Non-parliamentary Speeches
2012 |2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2006-8 | 2000-2005 | 1990-1999 | 1980-1989 | 1970-1979
2012
University of Melbourne Honorary Doctor of Laws
University of Melbourne, December 22, 2011
2011
The Commonwealth (pdf)
CHOGM Round Table, Murdoch University, Perth, Friday 28 October 2011
Recognising Indigenous Australians in the Constitution (pdf)
Courting Controvery Public Lecture, Melbourne Law School, Wednesday 12 October 2011
ANU Asia Pacific Week Gala Dinner
Old Parliament House, Canberra, Thursday 14 July 2011
From White Australia to Today
Australian Refugee Association Oration, Adelaide, Friday 24 June 2011
Vietnamese TET Festival
Fairfield Showgrounds, Sydney, Saturday 5 February 2011
2010
A Global Perspective (pdf)
Australian Institute of International Affairs, 10 November 2010
Promoting a Draft Declaration of Human Responsibilities:
Strengthening Human Rights (pdf)
Multi-Religious Consultation Conference, 3-7 October 2010, Kuala Lumpur
Mr Fraser's Address, Honorary Doctor of Laws Conferral Ceremony (pdf)
Monash University, 20 May 2010
Keynote Speech, Interaction Council Opening Ceremony (pdf)
28th Annual Plenary Meeting
Sunday 18 April 2010, Hiroshima, Japan
2009
Idealism or Pragmatism in International Relations (pdf)
The Responsibility to Protect: Protection and Intervention in response to Mass Atrocity Crimes, presented by The Human Rights Law Resource Centre and the Institute of Legal Studies at the Australian Catholic University
28 November 2009, Melbourne
Abolishing All Nuclear Weapons: Necessary, Feasible and Increasingly Urgent (pdf)
Dr John Gee Memorial Lecture, presented by the ANU Strategic and Defence Studies Centre and the Lowy Institute for International Policy
28 October 2009, Canberra
Eliminating Nuclear Weapons: No Longer The Impossible Dream (pdf)
National Consultative Committee on Disarmament, Legislative Council Chamber and Grand Hall Parliament
Sunday 24 May 2009, Wellington
2006-8
'Torture Team': Human Rights, Lawyers, Interrogations and the 'War on Terror'
The Human Rights Law Resource Centre Seminar, Melbourne, 19 August 2008
Launch of Drawing the Global Colour Line by Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds
29 February 2008
Finding Security in Terrorism’s Shadow: The importance of the rule of law
Inaugural Professorial lecture, Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, The University of Melbourne 25 October 2007
Australians: What are we? How do we see ourselves? How do others see us?
Commonwealth Lecture, Australian National University, 30 April 2007
Human Rights Education is a Human Right
Keynote speech from the University of Melbourne Human Rights Forum and Faculty of Education Human Rights Education Conference, 16 February 2007
Who Matters? How Many?
2006 Law and Justice Address,
Law and Justice Foundation of NSW, Parliament House, Sydney, 31 October 2006
Launch of A Thinking Reed by Barry Jones
Hill of Content Bookshop, Melbourne, 5 October 2006
Who Matters? How Many?
Toorak, 21 June 2006
2000-2005
Human Rights and Responsibilities in the Age of Terror
Chancellor’s Human Rights Lecture, The University of Melbourne, 29 November 2005
An audio version of the lecture can be listened to here (RealPlayer
or Windows Media Player required).
Presentation of the Fraser Collection to the University of Melbourne
5 May 2005
Launch of Wisdom Man by Banjo Clarke
5 March 2005
HMAS Cerberus Mess Dinner
25 June 2004
National Sorry Day: Journey of Healing
Sydney Opera House, 26 May
2004
Universal Declaration of Human Responsibility: Are We Meeting Our
Responsibility to Children?
Interaction Council Seminar, Tokyo, 21
March 2004
National Sorry Day 2003
Great Hall of Parliament, Canberra, 26
May 2003
Occasional Address for Murdoch University Graduation Ceremony
17 September 2002
Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union
National Conference, Park Royal Hotel, Parramatta, 21 July
2002
B'Nai B'Rith Anti-Defamation Commission
Multicultural Tolerance: The
Truth About Lies, 26 May 2002
Australians for Just Refugee Programs
Public Forum, Melbourne Town
Hall, 22 May 2002
Sir Charles Court Oration
A Perspective From a Past Prime Minister, CPA Congress, 15 May 2002
CARE Gala Dinner
Grand Hyatt Hotel, Melbourne, 2 May 2002
Conferment of the Degree of Doctor of Laws
University of Technology, Sydney, 29 April 2002
Presentation of CARE International Humanitarian
Award
17 November 2001
The Brisbane Institute Lecture
Australia’s Contemporary Relationship with
the Asian and Pacific Nations, 3 October 2001
Rerum Novarum Lecture
Catholic Commission for Justice, Development and Peace, 17 July 2001
What Kind of Australia?
Adelaide Festival of Ideas, 15 July 2001
High Noon for Globalisation
Griffith University, 9 July 2001
My Country 2050
Alfred Deakin Lecture, Capitol Theatre, 21 May 2001
The
Past We Need to Understand
Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture, Northern Territory University, Darwin, 24 August 2000
1990-1999
Australia in the Year 2020
Ethnic Community Council of Victoria, 8
July 1999
Our Responsibility
50th Anniversary Universal Declaration
of Human Rights, The University of Melbourne, 10 December 1998
Responsibility in World Politics
ANU Centre for International and
Public Law Workshop, 20 November 1998
Labor, Liberal - where do we go?
William Quick Dinner: Queen’s College, University of Melbourne, 7 August
1991
1980-1989
A World in Transition
B'nai Brith Oration, 29 October 1989
Australia 2000
University of Western Australia, Perth, 22 January 1988
Sir Robert Menzies:
In Search of Balance
Daniel Mannix Memorial Lecture, The University of Melbourne, 30 July 1987
Australia – Fighting for a Future
Inaugural Downer
Lecture, The University of Adelaide,
30 September 1986
Liberal Democracies: Challenge and Response
Beyond '84: The
1985 London Conference on Communism
and Liberal Democracy at the Royal Garden Hotel, London,
20 March 1985
The World We Live In - 1984
Stanley Burbury Lecture Theatre, University of Tasmania,
12 July 1984
Inaugural Address on Multiculturalism to the Institute of Multicultural
Affairs
Institute of Multicultural Affairs in Melbourne, 30 November 1981
1970-1979
Towards 2000: Challenge to Australia
Fifth Alfred Deakin Lecture, 20 July 1971