Boyer Lectures
{{Short description|Lecture series hosted by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation}}
{{Use Australian English|date=July 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2016}}
The Boyer Lectures are a series of talks by prominent Australians, presenting ideas on major social, scientific or cultural issues, and broadcast on ABC Radio National.{{Cite web |title=Past lecture series: 1959 - 2018 |url=https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/boyerlectures/past-boyer-lectures/4998888 |access-date=2 November 2022 |website=ABC Radio National|date=4 October 2013 }}
The Boyer Lectures began in 1959 as the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission, now the Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Lectures. They were modelled on the BBC's Reith Lectures,{{Cite book |last=Inglis |first=K.S. |title=This is the ABC: The Australian Broadcasting Commission 1932-1983 |publisher=Black Inc. |year=2006 |isbn=9781863951814 |edition=2nd |location=Melbourne |pages=239}} and renamed in 1961 after Richard Boyer (later Sir Richard), the ABC board chairman who had first suggested the lectures. The series is broadcast every year in between September and December on ABC Radio National.
The lectures are delivered by prominent Australians selected by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Board, intended to stimulate thought, discussion and debate in Australia on a wide range of subjects, examining key issues and values.
Lectures
= 1950s =
- 1959 – Dr David Forbes Martyn – "Society in the Space Age"
= 1960s =
- 1960 – Prof Julius Stone – "Law and Policy in the Quest for Survival"
- 1961 – Prof W. D. Borrie – "The Crowding World"
- 1962 – Prof W. G. K. Duncan – "In Defence of the Common Man"
- 1963 – Prof J. D. B. Miller – "Australian and Foreign Policy"
- 1964 – George Ivan Smith – "Along the Edge of Peace"
- 1965 – Prof Sir John Eccles – "The Brain and the Person"
- 1966 – Sir Macfarlane Burnet – "Biology and the Appreciation of Life"
- 1967 – Robin Boyd – "Artificial Australia"
- 1968 – Prof W. E. H. Stanner "After the Dreaming"{{cite book|author=W. E .H. Stanner|author-link=William Edward Hanley Stanner|title=White Man Got No Dreaming: Essays 1938–1973|publisher=Australian National University Press|year=1979|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c9wKAQAAIAAJ|isbn=9780708118023}}; {{cite book|author=W. E. H. Stanner|title=After the Dreaming|publisher=ABC|series=Boyer Lecture Series|orig-year=1968|year=1991|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VkdLAAAAMAAJ|isbn=9780642973696}}
- 1969 – Sir Zelman Cowen "The Private Man"
= 1970s =
- 1970 – Dr H. C. Coombs – "Role of Institutions in Our Lives"
- 1971 – Prof Basil Hetzel – "Life and Health in Australia"
- 1972 – Prof Dexter Dunphy – "The Challenge of Change"
- 1973 – Prof Sir Keith Hancock – "Today, Yesterday and Tomorrow"
- 1974 – Hugh Stretton – "Housing & Government"
- 1975 – Dame Roma Mitchell – "The Web of Criminal Law"
- 1976 – Manning Clark – "A Discovery of Australia"
- 1977 – Douglas Stewart – "Writers of The Bulletin"
- 1978 – Sir Gustav Nossal – "Nature's Defence"
- 1979 – Bob Hawke – "The Resolution of Conflict"
= 1980s =
- 1980 – Bernard Smith – "The Spectre of Truganini"
- 1981 – Prof John Passmore – "The Limits of Government"
- 1982 – Prof Sir Bruce Williams – "Living with Technology"
- 1983 – Justice Michael Kirby – "The Judges"
- 1984 – Shirley Hazzard – "Coming of Age in Australia"
- 1985 – Helen Hughes – "Australia in a Developing World"
- 1986 – Prof Eric Willmot – "Australia The Last Experiment"
- 1987 – Davis McCaughey – "Piecing Together a Shared Vision" (multicultural Australia)
- 1988 – "Postscripts: eight previous Boyer lecturers revisit their lectures"
- 1989 – Max Charlesworth – "Life, Death, Genes and Ethics: Biotechnology and Bioethics"
= 1990s =
- 1990 – Tom Fitzgerald – "Between Life and Economics"
- 1991 – Fay Gale and Ian Lowe – "Changing Australia (changes through technology)"
- 1992 – Geoffrey Bolton – "A View From the Edge: An Australian Stocktaking (history)"
- 1993 – Presented by six Indigenous Australians in the International Year of the World's Indigenous People (IYWIP): Getano Lui, Dr Ian Anderson, Jeanie Bell, Mandawuy Yunupingu, Dot West and Noel Pearson – "Voices of the Land"
- 1994 – Kerry Stokes – "Advance Australia Where?"
- 1995 – Eva Cox – "A Truly Civil Society"
- 1996 – Prof Pierre Ryckmans – "Aspects of Culture"
- 1997 – Prof Martin Krygier – "Between Fear and Hope: Hybrid Thoughts on Public Views"
- 1998 – David Malouf – "A Spirit of Play: The Making of Australian Consciousness"
- 1999 – Dr Inga Clendinnen – "True Stories"
= 2000s =
- 2000 – Chief Justice Murray Gleeson – "The Rule of Law and the Constitution"
- 2001 – Prof Geoffrey Blainey – "This Land is all Horizons: Australian Fears and Visions"
- 2002 – Ian Castles (Not delivered due to bereavement)
- 2003 – Owen Harries – "Benign or Imperial? Reflections on American Hegemony"
- 2004 – Peter Conrad – "Tales of Two Hemispheres"
- 2005 – Archbishop Peter Jensen – "The Future of Jesus"
- 2006 – Ian Macfarlane – "The Search For Stability"
- 2007 – Graeme Clark – "Restoring The Senses"
- 2008 – Rupert Murdoch{{cite news|title=Murdoch to give ABC lectures|url=http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23772471-26103,00.html|work=The Australian|date=28 May 2008|access-date=1 June 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080605113340/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23772471-26103,00.html|archive-date=5 June 2008|url-status=dead}} – "A Golden Age of Freedom"
- 2009 – General Peter Cosgrove – "A Very Australian Conversation"
= 2010s =
- 2010 – Professor Glyn Davis – "The Republic of Learning: higher education transforms Australia"
- 2011 – Geraldine Brooks – "The Idea of Home"{{Cite web|url=http://geraldinebrooks.com/books-by-geraldine-brooks/|title = Books by Geraldine Brooks|date = 27 June 2014}}
- 2012 – Professor Marcia Langton – "The Quiet Revolution: Indigenous People and the Resources Boom"[https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/boyerlectures/series/2012-boyer-lectures/4305696 "Marcia Langton – The Quiet Revolution: Indigenous People and the Resources Boom"], ABC; also published as book: [http://www.harpercollins.com.au/9780733331633 Harper Collins Australia], {{ISBN|9780733331633}}
- 2013 – Governor-General Quentin Bryce{{cite news |last=Wright|first=Tony|title=GG to highlight human rights|url=http://www.smh.com.au/national/gg-to-highlight-human-rights-20131101-2ws6h.html|work= The Sydney Morning Herald |publisher=smh.com.au|date=2 November 2013 |access-date=4 November 2013 }} – "Back to Grassroots"
- 2014 – Professor Suzanne Cory – "The promise of science: a vision of hope"
- 2015 – Dr Michael Fullilove – "A larger Australia"
- 2016 – Professor Sir Michael Marmot – "Fair Australia: Social Justice and the Health Gap"
- 2017 – Professor Genevieve Bell – "Fast, Smart and Connected: What is it to be Human, and Australian, in a Digital World?"{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/boyerlectures/genevieve-bell-fast-smart-connected-how-build-digital-future/9062060|title=Fast, smart and connected: How to build our digital future|website=Radio National|date=23 October 2017|access-date=2017-10-29}}
- 2018 – Professor John Rasko – "Life Re-engineered"{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/boyerlectures/2018/11657848|title=Life Re-engineered|website=ABC|access-date=21 November 2018}}
- 2019 – Filmmaker Rachel Perkins – "The End of Silence"{{cite news|website=ABC News|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|title=Director Rachel Perkins calls for 'end of silence' on Indigenous recognition in ABC Boyer Lecture|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-16/boyer-lecture-rachel-perkins-echoes-uluru-statement/11696504|date=16 November 2019|first=Rachel|last=Perkins|author-link=Rachel Perkins|access-date=20 November 2019}}
= 2020s =
- 2020 – Philanthropist and business leader Dr Andrew Forrest {{postnominals|country=AUS|AO}} – "Rebooting Australia: How ethical entrepreneurs can help shape a better future"{{cite web | title=Andrew Forrest to call on ethical entrepreneurs to help 'reboot Australia' in ABC Boyer Lectures | website= ABC|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation | date=6 August 2020 | url=http://about.abc.net.au/press-releases/andrew-forrest-to-call-on-ethical-entrepreneurs-to-help-reboot-australia-in-abc-boyer-lectures/ | access-date=9 October 2020}}
- 2021 – Actor John Bell – "Shakespeare: Soul of the Age"[https://www.themandarin.com.au/167880-boyer-lectures-turn-to-shakespeares-lessons-on-life-and-leadership/ "Boyer Lectures turn to Shakespeare’s lessons on life and leadership"] by Melissa Coade, ''The Mandarin, 6 September 2021
- 2022 – Noel Pearson – "Who we were and who we can be"{{cite web | title=Noel Pearson is hopeful for Indigenous recognition through a Voice to Parliament in Boyers lecture | website=ABC News | date=6 November 2022 | url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-06/boyers-2022-noel-pearson-indigenous-recognition-voice-parliament/101607224 | access-date=6 November 2022}}
- 2023 – Professor Michelle Simmons {{postnominals|country=AUS|AO}} –
- 2024 – Classical music in the contemporary age –
:* 1 Professor Anna Goldsworthy
:* 2 Lyn Williams AM
:* 3 Iain Grandage
:* 4 Aaron Wyatt
See also
References
{{Reflist|30em}}
Further reading
- {{cite web|url=http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/boyerlectures/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051130233912/http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/boyerlectures/ |title=Boyer Lectures|archive-date=30 Nov 2005|website=Australian Government. Culture and Recreation Portal}}
- {{Citation | editor=McDonald, Donald | title=The Boyer Collection : Highlights of the Boyer Lectures 1959–2000 | year=2001| publisher=ABC Books, for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation | isbn=978-0-7333-1003-4|ref=none}}
External links
- {{official|https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/boyerlectures/}}
- Archived [https://web.archive.org/web/20050916121624/http://www.abc.net.au/rn/boyers/index/BoyersChronoIdx.htm transcripts]
- [https://www.abc.net.au/feeds/2885776/podcast.xml boyer lectures podcast] RSS feed
{{Australian Broadcasting Corporation}}
Category:1959 establishments in Australia
Category:Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio programs
Category:Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming