The Right Hon Malcolm Fraser, AC, CH , Former Prime Minister of Australia
Mr Fraser addressed the current state of nuclear weapons acquisition and distribution and the present danger and opportunities facing the world. He covered the failures in disarmament and non-proliferation…
The Hon Stephen Smith MP , Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs
In this speech to the ANU China Institute The Hon Stephen Smith MP, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, spoke on the Australia-China Relationship and discussed China's importance…
Rod Quantock, Comedian, Writer and Climate Change Activist
Rod Quantock says, "If climate change doesn't scare you, then you don't get the science." Fortunately Quantock does, and when he gives you his take on the physics, chemistry, biology, geology, palaeontology,…
Professor M. Nazif Shahrani, Professor of Anthropology, Central Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Indiana University
Shifting resources from Iraq to the so called ‘war of necessity' in Afghanistan by President Obama, while significant, is unlikely to be effective. This is largely because the fundamental assumptions…
Richard Woolcott AC , Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for the Asia Pacific Community
In June 2008, the Australian Prime Minister, the Hon. Kevin Rudd, spoke of the need to begin a "regional debate about where we want to be in 2020". In particular, he outlined the need for an Asia Pacific…
Professor Ross Garnaut AO, Distinguished Professor, The Australian National University
Professor Ross Garnaut presented the final report of the Garnaut Climate Change Review to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on 30 September 2008, the morning of the largest ever one day…
John Ashton, Special Representative for Climate Change, The United Kingdom’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office
John Ashton, Special Representative for Climate Change at the United Kingdom's Foreign and Commonwealth Office presented a public lecture called, Coal: The Elephant in the Room
Bruce Haigh, Political Commentator and Former Diplomat
Bruce Haigh argues that Australian foreign policy has been, and remains, inept in advancing Australia's national interest. Given the limited independence of Australia's Foreign Minister,…
Emeritus Professor Paik Nak-chung , Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
The partition of the Korean peninsula has since the end of the Korean War solidified into a ‘division system' encompassing two otherwise contrastive societies. This notion enables an important…
Professor Hugh White, Adjunct Professor Peter Bailey, Dr Jane Golley and Professor Geremie Barmé, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific and ANU College of Law
The arrest of Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu, and more recently China's cancellation of a ministerial visit over Canberra's decision to grant a visa to Uighur figurehead Rebiya Kadeer has put Australia-China…
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Professor Amin Saikal, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies
The Islamic government of oil-rich Iran is faced with its worst legitimacy crisis since the Iranian revolution that toppled the Shah's pro-Western monarchy and replaced it with an Islamic regime thirty…
His Royal Highness Prince Turki AlFaisal, Chairman of the Board, The King Faisal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies Riyadh
HRH Prince Turki AlFaisal is Chairman of the Board of the King Faisal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh. He is one of Saudi Arabia's leading intellectuals, with a very rich record…
Dr David Kilcullen, Counterterrorism Strategist
In the first few years of the post-9/11 era, the established models for fighting ‘small wars' proved distressingly ineffective against resilient insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan.…
George Friedman, Founder and Chief Intelligence Officer of STRATFOR
In his book The Next 100 Years, George Friedman offers a lucid, highly readable forecast of the changes we can expect around the world during the twenty-first century. He explains where and why future…
Professor Hugh White, Professor of Strategic Studies and Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU
This year's Defence White Paper is more than a shopping list for the military. Behind the force priorities and budget estimates lie key judgments about the kind of regional we expect to live in,…
Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, European Commissioner for Energy
The world faces monumental challenges of ensuring energy supply can meet ever growing needs, while urgently reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The current course we are on will see global energy demand…
Dr Thomas E. Mann, W. Averell Harriman Chair and Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution
Thomas Mann examined President Obama's transition to governing and his first months in office. Particular attention was paid to the organization and staffing of his administration and the setting of…
Professor Stuart Harris, Dr Robert F. Miller and Dr Kirill Nourzhanov, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies and Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies
Speaking shortly after his election as President of the Russian Federation in 2008, Dmitry Medvedev highlighted his priorities in office: to maintain economic stability, to strengthen freedoms, to promote…
Dr Guy Pearse, Environmental Advocate & Author
In this lecture Dr Guy Pearse will spoke about the mindset that sees Australia's greatest asset as its mineral and energy resources - coal especially, asking how has this distorted our national…
H.E. Dr Seyed Mohammad Khatami, Former President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Our interdependent world creates both new opportunities and new challenges. The gravest danger today is insecurity, which has taken on global proportions. In order to deal with the threat…
The Honourable Stephen Smith, MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs
The Minister for Foreign Affairs discusses where the Australian Government is taking a relationship that Prime Minister Aso recently described as having reached the most productive time in its…
Hugh White, Professor of Strategic Studies and Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre
We often behave as if National Security is too important to think clearly about. Some risks are ignored, while others are exaggerated. Policies are adopted to meet threats without any clear…
Dr Bruce Jenks, Assistant Secretary General of the UNDP and Director of the Bureau for Resources and Strategic Partnerships
Graduate students from The Australian National University have greater access to show their skills on the world stage now The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and ANU have signed…
Jon Stanhope and Zed Seselja , ACT Chief Minister and ACT opposition Leader
This forum is the last of three public forums hosted by The Australian National University and The Canberra Times. The three forums pit 2008 ACT Election candidates against…
Deputy Chief Minister Katy Gallagher and Deputy Leader of the Opposition Brendan Smyth
This forum is the second of three public forums hosted by The Australian National University and The Canberra Times. The three forums pit 2008 ACT Election candidates…
H.E. Dr. Kim Woo-sang, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea
This lecture starts by briefly defining the middle power and its role in the regional system. The security environment that the Korean peninsula is facing is later introduced including the…
Frank Pangallo and Richard J Mulcahy
This forum is the first of three public forums hosted by The Australian National University and The Canberra Times. The three forums pit 2008 ACT Election candidates against…
Ms Sunita Narain, Director of the Centre for Science & Environment and Director of the Society for Environmental Communications
"Why Environmentalism Needs Equity: Learning from the environmentalism of the poor to build our common future". Ms Sunita Narain, Director of the Centre for Science & Environment; Director…
Mr Ian Macfarlane, AC, Former Governor of The Reserve Bank of Australia
This lecture was the Sixth Sir Roland Wilson Foundation Lecture. The lecture expands on the final chapter of Macfarlane's 2006 Boyer Lectures, which suggested that future economic shocks…
The Honourable Dr Mike Kelly, AM MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Support, Member of Eden-Monaro
This lecture is the Annual Dr John Gee Memorial Lecture and was presented by the Lowy Institute for International Policy and The Strategic and Defence Studies Centre. Dr Kelly will address the…
Richard Carson, Professor of Economics, University of California
ANU Trevor Swan Distinguished Lectures in Economics The lecture traces the outlines of economic thinking on climate change. Two competing paradigms are reviewed: (1) modelling of greenhouse gases…
Dr Clinton Fernandes , Senior Lecturer in Strategic Studies, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, UNSW, ADFA
Dr Fernandes provides a critical evaluation of what is often portrayed as a noble moment in Australia's history of overseas interventions. He shows that a series of Australian strategists and policymakers…
Allan Behm
Australian security policy is increasingly irrelevant to the looming realities of the 21st century. A lack of strategic direction, a mish-mash of unconnected policies, and policy institutions…
Major General Jim Molan
The war in Iraq is as awful as any war, but that is never an excuse to wage it illegally or immorally. The only thing that will make the Iraq war worse than it is will be to ‘lose’. Major…
Professor Hugh White , Head of the Strategic and Defence Centre, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
One hundred years ago this year the Great White fleet sailed into Sydney harbor to a rapturous reception from Australian's hoping that America would protect us from the threats we feared from rising…
Dr John Hart , Reader in Political Science, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Dr Hart will explore the main features of the Australian political system through comparison with the United States. He will compare and contrast the struggle of self-government in Australia and the…
Dr Norman Abjorensen, School of Social Sciences, ANU
Was the federation of the six Australian colonies into a Commonwealth of Australia really such a good idea? What were the alternatives? Might there have been a better way of doing things? The hard and…
Professor David Kennedy, Vice-President for International Affairs, Brown University
Warfare has become a legal institution. Law organises and disciplines the military, defines the battle-space, privileges killing the enemy, and offers a common language to debate the legitimacy of waging…
Professor Michael Wesley, Professor of International Relations and Director of the Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
Officially we are still fighting a "War on Terror", but few people in Australia would say we are still living in an "Age of Terror". Oil prices have quadrupled, but we have not seen the same panicked…
Professor Hugh White, Head, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
In this lecture, Professor White discusses the morality and ethical challenges of war, as examined by Professor Coady in his new book, Morality & Political Violence. Political violence,…
Professor R.G. Gregory
The talk looks back over the period of the Hawke, Keating and Howard governments and discusses what has been learned and what has been forgotten. It offers conjectures on likely economic outcomes…
Hosted by Professor Ian Chubb AC
In this debate, ANU plays host to a number of influential public figures including ACT Attorney General Simon Corbell; Dr Clive Hamilton, The Australia Institute; Professor Peter Bailey, ANU; Channel…
Marian Sawer and Roslyn Dundas
Lecture One
Recipes For Revolt: What Made the Women's Movement Move?
In this lecture, Marian Sawer draws on her forthcoming history of Women's Electoral Lobby to explore…
Professor Ian Chubb, Vice-Chancellor, ANU
We now have an opportunity to reposition higher education for the future and to move away from tinkering and adjusting rather than coherently changing. While it will take some time to unstitch the knotted…
Colin Keating, Executive Director, Security Council Report, NY
2008 has already brought major new challenges for diplomats. The situations in Kenya and Pakistan underline the depths of the problems in Africa and elsewhere. The Security Council and UN peacekeepers…
Professor Michael Pusey, Australia & New Zealand School of Government
Has economic reform run its course? What potential remains for the resumption of nation building progress? Contrary to expectations Canberra emerges from 20 years of neo-liberalism with…
Professor Ross Garnaut, Professor of Economics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, College of Asia and the Pacific
In the inaugural S.T. Lee Lecture on Asia and the Pacific Professor Garnaut asks: How the risks of climate change will interact with the 'Platinum Age' of global economic growth? What are the limits…
Professor Larry May, Professor of Philosophy, Washington University
For several thousand years, philosophers, lawyers, and theologians have developed a theory of the just war, where rules are set for deciding when a war should be fought and what tactics can be employed…
Moderated by Mark Baker, Editor, The Canberra Times, Panel: Dr Rachel Bloul, Professor Kim Rubenstein, Clive Williams
Part of a series of public debates hosted by the Australian National University and The Canberra Times. Join a diverse panel of ANU experts in a lively discussion of the major issues driving this election.
Moderated by Andrew Fraser, Political Reporter, The Canberra Times, Panel: Dr Norm Abjorensen, Professor Job Altman, Dr Daniel Connell, Dr Andrew Leigh
Part of a series of public debates hosted by The Australian National University and The Canberra Times. A diverse panel of ANU experts in a lively discussion of the major issues driving this election.…
Moderated by Kate Hannon, The Canberra Times, Panel: Professor Bob Gregory, Dr Rick Kuhn, Dr Lindy Edwards
A series of public debates hosted by the Australian National University and The Canberra Times. A diverse panel of ANU experts in a lively discussion of the major issues driving this election.…
Professor Robin Jeffrey, Dean, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
The Sixth Annual Sir Leslie Melville Lecture Ranging over a period from the 19th century until today, this lecture examines various aspects of India’s ‘growth’…
Hosted by Jack Waterford, Editor at large, The Canberra Times
On 21 June 2007 Prime Minister John Howard and Minister for Indigenous Affairs Mal Brough declared a ‘national emergency’ in relation to child sexual abuse in the Northern Territory. In…
His Excellency, Mr Robert McCallum, Jr.
In this lecture, Ambassador Robert McCallum examines the results of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the bilateral meetings held on the margins of the forum including the prospects for enhanced…
Lieutenant General John Sanderson AC, Special Advisor on Indigenous Affairs to the Government of Western Australia
In this lecture, Lieutenant General John Sanderson argues that the national approach to Indigenous issues can broadly be described as ‘assimilationist’ – the belief that the only hope…
Hon Gareth Evans AO QC, President, International Crisis Group
The lecture was a joint presentation between The Australian National University and The Lowy Institute for International Policy.
Over the last decade there has been a serious, and dangerous,…
Professor Philip Kitcher, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University
Having informed citizens is important to the health of any democracy. Scholars and journalists frequently suppose that affluent countries have systems of public knowledge on which their citizens can…
Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, Director-General, The Energy and Resources Institute
2007 K R Narayanan Oration Recent high rates of economic growth in India and other parts of the developing world, while reducing poverty and raising global…
Luis Moreno-Ocampo
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the first permanent judicial body with jurisdiction over genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The ICC has recently embarked on its first prosecution:…
Will Hutton, Author
China’s phenomenal economic growth is paralleled in scale and speed only by the rise of the United States between the Civil War and the First World War in 1914. Since 1978 the economy has grown…
Clive Hamilton, Executive Director, Australia Institute
2007 may be the year in which climate change has hit the headlines and the environment has become the political issue, but how much do we know really know about the backroom deals, lobbying and power…
Rt Hon Malcolm Fraser, Former Prime Minister of Australia
What does it mean to be Australian in 2007? How do we as Australians see ourselves? How are we as a nation, culture and society, perceived by others? How have recent actions and policies affected attitudes…
Dr Sarah Maddison, University of New South Wales
To what extent have Australian feminist struggles achieved a substantive and lasting gender equality? The gender report for the Democratic Audit of Australia considered this question, investigating…
Her Excellency, Ms Tarja Halonen, President of the Republic of Finland
The European Union (EU) has huge potential to enhance its influence in the world with its 27 Member States and almost 500 million citizens. Europe is also increasingly connected to the Asia-Pacific…
The Hon. John Brumby MP, Victorian Treasurer
Relations between the Commonwealth and state governments have been a continual source of tension in our federal system. The relationship can wax and wane, from confrontation and friction to cooperation…
Professor Francis Fukuyama, Professor of International Political Economy, Johns Hopkins University
While Professor Francis Fukuyama’s changing evaluation of the arguments of his one-time Neocon colleagues has illuminated major issues about American policy and the war in Iraq, his general thinking…
Steve Larkin, Principal, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)
Steve Larkin, Principal, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), explores the unique role of AIATSIS in promoting scholarship that has been relevant and…
Professor Jane Mansbridge, Adams Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Advocates of reform want to subject their representatives to constant scrutiny, allowing voters to judge every word spoken, coalition joined, and compromise approved. Professor Jane Mansbridge…
Professor Kenneth Mayer, Fulbright-ANU Distinguished Professor of Political Science & Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
On the eve of the 2006 U.S. elections, Professor Mayer, this year’s holder of the Fulbright-ANU Distinguished Professorship in Political Science, reviews the state of the electoral process…
Phil Fontaine, National Chief of Canada's Assembly of First Nations
Like Australia, Canada faces challenges in resolving the grievances of First Nation peoples harmed by past policies. Phil Fontaine, the National Chief of Canada's Assembly of First Nations, has been…
Dr Jose Ramos-Horta, Prime Minister, Timor-Leste
In his first visit to Australia as Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, Dr Jose Ramos-Horta discusses the current political…
Professor Warwick J McKibbin, Executive Director, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
The Fifth Annual Sir Leslie Melville Lecture was presented by Professor Warwick J McKibbin. Sir Leslie Melville’s legacy includes the design and establishment of…
Professor Jagdish Bhagwati, Columbia University
Preferential trading arrangements are becoming increasingly popular among the nations of the world. But are they a positive development? In the Fourth H W Arndt Memorial Lecture – presented by…
Emeritus Professor Peter Russell, University of Toronto
A judicial revolution occurred in 1992 when the High Court discarded the doctrine of terra nullius in the Mabo case. The ruling had repercussions for Indigenous peoples within Australia and around the…
Professor Hilary Charlesworth, Research School of Social Sciences and ANU College of Law
Pamela Denoon Lecture 2006 in association with International Women's Day Issues of sex and gender are rarely considered relevant to invasions, conflict or state-building. …
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