Past Ideas and Society events
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Ideas & Society Program: Noel Pearson on The Voice
Tuesday 25 July 05:00pm
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. -
Ideas & Society Program: Australia’s Housing Crisis
Tuesday 23 May 05:00pm
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 05:00pm
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. -
Ideas & Society Program: A New Parliament, A New Era?
Monday 14 November 05:00pm
La Trobe University’s Ideas and Society Program is delighted that we will be joined by an outstanding panel to discuss the meaning of the May 2022 election.