| 8:00 pm | ELDER HALL Dedication Peter Mares to introduce Elliott Johnston |
| 8.15-10.30 pm | ELDER HALL The Elephant and the Dragon Joseph Cheng Ramachandra Guha Robin Jeffrey Philippe Legrain Colleen Ryan Peter Mares (CHAIR) BOOK NOW |
PDF 88kb)| 10.00-10.45 am | ELDER HALL Survival of the Fittest, Survival of the Richest or Survival of the Thinnest Norman Swan BASIL HETZEL LECTURE ROOM Why does everybody hate us? John Levi ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM What Endures? Thoughts on discerning what to take into the future and what to discard Paul Chadwick |
| 11.15 am-12.45 pm | ELDER HALL Decent work: Nice if you can get it John Buchanan Charles Firth Elisabeth Wynhausen Barbara Pocock, Director, Centre for Work and Life, Uni of SA (PARTICIPATING CHAIR) BONYTHON HALL Before you eat Peter Clifton Marion Nestle Kerin O'Dea Norman Swan (PARTICIPATING CHAIR) |
| 11.15 am-12.00 pm | BASIL HETZEL LECTURE ROOM Troubling times: Dissent and democracy in Australia Sarah Maddison ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM High and Dry: John Howard, Climate Change and the Selling of Australia's Future Guy Pearse |
| 1.15-2.00 pm | ELDER HALL Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them Philippe Legrain BONYTHON HALL Drought Proofing Australia: Heroic Fantasies and Sobering Realities Peter Cullen BASIL HETZEL LECTURE ROOM The Joy MacLennan Oration Beyond the Long Age of Forgetting Simon Longstaff |
| 2.30-4.00 pm | ELDER HALL People Without Borders Hilary Charlesworth John Connell Philippe Legrain Marian Wilkinson BONYTHON HALL Digital Ink: The Future of Journalism Paul Chadwick Colleen Ryan Francis Wheen Sarah Warhaft (PARTICIPATING CHAIR) |
| 2.30-3.15 pm | BASIL HETZEL LECTURE ROOM Wild Mind: A manifesto for the essential wildness of the human spirit Jay Griffiths ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM Why we eat what we eat Kerin O'Dea |
| 4.30-5.45 pm | ELDER HALL In conversation Mahatma Gandhi or Karl Marx, which way to the future? Ramachandra Guha Francis Wheen |
| 4.30-6.00 pm | BONYTHON HALL Reason to Hope John Levi Simon Longstaff Maria Tumarkin |
| 4.30-5.15 pm | BASIL HETZEL LECTURE ROOM Islamism: the rise of a new enemy? Riaz Hassan ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM Go back you are going the wrong way Elisabeth Wynhausen |
| 8.00-10.00 pm | ADELAIDE TOWN HALL After the binge... the apocalypse? Miriam Baltuck Peter Cullen James Lovelock Marion Nestle Phillip Adams (CHAIR) BOOK NOW |
| 10.00-10.45 am | ELDER HALL Schoolteachers, The Future of Science John Campbell BONYTHON HALL Going for Growth!-A fuel for obesity? Manny Noakes BASIL HETZEL LECTURE ROOM Future Development Trends in China Joseph Cheng ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM Gagging on Freedom: Reporting in the 21st century Marian Wilkinson |
| 11.15 am-12.45 pm | ELDER HALL Still Exploring: The Never-Ending Quest Miriam Baltuck John Campbell Tim Radford Duncan Steel, Space researcher, writer and broadcaster (PARTICIPATING CHAIR) BONYTHON HALL Indigenous Futures Tracey Bunda Jay Griffiths Kerin O'Dea Wilma Mankiller BASIL HETZEL LECTURE ROOM Trading Places John Buchanan John Connell Tim Harcourt Colleen Ryan |
| 11.15 am-12.00 pm | ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM India at 60, 150 and a Turning Point Robin Jeffrey |
| 1.15-2.00 pm | ELDER HALL The Mitchell Oration Are human rights the past or the future for Australia? Hilary Charlesworth BONYTHON HALL What to Eat: Personal Responsibility vs Social Responsibility Marion Nestle BASIL HETZEL LECTURE ROOM Managing China's rise through the 21st century Colleen Ryan ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM Reframing urban rural relationships in Australia: Potentials & possibilities Janelle Allison |
| 2.30-4.00 pm | ELDER HALL Lifting the lid on whistle-blowing Julian Morrow Guy Pearse Norman Swan Marian Wilkinson Paul Chadwick (PARTICIPATING CHAIR) |
| 2.30-3.15 pm | BONYTHON HALL In conversation James Lovelock Tim Radford BASIL HETZEL LECTURE ROOM In conversation Joseph Cheng Paul Monk ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM Validate your trauma here. What societies can do when trauma becomes the norm. Maria Tumarkin |
| 4.30-5.15 pm | ELDER HALL In conversation Charles Firth Julian Morrow |
| 4.30-6.00 pm | BONYTHON HALL A Passion for Science John Campbell Manny Noakes Tim Radford Norman Swan |
| 4.30-5.15 pm | BASIL HETZEL LECTURE ROOM In conversation Sarah Maddison Wilma Mankiller ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM Beyond our Shores-Australia's global prospects according to 'The Airport Economist' Tim Harcourt |
| 8.00-10.00 pm | ELDER HALL The bubble-wrap age: Are we protecting ourselves too much? Hilary Charlesworth Sidney Jones John Levi Paul Monk Peter Mares (CHAIR) BOOK NOW |
| 10.30-11.15 am | ELDER HALL Mumbo-jumbo, snake-oil and other delusions Francis Wheen BONYTHON HALL The Sustainable Retreat James Lovelock BASIL HETZEL LECTURE ROOM In the Company of Strangers: Australia's Future in Southeast Asia Tim Lindsey |
| 11.45 am-1.15 pm | ELDER HALL Building 21st century democracies Hilary Charlesworth Joseph Cheng Robin Jeffrey Tim Lindsey BONYTHON HALL Holy Water Janelle Allison Peter Cullen Jay Griffiths John Levi |
| 11.45 am-12.30 pm | BASIL HETZEL LECTURE ROOM Life Beyond Earth Miriam Baltuck ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM A way of understanding indigenous issues today Tracey Bunda |
| 1.45-2.30 pm | ELDER HALL What does it mean to be an indigenous person in the 21st century? Wilma Mankiller BONYTHON HALL Why India is the most interesting country in the World Ramachandra Guha BASIL HETZEL LECTURE ROOM Misperceptions of the Terrorist threat Sidney Jones ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM The Future of Work isn't what it used to be John Buchanan |
| 3.00-4.30 pm | ELDER HALL Liberal Islam, what is it? Riaz Hassan Robin Jeffrey Sidney Jones BONYTHON HALL Agitators at work Phillip Adams Jay Griffiths Sarah Maddison Marion Nestle |
| 3.00-3.45 pm | BASIL HETZEL LECTURE ROOM The mutation of the Chinese state and the question of human rights Paul Monk ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM The feet of the natives are large: Does the South Pacific have a future? John Connell |
| 5.00-6.30 pm | ELDER HALL You cannot be serious! The boundary between reality and satire Charles Firth Julian Morrow Francis Wheen Phillip Adams (chair) BOOK NOW |
