7 March Gold Coast
Seminars Bond University Under and Post Graduate Students
1 March 2007 Brisbane
Address Queensland Department of Education, Training and the Arts
10 December 2006 Brisbane
Address Australia China Friendship Society
The author outlined the central ideas in A Confucian-Daoist Millennium? to a group of the Society’s members. In subsequent discussion, substantial attention was focused on ideas concerning contrasting Eastern and Western scientific cultures.
10 October 2006 Brisbane
Address/Workshop Queensland Public Service Leadership Lounge
A three hour presentation to a group of around eighty Queensland public servants was conducted in a workshop environment. This was broken into three sections, concerning three central lines of Western tradition, the Chinese legacies of Confucianism, Daoism and the Yi Jing, and the Chinese strategic and health cultures. Small break-out sessions facilitated substantial interaction amongst participants. There was broad acceptance and discussion of the ideas contained in A Confucian-Daoist Millennium?
22 August 2006 Brisbane
Address Australian Institute of International Affairs
A forty five minute address to members of the Brisbane branch of the AIIA exploring the implications for Australia of the rise of Confucian-Daoist East Asia and the difficulties ahead for the Anglo-American neo-liberal global order that has existed for most of Australia’s history.
11 August 2006 Sydney
Book Launch China Books
A book launch introduced by Warren Reed, the author’s partner in writing two previous books. The author’s presentation and subsequent questions responded to the nature of the audience and focused primarily on the character and centrality in importance of Chinese medicine and science in understanding
10 August 2006 Canberra
Book Launch Asia Bookroom
A book launch to a group composed substantially of academics, public servants and people with experience of living overseas involved an introduction to the books main themes. Discussion involved exchanges critiquing and defending the themes of the book, particularly those that favourably on East Asian value systems when compared with those of the West.
10 August 2006 Canberra
Book Launch Parliament House
A book launch introduced by Mr P G F Henderson, Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs from 1980 to1984. After an account of book’s argument the author responded to a number of questions that queried
6 August 2006 Brisbane
Book Launch Australia China Business Forum
A book launch introduced by the Chinese Consul General in Brisbane, Madame Liu, who placed the book ia contemporary political environment and remarked on te courage of the author. This was followed by the author’s account of the book’s relevance for all businessmen engaged in China commerce.
27 July 2006 Brisbane
Staff Seminar Griffith University
A power point presentation outlined the structure and contents of A Confucian-Daoist Millennium? to a group of interested Griffith University academics