The Academy’s Public lecture series includes events named in honour of former Academy Presidents held across Australia.

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  • 2025
  • 2024
  • 2020
  • Cunningham Lectures
  • Fay Gale Lectures
  • Keith Hancock Lectures
  • Paul Bourke Lectures
Marriage, family and work in an age of rising gender equality
Cunningham Lectures
Risks and opportunities: Building social contexts for young children’s digital interactions
Cunningham Lectures
Head Health and Healing - Listening to the voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women about traumatic brain injury from violence
2025
Fay Gale Lectures
Tax reform: laying the foundations | 2024 Keith Hancock Lecture and Panel Discussion
2024
Keith Hancock Lectures
Indigenous language landscapes: Why a fuller understanding of Indigenous peoples’ language contexts is important
Paul Bourke Lectures
Making ‘sustainable finance’ more sustainable
Paul Bourke Lectures
Using social science to inform hepatitis C elimination efforts in prisons
Paul Bourke Lectures
Youth, Masculinity and the Far Right in Australia
Fay Gale Lectures
Gender Gaps: Causes and Origins
Keith Hancock Lectures
Battle of the Sex Differences: Where to begin?
Fay Gale Lectures
Unravelling the Thrills and Trials of Mixed Feelings in Consumer Behaviour
Paul Bourke Lectures
Climate finance: taking a position on climate futures
Paul Bourke Lectures
Treaty! Promise, potential and pitfalls
Paul Bourke Lectures
It’s Time for Change – New Perspectives on Body Image
Paul Bourke Lectures
Everywhen: Australia and the Language of Deep History Launch & Panel Event
Paul Bourke Lectures
2022 Cunningham Lecture: 'What Makes Democracies Work?'
Cunningham Lectures
Staggered Starting Blocks: Intergenerational Disadvantage in Australia
Keith Hancock Lectures
Narratives for violence and their persistence over time
Paul Bourke Lectures
What are the economic implications of a changing climate?
Paul Bourke Lectures
Are Indigenous Rights Inconsistent with Australian Political Traditions?
Paul Bourke Lectures
‘No room at the Inn’: Rethinking critical race studies and its place in the Australian academy
Fay Gale Lectures
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Paul Bourke Lectures
Public lecture Thursday 3 Dec, 10-11am AEDT
2020
Keith Hancock Lectures
Professor Raewyn Connell: 2020 Cunningham Lecture
2020
Cunningham Lectures
Professor Maggie Walter: 2020 Fay Gale Lecture
2020
Fay Gale Lectures
Professor Raewyn Connell: 2020 Cunningham Lecture
2020
Cunningham Lectures
Dr Elise Klein OAM: 2020 Paul Bourke Lecture
2020
Paul Bourke Lectures
Dr David Frazier: 2020 Paul Bourke Lecture
2020
Paul Bourke Lectures
Dr Rebecca Ananian-Welsh in conversation with Professor Peter Greste
2020
Paul Bourke Lectures
Dr Melissa Day: 2020 Paul Bourke Lecture
2020
Paul Bourke Lectures
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Cunningham Lectures
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Cunningham Lectures
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Paul Bourke Lectures
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Paul Bourke Lectures
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Paul Bourke Lectures
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Fay Gale Lectures
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Paul Bourke Lectures
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Paul Bourke Lectures
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Paul Bourke Lectures
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Paul Bourke Lectures
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Keith Hancock Lectures
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Paul Bourke Lectures
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Paul Bourke Lectures
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Keith Hancock Lectures
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Paul Bourke Lectures
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Keith Hancock Lectures
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Cunningham Lectures
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Fay Gale Lectures
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Fay Gale Lectures
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Cunningham Lectures
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Fay Gale Lectures
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Cunningham Lectures
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Cunningham Lectures
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Cunningham Lectures
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Cunningham Lectures
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Keith Hancock Lectures
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Keith Hancock Lectures
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Keith Hancock Lectures
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Keith Hancock Lectures
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Fay Gale Lectures
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Keith Hancock Lectures
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Keith Hancock Lectures
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Fay Gale Lectures
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Fay Gale Lectures
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Cunningham Lectures
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Fay Gale Lectures
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Fay Gale Lectures
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Fay Gale Lectures
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Cunningham Lectures
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Cunningham Lectures
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Cunningham Lectures
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Cunningham Lectures
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Cunningham Lectures
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Cunningham Lectures
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Cunningham Lectures
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Cunningham Lectures
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Cunningham Lectures
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Cunningham Lectures
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Cunningham Lectures
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Cunningham Lectures

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