Name: Professor Susan Greenfield Bio: Advisor to Britain's Social issues Research Centre, author of The Human Brain: A Guided Tour [Phoenix Press, 1998] and general editor or The Human Mind Explained [Cassell, 1996] The Future of the Brain - 24th August 2005 The Future of the Brain This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.17 No.3-4 in [...]
Name: Peter C Doherty Bio: Awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine, 1996, Australian of the Year, 1997, author of The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize - A Life in Science [MUP] A Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize - 31st August 2005 Visiting the Countries of the Mind - A Scientist's [...]
Name: Professor Michael Sherraden Bio: Director of the Center for Social Development at Washington University and author of Assets and the Poor: A New American Welfare Policy, 1991 Topic to be announced - 1st September 2005 Assets, Poverty and Public Policy This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.17 No.3-4 in 2005 (pages 169-176) Michael Sherraden is [...]
Name: Tom Frame Bio: Author of The Life and Death of Harold Holt [Allen & Unwin/National Archives of Australia] Harold Holt: Why He Mattered - 6th September 2005 The Sinking of HMAS Voyager: What Happened? - 14th May 2004 This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.16 No.2 in 2004 (pages 99-102) Why Harold Holt Deserves [...]
Name: Margo Kingston Bio: Political commentator for The Sydney Morning Herald online and author of Not Happy, John! The Left: Two Views - 16th April 2003 This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.15 No.1 in 2003 (pages 162-168) Pauline Hanson and the Media - 19th October 1999 This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.12 [...]
Name: Frank Welsh Bio: British historian Frank Welsh is the author of Great Southern Land: A New History of Australia (Penguin 2004) which is the first substantial history of Australia to be written by a non-Australian. In the introduction to Great Southern Land, Frank Welsh explains that he spent five years writing the book becasue he [...]
ABC Presenter, journalist and author, Victoria: The Queen - An Intimate Biography of a Woman Who Ruled an Empire
Name: Alan Gill Bio: Author of Interrupted Journeys - Young Refugees from Hitler's Reich [Simon&Schuster] Orphans of the Empire - Child Migration to Australia - 31st March 1998 This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.10 No.2 in 1998 (pages 88-94) Young Refugees from Hitler's Germany This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.16 No.4 in [...]
Name: Peter Rodgers Bio: Former Australian Ambassador to Israel and author of Herzl's Nightmare; one land, two people [Scribe] Israel and Palestine: Herzl's Nightmare This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.16 No.4 in 2004 (pages 109-115)
