerrkura, Gatjil. 2004. Speech by Gatjil Djerrkura to launch Mark McKenna's This Country: a Reconciled Republic?.
• Douglas, Bob 2005. People, Health and Wellbeing: Will we make the necessary value shifts in time?

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• Ecksersley, Richard. 2003. Our Population Our Future - Meanings and values: their significance for progress and sustainability
• Eckersley, Richard. 2004.  Science, faith and values
• Eckersley, Richard . 2004.  Science and culture: changing how we see the world and our place in it
• Ellis, George 2006. From Stars to Brains Conference Dinner talk
• Ellis, George 2006. The Emerging Nature of Mind: Intellect, emotion, values: Some speculations and provocations [Power Point 3.2 MB]
• Espeland, Brent 2009. Going for Gold

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• Fairbairn, Anne. 2005. Australian poet and bridge-builder glimpses behind the anger
• Fenner, Frank. 2005. Scientific Principles, Scientific Ethics and the Dangers for Survival of Homo sapiens
• Fenner, Frank. 2005. Letter to the Editor of 'The Canberra Times' following the symposium 'Science and Ethics: Can Homo sapiens Survive? '
• Foran, Barney and Poldi Franzi. 2003.Our Population Our Future - Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Australias Population Options to 2050 and beyond
• Furnass, Bryan 2007. Environmental and climate change refugees
• Furnass, Bryan 2005 Micro- and macro-Science and Ethics: Can Homo sapiens survive?

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• Garcia, John Andres. nd. The International Brigades and the Refugee Camps of the South of France
• Gillies, Malcolm 2004 Graduation Address to Arts and Music graduates, The University of Melbourne
• Georgiou, Petro 2008 The new Australian citizenship test – a template for national identity Transcript courtesy of A Just Australia
• Goldie, Jenny 2005. Canberra's population size in light of converging catastrophes
• Guest, Charles and Mackay, Katherine 2005. Health status, the healthcare sector and sustainability
• Green, David H. 2005. The Role of Science in Societies, including Ethics in Science and Ethical Responsibilities of Scientists
• Griffiths, Phil and Sue Harris. 2001. When two elephants fight, it is the grass which gets trampled.
• Gottschalk-Mazouz, Dr. Niels. 2003. Sustainability: Are we short on science or on willpower?
• Gray, Pamela Clelland.2004  Speaking Notes for Working in Canberra in the 21^st Century

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• Haines, Simon. 2006 Simon Haines launches The Higher Self in Christopher Brennan's Poems by Katherine
  Barnes
• Haire, James and Ledger, Christine 2005. Theology, science and technology
• Hamilton, Clive 2005. Can humans survive automation?
• Harris Rimmer, Susan. 2008 Character as Destiny: The dangers of character tests in Commonwealth law
• Headon, Dr David. 1999.  Alexis  De Tocoqueville  Democracy in  Australia  26 March 1999
• Headon, Dr David. 2009 Tomatoes, Melbourne Cups and Mark Twain: Sport and the Arts in Australia
• Headon, Dr David. 2008.  Wanted: Treasure-House of Nation’s Heart - The Search for an Australian Capital City, 1891-1908
• Hinde, Sarah 2005. Canberra: an ‘attractive, safe and efficient environment’...?
• Holmes à Court, Janet 2000. Why is History Important?
• Holt, Stephen. nd. From Manning to Manne: On Reading Robert Manne's The Barren Years.
• Hughes, John, 2006. Memory and Home Keynote Address presented in Perth on 1 September 2006
• Hunt Rosalyn, Lam Jacqueline, McKenzie Amy, Millard Ellen, Moran Jennifer, Ragg Louise, Swanson Amy, Sypek Scott 2005. Utilising peer groups: a road to action to enable sustainability and health

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• Inglis, Amirah. nd. 2001.  Australians and the Spanish Civil War
• Irving, Helen. 2008. Citizenship

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• Jones, Barry 2007. Restoring the Primacy of Reason – ‘Telling Truth to Power’ in an Age of Fundamentalism.
• Jones, Barry 2008. Can humanism survive in the 21st Century?
• Jordens, Ann-Mari. 2003. Our Population Our future - Belonging and exclusion: national identity and citizenship, immigration and multiculturalism.
• Jordens, Ann-Mari. 2006. A Museum of Indigenous Australia?.

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• Kent, Bruce. 1999.  Tocqueville, Marx and the Revolution of 1848: the Quest for a Universal Class
• Kevin, Tony 2005 The Origins of Hope
• Kevin, Tony 2007 Media and writing:. agenda-setting and searching for the truth
• Kinnear,Dr Pamela 2004.  Our Population  Our Future
• Kirby, Michael 2001. Manning Clark, 'Bourgeois Democracy' and Strange Tales From Supreme Courts.

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• Lasry, Lex. 2005. Further thoughts
• Leovic, Rad. 2003. Our Population Our Future - Citizenship and multiculturalism: a political refugee's view

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• Mackay, Hugh 2005. Social Disengagement - breeding ground for fundamentalism.
• MacKenzie, Andrew 2005. Sustainability is not really a local issue, but how we live is about sustainability?
• Madew, Romilly 2005. Making Canberra Sustainable - the construction and refurbishment of sustainable buildings
• Malouf, David 2006. Launch of the 2006 edition of Manning Clark's 'A Short History of Australia'
• Manne, David 2006 Boatloads of Extinguishment?
• Manne, David 2007 Post-Palmer reform of the Department of Immigration
• Marsden, Alex. 2003. A Fascinating Journey: Women and the Workforce in Canberra
• Masters, Chris. 2010 Journalism - a career post mortem
• Matthews, Brian. 2006. Brian Matthews on writing
• McDonald, Peter. 2003. Our Population Our Future - Australia's demographic profile and prospects
• McKenna,Mark. 2006. Mark McKenna - our man in Copenhagen
• McKenna,Mark. 2004. This Country a Reconciled Republic?
• McKenna, Mark. 2003. The Need For A Reconciled Republic
• McMichael, Tony. 2003. Our Population, Our Future, What Sort of Country Do We Aspire To Be?
• McQueen,Humphrey. 2004. Presentation to the first of the 'Continuing the Great Conversations'
• Milburn, Gerard J. 2006. Is information processing a physical phenomenon?   [Power Point 1.2 MB]
• Milner, Anthony (2008) Citizenship, the global context
• Morton, Craddock (2008) The National Museum of Australia – have we got the Museum we deserve?
• Moses, Ingrid. 2008. Citizenship and “Australian Values”

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• National Library of Australia (NLA). 2001. National Library of Australia Guide to the Papers of Manning Clark
• Neilson, Heather. 1999.  That irresistible revolution”: Democracy in America
• Nossal, Sir Gustav. 2004. Towards a fairer world: historic trednds in global health reform.
• Nugent, Dr Maria. 2003  A fascinating journey -Women’s employment and professionalism in Australia.

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• O’Connor, Mark 2006. Was the Universe meant to be interesting? The 'Invisible Links' some poets report
• Odgers, Brett. 2003. Our Population Our Future - Forward

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• Poke, Robin 2009. Going for Gold: achieving excellence in sport
• Poldi, Franzi and Foran, Barney. 2003. Our Population Our future - Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Australia's Population Options to 2050 and beyond.
• Poore, Megan. nd. From the presentation "Being Ceduna"
• Price, Keith 2005. Being Human, Computers and Science
• Pryor, Geoff 2005. A short perspective of Integration and caring for Canberra

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• Reece, Bob 2005. You would have loved her for her lore: the letters of Daisy Bates
• Robinson, Peter 2006. Foundations of Visual Perception  [Power Point 7.8 MB]
• Rolfe, Richard 2009. Putting a Value on the Arts and Sport
• Rubbo, Anna 2006. 'Make poverty history': Global Studio, the Millennium Development. Goals and some ideas that might make a difference
• Ryan, Susan 2008. What's the future for Australian citizenship? A civil society and citizens' responsibilities

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• Sallis, Eva. 2007. 'Australian dream; Australian nightmare - Some thoughts on Multiculturalism and Racism'
• Sanderson, John 2003. Complexity and Opportunity - Overcoming Fear to Build a Sustainable Future
• Sanderson, John 2007. Redemption in reconciliation -The connection between indigenous health and national sustainability
• Sanderson, John 2008. Indigenous Rights The Right to Negotiate
• Schooneveldt, John 2005. Making Canberra sustainable: good ideas for future action
• Schwan, Lyn 2006. Building houses in Cambodia
  
• Southwood, Nic. 2003. The Ethics of Science and A Science of Ethics
• Stanhope, Jon 2005. Opening address to Making Canberra Sustainable Forum and Workshop
• Stocklmayer, Sue. 2003. 'Science Communication - Is Science too Hot to Handle?' Part 2

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• Tatman, Lucy 2006. Religious Faith vs. Free Will and Biological Determinism
• Truswell, Elizabeth 2006. Art and the Developing Consciousness - Reviewing the Speculations

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• Wareham, Sue (PhD) 2005. Can Scientists Halt the Technological Race to Nowhere?
• Warhurst, John 2007. Ethics and Morality in Parliamentary Democracy: But not in My Backyard?
• Warhurst, John. 2008. Second-Class Citizens: the Rights of Citizens in Small States and Territories
• Watchirs, Helen. 2008. Recent Challenges to Australian civil liberties and human rights
• Waterhouse, Dawn. 2004. 'Growing Up in Canberra'
• Watson, Louise. 2004. The total operating resources of Australian private schools in 2004.
• Williams, Clive. 2008. Points on Security and Human Rights
• Williams, John M. 1999. Bryce, Tocqueville, Clark and Australian Federation
• Wiltshire, David, 2006. Dark energy or cosmic complexity? (Link to Wiltshire's website) [Power Point 10 MB]