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10th Annual Hawke Lecture - Consensus and dissent in Australia
The lecture was given in Adelaide on 10 October 2007, by the Hon Justice Michael Kirby. In his Boyer Lectures in 1979, Bob Hawke espoused the importance of seeking consensus as a means of resolving many of the nation's economic, industrial and social conflicts. When in 1983 he became Prime Minister of Australia, he endeavoured to put consensus into action, as in the industrial Accord of that year. Michael Kirby explores the interface of consensus and dissent in contemporary Australia.