Eric Johnston Lectures
25th Eric Johnston Lecture
‘Now I’m Free to Speak’ by Mr Tom Pauling AO QC
Former Administrator of the Northern Territory
This event was held on Thursday 1 December at 6pm.
Vote of thanks was given by Mr Jim Grant, Chief Executive, Department of Natural Resources, Environment, The Arts and Sport.
The Eric Johnston Lecture was delivered this year by the outgoing Administrator. Mr Pauling has a distinguished record of over thirty years of service to the legal profession in the Northern Territory. He was appointed as Queen’s Counsel in 1984 and served in the position of Solicitor General of the NT from 1988 until 2007. Sworn in on 9 November 2007 as the 19th Administrator of the Northern Territory, he was also appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia on the Queen’s Birthday Honours list of 2008.
The Eric Johnston Lecture Series
The Eric Johnston Lecture series was established to fill a serious gap in Darwin's cultural calendar, since the city had no lecture series dealing in depth with the Territory's culture and history in all its diverse ramifications.
The series was named after the Territory's then Administrator Commodore Eric Johnston. Commodore Johnston himself delivered the first lecture in 1986, and, up until his death in 1997, he always made a point of being present at the lectures, and delivered the vote of thanks.
The Eric Johnston Lectures are delivered annually, in general alternating between a prominent Territorian and a reputable interstate/overseas personality. The topics of the lectures can cover any subject providing the central theme relates to the Northern Territory. The lectures are made available to the public by the Northern Territory Library (successor to the State Library of the Northern Territory) through its Occasional Papers series - up to 1996 in the traditional printed form, and thereafter on the Internet.
The
Eric Johnston Lectures have already established themselves as a prestigious and scholarly annual event in Darwin and have made a real and lasting contribution to the spread of knowledge on Territory history and culture throughout Australia.
| 2011 | Mr Tom Pauling AO QC - ‘Now I’m Free to Speak’ Video stream of Tom Pauling's lecture |
| 2010 | Banduk Marika - contemporary female artist of Eastern Arnhem Land. |
| 2009 | Clare Martin Reflections on being in Government 2001 - 2007.(pdf 165Kb) |
| 2008 | Tom Calma - Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Social Justice & Race Discrimination Commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission A human rights agenda for the Northern Territory.(pdf 64Kb) Transcript via the Australian Human Rights Commission. (html) Video of Lecture part 1 (mov 7.83Mb) Video of Lecture part 2 (mov 8.02Mb) Video of Lecture part 3 (mov 7.72Mb) Video of Lecture part 4 (mov 7.81Mb) Video of Lecture part 5 (mov 7.67Mb) Video of Lecture part 6 (mov 8.03Mb) Video of Lecture part 7 (mov 7.3Mb) Video of Lecture part 8 (mov 5.52Mb) Video of Lecture part 9 (mov 5.82Mb) |
| 2007 | The Honourable Austin Asche AC QC - Former Administrator of the NT 1993-1997 When We Were South Australian. (pdf 334Kb) Video of Lecture Introduction (mov 33Mb) Video of Lecture part 1 (mov 38Mb) Video of Lecture part 2 (mov 46Mb) Video of Lecture part 3 (mov 41Mb) Video of Lecture part 4 (mov 41Mb) Video of Lecture part 5 (mov 37Mb) Video of Lecture part 6 (mov 15Mb) |
| 2006 | Judy Nunn - Author/Actress Territory (pdf 81Kb) |
| 2005 | Marilynne Paspaley - Film and television actress and businesswoman Finding the spirit of Darwin. (pdf 54Kb) |
| 2004 | Bill Bunbury - Author Cyclone Tracy - An ILL Wind? (pdf 122Kb) Listen to this lecture (wma 2.6Mb, you will need Windows Media Player) |
| 2003 | Associate Professor Martin W B Jarvis - Artistic Director/Conductor of the Darwin Symphony Orchestra Under the Stars in Tropical Vienna. (pdf 347Kb) |
| 2002 | No lecture |
| 2001 | Terry Underwood - Author, photographer, cattlewoman and ambassador of the NT Nowhere to Somewhere. (pdf 86Kb) |
| 2000 | His Honour Mr John Anictomatis OAM - Former Administrator of the NT 2000-2003 A Home Away from Home - the Aegean to Australia. (pdf 52Kb) |
| 1999 | Bob Collins - Former member of the Australian Senate, Northern Teritory Legislative Assembly, and Leader of the Territory Opposition. Learning Lessons - Indigenous Education in the Northern Territory. (pdf 26Kb) |
| 1998 | Ted Egan - Former Administrator of the NT, singer/songwriter and Author "Makarrta - Caledon Bay and Woodah Island Killings of 1932-33". |
| 1997 | Goff Letts - founder of the Country Liberal Party and former member of the Northern Territory Legislative Council The Great Banteng Muster : The Cobourg Expeditions 1960 - 1963. (pdf 98Kb) |
| 1996 | Mandawuy Yunupingu - Australian of the Year 1992 "New Love Song for an Old Land". Audio of Lecture Introduction (mp3 6.83Mb) Audio of Lecture part 1 (mp3 15.2Mb) Audio of Lecture part 2 (mp3 9.59Mb) Audio of Lecture part 3 (mp3 7.65Mb Audio of Lecture part 4 (mp3 3.14Mb) |
| 1995 | Roslyn Poignant - Anthropologist, author and photographer Lost Conversations, Recovered Archives. (pdf 244Kb) |
| 1994 | Miriam-Rose Baumann - Principal at the St. Francis Xavier School, Daly River Aboriginal Education (pdf 61Kb) |
| 1993 | Professor D J Mulvaney - Pre-historian, Archaeologist and academic The Search for Collet Barker of Raffles Bay. (pdf 1Mb) |
| 1992 | Dr. John Hargrave - A leprosy specialist who practised in the NT from the 50s onwards The Best of Both Worlds : Aboriginal Health, Then and Now. (pdf 361Kb) |
| 1991 | Sir Paul Hasluck - Historian, poet, 17th Governor-General of Australia 1969-1974 Pioneers of Post War Recovery. (pdf 928Kb) |
| 1990 | R G Kimber - Author The End of the Bad Old Days : European Settlement in Central Australia, 1871-1894. (pdf 1.7Mb) |
| 1989 | Sir Edward Woodward - Leading counsel for Yirrkala people, in Australia's first major Aboriginal land rights case in 1968-71 Three Wigs and Five Hats. (pdf 1.8Mb) |
| 1988 | Dr. Ella Stack - Darwin City Council's first female Lord Mayor Aboriginal Pharmacopoeia. (pdf 1.5Mb) |
| 1987 | Professor Charles Manning Clark - Historian and author of 'A History of Australia' Writing a History of Australia. (pdf 805Kb) |
| 1986 | Commodore Eric Johnston - Former Administrator of the NT 1981-1989 Operation Navy Help : Disaster Operations by the Royal Australian Navy, Post-Cyclone Tracy.(pdf 1.5Mb) |