(2024) For Little Big at the 2024 Committee of Sydney Summit
Today we spotlight intergenerational equity.
It is my pleasure to introduce the first panel discussion of the day: ‘If we build it will they stay?’
(2024) “With you, with me”: The Jannawi Family Centre
Tremendous to be here at the official opening of the new Jannawi Family Centre at the Mungo Scott Building, the old Flour Mill, Summer Hill.
(2020) The 10 Habits of Highly Effective Networkers
These are my powerpoint notes to an EG staff presentation in March 2020. Next time, I’ll do better.
(2020) Yes. We Should Download the Covid 19 App.
This debate is about doing good in our lives. About caring for others and getting ready for the next wave of Covid-19 infections. The app is voluntary, the information collected is not owned by the government, there is no policing, there are many protections.
(2019) On Gleaning
This powerpoint was stimulated by an article that Josh Ridley sent to Adam Geha: Bruce Baker and Tom Parks, ‘The Book of Ruth Can Transform the Way We Do Business Today’, Christianity Today, 21 June 2019. I presented these slides to the informal “Eggs No Bacon” ‘Abrahamic faiths and beyond’ ecumenical breakfast club.
(2018) Welcome to Professor Muhammad Yunus
Good morning everyone. Thank you for joining this brunch with Professor Muhammad Yunus. Please join me in acknowledging the Gadigal people of the Eora nation – the traditional custodians of this land. We pay respect to elders, past and present, and we also extend our welcome to all indigenous people present.
(2017) Speaking Notes for the SDA Executive on the Australia Defence Association
Thank you, Gerard and all, for the opportunity to briefly speak to you and your colleagues on the Australia Defence Association (ADA).
(2016) Speech at the Launch of Thomas Jones’ Life in Verse
Thomas Jones – Tom, as I know him – is a serious poet who cares to communicate with an audience – to us here, especially.
(2014) Manners Maketh Man
At my university graduation at Kensington in 1976, I wondered who the hell was the apparently famous, but then unknown to me, spot-lighted old guy rambling-on in such a soft voice. I cannot remember a word Douglas Stewart said. There is no fire on the snow memory.
(2014) Toast to Shane Geha’s Ph.D.
Notes of a speech delivered on 12 April 2014 at a celebration at the Sheraton on the Park, Sydney, to mark the completion of Shane Geha’s PhD on “The Rezoning Effect” at the Department of Town Planning at the University of NSW.