Speeches: Index   sorted by date (descending)

Professor Ian Young addresses HASS on the Hill
Professor Ian Young
22 March 2011
Opening up policy development for knowledge exchange
In addressing the topic 'Opening up policy development for knowledge exchange', Ian Young proposed: Persuasive argument from all sides to stimulate the government towards stronger investment in knowledge, in research and development and tertiary education, building on t ...
[Title key: Policy development]
Mr Terry Moran AO addresses HASS on the Hill
Mr Terry Moran
22 March 2011
Opening up policy development for knowledge exchange
Terry Moran spoke frankly about cultural impediments in research and the public service which hinder exchanges of knowledge between universities and government policy-makers; he outlined ways in which researchers and public servants could interact more productively; a ...
[Title key: Policy development]
Professor Peter Shergold AC addresses HASS on the Hill
Professor Peter Shergold
22 March 2011
Opening up policy development for knowledge exchange
Peter Shergold shed further light on reluctance among academics and public servants to engage with each other in policy formulation, and called for three other groups to be allowed more involvement during policy-making. Those who advocate for policy, those who deliver ...
[Title key: Policy development]
Australian Design Alliance (AdA) Launch
Ms Helen O'Neil
3 September 2010
This past year has seen designers, artists, architects and planners discussing a rare opportunity to put creativity at the heart of Australia's industry and sustainability policy making. The industry associations have been discussing how to make design an integral pa ...
[Title key: Australian Design Alliance]
HASS on the Hill address
The Hon Richard Marles MP
28 October 2009
Parliament House
This event, the third HASS on the Hill, has become a well-recognised event on the Parliamentary calendar. A testament to its success is the fact that more than 100 people have registered to take part this year and there is a strong line up of sponsors to support it. I k ...
[Title key: HOTH 2009: Address]
A National Cultural Policy to 2020
The Hon Peter Garrett
27 October 2009
National Press Club address
To members of CHASS, led by its President Professor Linda Rosenman, here for the annual 'HASS on the Hill' event, followed by an intense day of lobbying Members and Senators, a warm welcome too. I wish you well in that task. ...
[Title key: HOTH 2009: Cultural Policy]
CHASS welcomes members
Professor Linda Rosenman
9 June 2009
CHASS held a function for members in Brisbane in June. The function offered an opportunity for members to meet with the CHASS board and secretariat and to informally discuss advocacy issues, ideas and programs. ...
[Title key: Welcome to members]
Crossroads: the Research Practice interface
Emeritus Professor Meredith Edwards
27 May 2009
Cooperative Research Centres Association 2009 conference address
CHASS Board Member Emeritus Professor Meredith Edwards AM addressed the Cooperative Research Centres Association's annual 2009 conference, Pathfinders: the Innovators' conference. This comes at a time when the Cooperative Research Centres program opens up to pr ...
[Title key: Crossroads]
A brief history of CHASS, and how it might work in other countries.
Mr Toss Gascoigne
1 December 2007
Social science education and managing diversity in multicultural studies: Malaysia and Australia compared
CHASS was formed a little over three years ago. What was the impetus? Why did the Federal Government provide initial support, and what value does it see in CHASS? How is CHASS different to the Academies? This is an edited version of a speech Toss Gascoigne will de ...
[Title key: History of CHASS]
Senator George Brandis addresses HASS on the Hill
Senator George Brandis
20 June 2007
Welcoming speech to HASS on the Hill 2007
It is often said that Australian politics is anti-intellectual; that Parliament has ceased to be a debating chamber and has become nothing but a glorified television studio where political leaders, during Question Time, dutifully utter glib doses of unworthy rhetoric &h ...
[Title key: HOTH 2007: Welcome]
Greg Craven at the National Press Club
Professor Greg Craven
20 June 2007
Living dangerously with the Constitution
Today I want to re-ignite a discussion on our Constitution. CHASS asked me to address the issue 'can the Commonwealth take over our universities?' I think the key point is not 'can', but 'when'. And I want to add that the views and opinions I am setting out today are mi ...
[Title key: HOTH 2007: Constitution]
Senator Kim Carr addresses HASS on the Hill
Senator Kim Carr
19 June 2007
Quality research, innovation and Labor's vision for the future
The Australian national innovation system involves the expenditure of $6 billion of public money per annum. As such, I believe that the public not only has a right to be confident that public money is being well invested and that such money makes a significant contribut ...
[Title key: HOTH 2007: Labor's vision]
Knowledge Transfer and Engagement Forum
The Hon Julie Bishop
16 June 2006
Keynote address
Ladies and gentlemen, today I will speak about three key issues for the higher education sector. First, the Research Quality Framework - as a result of which the sector is heavily engaged in a debate on 'third stream funding', of which knowledge transfer and community e ...
[Title key: Knowledge Transfer Forum]
Sigrid Thornton at the National Press Club
Ms Sigrid Thornton
28 March 2006
2006 HASS on the Hill
Good afternoon everyone. I'm delighted to be here today to talk to you about creativity. My life as an actor regularly engages me in creative work, but I'd like to discuss this rather slippery subject in much broader terms. ...
[Title key: Expanding Horizons]
The cultural whinge
Professor David Cannadine
2 September 2005
Prof David Cannadine at the National Library of Australia
The cultural whinge is far more deadly and debilitating than the cultural cringe. For it cuts off what is in fact a vital potential source of alternative and additional funding and that is, of course, the money that is available from private and philanthropic sources. ...
[Title key: Cultural whinge]
Rethinking Australian innovation
Professor Malcom Gillies
17 August 2005
Today at the National Press Club, the President of the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Professor Malcolm Gillies with a new approach to innovation which makes better use of the talents of people working in these areas. ...
[Title key: Rethinking innovation]
Making Culture Bloom
Professor Ian McCalman
16 June 2004
The National Press Club Telstra Address
The address was given to mark the birth of the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS), a new umbrella body representing the range of interests of researchers, educators and practitioners working across those associated disciplines. Before the after ...
[Title key: Making Culture Bloom]

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