Prof. Cordelia Fine
Testosterone Rex: Unshackling communities from a gendered mindset
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 therfore built into the male brain and fuelled by testosterone. But Testosterone Rex is based on outdated science, Cordelia Fine argues.
Dr Sandhya Ramrakha
This is Health: This is Healthy Communities: This is World Leading
The Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study is one of the most detailed studies of human health and development ever taken. This world-renowned study has followed the same group of more than 1000 New Zealanders since their births in 1972, delivering fascinating insights on medical and social development. Find out more in this fascinating keynote.
Brett de Hoedt, Luke Hilakari, Rodney Croome AM, Dr Sonja Hood, Matthew Phillips, Katerina Gaita
Power to the People: Creating change from the ground up
There's more than one way to win a spat - and you need to be adept at all of them. Politics is a competition of ideas, and the community sector can't shy away.
Andrew Denton, Virginia Trioli
Joan Kirner Social Justice Oration
"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, eventually, 100%. However far off the horizon looks for you now, we'll all have to to go through that vanishing point, and we should all take an interest in the boundary conditions. It's the biggest social justice issue of your life.
Prof. Martin Krygier
From Hanson to Hanson: What a difference 20 years makes
In 1997, law professor Martin Krygier delivered his Boyer lectures, Between Fear and Hope: Hybrid Thoughts on Public Values. He could see back in 1997 where Australia was pointing, and he's had 20 years to think it over and tweak the model.
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