Speeches by Gareth Evans
Since July 2009 | As President of Crisis Group (2000-2009) | As Foreign Minister (1988-1996) | Other Speeches (1996-1999)
Speeches since July 2009
"Launching Race Mathews: A life in politics", Melbourne, 24 October 2024
"Celebrating Jean McLean", Address at 90th Birthday Celebration, South Melbourne, 6 October 2024
"China-US Détente and Australia's National Interests", Address to the Australia-China Economic Trade and Investment Expo (ACETIE) 2024 Main Forum, Melbourne, 19 September 2024
"Looking on the bright side: the risks - and rewards - of political optimism", Wyndham City Barry Jones Oration 2024, Werribee, 18 September 2024
"AUKUS: Not in the National Interest", Independent Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN) Webinar, 16 September 2024
"Asian-Australian Leadership: Introducing Penny Wong", Introducing Foreign Minister Penny Wong, Inaugural ANU Centre for Asian-Australian Leadership (CAAL) Annual Lecture, Canberra, 19 August 2024
"AUKUS: The Politics", Panel Presentation to Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Conference, AUKUS: Assumptions & Implications, Canberra, 16 August 2024
"Launching 'Hiroshima Watch'", Remarks at Press Conference launching Hiroshima Watch, Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, Tokyo/Online, 5 August 2024
"Labor Lawyers: The First Ten Years 1974-1984", Address to the 50th Anniversary Dinner, Victorian Society of Labor Lawyers, Melbourne, 15 June 2024
"Atrocity Prevention and Response: Challenges for R2P", Keynote Panel Presentation, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Canberra, 6 May 2024
"Navigating Geopolitical Risk and Opportunity: Challenges for Responsible Investors", Keynote Address to Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) Conference Australia 2024, Panel Session on Navigating Geopolitics: Responsible Investors' Risk in an Uncertain World, Sydney, 1 May 2024
"Appreciating Anwar Ibrahim", Response to 2024 Gareth Evans Oration, 'Navigating Geopolitical Currents: Malaysia and Australia's Pivotal Role in the Asia-Pacific', by the Hon Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Prime Minister of Malaysia, Australian National University, 7 March 2024
"A new home - and library - for AIIA Victoria", Remarks at the opening of new office of Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA), Victoria Branch, 356 Collins Street, Melbourne, 22 February 2024
"Australia's Regional Security: Keeping our balance", Address to the University of Newcastle Asia Pacific Research Centre and Newcastle Institute, Newcastle, 6 December 2023
"Australia's Regional Security: Keeping our balance", Address to the Australian Institute of International Affairs - Western Australia, Perth, 24 November 2023
"Good International Citizenship: The Case for Decency", Lecture to IDFR Distinguished Lecture Series, Institute of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kuala Lumpur, 23 November 2023
"For Barry Jones: Dylan Thomas and Clive James", Poetry Readings at Barry Jones Birthday Poetry and Music Event, FortyFiveDownstairs, Melbourne, 5 November 2023
"The Hawke Government: 'Gold Standard'?", Address to Hawke Symposium, 'Gold Standard'?: The Hawke Government Forty Years On, Museum of Australian Democracy, Canberra, 3 November 2023
"Remembering Bill Hayden", Remarks at opening of Hawke Symposium, 'Gold Standard'?: The Hawke Government Forty Years On, Museum of Australian Democracy, Canberra, 3 November 2023
"De-Risking Regional Geopolitics", Address to Australia-China Economic Trade & Investment Expo (ACETIE) 2023 Main Forum, Melbourne, 15 September 2023
"The Value of Military Operations other than War: Peacekeeping, Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief", Lecture to the Australian War College, Canberra, 15 August 2023
"Remembering Jim Ingram", Address to Jim Ingram Memorial, Australian National University, Canberra, 9 August 2023
"Revealing Secrets: Sigint and Cyber", Remarks at Victorian Launch of John Blaxland & Clare Birgin, Revealing Secrets: An Unofficial History of Australian Signals Intelligence & The Advent of Cyber (UNSW Press, 2023), AIIA Victoria, 6 July 2023
"My Oxford", Address to Oxford University Society of Victoria Annual Dinner, MCG Long Room, Melbourne, 24 June 2023
"Restoring the Balance: The case for recognizing Palestine", Address to Parliamentary Friends of Palestine/Australia Palestine Advocacy Network, Parliament House, Canberra, 16 June 2023
"Achieving a Culture of Peace", Notes for Presentation at Jeju Forum Final Plenary Session with Governor Oh Young-hun, 2 June 2023
"Asia-Pacific v Indo-Pacific: What's in a name?", Panel Presentation to Session The Age of Transformation? Asia-Pacific v. Indo-Pacific, Jeju Forum, Republic of Korea, 1 June 2023
"Remembering the Past to Save the Future", Acceptance Address at Jeju 4.3 Peace Prize Presentation Ceremony, Jeju, Republic of Korea, 30 May 2023
"R2P, Myanmar and Rohingya Repatriation", Presentation to Diplomatic World Seminar/Webinar, 'Rohingya Repatriation: A Pathway to Peace, Stability and Harmony in the Bay of Bengal Region', Dhaka, Bangladesh, 20 May 2023
"Recognizing Bill Armstrong", Launch of Peter Britton, Everything & Nothing: The Life and Development Work of Bill Armstrong, (2022), Hawke Centre, University of South Australia, Adelaide, 18 May 2023
"Designing for Dignity", Launch of Esther Charlesworth & John Fien, Design for Fragility: 13 Stories of Humanitarian Architecture, (Routledge, 2023), Melbourne, 16 May 2023
"A better rules-based order: What Australia and Korea can do together", Launch of Asialink/Korea Foundation Report, Challenges to the Rules-Based Order: Agendas for Australia-ROK Cooperation, Australian National University, Canberra, 2 May 2023
"After AUKUS: Australia's role and relevance", Presentation to the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC), Australian National University, Canberra, 14 March 2023
"Introducing Chris Patten", Introducing the 2023 Gareth Evans Oration delivered by The Right Hon Lord Patten of Barnes CH PC, Australian National University, 14 March 2023
"Managing External Risks: Challenges for Malaysia", Panel Presentation to Global Leadership Foundation/ISIS Malaysia Asia Pacific Leaders Dialogue, Kuala Lumpur, 8 February 2023
"Great Power Competition and the Evolving Regional Order", Keynote Presentation to Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) 13th General Conference, CSIS, Jakarta, 8 December 2022
"Remembering Bruce Grant", Melbourne, 1 December 2022
"Peace, Democracy and Human Rights in Cambodia: Keeping the flame alive", Address to Australian South East Asian Network Cambodia Legacy Event, Parliament House, Canberra, 28 November 2022
"Universal Human Rights in a changing global order: Refocusing the narrative", 2022 Wellenstein Lecture, Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV), The Hague, 1 November 2022
"The Collaery Case and Australia's National Interests", Panel Presentation to Gilbert & Tobin Seminar, 'Lessons from the Collaery Case', Sydney, 6 October 2022
"Why the Horror of Hiroshima and Nagasaki must never be repeated", Address at Opening of Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Exhibition, Menzies Library, Australian National University, Canberra, 5 September 2022
"International Norms after Ukraine: Nuclear Weapons and Atrocity Crimes", Presentation to Diplomacy Forum Roundtable, Australian National University, Canberra, 5 September 2022
"The UN's Peace and Security role: A view from the Coalface", Lecture to SPSS UN: Review and Reform Course, University of Melbourne, 22 August 2022
"Russian Atrocities in Ukraine & The Future of R2P", Address to Young Diplomats Society, University of Melbourne, 17 August 2022
"Australia-China Relations: Being Happy Together Again", Remarks at launch of David Walker & Li Yao, Happy Together: Bridging the Australia-China Divide (MUP, 2022), Sydney Myer Asia Centre, University of Melbourne, 8 July 2022
"The World Order Post Covid - What role can Australia play?", Address to AIIA Tasmania/University of Tasmania, Hobart, 29 June 2022
"Establishing a new International Anti-Corruption Court", Presentation to American Academy of Social Sciences Exploratory Meeting on Checking Kleptocracy: Creating a New Instrument of World Order, Cambridge MA, 21 May 2022
"Challenges for Australia's Foreign Policy", Presentation to Monash International Affairs Society Symposium, Melbourne, 19 April 2022
"Challenges for Australia's Foreign Policy", Presentation to Australian Labor Party ACT Branch, Canberra, 17 March 2022
"Conversations: Gareth Evans on Good International Citizenship", Interview with Michael Fullilove (Transcript), Lowy Institute Conversations, 17 March 2022
"Good International Citizenship: The missing dimension of Australian Foreign Policy", Address to Australian Institute of International Affairs (Victoria Branch), Melbourne, 10 March 2022
"Remembering Dominic Scibberas", Eulogy, St Monica's Church, Moonee Ponds, 12 January 2022
"Cambodia Thirty Years after Paris", Address to Webinar on International Day for the Prevention of Genocide, Human Rights in Cambodia - 30 Years After the Paris Peace Agreements, hosted by UNSW Diplomacy Training Program, Online, 9 December 2021
Bangladesh's 50th Anniversary", Remarks to Commemorative Event, Whitlam Institute, Western Sydney University, 8 December 2021
"Remembering Vietnam", Remarks at Launch of Mirranda Burton, 'Underground: Marsupial Outlaws and Other Rebels of Australia's War in Vietnam' (Allen & Unwin, 2021), Trades Hall, Melbourne, 7 December 2021
"Securing Australia's Future: Meeting our International Challenges", Talk to Strategic and International Interest Group, Melbourne High School, 23 November 2021
"AUKUS - Untangling the Issues", Notes for Presentation to Melbourne Rotary, Online, 18 November 2021
"Securing Australia's Future: Meeting Geopolitical Challenges", Keynote address to UniSA Business International Symposium, Challenges for Australia’s Future: Seeking Stability and Security, Online, 12 November 2021
"Peacemaking and Peacebuilding: Lessons from Cambodia", Presentation to AIIA/Asialink Conference on Cambodia and the Evolution of Peacebuilding: The Role of the Paris Peace Accords, 29 October 2021
"Indonesia's G20 Presidency: International Expectations", Presentation to Golkar Institute Public Dialogue on The Significance of Indonesia's G20 Presidency in 2022, Online, 25 October 2021
"Cambodia Thirty Years After Paris: Where to from here?", Keynote Address to Commemoration of 30th Anniversary of Paris Peace Agreements organised by Cambodian Australian Federation, Cambodian Association of Victoria and Cambodian Alliance for Paris Peace Agreement on Cambodia, Online, 23 October 2021
"Multilateral Engagement and Good International Citizenship", Keynote Address to Monash Model UN Conference 2021, Monash International Affairs Society, 27 September 2021
"The Tenth Anniversary of the Seoul Defense Dialogue: Achievements and Prospects of Multilateralism", in Conversation with Dr Moon Chung-in, Chairman of the Sejong Institute and the former Special Adviser on National Security and Foreign Affairs to the ROK President. Seoul Defense Dialogue 2021, 9 September 2021 (Online)
"Understanding Soeharto", Launch of David Jenkins, Young Soeharto: The Making of a Soldier, 1921-1945 (ISEAS, Singapore, 2021), Australian National University, 8 September 2021
"Renewing Nuclear Arms Control and Disarmament", Framing paper prepared for ANU Crawford Leadership Forum panel discussion, 6 September 2021
"The Code of Conduct on the South China Sea: Is it worth pursuing?", Panel presentation responding to First Ambassador Rodolfo C Severino Jr Lecture by Ambassador Alberto del Rosario, Carlos P. Romulo Foundation and Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, 26 August 2021 (Online)
"A Nuclear Weapons Free World: An Impossible Dream?", Hiroshima Day Address prepared for (but not delivered: event Covid-cancelled) Hunter Peace Group, Newcastle, 6 August 2021
"China-US Strategic Rivalry: Consequences for the Asia-Pacific", Presentation to Jeju Forum Online Panel (with Chung-in Moon, Graham Allison, Yao Yunzhu and Sung-hwan Kim), 24 June 2021
"Applying R2P to Myanmar", Presentation to Myanmar Institute of Australia Webinar, 26 April 2021
"Myanmar: What can the international community do?", Presentation to Webinar on Application of R2P in Myanmar, with Dr Sasa, Minister for International Cooperation in the National Unity Government of Myanmar, sponsored by Arakan National Rohingya Organisation (ANRO), recorded 19 April 2021
"Are Great Leaders Born or Made?", Presentation to Castlemaine State Festival, Great Debate, Castlemaine, 26 March 2021
"Australia as a Good International Citizen: Why should we care?", Presentation to Opening Dialogue Programme, Castlemaine State Festival, 25 March 2021
"Achieving a Nuclear Weapons-Free World", Panel Presentation (Online) to Session on Peace Agenda 2045: Abolish War and Nuclear Weapons, PyeongChang Peace Forum, ROK, 8 February 2021
"Australia and Korea: Cooperating for Peace in the Asia-Pacific", Panel presentation to UQ Korean Studies Webinar, Current Issues and Roles of Australia and Korea for peaceful coexistence and cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region, 3 February 2021
"The Responsibility to Protect: The Dream and the Reality", European Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (ECR2P), Annual Lecture (Online), Leeds University, 26 November 2020
"The Pandemic-Nuclear Nexus", Introductory Keynote to the Nagasaki Workshop on the Pandemic-Nuclear Nexus, Asia Pacific Leadership Network on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, 31 October 2020
"How to achieve a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World", Presentation to #wethepeoples2020 Webinar, UN International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, Asia-Pacific Panel, 26 September 2020
"Making Australian Foreign Policy: Role of the Minister", Guest Online Lecture to International Policymaking in Practice Program, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 17 August 2020
"Lessons from the Cambodian Genocide: 45 Years On", Address to Virtual Public Lecture Event, The 45th Anniversary of Khmer Rouge Victory: What Lessons Could Cambodia Share?, co-hosted by the Cambodia Institute for Cooperation and Peace and Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, 28 July 2020
"ANU Staff Valedictory", Response to Vice-Chancellor's Staff Farewell, University House, ANU, 18 December 2019
"Cultural Diversity and Australian Foreign Policy", Address to Labor Diversity Fellowship Multicultural Dinner, Melbourne, 6 December 2019
"ANU Council Valedictory", Extracts from Remarks to Council End of Year Dinner, University House, ANU, 5 December 2019
"Bob Hawke: Cartoonists' Delight", Remarks to opening of Exhibition Drawn to Politics: Four Decades of Bob Hawke Cartooning Brilliance, Kurrajong Hotel, Canberra, 5 December 2019
"The Future of Democracy: Response to Samantha Power", Response to Inaugural Gareth Evans Oration 'The Future of Democracy' introduced by Vice-Chancellor Brian P. Schmidt and delivered by Ambassador Samantha Power, ANU, 26 November 2019
"The Challenges for Australian Foreign Policy", Address to NSW Labor Speakers Series, Sydney, 25 November 2019
"How not to conduct Australian Foreign Policy: Suez 1956", Launch of Robert Bowker, Australia, Menzies and Suez: Australian Policy-making on the Middle East Before, During and After the Suez Crisis (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 2019), Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, ANU, Canberra, 14 November 2019
"Embracing our First Australians", Dinner Address to ANU Treaty Forum, Canberra, 13 November 2019
"2019 John Gee Memorial Lecture: Introducing Hugh White", Welcome remarks to 2019 John Gee Memorial Lecture, ANU, Canberra, 30 October 2019
"Moving On", Address to Bruce Hall Valete Dinner, ANU, Canberra, 25 October 2019
"Don Dunstan: A visionary leader", Launch of Angela Woollacott, Don Dunstan: The Visionary Politician who changed Australia (Allen & Unwin, 2019), ANU, Canberra, 15 October 2019
"Political Leadership: What makes for success", Presentation at Academy of Social Sciences in Australia Leon Mann Leadership Forum, ANU House, Melbourne, 11 October 2019
"Europe at the Crossroads: Global Power or Also-Ran?", 2019 Schuman Lecture, ANU Centre for European Studies, Canberra, 26 September 2019
"The changing face of Australian racism", Keynote Address to 20th Anniversary of the Herbert & Valmae Freilich Project for the Study of Bigtory, University House, Canberra, 19 September 2019
"Asian-Australian Leadership Summit", Welcome and Opening Remarks to the Asian-Australian Leadership Summit Gala Dinner, State Library Victoria, Melbourne, 12 September 2019
"So you want to be a diplomat? Preparing for an international career", Keynote Address to Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA) Victoria 15th International Careers Conference, Melbourne, 30 August 2019
"Nuclear Disarmament: An Impossible Dream?", Inaugural Hiroshima Lecture, Hiroshima, 22 August 2019
"Opening Harry Hartog Bookstore", Opening Remarks at Harry Hartog Bookstore launch, Australian National University, Canberra, 16 July 2019
"2019 Crawford Australian Leadership Forum", Opening Remarks to ANU Crawford Leadership Forum, Opening Gala Dinner, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 23 June 2019
"Asian-Australians in the Asian Century", 2019 Asian Australian Foundation Oration, Melbourne, 19 June 2019
"Bob Hawke State Memorial Service", Australia House, London, 7 June 2019
"The Responsibility to Protect in Africa", Address to mark Africa Day 2019, Australian National University, Canberra, 24 May 2019
"ANU Reconciliation Week Lecture 2019: Chancellor's Introduction", Remarks to introduce 2019 Reconciliation Week Lecture, Australian National University, Canberra, 24 May 2019
"The Challenges for Australian Foreign Policy", Address to ACT University of the Third Age, Canberra, 23 May
"Middle Power Diplomacy", Lecture to Asia Pacific College of Diplomacy, Australian National University, 17 May 2019
"Ben Chifley: The Unremembered Internationalist", Launch of Julie Suares J.B.Chifley: An Ardent Internationalist (Melbourne University Press, 2019), Melbourne, 14 May 2019
"The Crawford School and Public Policy at ANU", Remarks at launch of Crawford School of Public Policy Strategic Plan 2019-23, ANU, Canberra, 2 May 2019
"The China Power Story", Launch of Golley, Javin, Farrelly & Strange (eds) China Story Yearbook: Power (Australian Centre on China in the World, ANU, 2019), Melbourne, 1 May 2019
"Making Australian Foreign Policy: Role of the Minister", Guest Lecture to International Policymaking in Practice Program, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 10 April 2019
"Celebrating Dame Margaret Scott", Remarks as Master of Ceremonies at State Memorial Service for Dame Margaret Scott AC DBE LLD (Hon), Great Hall, National Gallery of Victoria, 22 March 2019
"The World's Asian Future", Launch of Parag Khanna, The Future is Asian: Global Order in the Twenty-First Century (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2019), PwC, Melbourne, 18 March 2019
"Australia's Overseas Volunteers: A Treasured National Resource", Launch of Peter Britton, Working for the World: The Evolution of Australian Volunteers International, Melbourne, 14 March 2019
"Asian Australians: Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling", 2019 Asialink Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop Lecture, Sydney, 13 March 2019
"Manning Clark's Legacy", Remarks introducing 2019 Manning Clark Lecture and naming Manning Clark Hall, Kambri Cultural Centre, ANU, 12 March 2019
"The challenges for ASEAN", Presentation to Indiana University/Asia Foundation Panel Discussion on International Engagement with ASEAN in an Era of Rapid Geopolitical Change, Bangkok, 28 February 2019
"Reflections of an (almost) Incorrigible Optimist", Address to Maitland City Library 'Look Who's Talking' Program, Maitland, 21 February 2019
"Australia in Asia", Address to 2019 Asialink Leaders Program, Melbourne, 19 February 2019
"State of the University 2019", Welcome address at the 2019 State of the University, ANU, Canberra, 12 February 2019
"A vital new beating heart for the ANU", Remarks at the opening of Kambri Precinct, ANU, Canberra, 11 February 2019
"Tribute to Mohamed Sahnoun", Remarks at Evans-Sahnoun Lecture, New York, 30 January 2019
"Academic Autonomy, Freedom and Free Speech", Welcome Address to Summit on Academic Freedom and Autonomy, The Australian National University, Canberra, 5 December 2018
"Australia in the World: It's time to punch our weight", 2018 Tom Uren Memorial Lecture, hosted by the Hon Anthony Albanese MP, Petersham Town Hall, Sydney, 2 December 2018
"Asia Pacific Geopolitics in Transition", Presentation to Gilbert & Tobin Asia Regional Meeting, Sydney, 16 November 2018
"Celebrating Hugh White", Remarks at dinner to celebrate Emeritus Professor Hugh White, Canberra, 15 November 2018
"Seeking Justice in Cambodia", Launch of Sue Coffey (ed) Seeking Justice in Cambodia: Human Rights Defenders Speak Out (MUP, 2018), University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 14 November 2018
"Does ASEAN Matter?", Launch of Marty Natalegawa, Does ASEAN Matter? A View from Within (ISEAS, 2018), Australian National University, Canberra, 1 November 2018
"Nuclear Arms Control: A role for The Elders", Presentation introducing Towards a Nuclear Weapons Free World: An advocacy role for The Elders, The Elders Board Meeting, London, 22 October 2018
"Global Geopolitics in Transition", Foreign and Commonwealth Office Association (FC0A) Annual Lecture, London, 19 October 2018
"Maintaining Universities' raison d'etre: Meeting the challenge", Inaugural Chancellor's Oration, 11th National Conference on University Governance: The Challenge of Change for Australian Universities, University Chancellor's Council (UCC), Adelaide, 4 October 2018
"Crimes Against Humanity: Does the Responsibility to Protect have a future?", 2018 Annual Michael Kirby Justice Oration, College of Law and Justice, Victoria University, Melbourne, 26 September 2018.
"The Responsibility to Protect: Where to now?", Keynote Address to Asia Pacific Centre for R2P High Level Meeting on Strengthening Cooperation for Atrocity Prevention in the Asia Pacific, Bangkok, 23 August 2018.
"Australia-China Relations and the challenges for Chinese Australians", Opening Keynote Address to Chinese Community Council of Australia Conference on Australia-China Relationship: Our Current Challenges, Melbourne, 18 August 2018
"Unveiling of Alexander Pushkin Bust", Remarks to unveiling ceremony, Australian National University, Canberra, 31 July 2018
"The Human Tragedy of Palestine: Olfat Mahmoud's Tears for Tarshiha", Launch of Tears for Tarshiha, by Olfat Mahmoud with Dani Cooper and Helen McCue (Wild Dingo Press 2018), Wheeler Centre, Melbourne, 26 July 2018
"The concept of "Indo-Pacific" region and the "Belt and Road" Initiative", Remarks to the 7th World Peace Forum Panel, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 15 July 2018
"East Asia Security Order and Cooperation", Remarks to the 7th World Peace Forum Panel, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 15 July 2018
"Australia in the World: Raising our sights", Inaugural Australian Studies Institute Lecture, Australian National University, Canberra, 10 July 2018
"ANU First Nations Governance Forum: Chancellor's Welcome", Welcoming Remarks to ANU First Nations Governance Forum, Old Parliament House, Canberra, 2 July 2018
"2018 ANU Crawford Leadership Forum", Welcoming Remarks to ANU Crawford Australian Leadership Forum, Opening Gala Dinner, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 24 June 2018
"In defence of Multilateralism", Evidence to UK House of Lords Select Committee on International Relations, London, 6 June 2018
"ANU Reconciliation Week Lecture 2018: Chancellor's Introduction", Remarks to 2018 Reconciliation Week Lecture, Australian National University, 25 May 2018
"The Responsibility to Protect: where to now?", Address to 2018 Amnesty International/ANU College of Law Speaker Series, Australian National University, Canberra, 23 May 2018
"Australia-Korea relations: Strengthening middle power bonds", Keynote Address to 2018 Symposium on Australia-Korea Relations, University of South Australia, 20 April 2018
"Reflections of an Incorrigible Optimist", Address to The Illawarra Connection, Wollongong, 10 April 2018
"Cambodia's Past and Future", Opening Address to World Khmer Conference, Towards Post-2018 Elections, Dandenong, Victoria, 31 March 2018
"Celebrating the Australian National Internships Program", Opening Remarks to Australian National Internships Program 25th Anniversary Celebration, ANU House, Melbourne, 28 March 2018
"Reflections of a frustrated nuclear disarmer", Dinner Address to ANU/Hankuk University/Griffith University/Australia-Korea Foundation Policy Roundable, Korean Peninsula in Crisis: What can Australia do?,, Canberra, 26 March 2018
"ANZSOG, ANU and Value for Money", Launch of Value for Money: Budget and Financial Management Reform in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan and Australia, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Canberra, 19 March 2018
"Chancellor's Welcome to Prime Minister H.E. Nguyen Xuan Phuc", Welcome address to Vietnamese Prime Minister H.E. Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Canberra, 14 March 2018
"Cambodia on the Brink: Towards the 2018 Elections", Opening Remarks to Cambodia Update Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, 9 March 2018
"Conflicting Norms, values and interests in international relations: A practitioner's perspective", Keynote address by Professor the Hon Gareth Evans, Chancellor of The Australian National University, to Friedrich Schiller University Jena/ Protestant Academy of Thuringia Public Symposium on Legal Norms, Moral Values and National Interests, Berlin, 20 February 2018
"Chancellor’s Welcome to State of University", Welcome address by the Chancellor, Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AC QC FASSA FAIIA, ANU, 31 January 2018
"Asian Geopolitics in Transition", Keynote Address by Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AC QC, Chancellor of the Australian National University and Former Australian Foreign Minister to Asia Society Asia 21 Young Leaders Summit, Melbourne, 29 November 2017
"Australia's Universities: Looking back and looking forward", Launch of Glyn Davis's, The Australian Idea of a University (MUP, 2017 and Stuart McIntyre, Andre Brett and Gwilym Croucher, No End of a Lesson (MUP 2017), University of Melbourne, 23 November 2017
"Sir Ninian Stephen", Tribute at State Funeral of the late Rt Hon Sir Ninian Stephen KG AK GCMG GCVO KBE QC, St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, 8 November 2017
"The Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty: Prelude to a nuclear free world?", Lecture to the Fourth Annual Waiheke Global Affairs Lecture, Waiheke, New Zealand, 4 November 2017
"Wheeler Centre Festival of Questions: Australian Political Leadership", Presentation for Wheeler Centre Festival of Questions, Melbourne Town Hall, 15 October 2017
"Incorrigible Optimist: National Press Club Launch", Response to Bob Hawke launching Incorrigible Optimist: A Political Memoir (Melbourne University Press, 2017), National Press Club, Canberra, 4 October 2017
"Conflict in the 21st century: An Australian Perspective", Presentation to Saud Al-Nasser Al-Sabah Kuwaiti Diplomatic Institute, Kuwait, 10 September 2017
"Democracy and its Discontents", Launch of Roland Rich, Democracy in Crisis: Why, Where and How to Respond (Lynne Reinner, 2017), Macquarie University, Sydney, 17 August 2017
"Australia's Humanitarian Peacekeepers", Launch of Steven Bullard, In Their Time of Need: Australia's Overseas Emergency Relief Operations 1918-2006, Vol VI, Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations, (Cambridge UP, 2017), Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 9 August 2017
"Conflict in the 21st Century", Presentation to Global Change Scholars Program Seminar, Global Change Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 8 August 2017
"ASEAN's Way Forward: A Non-ASEAN Perspective", Keynote Panel to Carlos P Romulo Foundation/CSIS/Stratbase ADR Institute Conference on ASEAN at Fifty: The Way Forward, Manila, 4 August 2017
"Australia's Ambassadors in Washington", Launch of David Lowe, David Lee & Carl Bridge (eds), Australia Goes to Washington: 75 Years of Australian Representation in the United States (ANU Press, 2017), ANU, 24 July 2017
"Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament: Getting Serious", Keynote Address to Quinquepartite Counter Proliferation Community Forum, Department of Defence, Canberra, 24 July 2017
"Korea's Presidential election: International implications", Panel Presentation to Asialink Business Forum, Melbourne, 15 June 2017
"Celebrating Paul Dibb", Remarks at Dinner celebrating launch of Desmond Ball and Sheryn Lee (eds), Geography, Power, Strategy and Defence Policy: Essays in Honour of Paul Dibb (ANU Press, 2017), Canberra, 5 June 2017
"Global Shocks", Panel presentation to EU-Australia Leadership Forum, Sydney, 5 June 2017
"Trump, Putin and the future of the Second Nuclear Age", Panel presentation to Jeju Forum for Peace and Prosperity, Jeju, Republic of Korea, 1 June 2017
"The role of Middle Powers in Asia's future", Panel presentation to Jeju Forum for Peace and Prosperity, Jeju, Republic of Korea, 1 June 2017
"Australia's Foreign Policy: Retrospect and Prospect", Launch of Allan Gyngell, Fear of Abandonment: Australia in the World Since 1942 (LaTrobe, 2017), National Press Club, Canberra, 13 April 2017
"Taking Stock of the Responsibility to Protect: Achievements and Challenges", Public Lecture/Inter to Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, 22 March 2017
"Chancellor’s Welcome to State of University", Welcome address to the Australian National University, Canberra, 9 February 2017
"ANU: Celebrating 2016", Welcome address to the 2016 Annual Melbourne Gala Alumni Dinner, Parliament House, Melbourne, 25 November 2016
"Vale Des Ball", Address to Memorial Celebration, Remembering Professor Desmond Ball AO 1947-2016, Llewellyn Hall, ANU, 22 November 2016
"Commonwealth Diplomacy and the End of Apartheid", Address to Inaugural Anthony Low Commonwealth Lecture, Canberra, 17 November 2016
"Democracy and its Discontents," Dinner address to Collegiate Way International/University Colleges Australia Conference, Old Parliament House, Canberra, 16 November 2016
"Cooperating for Peace in Korea and Northeast Asia", Presentation to Yonsei Institute for North Korean Studies and ROK Ministry of National Unification International Conference on Peace and Unification of the Korean Peninsula: Comprehensive Approaches, Panel on ‘International Environment for Peace of North East Asia and Unification of Korea’, Seoul, 14 November 2016
"Regional Security Challenges", Notes for Presentation to ANU National Security College Indo-Pacific Strategic Policy Program, Melbourne, 10 October 2016
"Conflict Prevention, Resolution and Peace Support Operations", Presentation to Global Affairs Canada/Department of National Defense/Canadian Armed Forces Forum, Ottawa, 20 September 2016
"Living with the new China - and that other Superpower", Presentation to Global Affairs Canada Roundtable, Ottawa, 19 September 2016
"The Responsibility to Protect: The ICISS Commission Fifteen Years On", Presentation to Simon Fraser University Faculty/Student Seminar, Vancouver, 16 September 2016
"Values and Interests in Foreign Policymaking", Public Lecture at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, 15 September 2016
"Living with Putin's Russia", Opening Address to ANU Humanities Research Centre Conference on Putin’s Russia in the Wake of the Cold War, Canberra, 24 August 2016
"The US and China in Asia: How Should Australia Respond?", Address to National Press Club Canberra Writers Week Forum with Hugh White, Canberra, 23 August 2016
"Unveiling Ian Young, Remarks on unveiling of portrait of former Vice-Chancellor Ian Young, ANU, Canberra, 1 August 2016
"Celebrating ANU's 70th Birthday", Address to the Australian National University, Canberra, 1 August 2016
"Hiroshima Tree Planting Ceremony", Remarks to ANU's Crawford School of Public Policy, Canberra, 21 July 2016
"Celebrating Bob O'Neill", Launch of War, Strategy, History: Essays in Honour of Professor Robert O'Neill, (ANU Press, 2016), Canberra, 20 July 2016
"Opening the Crawford Australian Leadership Forum", Remarks at ANZ Opening Gala Dinner, Canberra, 19 June 2016
"2015 Sir Edward "Weary" Dunlop Asia Medal", Remarks at 2015 Sir Edward "Weary" Dunlop Asia Medal Asialink Dinner, Sydney, 16 June 2016
"Finding Common Ground: Negotiating Across Cultures on Peace and Security Issues", Presentation at Seventh King Hussein Memorial Lecture in Cultural Dialogue, Durham University, 4 May 2016
"Saving the World's Refugees: Syria and Beyond", Keynote Address to Aurora Dialogues, Yerevan, Armenia, 23 April 2016
"The Nuclear Policy Agenda: Where to Next?", Opening Keynote Address to CNND/Ukraine Embassy Nuclear Forum, Eliminating Nuclear Threats: Lessons from Chernobyl and Fukushima, Canberra, 19 April 2016
"So you Want to be a Diplomat", Remarks at Launch of Young Diplomats Society, Melbourne, 14 April 2016
"Australia's Role as Peacemaker: Cambodia First and Last?", Presentation to Research Workshop Australia as Peacemaker? Conflict Resolution in Australian Foreign Policy, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 8 April 2016
"Protecting Myanmar's Minorities", Presentation to Public Seminar on Post-2015 Myanmar and Minority Protection under the NLD: Challenges and Opportunities, Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 16 March 2016
"R2P: Still in Need of the Friends", Presentation to Group of Friends of the Responsibility to Protect, hosted by Permanent Representatives of Rwanda and The Netherlands, New York, 26 February 2016
"Taking Stock of R2P", Panel Presentation to the Thematic Event Convened by the President of the UN General Assembly, From Commitment to Implementation: Ten Years of the Responsibility to Protect, Trusteeship Council Chamber, New York, 26 February 2016
"Welcoming Vice-Chancellor Brian Schmidt", Introduction at ANU Staff Welcome, Llewellyn Hall, ANU, Canberra, 4 February 2016
"The Seven Larger than Life Australian Public Service Dwarfs", Address to the South African Institute of International Affairs, Pretoria 7 December 2015 and Cape Town 9 December 2015
"Responsibility to Protect: Ten Years On", Address to the South African Institute of International Affairs, Pretoria 7 December 2015 and Cape Town 9 December 2015
"Farewelling Vice-Chancellor Ian Young", Extract from 2015 Annual ANU Council Dinner, Great Hall, University House, ANU, Canberra, 5 December 2015
"International Policy Implications Arising from Australia's Engagement in Nuclear Fuel Cycle Activities", Outline of issues address before South Australia Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission, Adelaide, 2 December 2015
"Why Peace Processes Fail", Launch of Jasmine-Kim Westendorf, Why Peace Processes Fail: Negotiating Insecurity After Civil War (Lynne Reiner Publishers, 2015), La Trobe University, Melbourne, 30 November 2015
"Australia's Regional Future", Opening Keynote Address to the 6th Annual Crawford PhD Conference, Friends and Partners: The Future of Regional Groupings Among Asia-Pacific Countries, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU, Canberra, 24 November 2015
"Navigating Australia's Relations with China and the United States", Keynote Dinner Address to China Matters 2nd National Meeting, Melbourne, 19 November 2015
"Challenges for the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists at 70: Restoring Reason to the Nuclear Debate", Keynote Address to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists' Annual Clock Symposium, Chicago, 16 November 2015
"The Responsibility to Protect: After Libya and Syria", Presentation to Directors Seminar, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, 12 November 2015
"China's "Shared Destiny" Story", Launch of the ANU China in the World Centre's Shared Destiny: China Story Yearbook 2014, Melbourne, 5 November 2015
"International Crisis Group Founders' Award, Response to presentation of Founder's Award by HM Queen Noor of Jordan, International Crisis Group Gala Dinner, New York, 26 October 2015
"The Role of International NGOs: The International Crisis Group as a Case Study", Presentation to Whitlam Institute/UWS Law School Conference on Non-State Governance, University of Western Sydney, 23 October 2015
"Deliberating the Dismissal", Panel Presentation at ANU College of Law Public Law Weekend, Constitutional Deliberations, Canberra, 1 October 2015
"Revisiting the 1965 Indonesian Coup", Opening Address to AIIA/ANU Southeast Asia Centre Conference to Mark 50th Anniversary of the 30 September Coup in Indonesia, Australian National University, Canberra, 17 September 2015
"Good International Citizenship: Values and Interests in Foreign Policymaking", Address to Sydney University Law School, 27 August 2015
"Celebrating the UN's 70th Anniversary", Keynote Address to the Annual Conference of the United Nations Association of Australia, Canberra, 21 August 2015
"R2P at Ten: Taking Stock", Lecture to "Coping with Crisis" Course, Stategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, 19 August 2015; and Politics, International Relations and National Security Student Association, University of Canberra, 20 August 2015
"Foreign Policy: How is Australia travelling", Opening Address to the Inaugural "Australia 360" Conference, How is Australia Travelling in Today's World?, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, ANU, Canberra, 19 August 2015
"Our Common Humanity: Responding to Humanitarian Crisis", World Humanitarian Day Address to Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Canberra, 19 August 2015
"Remembering Vice-Chancellor Anthony Low", Remarks at the Memorial Celebration for the late Professor Anthony Low, University House Great Hall, ANU, 31 July 2015
"The ANU Indonesia Project: Fifty Years Young", Address to the ANU Indonesia Project 50th Anniversary Celebration, University House Great Hall, ANU, Canberra, 30 July 2015
"Challenging Times for Myanmar", Welcme Address to the 2015 Myanmar/Burma Update, Making Sense of Conflict, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University, Canberra, 5 June 2015
"Thirty Years of Australian Union Aid Abroad", Launch of Livelihoods and Liberation Struggles: 30 Years of Australian Worker Solidarity by Dani Cooper for Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA, at ACTU Congress, Melbourne, 27 May 2015,
"Purposes Beyond Ourselves: Educating for Global Citizenship", Dinner Address to the Institute for Curriculum and Campus Internationalization (ICCI), Indiana University, Bloomington, 17 May 2015
"The Responsibility to Protect: A Stocktake", Opening Remarks to Conference on The Responsibility to Protect, School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University, 15 May 2015
"Nuclear Weapons: The State of Play 2015", Talking Points for launches of Nuclear Weapons: The State of Play 2015, (CNND, Canberra, 2015), Geneva, Vienna, Washington DC, Canberra, Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, Moscow and New York, March-April 2015
"R2P: Looking Back, Looking Forward", Keynote Dinner Address to APR2P/GCR2P/Stanley Foundation.ICRtoP Conference on The Responsibility to Protect at 10: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities in the Asia Pacific, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 26 February 2015
"Making Australian Foreign Policy in 2015: What are Australia's Real Interests?", Notes for Panel Presentation to McKell Institute Forum, K&L Gates, Sydney, 11 February 2015
"Launching the ANU's Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs", Vote of Thanks to Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, Australin National University, Canberra, 4 February 2015
"What I have Learned About Democratic Governance", Notes for Presentation to King Prajadhipok Institute, Bangkok, 3 February 2015
"The French Veto Restraint Proposal: Making it Work", Panel Presentation to International Conference on Limiting the Use of Veto at the UN Security Council in the Case of Mass Atrocities, Sciences Po, Paris, 21 January 2015
"Getting to a Saner Global Nuclear Order", Keynote Dinner Address to RMIT/MIT Conference on Reassessing the Global Nuclear Order: Past, Present and Future, Melbourne, 10 January 2015
"Honoring Bob Mathews: An Outstanding Contributor to World Peace", Remarks to event celebrating the winning of inaugural OPCW-The Hague Award by Dr Robert Mathews, Law School, University of Melbourne, 12 December 2014
"Toward a Nuclear Free and Peaceful Korea and Northeast Asia: Being on the Right Side of History", Paper for 4th Kim Dae-jung Peace Conference, Seoul, 10 December 2014
"Australia and ASEAN", Launch of Sally Percival Wood and Baogang He (eds), The Australia-ASEAN Dialogue: Tracing Forty Years of Partnership (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Melbourne, 3 December 2014
"Vietnam: Then and Now", Opening Address to 2014 Vietnam Update: Connected and Disconnected in Vietnam, ANU, Canberra, 1 December 2014
"Five Challenges for the UN Security Council", Address to the UN Security Council 12th Annual Workshop for Newly Elected Members hosted by Government of Finland, Greentree Foundation, Manhasset, New York, 13 November 2014
"Australia's Role in Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament", Keynote Address to Kokoda Foundation's Future Strategic Leaders Congress, ANU Coastal Campus, Kioloa NSW, 8 November 2014
"Values, Interests and Mass Atrocity Crimes: Does the Responsibility to Protect Have a Future?", Address to Relaunch the Australian Institute of Affairs, Tasmanian Branch, Government House, Hobart, 7 November 2014
"Zone of Crisis: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and Iraq", Launch of Amin Saikal, Zone of Crisis: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and Iraq (I.B. Tauris, London, 2014), ANU, Canberra, 22 October 2014
"The Limits of Sovereignty: The Case of Mass Atrocity Crimes", Keynote Address to Research School of Asia and the Pacific Symposium, Landscapes of Sovereignty in Asia and the Pacific, ANU, Canberra, 22 October 2014
"Appreciating the United Nations", Opening Address to the National Capital Model United Nations Conference, ANU, Canberra, 3 October 2014
"Patrick White's Legacy", Launch of Cynthia vanden Driesen and Bill Ashcroft (eds) Patrick White Centenary: The Legacy of a Prodigal Son (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014), ANU, Canberra, 2 October 2014
"Australia's Role in the Struggle for Democracy in South Africa", Launch of the Australasian South African Alliance Photographic Exhibition, Australia's Role in the Struggle for Democracy and Bilateral Cooperation Since 1994, Customs House, Sydney, 11 September 2014
"Inside the Hawke-Keating Government: A Cabinet Diary", Remarks on the launch by Paul Keating of Inside the Hawke-Keating Government: A Cabinet Diary (Melbourne University Press), Australian National University, Canberra, 27 August 2014
"Humanitarian Architecture", Launch of Esther Charlesworth, Humanitarian Architecture: 15 Stories of Architects Working After Disaster (Routledge, London & New York, 2014), Melbourne, 12 August 2014
"The Road to Abolition: Beyond the Nuclear Umbrella", Keynote Address to the Asahi Shimbun International Peace Symposium, The Road to Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, 2 August 2014
"Bob Carr's Diary of a Foreign Minister", Launch of Bob Carr's Diary of a Foreign Minister, Sydney, 14 April 2014
"What Can We Do About Nuclear Disarmament", Keynote Dinner Address to the CNS/Monterey Institute Workshop on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, PrepCom2014: Taking the Temperature Ahead of the 2015 Review Conference, Annecy, 14 March 2014
"After Syria: the Future of the Responsibility to Protect", Lecture to 2014 S.T.Lee Lecture, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 12 March 2014
"The Governance of the Modern Australian University: One Approach or Many?", Panel Presentation to Universities Australia Annual Higher Education Conference, Canberra, 27 February 2014
"Responding to Iran's Nuclear Challenge", Panel Presentation to Lowy Institute/Council on Foreign Relations Council of Councils Fifth Regional Conference, Sydney, 24 February 2014
"The 1986-87 Cabinet: A View from the Inside", Remarks to the National Archives of Australia 1986 & 1987 Embargoed Cabinet Records Release, Canberra, 5 December 2013
"Barry Jones's Dictionary of World Biography: An E-Book for the Ages", Launch address of Barry Jones's Dictionary of World Biography, Canberra, 28 November 2013
"Indonesia: What Asia's Third Giant Means for Australia, and Australian Business", Presentation to CSIRO Forum, Melbourne, 25 November 2013
"The Rule of Law, Sustainable Economic Development and Sustainable Peace", Panel Presentation to Bangkok Dialogue on the Rule of Law, Investing in the Rule of Law, Justice and Security, Royal Thai Ministry of Justice/Thailand Institute of Justice, Bangkok, 15 November 2013
"Mass Atrocity Crimes After Syria: The Future of the Responsibility to Protect", Public Lecture, University of Queensland, 6 November 2013
"When is it Right to Fight? War, Peace and Mass Atrocity Crimes", Address to Adelaide Festival of Ideas, Adelaide, 19 October 2013
"The Responsibility to Protect: Theory and Practice", Presentation to China Institute of International Studies (CIIS) Conference on Responsible Protection: Building a Safer World, Beijing, 17 October 2013
"The South China Sea and Australia's Regional Security Environment", Launch of National Security College Occasional Paper No 5, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU, Canberra, 2 October 2013
"Societies in Transition: The Values We Share", Public Lecture to Australia in the World History Lecture Series, University of Melbourne, 29 August 2013
"Projecting Australia on the World Stage", Public Lecture to Australia in the World History Lecture Series, University of Melbourne, 29 August 2013
"Peacekeeping Lessons Learned: Australia in Cambodia", Presentation to DFAT Seminar, Canberra, 22 August 2013
"The Background Politics of the Tasmanian Dam Case", Remarks to Opening of ANU College of Law Tasmanian Dam Case Symposium, Canberra, 22 August 2013
"Launch of Lowy Institute's 10th Anniversary Anthology", Launch of Michael Fullilove & Anthony Bubalo (eds), Reports From a Turbulent Decade, Lowy Institute of International Policy, Sydney, 21 August 2013
"Embracing Our Common Humanity", 2013 Angelo Roncalli Lecture, John XXIII College, Canberra, 15 August 2013
"Making Nuclear Disarmament Happen", Keynote Address to the China Arms Control and Disarmament Association (CACDA) Conference on Arms Control and Strategic Stability, Beijing, 8 August 2013
"The Joy of - Labor - Politics", Launch of Senator Kim Carr, A Letter to Generation Next: Why Labor (Melbourne University Press, 2013), Melbourne, 23 July 2013
"What Can be Done About Syria?", Address to the Melbourne High School Political Interest Group, 16 July 2013
"Learning to Love the United Nations", Opening Address to the Model General Assembly, UN Youth Australia National Conference 2013, Sydney, 12 July 2013
"Regional Security Cooperation", Panel Presentation to the World Peace Forum, International Security in a Changing World: Innovation, Coordination, Development, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 28 June 2013
"Regional Security in East Asia", Panel Presentation to the World Peace Forum, International Security in a Changing World: Innovation, Coordination, Development, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 28 June 2013
"Soft Power, Public Diplomacy and Civility", Presentation to Council for the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS) Forum Civility and Democracy, Roundtable on ‘Soft Power and Public Diplomacy’, Parliament House, Canberra, 20 June 2013
"Celebrating Arab-Australians", Opening Address to Exhibition Commemorating Arab Australian Contributions to Victoria, Queens Hall, Parliament House, Melbourne, 12 June 2013
"Complexity, Imperfection and Public Policy", Remarks to ANU Crawford School of Public Policy 2013 Program, Canberra, 6 June 2013
"Celebrating Australia's Peacekeepers in Cambodia", Address to Twenty Year Commemorative Dinner for Australian Peacekeepers in Cambodia, Royal Military College, Duntroon, 25 May 2013
"The Responsibility to Protect: Re-Establishing Consensus on the Hardest Cases", Presentation to UNA-UK/All-Party Parliamentary Group Meeting The Responsibility to Protect: Living and Dying, London, 15 May 2013
"Eliminating Nuclear Weapons: An Impossible Dream?", Lecture to Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Statecraft and Diplomacy 2013, University of Cambridge, 13 May 2013
"Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes: A Hopeless Dream?, Lecture to Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Statecraft and Diplomacy 2013, University of Cambridge, 10 May 2013
"Ending Deadly Conflict: A Naïve Dream?", Lecture to Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Statecraft and Diplomacy 2013, University of Cambridge, 8 May 2013
Reducing Alert Rates of Nuclear Weapons", Presentation to Side-Event sponsored by Switzerland and New Zealand, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference Preparatory Committee, Geneva, 24 April 2013
"Reducing the Role of Nuclear Weapons: Why It Matters", Presentation to Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative (NPDI) Side-Event, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference Preparatory Committee, Geneva, 23 April 2013
"Valuing the United Nations", Opening Address to the 22nd World Model United Conference, Melbourne, 18 March 2013
"Helping Burma/Myanmar", Welcome remarks to the Australia-Myanmar Institute Inaugural Conference, Melbourne Town Hall, 18 March 2013
"Genocide and Other Mass Atrocity Crimes: Asian Experience and Visions for the Future", Panel Presentation to the 4th Regional Forum on the Prevention of Genocide, Phnom Penh, 28 February 2013
"Energy Security and Nuclear Security", Panel Presentation to ASAN Institute for Policy Studies Nuclear Forum, Seoul, 20 February 2013
"Australia and the United Nations", Remarks on the launch of James Cotton and David Lee eds., Australia and the United Nations (DFAT/Longueville Books, 2013), Parliament House, Canberra, 7 February 2013
"The Rich List That Really Matters", Address to the Melbourne High School Speech Night, Melbourne, 30 November 2012
"What Makes a Successful International NGO?", Keynote Address to Oaktree Foundation 2012 National Conference, Queens College, Melbourne, 30 November 2012
"Australia and South East Asia", Dinner Address to AusAid ANU Distinguished Alumni attending Policy Choices for Vietnam Conference, Canberra, 29 November 2012
"From the Law School to Politics", Address to 1960s Alumni Reunion, University of Melbourne Law School, 22 November 2012
"Australia and China", Keynote Address to the 2012 Australia China Forum, Beijing, 14 November 2012
"Cambodia: The Peace Process - and After", Presentation to Cambodia Roundtable, Monash University, 2 November 2012
"Israel and Palestine: Buying a Ticket for Peace", Address to the Australian Friends of Palestine Association (AFOPA) Annual Dinner, Adelaide, 1 November 2012
"Responding to Mass Atrocity Crimes: The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) After Libya and Syria", Public Lecture at Central European University School of Public Policy, Budapest, 24 October 2012
"Wikileaks: For and Against", Presentation to Panel on Media and Freedom, Forum 2000 Conference, Prague, 22 October 2012
"Vaclav Havel's Legacy", Moderator's Presentation to Opening Panel on Vaclav Havel: The Powerful Powerless, Forum 2000 Conference, Prague, 22 October 2012
"The Atrocity Crimes We Can't Forget: Sri Lanka 2009", Launch of Gordon Weiss, The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers (New York: Bellevue Literary Press, 2012), New York, 17 October 2012
"Mass Atrocities and the Use of Force: R2P After Libya and Syria", Panel Presentation to the Conectas International Human Rights Colloquium on Limits of the International Community and the Use of Force, Sao Paolo, Brazil, 16 October 2012
"Why We Should Eliminate Nuclear Weapons", Lecture to University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 4 October 2012
"Human Security and Australian Foreign Policy", Launch of Dennis Altman, Joseph A Camilleri, Robyn Eckersley and Gerhard Hoffstaedter (Eds) Why Human Security Matters: Rethinking Australian Foreign Policy (Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2012), University of Melbourne, 8 October 2012
"Amin Saikal, Modern Afghanisation: A History of Struggle and Survival", Launch of Amin Saikal, Modern Afghanisation: A History of Struggle and Survival (I.B. Taurus, London & New York, updated & revised ed., 2012), 20 September 2012
"Brazilian Proposal Tries to Unlock Deadlock in the Security Council", Interview with Veja, 2 September 2012
"Prospects for International Community", Presentation to DFAT Graduate Training Program on International Relations, Canberra, 7 September 2012
"Nuclear Deterrence in Asia and the Pacific", Presentation to Inaugural Conference of Asia and the Pacific Policy Society (APPS)/Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies Journal, Australian National University, Canberra, 7 September 2012
"R2P and RWP After Libya and Syria", Keynote Address to to GCR2P/FGV/Stanley Foundation Workshop, Responsibility While Protecting: What’s Next?, Rio de Janeiro, 23 August 2012
"Ending Deadly Conflict: Dream or Delusion?", Keynote Address to 1st International Conference in Violence Studies, ARC Centre of Excellence for Violence in Culture and History, University of Newcastle, 20 August 2012
"Islamisation in Java", Launch of Professor Emeritus M.C.Ricklefs, Islamisation and its Opponents in Java (NUS Press, Singapore, 2012), Canberra, 14 August 2012
"Idealism and Realism in Australian Foreign Policy", 2012 Hedley Bull Lecture, The Australian National University, University of Sydney, 14 August 2012
"Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament: Global and Regional Challenges", Presentation to University of Melbourne, AIIA and UN Youth Australia Lecture Series, Australia’s Role in the World, Sidney Myer Asia Centre, Melbourne, 9 August 2012
"International Law and Global Policymaking: Life at the Coalface", Presentation to University of Melbourne Law School 2012 Global Thinking Lecture Series, Melbourne, 6 August 2012
"Responding to War Crimes and Other Mass Atrocities", Presentation to 2012 SEW International Justice Forum, Wheeler Centre, Melbourne, 2 August 2012
"A Lawyer in Politics", Address to Attorney-General’s Department ‘Talking Heads’ Series, Canberra, 26 July 2012
"Launch of the ANU Law, Governance and Development Initiative", Australian National University, Canberra, 26 July 2012
"The Responsibility to Protect After Libya and Syria", Address to Annual Castan Centre for Human Rights Law Conference, Melbourne, 20 July 2012
"Australia, Nelson Mandela and the End of Apartheid", Nelson Mandela Day Address, Government House, Sydney, 17 July 2012
"Law, Justice and Mass Atrocity Crimes", Don Dunstan Foundation and Oxfam Australia 2012 Human Rights Oration, Adelaide, 10 July 2012
"The Role of the Human Rights Council in Implementing the Responsibility to Protect", Opening Presentation to Human Rights Council Side Event sponsored by Australia, Hungary, Nigeria, Thailand and Uruguay, Palais des Nations, Geneva, 19 June 2012
"No Power? No Influence? Australia's Middle Power Diplomacy in the Asian Century", 2012 Charteris Lecture to the Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA), New South Wales Branch, Sydney, 6 June 2012
"Leadership", Notes for Melbourne University Senior Leadership Dinner Forum, 21 May 2012
"The International Crisis Group: The Role of a Global NGO in Preventing and Resolving Deadly Conflict", Presentation to SSPS Centre for Public Policy Challenging Crises Series, University of Melbourne, 17 May 2012
"Australia in the Asian Century: Foreign Policy Challenges", 2012 International Affairs Oration, International House, Melbourne, 10 May 2012
"Interview with YourCommonwealth.org", Interview with Francis Ventura
"Cambodia Past and Present", Keynote Remarks to ISEAS International Conference on Cambodia: Progress and Challenges Since 1991, Singapore, 29 March 2012
"A World Free of Nuclear Risk: Re-Energising Global Policymakers", Address to the International House of Japan/ANU Japan Alumni Association program, Rethinking Nuclear Non-Proliferation and the Nuclear Issue, Tokyo, 28 March 2012
"The Middle East in Revolt: Twelve Months On", Opening Address to University of Melbourne Asia Institute/Freedom House Conference, Middle East in Revolt: The First Anniversary, Melbourne, 17 March 2012
"Cabinet reshuffle: Gareth Evans on Bob Carr", Interview with Gareth Evans on The Conversation, 2 March 2012
"Australia’s Distinctive Presence in the World: And Why Winning a Security Council Seat Matters", Australia Day 2012 Breakfast Address, Parliament House, Melbourne, 26 January 2012
"R2P After Libya: The State of Play - And Next Steps" Notes of Presentation at Group of Friends of R2P Lunch Meeting, Netherlands Mission, 19 January 2012
"India and Australia in the Asian Century", Keynote Lecture to the Australia India Institute and University of Calcutta Conference The Asian Century – Security, Sustainability and Society: An India Australia Dialogue, Kolkata, 5 December 2011
"Law, Justice and Mass Atrocity Crimes", Address to UNSW, UTS and University of Sydney Law, Governance and Social Justice Public Discussion Series, Sydney, 23 November 2011
"Responding to Mass Atrocity Crimes: The Responsibility to Protect after Libya", 2011 El Hassan bin Talal Annual Lecture, University of York, 15 November 2011
"The Raison d'Etre, Scope and Limits of the Responsibility to Protect", Address to International Colloquium on The Responsibility to Protect: Ten Years On, Universite Paris Ouest, Centre de Droit International (CEDIN), Academie Diplomatique Internationale, Paris, 14 November 2011
"Response to David Rieff‘s “R2P, RIP", in New York Times and International Herald Tribune 7 November 2011
"East Timor and Me", A Response to Noam Chomsky, 3 November 2011
"Nuclear Weapons: The State of Play", Address to Global Strategy Forum, London, 18 October 2011
"Global Issues of the Future: Challenges for South Asian Policymakers", Keynote Address to India Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), 2nd Advanced Briefing Programme: Critical Strategic and Economic Themes for the Future, New Delhi, 31 October 2011
"Nuclear Weapons: The Road to Zero", Panel Presentation to Inter-Parliamentary Union 125th Assembly, Bern, 17 October 2011
"Responding to Mass Atrocity Crimes: The Responsibility to Protect After Libya", Address to the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London, 6 October 2011
"Crisis, Uncertainty and Democracy", Welcoming Opening Address to Australian Political Studies Association (APSA) Conference 2011, 26 September 2011
"Interview: The “RtoP” Balance Sheet After Libya", Interviw with Alex Stark, e-International Relations, 2 September 2011
"Remembering Clyde Holding", State Memorial Service for Hon Clyde Holding, Great Hall, National Gallery of Victoria, 16 August 2011
"Governance, Leadership and Management in Universities", Keynote Address to 6th Annual University Governance and Regulations Forum, Melbourne, 10 August 2011
"An End to Nuclear Weapons: Commemorating the Victims of Atomic Warfare", Address to Australian Red Cross Friends of International Humanitarian Law (FIHL)/International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemoration Event, Melbourne, 9 August 2011
"Cambodia Then and Now: Commemorating the 1991 Peace Agreement", Keynote Address to Seminar on Measuring Cambodia’s Progress Toward Equality, University of NSW Law School, 6 August 2011
"Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes: The Responsibility to Protect Balance Sheet After Libya", Second Renate Kamener, Leo Baeck Centre, Melbourne, 31 July 2011
"Middle Power Diplomacy", Inaugural Edgardo Boeninger Memorial Lecture, Chile Pacific Foundation, Santiago, 29 June 2011
"War, Peace and National Identity", Keynote Address to the Melbourne Festival of Ideas, Sidney Myer Asia Centre, 15 June 2011
"Toward Safer and More Stable Nuclear Deterrence", Remarks to European Leadership Network/Nuclear Threat Initiative/Hoover Institution Conference on Deterrence: Its Past and Future, Lancaster House, London, 21 May 2011
"Preventing Violent Conflict: What Have We Learned?", Keynote Address to to USIP Second Annual Conference on Preventing Violent Conflict, Washington DC, 1 June 2011
"Implementing the Responsibility to Protect: Lessons and Challenges", Freilich Foundation 2011 Alice Tay Lecture on Law and Human Rights, Canberra, 5 May 2011
"Political Risk In Asian Markets", Address to 2011 Credit Suisse Asian Investment Conference, Hong Kong, 21 March 2011
"Bruce Hall 50th Anniversary Commencement Dinner, Australian National University, Canberra, 10 March 2011
"Enlargers, Straiteners and the Making of Australian Foreign Policy", 12th Annual Manning Clark Lecture, National Library, Canberra, 3 March 2011
"The Asian Region in 2011: Trends and Tensions", Presentation to AsiaLink and Asia Society Chairman’s Welcome Reception, Melbourne, 21 February 2011
"An Enduring Legacy: Ian Chubb's Leadership of ANU", Address to Farewell Dinner to Vice-Chancellor Ian Chubb, University House, Australian National University, Canberra, 17 February 2011
"Nuclear Weapons As A Threat To Global Peace", Address to the UNI Global Union 3rd World Conference, Nagasaki, Japan, 11 November 2010
"Corruption, Peace and Security", Plenary Panel Presentation to Transparency International 14th International Anti-Corruption Conference, Bangkok, 10 November 2010
"Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament: Where Next?", Keynote Address to IAEA Safeguards Symposium, Vienna, 1 November 2010
"Making Ideas Matter", Convocation Address, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, 28 October 2010
"50 Years On: The ANU Law School", Address to the ANU College of Law 50th Anniversary Alumni Dinner, Canberra, 1 October 2010
"Why the UN Matters", Keynote Address to the United Nations Youth Assembly, Sydney, 29 September 2010
"National Government and Global Governance: Meeting the Challenges of International Decisionmaking", Opening Address to Australian Political Science Association (APSA) Conference, Connected Globe, Disconnected World, University of Melbourne, 27 September 2010
"A Nuclear Weapons Free World: Utopian Dream?", 2010 University of Melbourne Arts Dean's Lecture, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne, 20 September 2010
"Australia's Asian Future", Address to the Australian Club's International Table, Melbourne, 16 September 2010
"Asia Pacific Regional Security Architecture", Panel Presentation to the Global Policy Forum, Yaroslavl, Russia, 9 September 2010
"Cambodia Then and Now", Dinner Address to AsiaLink Conversation, Phnom Penh, 4 September 2010
"Indonesia's Democratic Transformation", Launch of Harold Crouch, Political Reform in Indonesia after Soeharto and Edward Aspinall and Marcus Mietzner (eds) Problems of Democratisation in Indonesia, College of Asia Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, 26 August 2010
"Battling Race Hatred, Discrimination and Conflict: A Personal Journey", Diversity Week Lecture, University of Melbourne, 9 August 2010
"Peace v. Justice", Guest Lecture, Melbourne Law School, 27 July 2010
"The Great Encourager: The ANU's W.K. Hancock", Launch of Jim Davidson’s The Historian W.K.Hancock: A Three-Cornered Life (UNSW Press), ANU, Canberra, 14 July 2010
"Protecting the Vulnerable: How Lawyers Can Help", Keynote Dinner Address to the 2010 Australian Law Students’ Association (ALSA) Conference, Adelaide, 12 July 2010
"Ethnopolitical Conflict: When is it Right to Intervene?, Keynote Address to Centre for Ethno-Political Studies Conference on Ethnopolitics and Intervention in a Globalized World, University of Exeter, 28 June 2010
"International Law at the Coalface: Three Decades of Learning by Doing", Annual Kirby Lecture on International Law, Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, 24 June 2010
"Making the Responsibility to Protect Work in the Asia Pacific", Presentation to ASEAN-ISIS 24th Asia-Pacific Roundtable, Kuala Lumpur, 8 June 2010
"A World Free of Fear: In Defence of Optimism", Acceptance Remarks to Presentation of Four Freedoms Award for Freedom from Fear, Roosevelt Stichting, Middelburg, Netherlands, 29 May 2010
"Nuclear Security: The Obama Summit and what Comes Next", Keynote Address to Fissile Material Working Group NGO Summit, Next Generation Nuclear Security: Meeting the Global Challenge, Washington, 12 April 2010
"From Ideas to Action: "Political Will" in International Decisionmaking", Address to annual Public Lecture for UQ's School of Political Science and International Studies, Brisbane, 31 March 2010
"Obama’s Prague Speech One Year On: The Nuclear Balance Sheet", Transcript of address to Australian Strategic Policy Institute Luncheon, 18 March 2010, Canberra
"Installation as Chancellor of Australian National University", Address to John Curtin School of Medical Research Auditorium, Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, 18 February 2010
"The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and for All", Law Week Oration 2009, Victoria Law Foundation and Melbourne Law School, Melbourne, 22 September 2009
"The Challenge of Nuclear Disarmament", Stephen Murray-Smith Memorial Lecture 2009, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, 14 September 2009
"Implementing the Responsibility to Protect: The need to build on the 2005 Consensus", Statement to the United Nations General Assembly Interactive Dialogue on the Responsibility to Protect, New York, 23 July 2009
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