Communities in Control

In 1997, law professor Martin Krygier delivered his Boyer lectures, Between Fear and Hope: Hybrid Thoughts on Public Values. Then Professor of Law at UNSW, he finished his sixth le...

“Everyone is entitled to a healthy death!" However good our public health care, however careful we are of our diet, however low the road toll falls, the all-causes death rate is, e...

Testosterone Rex is that familiar story that tells us that risk-taking, competitive, promiscuous masculinity evolved in males to increase their reproductive success, and is therefo...

"When nonsense is repeated often enough – especially by well-paid lobbyists, commentators and businesspeople – it can start to seem as though everyone believes that black is white,...

There’s more than one way to win a spat – and if you’re working to create change in your community, you need to be adept at all of them. Politics is a competition of ideas, and the...

Dr Sandhya Ramrakha on the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study....

Once you get a notion in your mind, it can be remarkably hard to shift it. Chris Sarra has spent his career fighting the strongly held assumptions Aboriginal and Torres Strait Isla...

At a time when politics seems increasingly negative and our society hopelessly divided, Rebecca Huntley believes we’re more fortunate than we think, and have more in common than we...

"In a world where we regularly feel captured by a never-ending 'to do' list, expanding demands and depleted energies, leadership expert Amanda Sinclair has found a way to block out...

"Sometime in the next decade, perhaps the next five years, Australia is going to have a party like no party before - our first night as a free-standing Republic. Who's in?" Peter F...

Australian legend of stage and screen, Magda Szubanki, gave a heartfelt account of her community work background, her childhood and of the important of social cohesion at the 2016 ...

Spoken word artist Abraham "Abe" Nouk shared his special talents at the 2016 Communities in Control Conference...