The NBN: 2009 to 2016 and Beyond

Venue: Basement Theatre, Business and Economics

Presenters: Mr Mike Quigley

Mike Quigley was the first employee of NBN Co and its CEO for four years. In this talk, he reflects on the ups and downs of the National Broadband Network project over the last several years, and considers the various options to complete the NBN. This is an event for all those interested in connectivity and the upcoming federal election.

Only three short years ago, the National Broadband Network was a main focus of the federal election as each major party campaigned their vision of Australia's connected future. This coming federal election has seen less talk of the NBN perhaps as Australians have become disillusioned over promises made versus what has been rolled out.

Yet the impact of the NBN on the future of Australia's connectivity, technological developments, and networked society remains an important topic.

The Melbourne Networked Society in collaboration with TelSoc present this public lecture, which they hope will further inform and fuel conversation around the future of connectivity in Australia.

Mike Quigley is Adjunct Professor, School of Computing and Communications, University of Technology, Sydney and a graduate of the University of New South Wales with a degree in Physics and Mathematics and a degree in Electrical Engineering.

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Seabrook Chambers Public Lecture: The Balance Between Robust Constitutionalism and the Democratic Process

Venue: Melbourne Law School, Law 106

Presenters: Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke

As an anti-apartheid activist, the principle of ‘one person one vote’ was central to Dikgang Moseneke’s democratic demands. Now in his role as Deputy Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa, Moseneke seeks to find equilibrium between the democratic will of the people and the supremacy of the Constitution. While critics of the Constitution question its legitimacy, Moseneke holds that constitutional supremacy protects against abuses of public power and creates a government that is more consistent, just and responsive.

Reflecting on recent events in South Africa and internationally, Deputy Chief Justice Moseneke examines the balance between the democratic process and robust constitutionalism.

The Honourable Dikgang Moseneke was jailed at the age of 15 for participating in anti-apartheid activities. In the ten years that he was detained on Robben Island, Moseneke befriended other activists—including Nelson Mandela—also imprisoned for their fight against the apartheid regime. While in prison he studied for degrees in Arts and B. Iuris from the University of South Africa, both of which were conferred while he was a prisoner. Moseneke later received an LLB from the same university. When the first democratic elections were held in 1994, Moseneke was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission. Following a period in the corporate sector, Moseneke was appointed a judge of the Constitutional Court in 2002, becoming Deputy Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa in 2005.

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International climate policy to make the Paris Agreement a success

Venue: Lab 14 Seminar Room, 290

Presenters: Professor Ottmar Edenhofer

The real work is just beginning: Professor Ottmar Edenhofer explores the issues for international climate policy “post-Paris”. The Paris Agreement could be a milestone for international climate diplomacy if the introduction of effective tools succeeds. National minimum prices for CO2 emissions combined with international climate finance could be a way to put the Paris Agreement into practice. Keywords in this context are the global carbon budget, two degrees target, the need for negative emissions, game theory and how this impacts climate.

Ottmar Edenhofer is Deputy Director and Chief Economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Professor of the Economics of Climate Change of the Technical University Berlin.

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30 Objects in 30 Minutes: Behind the Scenes with the Curator

Venue: Noel Shaw Gallery, Level 1, Baillieu Library

Presenters: Ms Jenny Long

In the final week of Somewhere in France: Australians on the Western Front join curator, Jenny Long, as she unveils her favourite objects from the exhibition and unlocks the fascinating stories of some of the University of Melbourne Archives material on display.

Jenny Long is a free-lance curator based in Bendigo and Melbourne. She is a graduate of the Fine Arts Department at the University of Melbourne and has a long association with the University. Most recently she has curated The Piranesi Effect 2104 and The Anatomy Lesson 2012 for the Ian Potter Museum of Art.

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Studies for masters: new research into old master drawings

Venue: Dulcie Hollyock Room, Baillieu Library

Presenters: Jessica Cole, Callum Reid

The spotlight has been shone upon the approximately 100 drawings included in the Baillieu Library Print Collection - many of them gifted by Dr J. Orde Poynton in 1959 - by a series of research projects undertaken by participants in the Cultural Collections Projects Program. A selection of these exquisite drawings will be on display on the ground floor of the Baillieu Library from June 6th until July 24th 2016.

A rare opportunity to hear more about how the drawings were made, their attribution and their previous owners will take place with a lunch time presentation by Jessica Cole and Callum Reid.

Jessica Cole is a gallery professional and will reveal her findings on a 17th century study of a stone sculpture which adorns the Ponte Sant’ Angelo in Rome.

Callum Reid is a doctoral candidate and will speak about his discoveries into a fascinating study attributed to the 17th century French artist, Eustache Le Sueur (1617-55).

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The NBN: 2006 to 2016 and Beyond

Venue: Basement Theatre, Business and Economics

Presenters: Mr Mike Quigley

Mike Quigley was the first employee of NBN Co and its CEO for four years. In this talk, he reflects on the ups and downs of the National Broadband Network project over the last several years, and considers the various options to complete the NBN. This is an event for all those interested in connectivity and the upcoming federal election.

Only three short years ago, the National Broadband Network was a main focus of the federal election as each major party campaigned their vision of Australia's connected future. This coming federal election has seen less talk of the NBN perhaps as Australians have become disillusioned over promises made versus what has been rolled out.

Yet the impact of the NBN on the future of Australia's connectivity, technological developments, and networked society remains an important topic.

The Melbourne Networked Society in collaboration with TelSoc present this public lecture, which they hope will further inform and fuel conversation around the future of connectivity in Australia.

Mike Quigley is Adjunct Professor, School of Computing and Communications, University of Technology, Sydney and a graduate of the University of New South Wales with a degree in Physics and Mathematics and a degree in Electrical Engineering.

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What's poverty got to do with human rights?

Venue: Theatre G08, Melbourne Law School

Presenters: Professor Philip Alston

Why it is that the world’s major human rights groups largely ignore poverty, and why the key actors in addressing global poverty, such as the World Bank, insist that human rights are irrelevant to their work. What would the agenda be if poverty were to be treated as a human rights violation? Philip Alston will argue that none of the major actors in the human rights field really cares about poverty. Most human rights groups prefer to treat poverty as if it were not a human rights issue, thus effectively reinforcing the status quo.

Professor Philip Alston is John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law at New York University, and is currently also the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.

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The Justiciability of Economic and Social Rights

Venue: Courtroom 1 (8A), Level 8, Federal Court of Australia

Presenters: The Honourable Justice Mordecai Bromberg, Professor Philip Alston

For the second event in the 2016 ‘Judges in Conversation’ series, The Hon. Justice Mordecai Bromberg (Judge, Federal Court of Australia) will be in conversation with Professor Philip Alston (John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law at New York University) to discuss The Justiciability of Economic and Social Rights.

The Hon. Justice Mordecai Bromberg was appointed to the Federal Court in December 2009. A graduate of Monash University in Law and in Economics, he was an Associate to Justice Peter Gray of the Federal Court prior to working as a solicitor in Melbourne, Sydney, Hong Kong and London. Justice Bromberg was called to the Victorian Bar in 1988 and was appointed Senior Counsel in 2003.

Professor Philip Alston is John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law at New York University, and is currently also the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. He previously held the position of UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions (2004-2010), and served on the UN Group of Experts on Darfur (2007), the Independent International Commission on Kyrgyzstan (2011), and as Special Adviser to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Millennium Development Goals (2002-07). Professor Alston was chairperson (1991-98) and rapporteur (1987-91) of the UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, and acted as UNICEF’s Senior Legal Adviser on children’s rights from 1986-92.

There will be time for questions from the audience as well as light refreshments served following this conversation. Bookings essential.

This event is presented by Melbourne Law School and the Federal Court of Australia.

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A Very Australian Story: Political Libels and the Conscription Referendums of the First World War

Venue: G08, Melbourne Law School

Presenters: Professor Mark Lunney

In 1945, the Anti-Conscription League published a pamphlet ostensibly about the recently deceased Maurice Blackburn's opposition to conscription for the purpose of overseas military service. The polemic that infused the pamphlet - a discussion of the introduction of conscription in the Second World War - is testament to the continued strong feelings the issue aroused, and is directly related to the highly-charged debates during the 1916 and 1917 referendums on the issue. While law and private law in particular, was largely peripheral to the mainstream debate during the First World War, the law of defamation was used by various of the leading participants to discomfort opponents and to score political points. This lecture considers a number of the most high-profile of these defamation cases, cases which raised a mixture of innovative doctrinal questions together with wider concerns about the limitations of the defamation action to mediate what were essentially political disputes. In dealing with these questions, Australian courts applied a law of 'political libels' that had a distinctive Australian flavour.

Mark Lunney is a Professor in the School of Law at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia.

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Shifting away from distractions to improve Australia's schools

Venue: Copland Theatre, Copland Theatre

Presenters: Professor John Hattie

For too long school reforms have been focused on structural solutions such as curricula, assessment, class size, autonomy and parental choice. However, after decades of investing in these popular policy fixes the best that can be said for Australia is that the achievement and engagement of our students is declining. Laureate Professor John Hattie, Director, Melbourne Education Research Institute, argues for the need to invest in teacher education, and the expertise of teachers and school leaders.

Laureate Professor John Hattie's work is internationally acclaimed. His influential 2008 book Visible Learning has been hailed by the Times Education Supplement as “teaching’s Holy Grail”. Since 2011, Professor Hattie has been Director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute at the University of Melbourne.

This Jack Keating Memorial Lecture is presented in partnership with the Australian College of Educators (ACE).

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The Balance Between Robust Constitutionalism and the Democratic Process

Venue: Melbourne Law School, Law 106

Presenters: Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke

As an anti-apartheid activist, the principle of ‘one person one vote’ was central to Dikgang Moseneke’s democratic demands. Now in his role as Deputy Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa, Moseneke seeks to find equilibrium between the democratic will of the people and the supremacy of the Constitution. While critics of the Constitution question its legitimacy, Moseneke holds that constitutional supremacy protects against abuses of public power and creates a government that is more consistent, just and responsive.

Reflecting on recent events in South Africa and internationally, Deputy Chief Justice Moseneke examines the balance between the democratic process and robust constitutionalism.

The Honourable Dikgang Moseneke was jailed at the age of 15 for participating in anti-apartheid activities. In the ten years that he was detained on Robben Island, Moseneke befriended other activists—including Nelson Mandela—also imprisoned for their fight against the apartheid regime. While in prison he studied for degrees in Arts and B. Iuris from the University of South Africa, both of which were conferred while he was a prisoner. Moseneke later received an LLB from the same university. When the first democratic elections were held in 1994, Moseneke was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission. Following a period in the corporate sector, Moseneke was appointed a judge of the Constitutional Court in 2002, becoming Deputy Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa in 2005.

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Australian Identity Through Cultural Materials Conservation

Venue: Public Lecture Theatre, Old Arts Public Lecture Theatre

Presenters: Professor Robyn Sloggett AM

The material world surrounds us: feeding our senses, our imagination and our curiosity. We inherit and we create cultural and scientific records that help us make sense of this world. Cultural materials conservation employs materiality to understand and protect these records, integrating knowledge acquired in the sciences and the humanities with that developed by cultural knowledge holders and practitioners. Conservation studies provide unique understandings of how cultural knowledge, disciplinary knowledge and the materiality that surrounds us, can come together to shed light on significant questions of knowledge and identity.

In this lecture Professor Robyn Sloggett explores the valuable contribution that cultural materials conservation makes to the continual quest to understand our place in the world. She examines how conservation studies expand our understanding of Australia's diverse epistemological traditions and their significance in contemporary Australian life and expand opportunities for economic innovation, referencing Australia's rich, ancient and continuous Indigenous knowledge, the disciplinary genealogy of the Western history of ideas, and our place in the Asia-Pacific region.

Her lecture concludes by addressing the question: Without a national strategy for the preservation of its cultural and scientific record is Australia risking identity amnesia?

Professor Robyn Sloggett AM is Director of the Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation at the University of Melbourne.

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Banality of Expressions: Language and politics in post-New Order Indonesia

Venue: Theatre D, Old Arts

Presenters: Dr Manneke Budiman

During the New Order's rule, bahasa Indonesia was overly "inflated" by the overwhelming presence of euphemism (or the practice of softening expressions deemed to be sensitive in order to hide the truth; e.g., diamankan for 'being arrested', oknum for officials committing crimes, relokasi for ‘forced eviction’, etc.). The purpose to keep the positive image of the ruling power which had continuously been challenged due to its systemic violations of citizen’s civil rights.

Dr. Manneke Budiman will relate this linguistic phenomenon with the changing scene of Indonesian politics in the last 15 years or so, arguing that multiple factors intersect in the emergence of such a phenomenon, in response to both political crisis and awakening in post-New Order Indonesia.

Dr. Manneke Budiman is Senior lecturer and Vice-Dean for Academic, Research, and Student Affairs in the Faculty of Humanities, University of Indonesia.

Bookings not required.

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CSL and the Australian Biomedical Research Sector: Past, Present and Future

Venue: Atrium and Auditorium, BIO 21

Presenters: Dr Andrew Nash

Dr Andrew Nash will outline the breadth and success of CSL’s engagement with the sector as well as discuss the importance of nurturing and supporting Australia’s next generation of scientific leaders. From its origins as a government funded organisation established 100 years ago CSL has transformed into a leading global biotherapeutics company developing, manufacturing and selling a range of life saving medicines. Much of CSL’s past success can be attributed to the quality of Australian biomedical research and continued collaboration with this sector will be key to CSL’s future growth.

Dr Andrew Nash is Senior Vice President for Research at CSL Limited, as well as an Honorary Associate Professor at the Bio21 Institute at the University of Melbourne.

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Marie Darrieussecq: In Conversation

Venue: 4th Floor, Linkway, John Medley

Presenters: Ms Marie Darrieussecq

‘We have to love men a lot. A lot, a lot. Love them a lot in order to love them. Otherwise it’s impossible; we couldn't bear them.’ Marguerite Duras

Internationally-celebrated French author, Marie Darrieussecq, joins us in conversation to discuss her latest novel Men, a narrative of passion, movie making and otherness. Men revisits the story of Solange, the provincial teenager whose explorations of nascent sexual desire first appeared in All the Way.

Darrieussecq also discusses her narrative tactics and techniques, the pushing of prose to its poetic limits (and beyond), her journalism, and working for Charlie Hebdo. A reading of Men will be offered in French and English.

Marie Darrieussecq was born in 1969 in Bayonne, France. Her debut novel, Pig Tales, was published in thirty-four countries and became the most popular first novel in France since the 1950s.

This event is an initiative of the Creative Writing Program in the School of Culture and Communication.

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Signals To Success

Venue: Michael Chamberlin Lecture Theatre, Aikenhead Wing, St Vincent’s Hospital

Presenters: Professor Sir Philip Cohen

Sir Philip Cohen will deliver a lecture on Europe's largest collaboration between Academia and the Pharmaceutical industry.

Professor Sir Philip Cohen has studied protein phosphorylation as a cellular control mechanism for 47 years. In the 1990s, he pioneered a unique collaboration, the Division of Signal Transduction Therapy at the University of Dundee, which has seen the university work with the world's major pharmaceutical companies, resulting in breakthroughs in the treatment of cancer, arthritis and other diseases. He has received many prestigious awards, including the Prix Van Gysel of the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine, the Rolf Luft Prize of the Karolinska Institutet and the Albert Einstein World Award of Science.

This Pehr Edman Lecture will be chaired by Sir Gustav Nossal AC CBE.

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Untold Stories of China: a Q&A in Mandarin

Venue: Theatre 2, 207 Bouverie Street

Presenters: Mr Xin Ye

During the 1960s, the Chinese government dispatched city high school leavers to work on farms and plantations in the countryside. When they were permitted to go home more than a decade later, their spouses and children were forced to remain in the countryside. Ye Xin’s book tells the story of some of those left behind, who decide to travel to Shanghai in search of their birth parents. Join Ye to unravel one of the untold stories of China during the Cultural Revolution.

Ye Xin was born in Shanghai in October 1949. He was sent to Guizhou Province as a zhiqing in 1969 and worked on the construction of the Hunan-Guizhou railway. His novels include High Sierra in Miaoling, The Ages of Idling Away, Family Education, Love Has No Choice and Shanghai Diary. He has won many awards including the October Prize and the National Prize for Best Novel. He is vice-chairman of the Writers’ Association of China and the Writers’ Association of Shanghai, and director of the Institute of Literature of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.

The event will be delivered in Mandarin. 访谈语言为中文

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Lessons from Rwanda

Venue: Ian Potter Auditorium, Ground Floor, Melbourne Brain Centre, Kenneth Myer Building

Presenters: Mr David Toovey, Mr Yves Kamuronsi

Over 100 days in 1994, more than one million Rwandans were killed in the Genocide against the Tutsi. It was the most efficient and brutal mass slaughter in recent human history.

In the 22 years since, Rwanda has achieved remarkable progress. At the heart of this progress are efforts to build peace, unity and reconciliation between Rwandans. The Kigali Genocide Memorial is the final resting place for more than 250,000 victims and plays an important role in this process through remembrance initiatives and peace education programs.

Please join us to hear the unique first-hand experiences and insights of Yves Kamuronsi and David Toovey.

Yves Kamuronsi, a genocide survivor and leader at the Kigali Genocide Memorial, will discuss the lessons that can be learnt from Rwanda’s tragic past as well as its remarkable story of renewal.

David Toovey, a graduate of the University of Melbourne, who has been working alongside Yves in Rwanda for more than four years will share his unique perspective on what Australia, and the world, can learn from Rwanda today.

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How to Foster your Child’s Chinese Learning Journey

Venue: Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre

This forum will focus on how parents of non-Chinese background learners of Mandarin can promote a healthy learning environment for their children. The forum will include a panel of distinguished guests including a policy expert, a Chinese teacher, a parent and a student.

This event is particularly relevant for parents who would like to increase their child’s confidence in learning Chinese at primary school, high school and VCE level.

Parents and children are welcome to attend.

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Nation, Neighbours & Humanity: Destroyed & Recovered in War & Violence

Venue: Basement Theatre 117, Melbourne School of Design

Presenters: Professor Yasmin Saikia

How does love for home/nation become the site for intolerance and provoke violence against neighbours deemed 'betrayers' and Other? What precipitates the expression of this hate? Is shared humanity possible among erstwhile perpetrators and victims? What do we have to gain by engaging a different grammar of humanity in South Asia? Through the method of oral history, Professor Saikia probes the memories of violence of soldiers and civilians, men and women, perpetrators and victims of the 1971 war. A common and shared memory of this variety was the humbling experience of participating in a destructive war for nation-building/breaking. Particularly, perpetrators’ private memories open the space for situating the divergent desires that clashed with one another for and against the national imagination. Today, the nations of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh refuse to acknowledge the 'disastrous' memories of 1971 because it unsettles state histories. For perpetrators, however, the memories of violence are critical for understanding the meaning of sacrifice for nation, as well raising for some the question of ethical responsibility to victims.

In this talk, Professor Yasmin Saikia explores the possibilities for remembering the traumatic events of 1971 war differently, and the ways in which such remembering might signal the way forward to new ways of imagining the subcontinental human condition

Professor Yasmin Saikia is Hardt-Nickachos Chair in Peace Studies at the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict and a Professor of History in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University.

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Half-Baked Ideas: Inclusive Innovation in India: Reinventing Gandhi for the ‘Other Half’

Venue: Seminar Room, Australia India Institute, The University of Melbourne

Presenters: Professor Venni. V. Krishna

More than 94% of India’s workforce (nearly 500 million) is in the informal sector and only 3% of this workforce has had some sort of skills training. Further, various estimates draw attention to the reality that nearly 68% of Indian population earn less than US $2 a day. A predominant section of this population is youth between 18 and 35. So in India we are talking about the ‘other half’. By all estimates and accounts given by scholars such as Amartya Sen, John Derez and Thomas Piketty, inequality is on the rise in India, as elsewhere, leading to further impoverishment. How can we build skill capacities to enable this population to ‘leapfrog’ out of poverty? Is there a technological conundrum which is insurmountable? How can social and technological innovations aid and enhance their income? Are there any viable institutional models?

Inclusive innovation refers to different types and forms of innovation activities or performance by which we can get more for a lesser cost and which could cater and meet the needs and demands of more people. The essence of inclusive innovation is to help poor, marginalized and underprivileged sections of society to improve their livelihoods and enable them to climb up the socio-economic ladder. What is being reframed as a possible strategy or solution has its historical roots in the AT movement (E.F.Schumachar) and the Gandhian ideas of economy and society in the 1940s and 1950s. These ideas have inspired and influenced a range of individuals, institutions and civil society groups in inclusive innovation.

In this landscape, one can find diversity of institutions and institutional approaches, multiple methodologies and goals in promoting inclusive innovations. There are grassroots innovation institutions such as Honeybee Network. At a meso level, there are civil society groups such as Amul cooperative network, SEWA, Barefoot College, National Innovation Foundation, Jaipur Foot, Narayana Hrudalaya, Aravind Eye Clinic and several other groups. All these institutions and groups have demonstrated how to improve the living conditions of poor people, reduce poverty and enhance the income of people in the informal sector. They have developed different methodologies of inclusive innovation to intervene, build capacities and capabilities of poor people. The issue is how to bridge informal and formal institutional sectors in skills education and training? The challenge however remains to scale up, accomplish this with certain degree of speed and sustain and promote livelihood for poor. Promoting inclusive and social innovation via these specialised NGO sector is one important pathway. What are other alternative path ways?

Venni. V. Krishna is a Professor in Science Policy, at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) New Delhi and Editor-in-Chief, Science, Technology and Society – An International Journal published by Sage Publications.

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Statistical Aspects in the Estimation of the Anthropogenic Contribution to Observed Climate Change

Venue: JH Michell Theatre, Richard Berry Building

Presenters: Professor David Karoly

Despite consensus support from more than 120 national governments for the conclusions about climate change in the latest international assessment, the science of climate change appears to be hotly debated in the Australian media and by some politicians. This talk, hosted by the Statistical Association of Australia, will describe the methods that are used to assess the causes of observed climate change over the last century and to quantify the anthropogenic contribution. Approaches for enhancing the signal-to-noise ratio and quantifying uncertainties will be discussed. In addition, some new methods for quantifying the likely anthropogenic contribution to changes in the frequency of some extreme weather events will be described.

David Karoly is a Professor of Atmospheric Science in the School of Earth Sciences and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science at the University of Melbourne.

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The Great Leaders Masterclass

Venue: Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room, Sidney Myer Asia Centre

Presenters: Ms Jillian Broadbent AO

Great leaders inspire us. They impact culture, business, government and importantly, individuals. Great leaders give us models to look up to and knowing how to apply the lessons they teach can support us to become great leaders ourselves.

Who influences the influencers? Who leads the leaders? And how do you adopt and adapt the learnings from people you admire to grow your own skills?

In this series the Centre for Workplace Leadership has invited five prominent leaders to speak about an individual who has inspired them as a leader. It could be a modern or historical figure; someone with significant public profile, or someone lesser known.

In our third event of the series, Jillian Broadbent AO will speak about an individual who has inspired her as a leader and will share reflections on how this leader has inspired her, what was learned through their example and how this has influenced how she leads today.

Part lecture, part discussion these free sessions will provide unique insights into the characteristics of great leadership. We also invite you to stay and join us for refreshments are the presentation concludes.

Jillian Broadbent AO is Chair, Clean Energy Finance Corporation and Chancellor, University of Wollongong,

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The Great Leaders Masterclass

Venue: Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room, Sidney Myer Asia Centre

Presenters: Mr James Pitts

Great leaders inspire us. They impact culture, business, government and importantly, individuals. Great leaders give us models to look up to and knowing how to apply the lessons they teach can support us to become great leaders ourselves.

Who influences the influencers? Who leads the leaders? And how do you adopt and adapt the learnings from people you admire to grow your own skills?

In this series the Centre for Workplace Leadership has invited five prominent leaders to speak about an individual who has inspired them as a leader. It could be a modern or historical figure; someone with significant public profile, or someone lesser known.

In our third event of the series, James Pitts will speak about an individual who has inspired him as a leader and will share reflections on how this leader has inspired him, what was learned through their example and how this has influenced how he leads today.

Part lecture, part discussion these free sessions will provide unique insights into the characteristics of great leadership. We also invite you to stay and join us for refreshments are the presentation concludes.

James Pitts is CEO of Odyssey House NSW and in 2014 was named by AFR Boss Magazine as one of 18 leaders who have made a difference in Australia.

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Complexity of Aboriginal agriculture

Venue: Davis Auditorium, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

Presenters: Mr Bruce Pascoe

The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research seeks to provide staff and students with education opportunities to develop their awareness and understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history and culture as part of our commitment to reconciliation.

In this seminar, Bruce presents his work on Australia’s First Peoples, and how they maintained their culture over millennia.

From journals and records of early explorers and surveyors, Bruce finds descriptions of Aboriginal people engineering sophisticated dwellings and irrigation systems. Cultivation of vast areas of land for yam fields, as well as harvesting, storing and milling gain is also recognised.

Bruce Pascoe is an award-winning Australian writer, editor and anthologist. He is of Bunurong, Yuin and Tasmanian heritage.

Bookings not required.

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Britain's Upcoming Referendum and the Future of the EU

Venue: Terrace Lounge, Walter Boas Building

Presenters: Dr Robin Niblett

The EU is experiencing perhaps its most fraught period since being created in 1957. How does the situation look in a historical context and what are the implications for the EU's future?

The difficulty lies not so much in the scale of any one of the current crises, but in the fact they have arrived on EU leaders' plates simultaneously. Taken individually, the Greek government-debt crisis, conflict with Russia and uncontrolled migration from Africa and the Middle East would be formidable but manageable.

Today, leaders are having to deal with the EU's crisis all at the same time, while being aware that none of these issues is likely to be resolved any time soon.

The Brexit is the latest vulnerability of the EU and is one that could potentially erode EU (and British) influence and make the EU an unstable partner for important allies such as Australia. Short-term security and border fears in Europe raise serious questions about Britain's long-term relationship to the EU and how European leadership will act to maintain the strength of the union.

Hear Dr Robin Niblett consider the future of the EU amidst a succession of crises and growing popular discontent.

Dr Niblett became the Director of Chatham House (The Royal Institute of International Affairs) in January 2007.

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Inspiring India: Challenges for Environmental Democracy in the Worlds Largest Democracy

Venue: Prest Theatre G06, Prest Theatre

Presenters: Mr Ritwick Duttua

India's developmental strategy is obsessively focused on economic growth with GDP being the central focus. This obsession has led to massive exploitation of forests, rivers and land, as well as increased conflict between the State and the corporate entities with India's rural and tribal communities. However, despite the growing might of corporations and the state, India's environment movement is more vibrant than ever before.

Using multiple tools (community mobilisation, social media, peaceful protests and legal tools), India's environmental movement is credited not only for protecting the environment but also for revitalising democracy at a grassroots levels. It has ensured that the Rule of Law is respected and people's voices are taken seriously in the decision making process.

Ritwick Dutta is an Environmental Lawyer & Managing Trustee, Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment.

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Workforce literacy and factories of the future

Venue: Theatre Q230, Level 2, , Kwong Lee Dow Building

Presenters: Professor Lesley Farrell

The rise of robotics in manufacturing requires workers to have sophisticated literacy skills so they can direct machines and join up innovation and production networks.

With machines doing the work that people used to do, the way products are imagined, developed, produced and distributed is being transformed, creating new work for people.

However, 93 per cent of manufacturing employers report that low workforce literacy and numeracy are impacting their business, according to the Australian Industry Group. Educators, governments and the OECD share concerns about the relationship between workforce literacy skills, the productivity of global companies and the success of national economies. Professor Farrell will explore how the digital revolution, known as Industry 4.0, is fundamentally challenging our understanding of working literacies.

Melbourne Graduate School of Education Dean's Lecture presented by Professor Lesley Farrell, Professor of Education, Melbourne Graduate School of Education. Prior to joining the Graduate School, she held the position of Professor of Education and Associate Dean Research in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney, and has held appointments at Monash and Deakin universities.

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Markets, Monopolies and Moguls: the relationship between inequality and competition

Venue: Copland Theatre, The Spot

Presenters: Dr Andrew Leigh MP

In the US, economists are starting to look at some of the specific ways competition policy could more explicitly target inequality. For example, by prioritising competition lawsuits with a direct consumer element (that is, over cases where those affected are primarily other businesses); designing remedies that advantage low-income consumers, and adopting inequality as a specific consideration on the checklist of factors considered in competition cases (as the Canadian Competition Tribunal has done since 2002).

Similarly, the decisions regulators make about mergers and pricing can have a direct impact on cost of living and service access for consumers. In Australia, our regulatory frames for competition are mostly blind to considerations of economic inequality.

Dr Andrew Leigh MP will present the Freebairn Public Lecture 2016 showing the kinds of problems this can create for consumers and governments, and will discuss what’s at stake if we don’t broaden the way we evaluate and define proper practice for our markets and mergers.

Light Refreshments will be served from 6.30pm in the Ground Floor Foyer of The Spot.

Andrew Leigh is the Shadow Assistant Treasurer and Federal Member for Fraser in the ACT. Andrew received the 'Young Economist Award' in 2011 by the Economics Society of Australia to the best Australian economist under 40. Andrew is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences, and his books include Disconnected (2010), Battlers and Billionaires (2013), The Economics of Just About Everything (2014) and The Luck of Politics (2015).

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