
Manning Clark House Inc. welcomes speakers from a wide range of backgrounds. Among those recent have been Stephen Moore, Justice Michael Kirby, Prue Acton and Bishop George Browning. Photographer: Peter Hislop
Manning Clark House Papers:
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Manning Clark House Inc sincerely thanks the speakers at its many events for sharing their time and thoughts with audiences on the day, and through this web site, the world.
Please note, while many speakers are kind enough to share their speaking notes or papers below, not all do. Likewise, those presentations under Chatham House rules, questions and ad-libs are often not recorded.
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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 14th 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 21st 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]
Talks and Papers
These pages continue Manning and Dymphna Clark's sharing of stimulating conversation and ideas, and have been presented at the many events organised by Manning Clark House Inc.
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