Dimensions
136 x 210 x 9mm
Her Excellency’s lecture series, ‘Back to Grassroots’, will comprise four 30 minute lectures titled:
-Joining the neighbourhood: a personal story of equal rights advocacy;
-Watching the women: the powerful role of Australian women;
-Australians at their best: courage, compassion and resilience in everyday life; and
-Advance Australia Fair: looking to the future of Australian citizenship.
“I am delighted to be giving the 2013 Boyer Lectures, contributing to a national conversation that has been hosted by the ABC for more than half a century now,” said Her Excellency. “Like the best sort of conversation it has taken Australians down countless paths-enthralling, challenging, unworn paths. My hope is to open up yet another pathway: one that speaks to the importance of human rights in building neighbourhood, community and citizenship.”
“It is an honour to have the Governor-General present this year’s Boyer Lecture series. Her distinguished and multifaceted career as an academic, lawyer, community and human rights advocate and vice-regal representative in Australia will provide for diverse and insightful content, and I am sure I can speak for all Australians in saying that we very much look forward to her sharing her thoughts on contemporary Australia.”
Each year the ABC invites a prominent Australian to present the result of his or her work and thinking on major social, scientific or cultural issues in a series of radio talks in November known as the Boyer Lectures. The annual Boyer Lecture series began in 1959 and is named after the late Sir Richard Boyer, a former Chairman of the ABC.
