Australia Day speech
Southern Cross Club, Canberra
26 January 2010

Why Do I Read Quadrant?
For The Australian Quarterly
January 2007

Australian Values
After-dinner speech
Churchill Trust dinner, Commonwealth Club
26 June 2007

The Best Summer Holiday
For Capital
October 2006

Eulogy
for Geoff Taylor
2003

Pride
Address to the Summer Program, University of Western Australia
14 January 1998

Why does a university engage in educating people to manage the world’s explosively growing cities
Article for Margaret Burgen, Urban Age
August 1997

Racism or Exclusion?
For Helen Trinca, The Australian

Security and Democracy – A Fifty-Year Retrospective

What do I dissent about?
Some Thoughts on Dissent

THIS I BELIEVE
Essay

Canberra Memories