2001 – Current ADC Gandel Orations

2009         2008                 2007	Dr Charles Small is the Founder and Director of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism - the first research centre dedicated to the study of antisemitism at a North American University. He is also the director and Founder of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy. Dr Small has been active on human rights issues, including the plight of Soviet Jewry, the exodus of Ethiopian Jewry to safe havens in Israel and Canada, and an active leader in the anti-apartheid movement. A transcript of the 2009 Melbourne Oration will be posted shortly.   Professor Anne Bayefsky, Human Rights Activist; Director of Touro College Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, a Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University in Toronto, and  Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in New York.  To read the 2008 Oration, please click here. To hear the 2008 Oration, please click here. (Please note: downloading the audio may take 4 or 5 minutes) View Professor Bayefsky's human rights website at www.bayefsky.com Dr Martin Indyk, Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Washington
2006	Gareth Evans, President and Chief Executive of the International Crisis Group and Dr John Yu, Paediatrician and campaigner for children's human rights
2005	Professor Naomi Chazan, Former deputy speaker of the Knesset
2004	Chief Rabbi Cyril Harris, Chief Rabbi of the Union of Orthodox Synagogues of South Africa
2003	The Rt Hon The Lord Woolf of Barnes, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
2002 PANEL	Panelists: Mr Julian Burnside QC; The Reverend Tim Costello; The Rt Hon Malcolm Fraser AC CH; Mr Sam Lipski AM; and Associate Professor Robert Manne
2001	Rabbi David Rosen, President International Council of Christians & Jews

UPCOMING EVENTS  Multifaith Future Leaders Program A 3-day leadership training workshop and ongoing program for 18-26 year olds committed to interfaith contacts.  Expressions of interest now open for 2011. Click here to read the brochure.  Click here to register your interest  2010 Gandel Oration The Anti-Defamation Commission is pleased to announce the 2010 Gandel Orator, Professor Irwin Cotler. Prof. Cotler is a leading authority in the struggle against racism and an internationally recognised human rights lawyer. To read more, click here....  Professor Irwin  Cotler    Viva Victoria Cultural Diversity Week 14 March, Fed Square 12 pm - 6 pm Free admission Music & Dance, World Market, Food, Art & Craft "Faith & Social Justice" - Salvation Army Open House Thurs 11 March 7.30-9.30 pm 12 Chapel St, St Kilda For info phone: Christina 92019 6385