The Don Dunstan Foundation gratefully acknowledges the support of the State Government of South Australia, the University of Adelaide and Flinders University

Lectures, speeches, articles and publications

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• Lectures
• Speeches
• Articles and publications

Lectures

• Don Dunstan Human Rights Oration, 2002 -
• Don Dunstan Foundation Inaugural Lecture by Professor Julian Disney AO, (pdf 89kB) 16 October 2002 at the Centre for Public Policy, University of Melbourne.

• Public Lecture by Greg Combet  (pdf 41kB), 18 September 2001. The public lecture and panel discussion was supported by the Don Dunstan Foundation, UTLC, The University of Adelaide and National Institute of Labour Studies, Flinders University and the University of South Australia. The event was held at The Mercury Theatre.

• Lecture by Allan Patience (extract), (pdf 27kB) 17 May 2000. The public lecture was presented by the Don Dunstan Foundation.

• Public Lecture by Professor John Quiggin, (pdf 107kB) 23 February 2000. The public lecture was presented by the Don Dunstan Foundation in association with the Centre for Labour Research at The University of Adelaide.

• Lecture by Beatrix Campbell (pdf 103kB) with the introduction by Greg Mackie OAM, 21 February 2001. The public lecture was presented by the Don Dunstan Foundation and the Hawke Centre.

• Don Dunstan Orationby Professor Mary O'Kane, (pdf 41kB) 27 August 1999, delivered at the IPAA meeting in Adelaide.

• 1998 Whitlam Lecture by Don Dunstan, (pdf 85kB) 21 April 1998.

• ANU John Curtin Memorial Lecture by Don Dunstan, (pdf 75kB) 20 October 1972 at the Australian National Univertsity Press, Canberra.

Speeches

• Kevin Rudd Address to DDF Qld Chapter 15 July 2005  (doc 538kB)The Case for Cooperative Federalism Kevin Rudd, MP Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, Trade and International Security
• The Parameters of Government by Don Dunstan, (pdf 6MB) March 1979. The speech content was published as an article in the AJPA vol XXXV111, No. 1, pp. 13-22.

• The Culture of Detention by Anthony Burke, (pdf 26kB) 13 October 2002. Address to the Don Dunstan Foundation Refugee Forum. Anthony Burke is a lecturer in Politics at the University of Adelaide and the author of In Fear of Security: Australia’s Invasion Anxiety (Pluto Press Australia, 2001).

• Speech by Allan Patience by Allan Patience, (pdf 52kB) August 2001. A talk to the Frielich Foundation, Humanities Research Centre, ANU.

• Speech by Hon Jane Lomax-Smith, (pdf 87kB) 11 February 2001. Delivered at the Don Dunstan Foundation SA Chapter Sunday lunch seminar.

• Speech by Hon Mike Rann MP, Leader of the Opposition in SA, (pdf 32kB) 6 February 2000.

• Speech by Justice Michael Kirby, (pdf 35kB) 28 July 1999. Delivered at the launch of the Don Dunstan Foundation in NSW at the Syndey Opera House.

Articles and publications

Articles about Don Dunstan

• Economics is not a joke by Richard Smith
  Article by Richard Smith about the SA Chapter lunch with speaker Peter Lock. Published in the Dunstan Foundation Bulletin 1st Edition 2002.

• End of the six o'clock swill by Len King (pdf 18kB)
  Article by Len King for the Dunstan Foundation newsletter of Spring 1999

• Don Dunstan's contribution to planning by Greg Crafter

• Synopsis of talk given by Greg Crafter at the Royal Australian Planning Institute's annual Tom McKenna Memorial Lecture, World Town Planning Day, 8 November 1999

• The private Don by Allan Patience (pdf 52kB)
  Article by Allan Patience published in the Dunstan Foundation Bulletin 1st Edition 2001

Articles by Don Dunstan

• Extracts from Don Dunstan, Politics and Passion: Selected Essays from the Adelaide Review John Spoehr (Editor), Bookends Books, Adelaide, 2000

Major publications on Don Dunstan

• Don Dunstan, Politics and Passion: Selected Essays from the Adelaide Review John Spoehr (Editor), Bookends Books, Adelaide, 2000

• Felicia: The Political Memoirs of Don Dunstan, Don Dunstan, Macmillan, Melbourne, 1981

• The Dunstan Decade, Andrew Parkin and Alan Patience (Editors), Longman Cheshire Pty. Ltd, Melbourne, 1981

• Playford to Dunstan, Neal Blewett and Dean Jaensch, Cheshire Publishing Ltd, Melbourne, 1971