Don Dunstan Human Rights Oration
The Don Dunstan Human Rights Oration grew out of a partnership between the late Don Dunstan and the then Australian NGO Community Aid Abroad (now Oxfam Australia). Late in 2002 the the Dunstan Foundation approached Oxfam Community Aid Abroad to make the idea of an Adelaide Human Right's Oration a reality and thus was born the Don Dunstan Human Rights Oration. The Don Dunstan Human Rights Oration is one of Adelaide's premier public events attracting sell out crowds in 2003 and 2004 proving once again that Adelaide is unique in it's standing as the city of ideas.
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2012
Don Dunstan Human Rights Oration
From Drowning to Celebration
From Drowning to Celebration: Forty Years of Gay Liberation
Professor Dennis Altman AM FASSA
Dennis Altman is a writer and academic who first came to attention with the publication of his book Homosexual: Oppression & Liberation in 1972. This book was the first serious analysis to emerge from the gay liberation movement, and was published in eight countries.
Law, Justice, and Mass Atrocity Crimes
Law, Justice, and Mass Atrocity Crimes: The Responsibility to Protect and the international response to Libya and Syria
Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AC QC
Gareth Evans pioneered work on the concept of ‘Responsibility to Protect’. He draws on many years of international experience and a wealth of publications to provide his views on the responsibility of the international community to protect a nation and its people from mass atrocity crimes when it is unwilling or unable to halt such crimes.
2008
Don Dunstan Human Rights Oration
Envisaging a Fairer Australia: Everyone, Everywhere, Everyday
Envisaging a Fairer Australia: Everyone, Everywhere, Everyday
The Hon Catherine Branson QC
Australian Human Rights Commissioner
Ms Bree Wilsmore
HRO Youth Speaker
2007
Don Dunstan Human Rights Oration
Can the end ever justify the means? Achieving equality for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples & the Northern Territory intervention
Can the end ever justify the means?
Mr Tom Calma
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner and Acting Race Discrimination Commissioner
In the spirit of Oxfam Australia's Close the Gap report, Commissioner Calma shared his views about the health crisis facing Indigenous Australians and how we as a nation must take responsibility for overcoming the crisis.
Dr Tamara Mackean
HRO Youth Orator
Audio files:
Dr Tamara Mackean
Tom Calma
Questions
Andrew Hewett
To listen to radio interview follow the links below:
Close the Gap covered on The Wire - 18 September 2007
Excerpt from Tom Calma's Oration on The Wire - 19 September 2007
For further information on Close the Gap go to
http://www.oxfam.org.au/campaigns/indigenous-health/
or
National Close the Gap Day activities http://www.oxfam.org.au/events/close-the-gap-day/
2006
Don Dunstan Human Rights Oration
Reclaiming the Human Rights Vision: A Pathway for Reconciliation
Reclaiming the Human Rights Vision: A Pathway for Reconciliation
Professor Larissa Behrendt
Professor of Law and and Director of Research, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning
University of Technology, Sydney
Audio files
Professor Larissa Behrendt (MP3 audio file)
The Hon Ted Mullighan QC
Questions from the audience
Youth Oration: Mr Ognjen Simic
2005
Don Dunstan Human Rights Oration
Global justice and human development
Professor Martha Nussbaum
Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, at the University of Chicago, Illinois.
Supporting papers to Professor Nussbaum's Oration
- Beyond the Social Contract: Capabilities and Global Justice
- Capabilities Across National Boundaries
- Mutual Advantage and Global Inequality: the Transnational Social Contract
Global Justice and Human Development
Mr Joseph Rafalowicz
Inaugural Youth Orator
2004
Don Dunstan Human Rights Oration
Ethics for one world: How ethical has Australia been, as a global citizen?
Professor Peter Singer
Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bio ethics, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, 1999-2004, part-time, 2005-
Laureate Professor, University of Melbourne, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, part-time 2005-
Professor Singer's Oration is available on DVD for $15.00 from the Don Dunstan Foundation.
2003
Don Dunstan Human Rights Oration
Squandering the Legacy
Refugees, Asylum-Seekers and Human Rights Advocate
Julian Burnside QC
Queens Counsel
