No two contestants in Australian political history could be said to have affected each other as much as Robert Menzies and Bert Evatt – one to have helped to establish a workable platform – the United Nations - to bring nations together in the cause of peace, the other to establish himself as Australia’s longest [...]
Speaker: The Hon Justice Michael Kirby AC Topic: The Commonwealth of Nations: From Allegiance to Commonwealth Charter Values Date: Monday 9 October 2023 Time: 6 pm Venue: Online via Zoom LIGHT REFRESHMENTS PLEASE NOTE: THIS MEETING IS FOR PAID ASSOCIATE MEMBERS OF THE SYDNEY INSTITUTE ONLY & 1 GUEST - If you would like to [...]
Speakers: The Hon John Howard AC & The Hon Justice Michael Kirby AC Topic: Launch of Menzies versus Evatt: Australia's Great Political Rivalry. Date: Thursday 10 August 2023 Time: 5.30 pm for 6 pm PLEASE NOTE: THIS MEETING IS FOR PAID ASSOCIATE MEMBERS OF THE SYDNEY INSTITUTE ONLY & 1 GUEST - If you would [...]
Speakers: The Hon John Howard AC & The Hon Justice Michael Kirby AC Topic: Launch of Menzies versus Evatt: Australia's Great Political Rivalry. Date: Thursday 10 August 2023 Time: 5.30 pm for 6 pm Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney PLEASE NOTE: THIS MEETING IS FOR PAID ASSOCIATE [...]
The Hon Michael Kirby QC CMC is an international jurist, educator and former judge. He served as a Deputy President of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission (1975-83); Chairman of the Australian Law Reform Commission (1975-84); Judge of the Federal Court of Australia (1983-4); President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal (1984-96); President [...]
With Australia’s historic legislative change to its Marriage Act to allow marriage between gay couples, a new age has begun Down Under. But not so for many of Australia’s nearest neighbours. For some time, The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMC, international jurist, educator and former judge, has taken up the LGBTIQ cause in Asia and [...]
Speaker(s): THE HON MICHAEL KIRBY AC (International jurist, educator and former judge) Date: 2017-12-12 Topic: The Rainbow in Asia Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm Book from: 6 November 2017
The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG is an international jurist, educator and former judge. From 1996-2009, he served as a Justice of the High Court of Australia and in 2013-14 he was Chairman of the UN Commission of Inquiry on DPRK (North Korea) and 2015-16 a Member of the UN Secretary-General’s High Level Panel on Access to [...]
