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2023 Conference - Melbourne
The 33rd national conference of The Samuel Griffith Society was held over the weekend of Friday 25 to Sunday 27 August 2023 at the Park Hyatt in Melbourne. It set a new record as the Society's best-attended conference.
Key speakers included a Justice of the High Court of Australia, a former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, and a former Chancellor of The University of Melbourne.
The conference program can be accessed here.
The following papers were presented at the conference:
Allan Myers AC KC
The Thirteenth Sir Harry Gibbs Memorial Oration
The Honourable Eric Abetz
The Inaugural Sir David Smith Memorial Oration
The Honourable John Anderson AC
Friday Dinner Address
The Honourable Dr David Kemp AC
Saturday Dinner Address
Associate Professor Scott Stephenson
Is the Voice Constitutionally Conservative?
Professor Nicholas Aroney
The Constitutional Implications of Recognising Australia's First Peoples
Fr Tony Percy
The Calvary Hospital Takeover: Unjust Compulsory Acquisitions
Louise Clegg
Losing our Legend: Why our Washminster is Vulnerable to Entrenching Identity
John Storey
The Voice in Context: International Research and the New Zealand Experience
The Honourable Douglas Drummond KC
The Reconquest of Australia
Paul Jeffreys
Constitutional Limitations on an Australian Referendum Question
Stuart Wood AM KC
The 1967 Referendum: Five Myths
Keith Windschuttle
Truth-telling about Samuel Griffith
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