Boyer Lectures

Lecturers

• 2019 – Filmmaker Rachel Perkins – "The End of Silence"
• 2018 - Professor John Rasko - "Life Re-engineered"
• 2017 - Professor Genevieve Bell - "Fast, Smart and Connected: What is it to be Human, and Australian, in a Digital World?"
• 2016 – Professor Sir Michael Marmot – "Fair Australia: Social Justice and the Health Gap"
• 2015 – Dr Michael Fullilove – "A larger Australia"
• 2014 – Professor Suzanne Cory – "The promise of science: a vision of hope"
• 2013 – Governor-General Quentin Bryce – "Back to Grassroots"
• 2012 – Professor Marcia Langton – , ,
• 2011 – Geraldine Brooks – "The Idea of Home"
• 2010 – Professor Glyn Davis – "The Republic of Learning: higher education transforms Australia"
• 2009 – General Peter Cosgrove – "A Very Australian Conversation"
• 2008 – Rupert Murdoch – "A Golden Age of Freedom"
• 2007 – Graeme Clark – "Restoring The Senses"
• 2006 – Ian Macfarlane – "The Search For Stability"
• 2005 – Archbishop Peter Jensen – "The Future of Jesus"
• 2004 – Peter Conrad "Tales of Two Hemispheres"
• 2003 – Owen Harries "Benign or Imperial? Reflections on American Hegemony"
• 2002 – Ian Castles
• 2001 – Prof Geoffrey Blainey "This Land is all Horizons: Australian Fears and Visions"
• 2000 – Chief Justice Murray Gleeson "The Rule of Law and the Constitution"
• 1999 – Dr Inga Clendinnen "True Stories"
• 1998 – David Malouf "A Spirit of Play: The Making of Australian Consciousness"
• 1997 – Martin Krygier "Between Fear and Hope: Hybrid Thoughts on Public Views"
• 1996 – Prof Pierre Ryckmans "Aspects of Culture"
• 1995 – Eva Cox "A Truly Civil Society"
• 1994 – Kerry Stokes "Advance Australia Where?"
• 1993 – Presented by six Indigenous Australians in the International Year of the World's Indigenous People : Getano Lui, Dr Ian Anderson, Jeannie Bell, Mandawuy Yunupingu, Dot West and Noel Pearson "Voices of the Land"
• 1992 – Geoffrey Bolton "A View From the Edge: An Australian Stocktaking "
• 1991 – Fay Gale and Ian Lowe "Changing Australia "
• 1990 – Tom Fitzgerald "Between Life and Economics"
• 1989 – Max Charlesworth "Life, Death, Genes and Ethics: Biotechnology and Bioethics"
• 1988 – "Postscripts: eight previous Boyer lecturers revisit their lectures"
• 1987 – Davis McCaughey "Piecing Together a Shared Vision"
• 1986 – Eric Wilmot "Australia The Last Experiment"
• 1985 – Helen Hughes "Australia in a Developing World"
• 1984 – Shirley Hazzard "Coming of Age in Australia"
• 1983 – Justice Michael Kirby "The Judges"
• 1982 – Sir Bruce Williams "Living With Technology"
• 1981 – Prof John Passmore "The Limits of Government"
• 1980 – Bernard Smith "The Spectre of Truganini"
• 1979 – Bob Hawke "The Resolution of Conflict"
• 1978 – Sir Gustav Nossal "Nature's Defence"
• 1977 – Douglas Stewart "Writers of The Bulletin"
• 1976 – Manning Clark "A Discovery of Australia"
• 1975 – Dame Roma Mitchell "The Web of Criminal Law"
• 1974 – Hugh Stretton "Housing & Government"
• 1973 – Prof Sir Keith Hancock "Today, Yesterday and Tomorrow"
• 1972 – Prof Dexter Dunphy "The Challenge of Change"
• 1971 – Prof Basil Hetzel "Life and Health in Australia"
• 1970 – Dr H. C. Coombs "Role of Institutions in Our Lives"
• 1969 – Sir Zelman Cowen "The Private Man"
• 1968 – Prof WEH Stanner "After the Dreaming"
• 1967 – Robin Boyd "Artificial Australia"
• 1966 – Sir Macfarlane Burnet "Biology and the Appreciation of Life"
• 1965 – Prof Sir John Eccles "The Brain and the Person"
• 1964 – George Ivan Smith "Along the Edge of Peace"
• 1963 – Prof J. D. B. Miller "Australian and Foreign Policy"
• 1962 – Prof W. G. K. Duncan "In Defence of the Common Man"
• 1961 – Prof W. D. Borrie "The Crowding World"
• 1960 – Prof Julius Stone "Law and Policy in the Quest For Survival"
• 1959 – Dr David Forbes Martyn "Society in the Space Age"