Senate Occasional Lecture Series transcripts and audio recordings - 2008

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Date Presenter Transcript Multimedia
17/10/2008 Dr David Headon Wanted: Treasure House of a Nation's Heart - The search for an Australian capital city, 1891 - 1908
12/09/2008 Professor Geoffrey Garrett McCain v Obama: What the 2008 US election means for Australia (MP3 14159KB)
(Video)
08/08/2008 Dr Peter Brain Governing the Market: Threats to Australia's stability and security
11/07/2008 Dr Sally Young Politics and the media in Australia today
20/06/2008 Kenneth Feinberg Compensating victims of disasters - the United States experience
30/05/2008 Dr Anne Tiernan The Rudd Transition: Continuity and change in the structures of advice and support to Australian Prime Ministers
09/05/2008 Dr Clement Macintyre Parliamentary architecture and political culture
04/04/2008 Professor James Allan Siren songs and myths in the Bill of Rights debate
07/03/2008 Patricia Sykes Women leaders and executive politics - Engendering change in Anglo-American nations
15/02/2008 Sir Bernard Crick Constitutional politics: Is it the 'Scottish Question' or the 'English Question?'