Elder Hall

Sessions

• Voice, Treaty, Truth
   

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• True Selfie
   

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• Profit for Purpose
   

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• What if there is a Planet B?
   

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• The Art of Artificial Intelligence
   

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• Artists without Borders
   

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• COVID Postitive
   

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• Let’s Get Digital: Art in Contemporary Society
   

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• Galileo: Hero or Heretic?
   

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• Holy terror: Religion and violence
   

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• Holy Water
   

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• Has science abolished God?
   

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• A Common Humanity: A fact to be acknowledged or an aspiration to be realised?
   

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• Aboriginal Identity
   

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• Spaced Out: Women and substance misuse
   

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• Water sustainability: Science or science fiction?
   

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• Go forth and multiply: Gender and the population policy debate
   

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• The shape of things to come
   

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• Paradise Regained: Environmental Futures
   

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• Before the bough breaks – doing more for our children in the 21st Century
   

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• Children: Rights of Passage
   

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• To Market To Market
   

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• Sorcery in the Congo
   

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• Understanding delusional beliefs
   

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• Hard Labour
   

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• What happens if we find the Aliens?
   

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• Mind Matters
   

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• We will never achieve what we can’t imagine. So what are we hoping for?
   

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• The Gardens of Eden
   

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• Plague
   

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• Renewing Democracy, Revitalizing our communities
   

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• Other ways of being Human
   

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• Fear and Trembling in the (long) twentieth century?
   

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• In All Innocence: Women, Guilt, and the Future of Feminism
   

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• Disquiet on the Western Front
   

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• A Healthy Public
   

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• The Mitchell Oration – Equal Opportunity at Home and Abroad: Desperate Households and Great Exploitations
   

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• Education, Inc
   

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• The Global Warming Debate: Good Science or Bad Politics?
   

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• Designing the Universe
   

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• Making Sense – Representations / Misrepresentations
   

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• All Hot Air?
   

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• The Joy MacLennan Oration – Some proposals for creating more civil & ethical futures
   

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• Liberating Law
   

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• What scientists don’t tell you about science (because most of them don’t know themselves)
   

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• Affluenza – The Fat and Lean
   

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• Peddling Power
   

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• Nero’s Guests
   

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• Giving it away: The Business of Philanthropy
   

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• Crisis as Opportunity: Nature’s Solutions as the Key to our Future
   

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• The robots are coming: Will machines take over?
   

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• Divided Self
   

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• Salt of the Earth: Water, Salinity and the limits of Growth
   

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• The Enigma of addiction in complex times
   

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• Populate or Perish! The Population Policy Imperative
   

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• Machines Like Humans
   

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• New Technologies and the Workforce: Who’s feeding the hand that bytes
   

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• I’m Right or Am I right: Good and evil in a post-religious society
   

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• Thinking Outloud: Paul Davies
   

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• Thinking Outloud: Peter Sellars
   

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• Who Should I Believe: Truth in the media: the media and it’s role in a vibrant democracy
   

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• Thinking Outloud: Breakthroughs come from way out in left field
   

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• You cannot be serious! The boundary between reality and satire
   

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• Liberal Islam, what is it?
   

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• What does it mean to be an indigenous person in the 21st century?
   

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• Building 21st century democracies
   

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• The bubble-wrap age: Are we protecting ourselves too much?
   

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• In conversation – Julian Morrow with Charles Firth
   

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• Lifting the lid on whistle-blowing
   

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• The Mitchell Oration – Are human rights the past or the future for Australia?
   

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• Still Exploring: The Never-Ending Quest
   

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• Schoolteachers, The Future of Science
   

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• Mahatma Gandhi or Karl Marx – which way to the future?
   

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• People without Borders
   

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• Immigrants: Your country needs them
   

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• Decent work: Nice if you can get it
   

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• Beyond Evolution
   

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• Life: its origin and evolution
   

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• Climate change beyond the city limits?
   

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• Why migrant smuggling pays
   

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• Free Spin: Controlling the Message and the Limits of Free Speech
   

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• Indigenous health – Is the gap closing?
   

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• Big Science, Big Bucks, Big Deal?
   

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• The Mitchell Oration: Freedom of speech and its limits
   

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• Sex, Knowledge and Society
   

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• Robot Morality
   

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• Who cares … the limits of health
   

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• Choose your poison! (Drugs)
   

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• Greed
   

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• Exotic Abortifacients: The gender politics of plants
   

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• Origins of Life and Evolution of Intelligence
   

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• Built to fail: The age of Ponzi prosperity
   

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• The Big Lie
   

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• A New Politics for a New Century
   

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• Women In Politics
   

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• Can A Sustainable Australia be a Better Country
   

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• The Rise of Confucianism
   

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• The Addictive Brain
   

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• Jim Bettison Memorial Oration – Kicking the Infrastructure Habit
   

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• Tradition Vs Modernity in Papua New Guinea
   

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• Cities for People
   

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• Are We There Yet?
   

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• When is it Right to Fight?
   

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• Basic Instinct (Roma Mitchell Oration)
   

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• Where do big ideas come from?
   

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• Mumbo-jumbo, snake oil and other delusions
   

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• Survival of the Fittest, Survival of the Richest or Survival of the Thinnest
   

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• Thinking Outloud: Envisaging a sustainable future
   

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• 2003 Opening Address
   

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• 2005 Opening Address
   

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• Dedication and Opening Session – The Elephant and the Dragon
   

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• Dedication to Frank Fenner
   

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• The 21st Century: How much water, how many people? Science & Technology, Social Systems & Public Policy, Sustainability & Environment,
   

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• Water Wars: the geopolitics of water Science & Technology, Social Systems & Public Policy, Sustainability & Environment,
   

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• Tipping points for success Social Systems & Public Policy,
   

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• Ageing well Health & Medicine, Science & Technology, Social Systems & Public Policy,
   

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• The case for nonsense Arts & Culture, Social Systems & Public Policy,
   

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• Who’s leading our energy transition? Sustainability & Environment,
   

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• Home
   

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• Thinking Adelaide Arts & Culture, Social Systems & Public Policy,
   

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• Our cities of the future Social Systems & Public Policy,
• Innovation in ageing Social Systems & Public Policy,
   

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• Solar Citizens launch
• Smart money Social Systems & Public Policy,
   

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• Sustainable jobs in sustainable communities Social Systems & Public Policy, Sustainability & Environment,
   

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• The Orange Catastrophe Sustainability & Environment,
• The Joy MacLennan Oration: Resilience Health & Medicine, Social Systems & Public Policy,
   

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