Human Rights Oration

The Don Dunstan Human Rights Oration grew out of a partnership between the late Don Dunstan and the then Australian NGO Community Aid Abroad (now Oxfam Australia).

 

Late in 2002 the Dunstan Foundation approached Oxfam Community Aid Abroad to make the idea of an Adelaide Human Right’s Oration a reality and thus was born the Don Dunstan Human Rights Oration. The Don Dunstan Human Rights Oration is one of Adelaide’s premier public events attracting sell out crowds in 2003 and 2004 proving once again that Adelaide is unique in its standing as the city of ideas.


2012 | PROFESSOR DENNIS ALTMAN AM FASSA

From Drowning to Celebration: Forty Years of Gay Liberation

2012 | PROFESSOR THE HON. GARETH EVANS AC QC

Law, Justice and Mass Atrocity Crimes: The responsibility to protect and the international response to Libya and Syria

2008 | THE HON. CATHERINE BRANSON QC

Envisaging a Fairer Australia: Everyone, Everywhere, Everyday

2007 | MR TOM CALMA

Can the end ever justify the means? Achieving equality for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the Northern Territory intervention.

2006 | PROFESSOR LARISSA BEHRENDT

Reclaiming the Human Rights Vision: A Pathway for Reconciliation

2005 | PROFESSOR MARTHA NUSSBAUM

Global justice and human development

2005 | JOSEPH RAFALOWICZ

Global justice and human development – Youth Oration

2004 | PROFESSOR PETER SINGER

Ethics for one world: How ethical has Australia been as a global citizen?

2003 | MR JULIAN BURNSIDE QC

Squandering the Legacy