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Senator the Honourable Penny Wong – Joan Kirner Social Justice Oration 2021
“It took a pandemic for our State and Federal governments to admit that the JobSeeker payments weren’t enough to live off, that homelessness needed to be (and could be) tackled, an...
Jess Scully – Glimpses of utopia
“You don’t wake up and find a Utopia fully realised and perfectly formed. It happens a little bit at a time, unevenly, erratically, but if we know how to look, we can see glimpses ...
Andrew Wear – Sometimes the solutions are closer than we think
“If you take a look around the globe, you will find some remarkable success stories. Denmark will reach 100 per cent renewable electricity by 2030. Iceland has topped gender equali...
Daniel Teitelbaum – Stop playing around and start playing seriously
“Play is not just fun and games. Our deep drive to play has shaped our cultures and our philosophies, our working lives, and our civilizations since we first started playing. No pa...
Dr Tim Thornton – Better economics for a better world
“Whether by intention or accident, economic ideas and analysis often diminish society’s expectations of what can be achieved. Such failings are not inherent to economics per se, ra...
Dr Ramona Vijeyarasa – Gender equality in a generation?
“How do we make taxation fair for single-parent households? How do we ensure that planning decisions consider the different ways in which women use our communities? How can we ensu...
Hugh Mackay – Restoring hope, rebuilding trust and inspiring optimism
“Revolutions never start at the top. If we dare to dream of a more loving country – a kinder, more compassionate, more cooperative, more respectful, more inclusive, more egalitaria...
Robert Fitzgerald – Reimagining the community sector
“Community sector workers usually start with the best of intentions but are too often met by outdated systems and poorly conceived rules and laws that prevent them from achieving t...
Paul Bongiorno – The 2020 Joan Kirner Social Justice Oration
“After a surprise election victory in May 2019, Scott Morrison thanked the ‘quiet Australians’ for sticking by his side. Since then, it appears that our government is hell-bent on ...
Lucinda Hartley – Using people-centred data to remake cities and towns
“Cities and towns should be built for the communities that will inhabit them. There is a trove of data on the demographics of any given town, but do we spend enough time consulting...
Nicholas Gruen – The iron law of business-as-usual
“In Australia, policy agendas come, tip everything upside down, and then they go, swept away by the next fad. New Zealand has garnered world attention for its ‘Wellbeing Budget’ bu...
Danielle Wood – Inequality in Our Communities: Why are so many missing out?
“We hear a lot about the rising divides in economic opportunities and wealth in Australia: between country and city, young and old and the top 1% and ‘everyone else’. What do we kn...
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