Hugh Stretton Oration: 'On Life's Lottery' with Professor Glyn Davis AC.

Poverty, like property of the wealthy, can be handed down through generations from parent to child. In this inaugural Hugh Stretton Oration, Professor Davis will focus on the role and expectations of charities and government in addressing inter-generational poverty in Australia. He will discuss policies and practices, including pragmatic and innovative approaches, that might temper entrenched poverty. This policy melting pot is something to which Hugh Stretton who preferred pragmatism over ideology, experimentation over economic orthodoxy, would have been attracted.

Professor Davis is the author of a new book, also titled On Life's Lottery published by Hachette  Australia.

The Orator

Glyn Davis AC is CEO of the Paul Ramsay Foundation, which works to end inter-generational poverty. He was previously Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne and remains Distinguished Professor of political science at the Australian National University and Visiting Professor at the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford. He delivered the Boyer lectures on the future of higher education in 2010

Event Discussant Panel

• Mr Peter Sandeman  Stretton Institute Advisory Board Member
• Professor Faye McCallum  Head, School of Education, The University of Adelaide | Researcher Profile

Event Details

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On the Day

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• The event will commence at 5:30 pm sharp.