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to Home Back to the Future for the Commonwealth, Malcolm Fraser AC CH (and CRTA Patron), June 2006 has written an article on his experience as a member of the Eminent Persons Group and his view as to why the experience should be a lesson for the future concerning Zimbabwe. (Download as a MS Word Doc or an Adobe PDF)
Future Directions of the Commonwealth, Melbourne 22 March 2006: Rt Hon Don McKinnon, Commonwealth Secretary General, Commonwealth Lecture Australia, Commonwealth Round Table, Melbourne, Australia. The Secretary-General explores the history of the Commonwealth and how it has emerged into a modern and relevant global organisation of 53 equal states. Among other things he focuses on how it helps shape the international agenda, how it maintains a commitment to democracy, protection of small states, pro-poor policies and the championing of civil society. (Download as an MS Word doc or a PDF)
Saving Our Children from the Scourge of War, A public lecture on the occasion of the award of Sydney Peace Prize for 2005 by Olara A. Otunnu former UN Under-Secretary-General and Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict Wednesday, 9 November 2005 Seymour Centre, Sydney, Australia. (Download as text as MS Word doc or as a PDF).
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Human Rights Law in the Legal Systems of the Commonwealth of Nations.
Commonwealth Day address by Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG
High Court of Australia on 8 March 2005 at the Australian National University.
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The Commonwelath and Civil Society - Unfinished Business. Valedictory Remarks at the Royal Commonwealth Society, Colin Ball, Outgoing Director, The Commonwealth Foundation, 22 November 2004 (View as HTML or download as a text doc MS Word doc)
21st Century Commonwealth, Address to the Commonwealth Round Table and the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Mr Matthew Neuhaus, Director Political, Commonwealth Secretariat, Canberra 3 August 2004 (View as HTML or download as a text doc MS Word doc or as a PDF 29kb)
Address to the Commonwealth Round Table in Australia, the Hon John Howard, Prime Minister, Parliament House, Canberra 27 November 2003. (View as HTML or download as a text doc MS Word doc or PDF 20 kb)
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