Meet the author - Misha Ketchell, Frank Bongiorno, Michelle Grattan and Mark Kenny
Misha Ketchell will moderate a discussion with Frank Bongiorno, Michelle Grattan and Mark Kenny, contributors to the new collection of essays, How Australian Democracy Works. And why we need it more…
Book Launch: Joseph Cook – The Chameleon: Australia's sixth prime minister
Book launchJoseph Cook – The Chameleon: Australia's sixth prime ministerWednesday, 12 February 2025, 11:00 am (AEDT)Location: Level 1, Members' Hall adjacent to the 'I am Woman' exhibitionRSVP: by…
International Australian Studies Association (InASA) 2025 Biennial Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS Australian Studies in the 21st Century: Human and More-Than-Human Worlds Interactions, Perspectives, Futures Macquarie University Wallumattagal Campus, Sydney, Australia 5-7…
Winter Institute - 'Techne and the Human Sciences in the 21st Century'
EXPRESSION OF INTEREST: WINTER INSTITUTE 'Techne and the Human Sciences in the 21st Century' 7—10 JANUARY 2025 The University of Tokyo, Japan About: The Winter Institute is an annual…
First Eight Lecture: A Maker and a Breaker — the many faces of Billy Hughes
About the LectureWilliam Morris ‘Billy’ Hughes, the ‘Little Digger’, is impossible to sum up satisfactorily. The country’s most controversial prime minister, he was full of contradictions, prone to…
'Australia and the World' 2024 Annual Lecture: Dr Nick Bryant
On Wednesday 20 November 2024, Dr Nick Bryant, Former BBC Correspondent, delivered the 2024 ‘Australia and the World’ Annual Lecture: "The Consequential Country" at the National Press…
The Fifth Annual Australia & the World Symposium: Still Lucky? 60 years since Donald Horne’s scathing critique
When at the age of 43, Donald Horne wrote his most famous work, The Lucky Country, the Australian federation was barely two decades older. Horne simultaneously bemoaned and acknowledged the…