Vital Issues Seminars January 1994

Vital Issues Seminars

The Vital Issues Program is a series of seminars organised by the Parliamentary Library for the benefit of Senators and Members. The aim of the seminar program, which has been running since 1986, is to bring notable speakers to the Parliament to give Senators and Members and their staff the opportunity to hear, first hand, expert opinion on a range of currently relevant topics.

Seminars are recorded and the audiotapes are available to Senators and Members free of charge.

Seminars held [1995 | Jan-Jun 1996 | 1996-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-2001 | 2002-03] | 2003-2004 | 2004-2005 | 2005-06 |2006-07 | 2007-08

Seminars held 1994:

Title	Speaker	Chairperson	Date	Tape no.
Why where matters: policies for urban and regional development	Prof Frank Stilwell	Hon E J Lindsay MP	9 February 1994	VIS94/01
Job readiness or real jobs? : tinkering with the margins versus sharing the future	Dr Jocelyn Pixley	Sen John Coulter	24 February 1994	VIS94/02
Private lives, public policies: placing families at the centre of public policy	Prof Bettina Cass	Sen Rosemary Crowley	23 March 1994	VIS94/03
The road to reconciliation: what do the South African election results mean to Africa, Australia and the world?	Prof Norman Etherington	Hon Ben Humphreys MP	4 May 1994	VIS94/04
Employment policies for Australia	Prof Helen Hughes and Prof Julian Disney	Dr Michael Wooldridge MP	1 June 1994	VIS94/05
Telecommunication reform around the world: implications for Australia	Prof Bill Melody and Peter Saalmans	Sen Bill O'Chee	28 June 1994	VIS94/06
National competition policy	Prof Fred Hilmer	Hon George Gear MP	24 August 1994	VIS94/07
Myths and realities of enterprise bargaining	Ron Callus and John Buchanan	Wayne Swan MP	12 October 1994	VIS94/08
Where is APEC going? : directions for Asia Pacific trade	Prof Ross Garnaut and Prof Peter Drysdale	Sen Stephen Loosley	18 October 1994	VIS94/09
Young people in Australian society: players or spectators?	Julian Pocock, David Matthews and Dave Ireson	Allan Morris MP	9 November 1994	VIS94/10
Rwanda: as I saw it	Sen John Herron	John Templeton	7 December 1994	VIS94/11

Seminars held 1995:

Title	Speaker	Chairperson	Date	Tape no.
Predilections, presumptions & poppycock: pollsters and the polls	Prof Murray Goot	Peter Reith MP	8 February 1995	VIS95/01
Eating the future: the Australian people in their environment	Dr Tim Flannery	Hon Barry Jones MP	1 March 1995	VIS95/02
Budget 1995	Des Moore and Dr John Quiggin	Phil Cleary MP	7 June 1995	VIS95/03
Copyright and information poverty	Paul Chadwick	Sen Amanda Vanstone	21 June 1995	VIS95/04
No more nukes? : prospects and outcomes for a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty	Gillian Bird and Dr Roderic Alley	Bill Taylor MP	23 August 1995	VIS95/05
Papua New Guinea: twenty years since independence	Simon Pentanu	John Langmore MP	30 August 1995	VIS95/06
A critical appraisal of national competition policy	Dr John Quiggin	Martyn Evans MP	20 September 1995	VIS95/07
The Beijing women's conference	Kathleen Townsend	Judi Moylan MP	27 September 1995	VIS95/08
Politics and democracy in Papua New Guinea	Rt Hon Rabbie Namaliu	John Templeton	28 September 1995	VIS95/09
Crime control: an alternative to law and order politics?	Prof John Braithwaite	Hon Duncan Kerr MP	18 October 1995	VIS95/10
Legislating an inflation target: the role of monetary policy in Australia	Dr Peter Stemp	Hon David Simmons MP	25 October 1995	VIS95/11
The Murray-Darling Basin: if the salt doesn't get you, the blue green algae will.	Prof Peter Cullen and Don Blackmore	Chris Gallus MP	22 November 1995	VIS95/12
Economic fundamentalism: structural adjustment in New Zealand	Dr Jane Kelsey	John Langmore MP	22 November 1995	VIS95/13
Paths to a sustainable economy	Prof Robert Costanza and Kenneth Bohnsack	Dr John Coulter	29 November 1995	VIS95/14

Seminars held Jan - Jun 1996:

Title	Speaker	Chairperson	Date	Tape no.
Perception and reality: political ethics and codes of conduct	Prof John Warhurst and Dr Glyn Davis	Sen the Hon Michael Beahan	8 May 1996	VIS96/01
National interest and the sale of Telstra	Dr Robert Albon and Mr Gerard Goggin	Sen Baden Teague	22 May 1996	VIS96/02
Crime and justice	Dr Adam Graycar	Sen Judith Troeth	29 May 1996	VIS96/03
Mining in Kakadu: lessons from Coronation Hill	Dr Clive Hamilton	Sen Sid Spindler	19 June1996	VIS96/04
Regionalism in the Asia Pacific, with particular reference to APEC and ASEM	Dr Lee Tsao Yuan	Peter Nugent MP	24 June 1996	VIS96/05
Australia's water: up the creek - can research provide the paddle?	Prof Peter Cullen, Prof Donald Bursill and Prof Russell Mein	John Forrest MP	26 June 1996	VIS96/06