Rerum Novarum Lecture Series
The Rerum Novarum Lecture is an annual event where we invite highly regarded members of our community to speak on a theme of social justice.
Rerum Novarum was one of the great social encyclicals issued by Pope Leo XIII in 1891. In it the Pope spoke out against harsh conditions, injustice and exploitation of working people and it marked the beginning of the Church’s modern concern for social justice.
2006 Bishop Christopher Toohey
"Stewardship: Handling God's Creation Responsibility"2004: Larissa Behrendt
"Reconciliation and Human Rights: The Challenge for all Australians"2003: Fr Mark Raper SJ
"Between Anguish and Hope: A World of Refugees"2002: Centenary of Women’s Suffrage in Australia
Professor Hilary Charlesworth, Ms Lilian Holt, Ms Morag Fraser
“Women and Social Justice”2001: The Right Honourable Malcolm Fraser
“Multiculturalism: Refugees & Indigenous Policy”2000: Facilitated by Ian Sinclair
(Panel included Rod Quantock, Rob Hulls, Shane Moloney, Morag Fraser, Mary Kenneally…)
“Hypothetical: The Olympics & Human Rights”1999: Sir Gerard Brennan
“Property, Power & the Rule of Law”1998: Fr Peter Norden
“Workers, Unions & the Unemployed”1997: Noel Pearson
“Reconciliation: Making it Real”1996: Bettina Cass
“New Times, New Matters. Policies for the Prevention & Reduction of Poverty in Australia in an Era of Globalisation.”1995: Brian Burdekin
“Human Rights: The Present and the Future: Youth & People with Mental Illness”