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A LARGER AUSTRALIA 2015 Boyer Lectures by Michael Fullilove
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Boyer Lectures
In the ABC 2015 Boyer Lectures, one of Australia's most influential foreign policy experts examines our country's place in the world. For most of Australia's history, the world was run by nations like our own. But now the international order that has prevailed since the end of the Second World War is fr ...Show more
A Spirit of Play - The Making of Australian Consciousness by David Malouf
Category: No Category | Series: Boyer Lectures Ser.
A Very Australian Conversation by Peter Cosgrove
Category: Australiana | Series: Boyer Lectures
General Cosgrove said, "I am honoured to be asked to deliver this year's Boyer Lectures and look forward to engaging in a very Australian conversation around themes and issues that are affecting our nation now and into the future."
Between Fear and Hope - Hybrid Thoughts on Public Values by Martin Krygier
Category: No Category | Series: Boyer Lectures Ser.
Boyer Lectures 2012: The Quiet Revolution - Indigenous People and The Resources Boom by Marcia Langton
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Boyer Lectures
'My aim with the 53rd Boyer Lectures has been to inject new ideas and new ways of thinking about the status of Indigenous people in Australia and about the impact of the mining boom in the Aboriginal domain. My hope is that my interpretation of the economic impacts of the mining boom and some facts abou ...Show more
Boyer Lectures 2013 Back to Grassroots by Quentin Bryce
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Boyer Lectures
Her Excellency's lecture series, 'Back to Grassroots', will comprise four 30 minute lectures titled: Joining the neighbourhood: a personal story of equal rights advocacy; Watching the women: the powerful role of Australian women; Australians at their best: courage, compassion and resilience in everyday ...Show more
Boyer Lectures 2014: the Promise of Science - A Vision of Hope by Suzanne Cory
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Boyer Lectures
Professor Cory is not just a scientist: she is a humanist, an environmentalist, and an unremitting optimist. Cory's Boyer Lecture series reflects her hope for a bright future. In The Promise of Science: A vision of hope, Professor Cory explores what Australian science has given the nation and the world, ...Show more
Cattle King by Ion L. Idriess
Category: Audio | Series: Boyer Lectures
Sir Sidney Kidman's remarkable life story is vividly revealed in this radio dramatisation which explores in detail the times in which he lived, and brings us closer to the heart, mind and soul of this enterprising man. He created a mighty cattle empire of more than a hundred stations, sighting droughts, ...Show more
The Boyer Lectures 2008 by Rupert Murdoch
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Boyer Lectures
In the Boyer Lectures 2008, Rupert Murdoch will illuminate our understanding of the rapidly changing media landscape, its impact on society today and in the future.
The Idea of Home by Geraldine Brooks
Category: Reference | Series: Boyer Lectures
For the Boyer Lecture 2011, best-selling author and journalist Geraldine Brooks tackles the topic of The Idea of Home. Drawing on her personal experience from being an adolescent pen pal to being a foreign correspondent in some of the world's most dangerous countries to being a writer of several award w ...Show more
The Republic of Learning: Higher Education Transforms Australia by Glyn Davis
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Boyer Lectures
Each year the ABC Board invites a prominent Australian to present six radio lectures expressing their thoughts on major social, cultural, scientific or political issues. In 2010 Professor Glyn Davis presents the 51st Boyer Lecture series, titled 'The Republic of Learning: Higher Education Transforms Aus ...Show more
The View from the Bridge by Pierre Ryckmans
Category: No Category | Series: Boyer Lectures Ser.