This page contains speeches of speakers at the Social Justice Seminar – The Church, the State, the Media: who sets the social justice agenda? held at St Ninian’s on Saturday 30 August 2008.
The speakers at the seminar comprised a sparkling panel of four speakers including Rev’d Elenie Poulos National Director of Uniting Justice in Australia and a member of the World Council of Churches Advisory group; Jack Waterford AM, Editor at Large of the Canberra Times, whose articles in that paper repeatedly reflect his own passion for social justice and especially for Australia’s indigenous people; Professor John Langmore, former MP for the Canberra electorate of Fraser, former Head of the Social Welfare Secretariat of the United Nations and now a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and ANU political scientist, Professor John Warhurst, a political commentator in the Canberra Times, a recent President of the Australian Republican Movement and a layperson actively involved in the Catholic Social Justice movement.
Click on these links to listen to the speeches:
Rev’d Elenie Poulus, National Director of Uniting Justice in Australia
Jack Waterford AM, Editor at Large of the Canberra Times
Professor John Langmore, Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne
