This section of the site is devoted to speeches by prominent Australian theatre practitioners, and includes the texts of selected Philip Parsons Memorial Lectures and Rex Cramphorn Memorial Lectures.

Australian Culture: Creating it and losing it - 9 November 1998
Neil Armfield

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Press criticism and public issues - 9 September 1997
Katharine Brisbane

The Arts and the Pre-emptive Buckle - 10 October 1999
Katharine Brisbane

Cultural Policy and the National Debt - 5 October 1999
Katharine Brisbane

A Passion for Ideas: Black stage - 23 November 1997
Rhoda Roberts

Ringing Heaven - 1 November 1996
John Romeril

In the Realm of the Imagination - 23 July 1995
Jim Sharman

For Some Serious R&R - 2 December 1996
Richard Wherrett