📍EDUCATED
12th February 2025
Panellists: Dr Tony Buti, Annie Fogarty, Cameron Thorn and Anish Badgeri
📍Facing the Facts: A review of Public Education in Western Australia
February 2025
Panellists: Dr Carmen Lawrence, Dr Scott Fitzgerald, Colin Pettit, Dr Robyn White and Pam Pollard
📍In Conversation: Why should we care about modern slavery and what can we do to stop it?
19th March 2025
Panellists: Professor Dame Sara Thornton, Dr Fiona McGaughey, Mr Chris Evans and Ms Serene Grant
📍Enforcement Challenges in the Age of Digital Commerce | Half Day Conference 2025
20th March 2025
Speakers: Professor Jeannie Marie Paterson, Mr Paul D Evans, Justice Jenni Hill, Hon Robert French SC, Justice Matthew Howard and Mr Bill Keans SC
📍It's Public Life, Jim, But...! Governing in Times of Disruption & Turbulence
3rd April 2025
Guest: Professor Brenton Prosser
📍Curbing Australia's escalating nature crisis - what should reasonable people demand of our leaders?
14th April 2025
Speaker: Professor Brendan White
Panellists: Professor Nicki Mitchell, Paul Gamblin, Heidi Mippy, Chris Tallentire and Professor Kevin Kenneally AM
📍The Rise of the Digital Welfare State
24th April 2025
Guest: Professor Kathryn Henne
📍Australian Federal Election 2025: Views from the West
29th April 2025
Panellists: Emily Williams, Mia Pepper, Hon Colin Barnett AC, Louise Giolitto and Professor Martin Drum
📍Western Australians as Good Ancestors
1st May 2025
Guest: Sophie Howe
📍Reconciliation in a Post-Referendum Environment
28th May 2025
Moderator: Professor Andrew Gunstone
Speakers: Donna Oxenham and Dr Richard Walley OAM
📍WA 2040 Vision - Innovation, Skills and Diversification
28th May 2025
Presenters: Adrian Hart and Michael Brennan
📍In Search of Ground Truth: From Social Media Networks to Deep Neural Networks
10th June 2025
Guest: Professor Conrad Tucker
📍Policy Taboos: From Academic Intelligence to Artificial Intelligence: Implications of AI in/for the Academy
11th June 2025
Panellists: Professor Julia Powles, Professor Zach Aman, Professor Conrad Tucker and Associate Professor Celeste Rodriguez Louro
📍Reviving the Great Australian Dream: Home Ownership and Housing Security for All
30th July 2025
Moderator: Associate Professor Paul Maginn
Panellists: Professor Paul Flatau, Kath Snell, Tanya Steinbeck and Kim Macdonald
📍2025 Laki Jayasuriya Oration: Migration and the National Interest
11th August 2025
Guest: Varun Ghosh
📍Policy Taboo: Cache Me If You Can: Participation in, Productivity of & Protection from AI in Policy-Making
14th August 2025
Moderator: Associate Professor Paul Maginn
Panellists: Dr Sandy Chong, Ashleigh Pruitt, Prashant Singh and Anna Zenz
📍Book Launch | A Considered Act by Hon Dr Tony Buti
8th September 2025
📍Is our economy working for us? Diversification and a Wellbeing Economy for WA
27th October 2025
Guest: Dr Katherine Trebeck
📍Allambee Report Launch | The Lifetime Price of Harm
30th October 2025
Panellists: Nicole Lambert, Alison Evans, Professor Donna Chung, Kathryn Fordyce, Kati Kraszlan and Carol Kaplanian
📍Higher Education Summit 2025
20th November 2025
Speakers: Robert French AC, Professor Michael Crommelin, Professor Glenn Savage, Professor Andrew Norton, Libby Hackett, Alex Robson, Professor Raymond Da Silva Rosa, Professor David Hornsby, Melinda Cilento, Professor Shamit Saggar, Vicki Thomson and Luke Sheehy
📍Sustainable Development Goals Report Launch
2nd December 2025
📍Women and the Rise and Decline of Nations
4th December 2025
Guest: Dr Victoria Bateman
📍Pathways to Politics for Women UWA Launch Event
16th February 2024
Guests: Carol Schwartz AO, Professor Anna Nowak, Hon Linda Reynolds, Carmen Lawrence AO and Kate Chaney MP
📍National Initiative for Crop and Community Resilience Roundtable
16th February 2024
📍An 8-point Roadmap to a More Sustainable Future (and how we can all contribute to it)
21st March 2024
Guest: Michael Sheldrick
📍The Universities Accord: Implications for Universities Roundtable
25th March 2024
Guest: Andrew Norton
📍Smart and/or Just City? Evidence from a Southern Periphery
26th March 2024
📍The Future of Higher Education - UWA Convocation Autumn Ordinary Meeting
26th March 2024
Moderator: Professor James Arvanitakis
Panellist: Professor Emerita Dr Jane den Hollander AO, Professor Andrew Norton, Professor Peter can Onselen and India Creed
📍Representing Care Toward a More Family Friendly Parliament Roundtable
11th April 2024
Guest: Professor Rosalind Dixon
📍Forward Thinking, Straight Talking: Insights from the Inaugural Future Generations Commissioner for Wales
15th April 2024
Guest: Sophie Howe
📍AI and Health, Meaning of Health Live Podcast
1st May 2024
Panellists: Dr Courtney Weber, Craig Cumming, Elizabeth Land, Leah Roberts, Marco Rizzi, Tania Harris and Yuliya Karpievitch
📍Policy Taboos: You Can't Say That: American Higher Education and the War of Free Speech
15th May 2024
Guest: Johnathon Zimmerman
📍2024 Laki Jayasuriya Oration: From Chengdu to Wellington to Moscow, Australian immigration policy through stories of migrant families
17th July 2024
Guest: Professor Anna Boucher
📍Breakfast by the Bay: Menopause Matter: Igniting the change with menopause policy reform
21st July 2024
Moderator: Associate Paul J. Maginn
Guest: Dr Dani Barrington, Francine Eades, Grace Molloy, Senator Louise Pratt and Dr Rod Guitierrez
📍Community Conversation: Have you recently experienced the menopause transition whilst working in a non-office environment?
7th August 2024
📍Equal Pay Day Panel Event
27th August 2024
Moderator: Jennie Gray
Panellists: Professor Alison Preston, Jessica M., Lisa Judge and Professor Alan Duncan
📍Professor A.C Grayling and Kate Chaney MP, In Conversation
16th September 2024
Guests: Professor A.C. Grayling CBE MA DPhil FRSA FRSL and Kate Chaney MP
📍International Policy Requirements for Ocean Energy Developments: Achieving ambitious targets for deployment - An IEA Vision
25th September 2024
Guests: Professor Henry F. Jeffery
📍Festival of Urbanism '24: Perth - Public Sub(Urbanism) People | Place | Power
9th October 2024
Moderator: Associate Professor Paul J. Maginn and Sandy Anghie
Panellists: Dr Anthony Duckworth, Dimity Dennis, Emma Snow, Peter Ciemitis and Ray Haeren
📍The Voice Referendum: Reflection on the Road Ahead
10th October 2024
Moderator: Sophie Coffin
Panellists: Tyson McEwan, Associate Professor Hannah McGlade, Aurora Milroy and the Hon Ken Wyatt
📍Robin Winkler Lecture: Mental Health is Political - Global Indigenous Struggles for Racial Justice and Collective Hearing
28th October 2024
Facilitator: Professor Pay Dudgeon AM
Panellists: Dr Stewart Sutherland, Associate Professor Jeffery Ansloos, Dr Mark Standing Eagle Baez and Dr Hukarere Valentine
📍Raising the Bar - (Sub)Urban Dreams/Nightmares? Blandscapes, Blendscapes, Brutalscapes; and, Brutopianscapes
29th October 2024
Speaker: Associate Professor Paul J. Maginn
📍Breakfast by the Bay: Now for the Long Term: Protecting the Rights and Needs of Children and Future Generations
30th October 2024
Panellists: Kate Chaney MP, Bret Hart, Amie Furlong, Jacqueline M. and Fiona Stanley
📍APSA Conference 2024
25th - 28th November 2024
📍Is Democracy Done? Australian Perspectives on the Future of Democracy
26th November 2024
Moderator: Professor Martin Drum
Panellists: Hon Ken Wyatt AM, Carmen Lawrence AO, Professor John Phillimore and Professor Carolyn Hendricks
📍Love, Longing & Lust | Love Studies Network: What's sex got to do with love?
2nd December 2024
Moderator: Professor Alan McKee
Panellists: Associate Professor Debra Dudek, Renee Webster, Dr Elizabeth Reid Boyd and Dr Magdalena Grobbelaar
📍Policy Taboo: Let's Talk About...Pornology, Pornucation & Pornocracy
10th October 2024
Moderator: Associate Professor Paul J. Maginn
Panellists: Dr David J. Ley, Professor Alan McKee, Dr Zahra Stardust and Giselle Woodley
📍Masterclass: Treating Problem Sexual Behaviour Using a Non-Addiction Model
3rd December 2024
Guest: Dr David J Ley
📍Book Launch | Indie Porn: Revolution, Regulation and Resistance
3rd December 2024
Moderator: Dr Zahra Stardust
📍Putting a Value on Nature: Environmental costs and policy
23rd March 2023
Moderator: Professor Shamit Saggar
Panellists: Michelle Andrews, Jon Chadwick and Professor Own Nevin
📍In Conversation with Rod Sims AO
2nd May 2023
Guest: Rod Sims AO
📍Breakfast by the Bay: The Albanese Scorecard
17th May 2023
Moderator: Professor Shamit Saggar
Panellists: Hon Patrick Gorman MP, Kate Chaney MP and Professor Peter Robertson
📍Matters of Life and Death: Let's get it right
24th May 2023
Moderator: Professor Shamit Saggar
Panellists: Professor Samar Aoun, Roselyn Scolaro and Dr Fiona Findlay
📍Official Launch of Indian Ocean Futures: Prospects for Regional Success
23rd June 2023
Moderator: Professor Shamir Saggar
Panellists: Negah Rahmani, Anu Rammohan and Racheline Tantular
📍Policy Taboo Series: Corporate managers and woke capitalism with David Yermack
14th August 2023
Guest: Professor David Yermack
📍The Voice to Parliament: Constitutional and legal implications for Australians
30th August 2023
Moderator: Murray Wesson
Panellists: Ken Wyatt AM, Kim Farmer, Robert French AC and Aurora Milroy
📍The Devil in the Retail: Festival of Contested Urbanism
14th September 2023
Panellists: Michelle Reynolds, Paula Rogers, Kim Macdonald, Damian Stone and Dr Louise Grimmer
📍Breakfast by the Bay: Getting it Right - Australia's obligation to our children in detention
20th September 2023
Panellists: Linda Savage, Professor Fiona Stanley, Professor Neil Morgan AM, Megan Krahouer and Dr Hayley Passmore
📍Navigating Youth Justice: Challenges and Possibilities
5th October 2023
Interns: Katherine Ong, Fatima Merchant, Delaney Harper and Rekha Amoganathan
Panellists: Sophie Stewart, Ronald Bin Swani, Jacqueline McGowan-Jones, Gerry Georgatos and Dr Hayley Passmore
📍Policy Taboos: Media and Academic Freedom
2nd November 2023
Panellists: Robert French AC, Professor Peter Greste and Pnina Levine
📍Not So Free: Why Australian media is dangerously exposed, why it matters, and how to fix it
3rd November 2023
Guest: Professor Peter Greste
📍Breakfast by the Bay: Global Economic Outlook
28th November 2023
Panellists: Kaylene Gulich and Cassandra Winzar
📍Energy Transition in the Indo-Pacific: Geopolitics and Multilateral Cooperation
13th December 2023
Moderator: Lucas Cary
Panellists: Marzia Zamir, Phoebe Neighbour, Lu Zhou and L. Gordon Flake
📍Heart v Mind: What makes us human?
15th December 2023
Moderators: Livia Hool and Victor Chang
Guest: Professor David Paterson
📍In Conversation with Omar Khorshid: The future of healthcare in WA
31st March 2022
Guest: Dr Omar Khorshid
📍Imagining a New Policy Agenda for Australian Arts and Culture
6th April 2022
Panellists: Oron Catts, Shelagh Magadza, Dr Catherine Noske and Jeremy Smith
Moderator: Dr Christopher Lin
📍The Future of Suburbanisation, Spaces and Infrastructure in WA
28th April 2022
Panellists: Adjunct Professor David Caddy, Dr Kate Hislop, Associate Professor Paul Maginn and Winthrop Professor Fiona Haslam McKenzie
📍WA 2050: How do we make WA a thriving place?
11th May 2022
Opening address: Professor Peter Klinken AC
Panellists: Sonia Arakkal, Chris Rodwell, Sisonke Msimang and Rebecca Tomkinson
📍Dissecting Australian Life After the Election
25th May 2022
Opening address: Eve Howell
Panellists: The Hon Colin Barnett, The Hon Carmen Lawrence, Dr Sue Boyd and Martina Ucnikova
📍Breakfast by the Bay: Diversifying WA's economy through sustainable new markets
8th June 2022
Panellists: Associate Professor Talitha Santini, Dr Daniel Schepis, David Pannell, Dr Caitlin Moore, Matthew Tonts and Sally Thompson
📍Who Run Da World? What stands in the way of gender equity?
18th June 2022
Panellists: Professor Romola Bucks, Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa, Linda Savage and Jessica Smith
📍Sustainable Food Systems: Food production and security in a changing climate
25th August 2022
Moderators: Chris Crellin and Jemah Harrison
Panellists: Dr Ben Cole, Ronni Kahn AO, I-Lyn Loo and Dr Caitlin Moore
📍Breakfast by the Bay: If voting wasn't compulsory, would you? Democracy & Civic Participation
31st August 2022
Moderator: Professor Shamit Saggar
Panellists: Kate Chaney MP, Professor Ullrich Ecker, Lenda Oshalem and Dr Lachlan Umbers
📍A New Reform Agenda for Australian Schooling Policy
1st September 2022
Moderator: Associate Professor Glenn Savage
Panellists: Laureate Professor Jenny Gore, Dr Zid Mancenido, Bevan Ripp and Dr Marnee Shay
📍2022 Laki Jayasuriya Oration
13th October 2022
📍An Asian Century Retrospective: The future of Asia-oriented public policy
9th November 2022
Moderator: Professor Shamit Saggar
Panellists: Professor Dewi Fortuna Anwar, Emeritus Professor Peter Drysdale, Professor Helen Sullivan and the Hon Peter Tinley AM
📍From Modern Slavery Reporting to Human Rights Due Diligence: Global trends in business and human rights
10th November 2022
Moderator: Associate Professor Fiona McGaughey
Panellists: Gabrielle Holly, Tegan Hoddy, Freya Dinshaw, John Southalan and Serena Grant
📍ESG Investing: Best practices and environmental impacts
24th November 2022
Moderator: Jemah Harrison
Panellists: Holly Cullen, Melissa Grove, Tanya Kerkvliet and Alex Whitebrook
📍Breakfast by the Bay
30th November 2022
Panellists: Cassandra Windsor, Greg McCarthy, Jie Chen, Yun Jiang, Brendan Augustin, Donella Caspersz and Alison Preston
📍Lobbying Regulation in Australia: Where we are now and options for reform
14th December 2022
Moderator: Professor Sarah Murray
Speaker: Associate Professor Yee-Fui Ng
