The Centre for Ethics
Newsletter
Volume 79 - Term 4, 2015
Father Frank Brennan AO
Father Frank Brennan has been
described by Paul Keating as “the
meddling priest,” by the National Trust
as a National Living Treasure and by
Phillip Adams as “my favourite Jesuit”.
He regularly appears on Adams’ Radio
National program: Late Night Live. He
also contributes to other ABC radio
and television current affairs programs
including Q&A, the 7.30 Report and
Lateline. His articles can be found in a
wide variety of publications including
the Age, The Australian and Eureka
Street.
A life in the law and in pursuit of
social justice
Father Brennan is a professor of law
in the Public Policy Institute at the
Australian Catholic University, Adjunct
Professor at the Australian National
University College of Law, a visiting
professorial fellow at the University
of New South Wales and was the
founding director of the Uniya Jesuit
Social Justice Centre in Sydney from
2001 to 2007. He is renowned for his
long standing advocacy in the areas of
law, social justice, refugee protection
and Aboriginal reconciliation. In 1995,
he was appointed as an Officer of
the Order of Australia. In 1996, Frank
Brennan and Patrick Dodson were joint
winners of the inaugural Australian
Council for Overseas Aid Human Rights
Award. In 2002, Frank was awarded the
Humanitarian Overseas Service Medal
for his work as Director of the Jesuit
Refugee Service in East Timor. He has
received, honoris causa, a Doctor of
the University from the Queensland
University of Technology and a Doctor
of Laws from the University of New
South Wales.
Influences
Frank Brennan’s family has a
long association with the law. His
grandfather was a Justice of the
Supreme Court of Queensland and his
father, Sir Gerard Brennan was Chief
Justice of the High Court of Australia
from 1995 until 1998. In 1975, Frank
worked in the inner Sydney parish
of Redfern with the legendary and
controversial priest activist Father Ted
Kennedy. It was here that he came
into contact with Mum Shirl Smith. In
the 1960s, Father Kennedy and Mum
Shirl were leading members of a group
promoting significant legal, health and
political initiatives to achieve greater
social justice for Aboriginal people.
Reconciliation and Human Rights
In 1997, Father Brennan was
Rapporteur at the Australian
Reconciliation Convention and the
following year was appointed an
Ambassador for Reconciliation by the
Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation.
In 2008 he became chairperson
of the Australian Government’s
National Human Rights Consultation
Committee. This committee consulted
with the Australian community
about the protection and promotion
of human rights and reported its
recommendations to the Federal
Attorney General in 2009.
Robust Debate
In the hurly burly of political debate,
Frank Brennan has never been afraid
to speak his mind. During 2011, he was
critical of the refugee policies of the
government saying that the Australian
Labor Party had been led into moral
decline and that the Malaysia Solution
was morally derelict and tantamount
to “offshore dumping”. Over the
years, he has faced criticism of his
own. In June, prominent indigenous
academic Marcia Langton denounced
his proposal for the recognition of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
people in the constitution as merely
symbolic reform, that it set the bar
“too low” and predicted it would be
opposed by Indigenous Australians.
No Small Change
Frank Brennan has written fourteen
books. His most recent is No Small
Change: The Road to Recognition for
Indigenous Australia. His first book was
Too Much Order With Too Little Law. He
has also written Legislating Liberty: a
bill of rights for Australia? A provocative
and timely proposal to balance the
public good with individual freedom.
There is also Tampering with Asylum:
a universal humanitarian problem.
When speaking in the Chapel, Frank
Brennan will address the topic
Australia’s National Interest and the
Decent Treatment of Asylum Seekers.
Frank Sheehan
School Chaplain
Director of the Centre for Ethics
The Centre for Ethics newsletter is a quarterly publication informing
the community of forthcoming speakers and events.
Matt Norman
Matt Norman is a young writer and
educator, consumed with the power of
stories. His work has been published in
Voiceworks, The Disappearing app (part of
the Sydney Writers Festival), on a giant
poster by Trove Journal, and various
other locations. Matt is the founder
and director of the Said Poets Society; a
small team of young people who run
workshops to engage and empower
high school students through poetry. He
thinks stories can change the world, and
he is trying to prove it one tale at a time.
Kerry O’Brien will speak to
the community on
Wednesday 28 October.
Kerry O’Brien
Kerry O’Brien is an Australian journalist
who has been reporting and
commenting on Australian politics for
50 years. He was the founding presenter
of Lateline, the former editor and long
time host of the ABC’s 7.30 Report and
he currently hosts Four Corners. O’Brien
has had roles as a general reporter,
feature writer, political and foreign
correspondent, interviewer and compere.
Kerry O’Brien is one of Australia’s most
respected journalists, with six Walkley
awards including the Gold Walkley
and the Walkley for Outstanding
Leadership in journalism.
In his book Keating, O’Brien and
Keating wrestle with history to
produce a ‘tour de force’ of political
wisdom and personal insight that
weaves through the Keating years in a
unique and compelling way.
Building on the transcripts of the
much-watched television event of
2013, Keating: The Interviews, O’Brien
gathered an enormous bank of new
material, gleaned during many hours
of further conversation with Keating,
to create a book that is more forensic
and all encompassing than the
successful TV series.
O’Brien captures the hallmarks of
the man - the nimble mind, the wit,
the sweep of vision, the ruthlessness
and the stubborn drive for power - as
Keating explains the historic events,
back room stoushes and moments of
drama and pathos that the political
world inevitably holds.
Matt Norman will speak to students
on Tuesday 13 October.
Paul Keating became Australia’s
24th Prime Minister in 1991, after
successfully challenging Bob Hawke
for the Labor leadership. He won
the so-called “unwinnable” election
just over a year later. During
office, he introduced compulsory
superannuation, deregulated the
financial sector and floated the
Australian dollar. He was defeated at
the 1996 election by his long-time
nemesis John Howard; however, he
remains an enthusiastic contributor
to the Australian economic and
political arenas.
Julie Baker’s 32-year career in travel
and tourism has spanned a broad
spectrum of roles, from travel
agent to Managing Director of
Genesis Travel, Genesis Dive Travel
and Epicurean Tours. Passionately
involved in yoga, meditation and
spirituality, her personal journey
has guided her on a quest for a
more balanced and meaningful life.
Aware that certain locations have
a heightened spiritual energy, Julie
has become more and more aware
that ancient, indigenous wisdoms
are linked to healing, joy and vitality.
Julie began Journeys of the Spirit as a
way of allowing other people to be in
touch with their own depths, as they
travel to new locations. Her vision in
the creation of these very personal
experiences is that they may touch
the hearts of people in empowering
and lasting ways.
Julie Baker
Julie Baker will speak
to students on
Monday 2 November.
Dr Barry Green
Dr Barry Green has a Bachelor of
Science from Victoria University
of Wellington, New Zealand, and
obtained his PhD in Theoretical
Physics from the University of Sydney
in 1967. He spent the next 40 years
outside Australia and was involved
in the research and development of
fusion energy.
He has worked at the Princeton
Plasma Physics Laboratory in
the United States; the Max-
Planck Institute of Plasma Physics
in Germany and the JET Joint
Undertaking in the United Kingdom,
where he was engineer in charge of
the operation of the JET device when
it produced the first significant man
made fusion power (2 MW) in 1991.
Subsequently he worked at the
Naka Joint Work Site in Japan for the
design phase of the International
Fusion Energy Project (ITER), now
under construction in the south
of France. He then worked for
the Directorate of Energy of the
Directorate General for Research in
Brussels, where he co-ordinated the
fusion research and development of
the 12 most recent member states of
the European Union; before retiring
to Perth where he now works part-
time in the School of Physics at the
University of Western Australia.
Barry Green will speak to students
on Thursday 29 October.
Dr Hoenig is a lecturer and tutor in
journalism at The University of South
Australia. He recently completed
a PhD in Journalism and Cultural
Studies with his thesis entitled
Reading alien lips: Australian press
depiction of lip sewing by asylum
seekers and the construction of national
identity. Dr Hoenig has written several
papers examining the treatment
by Australian print media of recent
asylum seekers. His work brings
together his passions about writing,
multiculturalism and the ethics of
depiction of cultural Others.
Dr Hoenig is the Deputy Chair of the
Australian Council of Christians and
Jews and the Jewish Co-Chair of the
Council of Christians and Jews (SA),
President of Beit Shalom Synagogue
and a member of the reference
group of the Abraham Institute. In
2011 he was nominated for a lifetime
achievement award for his activities in
promoting multiculturalism in South
Australia.
Lib is a South African-Australian
who derives purpose in life through
empowering others. As president of
The SOAR Project, LEAP Leadership
Coach, youth advisory councillor,
participant in Methodist Ladies’
College’s Walton Leadership Institute
and advocate for the White Ribbon
campaign, she works to make the
world a better place.
Lib has spoken in various parts of
the world from Los Angeles to Perth
on a range of topics from Charity to
Leadership. She is a proud advocate
for the White Ribbon Campaign,
an organisation that works for the
abolition of male violence against
women.
White Ribbon is Australia’s only
national, male led campaign to end
men’s violence against women. Its
vision is that all women live in safety,
free from all forms of men’s violence
and it seeks to make women’s safety
an issue for men. White Ribbon
began in Australia in 2003 as part of
UNIFEM (now UN Women).
Dr Ron Hoenig
Lib Matthews
Dr Hoenig will speak to
the community on
Monday 9 November.
Lib Matthews will speak to the
students on 18 November.
COUNCIL OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS
WESTERN AUSTRALIA INC.
COMMEMORATION of KRISTALLNACHT
“The Night of Broken Glass”
in the presence of Her Excellency
the Honourable Kerry Sanderson AO
Governor of Western Australia
Occasional address by
Dr Ron Hoenig
Deputy Chair, Australian CCJ; Jewish Co-Chair CCJ (SA)
7:30pm, Monday 9 November 2015
Christ Church Grammar School Chapel
Queenslea Drive, Claremont
All welcome
Enquiries:
ccjwa@aol.com
We are always delighted to welcome back speakers whose talks have been so interesting and helpful.
For more information on any of our speakers please contact Teresa Scott at tscott@ccgs.wa.edu.au
Frank Brennan is an Australian
Jesuit priest, Professor of Law at the
Australian Catholic University and
Adjunct Professor at the Australian
Centre for Christianity and Culture,
the Australian National University
College of Law and the National
Centre for Indigenous Studies.
In 1995, Frank was appointed an
Officer of the Order of Australia
(AO) in recognition of service to
Aboriginal Australians, particularly as
an advocate in the areas of law, social
justice and reconciliation.
When launching Frank’s book Acting
on conscience: how can we responsibly
mix law, religion and politics? Kevin
Rudd described Frank as ‘an ethical
burr in the nation’s saddle’. In 1998,
during The Wik debate, Paul Keating
labelled him ‘the meddling priest’.
This followed with the National Trust
classifying Frank as a National Living
Treasure.
In 2009, Frank chaired the Australian
National Human Rights Consultation
Committee. His research interests
include conscience and faith, human
rights and the rule of law, and the
rights of Indigenous peoples and
asylum seekers. In 2013, he was the
recipient of the Migration Institute of
Australia’s Distinguished Service to
Immigration Award.
In May 2015, Frank returned to
Australia, having spent a year as
the Gasson Professor at the Boston
College Law School. His latest books
are No Small Change: The Road to
Recognition for Indigenous Australia
and Amplifying That Still, Small Voice.
Frank Brennan AO
Frank Brennan will speak to
the community on
Sunday 22 November.
Thursday 24 December
10.00am School Chapel
If your children are interested in taking part in
this year’s Nativity play please contact
Mr Jerome Griffin jgriffin@ccgs.wa.edu.au
Wednesday 2 December 7.30pm School Chapel
Thursday 24 December 8.00pm School Chapel
Please contact Teresa Scott on 9442 1705 beforehand, in case there is a change to the program.
A map of Christ Church Grammar School is available on our website www.ccgs.wa.edu.au/about-us/our-location/campus-map
The Centre For Ethics
Calendar
Date
Event and topic
Speaker
Time
Location
Every Thursday
Christ Church Credo
Matt Smith
1.00pm
Q1
Every 4th Tuesday
Embracing Fatherhood
Facilitator: Miles Protter
7.30pm
RSVP
fsheehan@ccgs.
wa.edu.au
Tuesday 13 October
Voiceworks
Matt Norman
Day
Classroom
Monday 26 October
Life is fun
Jon Doust
Day
Classroom
Wednesday 28 October
WA Book Event: Keating
Kerry O’Brien
7.30pm
Tickets Lane
Bookshop
9384 4423
Thursday 29 October
Fusion – A sustainable
source for the future
Dr Barry Green
Day
Classroom
Monday 2 November
Journeys of the Spirit
Julie Baker
Day
Classroom
Monday
9 November
Commemoration of
Kristallnacht
Dr Ron Hoenig will speak.
Her Excellency the
Honourable Kerry
Sanderson AO will be in
attendance
7.30pm
Chapel
Wednesday
11 November
Leadership
Greg Mitchell
Day
Classroom
Wednesday
18 November
White Ribbon Day
Lib Matthews
Day
Classroom
Sunday
22 November
Australia’s National Interest
and the Decent Treatment
of Asylum Seekers
Frank Brennan
3.00pm to
6.00pm
Chapel
Wednesday
25 November
Ethics Book Club
Frank Sheehan
Q1
RSVP
9442 1705
Wednesday
2 December
Advent Service
7.30pm
Chapel
Thursday
24 December
Nativity Play
10.00am
Chapel
Thursday
24 December
Xmas Eve Service
8.00pm
Chapel
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