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Closing the Gap

Closing the Gaps in Indigenous Mortality & Housing: Perspectives from the Social Sciences (April 04 2008)

Various speakers

In delivering an apology to the Stolen Generations the Prime Minister set a concrete target to halve the gap in infant mortality rates between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children within a decade.…

Professor Ken Inglis

Speechmaking in Australian History (May 15 2007)

Professor Ken Inglis

Allan Martin's two principal subjects as a historian, Sir Henry Parkes and Sir Robert Menzies, were both great orators.

Among questions asked in this lecture (the Allan Martin Memorial Lecture…

Professor Ken Inglis

Whose ABC? (September 19 2006)

Emeritus Professor Ken Inglis

As controversy continues to swirl around Australia’s national broadcaster, a long-awaited history of its last 20 years provides much-needed…

Dr Valerio Massimo Manfredi

Storytelling & History Writing: Which Came First? (September 04 2006)

Dr Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Milan

Dr Valerio Massimo Manfredi traces out the interlinked lineage of 'story' and 'history', arguing that the latter became important when societies needed to reinforce collective identities through an…

Dr Tim Wetherell

When Art Meets Science (August 14 2006)

Dr Tim Wetherell , Science Communicator, ANU College of Science

Science and art might sound like vastly different disciplines, but Dr Tim Wetherell from ANU believes they are both…