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Covid and its Consequences: What Have We Learned?
Wednesday 29 November 2023
Covid-19 is no longer making many headlines but its impact is very far from over.
Asia's changing security order: the view from Taiwan
Monday 30 October 2023
On behalf of the Ideas and Society Program, and La Trobe Asia, you are invited to attend the next webinar in our series.
Ideas & Society Program: Disability and Australian Society: How Well Are We Doing?
Thursday 05 October 2023
The October 5 event promises to be an enlightening introduction-in-depth to one of the most vital questions facing all Australians interested in the health and humanity of their society. We invite everyone with an interest in Australia’s democracy not to miss this exclusively online event.
Ideas & Society Program: Noel Pearson on The Voice
Tuesday 25 July 2023
Within a matter of months the Australian people will be asked to decide at referendum whether the First Peoples of Australia will be recognised in the Constitution through the establishment of a new institution, an indigenous Voice to Parliament.
Violet Vines Marshman Annual Oration
Thursday 20 July 2023
Violet Vines Marshman Annual Oration 2023
Ideas & Society Program: Australia’s Housing Crisis
Tuesday 23 May 2023
La Trobe University’s Ideas and Society Program has convened an outstanding panel--to analyse the nature of the current housing crisis in Australia and to try to answer the most basic of all political questions: What Is To Be Done?
Ideas & Society Program: How to Defend Australia: Some Alternative Visions
Thursday 23 March 2023
For the past decade, mainstream Australian defence policy and its underlying assumptions have been challenged, with both courage and originality, by Professor Hugh White, one of Australia’s pre-eminent defence thinkers. In this Ideas and Society event he will be in conversation about an alternative defence policy with two of Australia’s most respected younger defence analysts, Associate Professor Bec Strating of La Trobe Asia and Sam Roggeveen of the Lowy Institute. For those concerned about Australia’s future, this is an event not to be missed.