In a time of great uncertainty and controversial decision-making, the public’s right to know has never been more pronounced.
Griffith University’s A better future for all: In conversation series with Kerry O’Brien, provides a critical platform for influential commentators, business leaders, scholars and authors to share their personal insights, knowledge and experience on an array of critical topics. At the heart of these conversations is a commitment to understanding the intersection of ideas and actions affecting our daily lives.
These dialogues aim to provide a much-needed forum for robust and unfettered discussion about where we are, and how we are responding to one of this century’s greatest challenges. Helmed by master broadcaster and journalist Kerry O’Brien, the series features intimate conversations with key thought-leaders, and people with a focus on solutions and engagement.
At stake is the challenge to answer confronting questions about how we are going to adjust, adapt and find solutions to a new, post-pandemic world.
Catch up on prior conversations of the series by viewing the streams or listening to the podcast via your preferred streaming service.
6pm Monday, 16 August. Register for the August instalment of ‘A better future for all’ where Kerry O’Brien will host Rhoda Roberts AO and Wesley Enoch AM.
6pm Friday, 30 July. Register now for the next instalment as we welcome author and commentator Stan Grant.
Moderated by renowned journalist Kerry O’Brien, the next instalment of ‘A better future for all’ will welcome Jess Hill.
Moderated by renowned journalist Kerry O’Brien, the next instalment of ‘A better future for all’ will welcome Professor John Rasko AO.
Moderated by renowned journalist Kerry O’Brien, the next instalment of ‘A better future for all’ will welcome 2021 Australian of the Year, Grace Tame.
This conversation with veteran journalist Kerry O’Brien will discuss the big policy challenges facing Queensland as the pandemic hopefully recedes–economic, social, environmental–and how Premier Palaszczuk intends to confront them. He will also explore her motivation, influences and style of leadership.
Griffith University and HOTA’s series of timely and thought-provoking conversations, A better future for all, continues in November at HOTA, Home of the Arts, with a panel discussion moderated by host Kerry O’Brien that will discuss the human side of the pandemic and how this collective experience might change society.
Moderated by renowned journalist Kerry O’Brien, the next instalment of ‘A better future for all’ will welcome former United States Ambassador to Australia Jeff Bleich to discuss the impending US election
Moderated by renowned journalist Kerry O’Brien, the third instalment of ‘A better future for all’ will welcome celebrated Indigenous author, Bruce Pascoe. Together they will explore the way Bruce’s critically acclaimed book ‘Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the birth of Agriculture’ challenges conventional thinking about the First Australians as hunter gatherers.
Moderated by renowned journalist Kerry O’Brien, the second instalment of A better future for all will welcome Sally McManus, the Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, for a deep dive into the irrevocably changing face of modern working life.
Griffith University’s inaugural A better future for all Conversation series with Kerry O’Brien featured one of the nation’s most important business leaders Qantas Group CEO Alan Joyce AC.