time to listen< intellectuals< australia< uluru< statement from the heart
I agree with Emeritus Professor Joseph A. Camilleri OAM, it is time to listen. The self listening to the self, the self listening to the neighbour, the self listening to the world. Perhaps you are convinced that you are listening, and doing nothing but that. Camilleri emphasises that it is important to know how to listen, since while you are hearing you might not be listening to the tone, the delivery, the demeanour. 
With a capacity for listening, Camilleri is able to make astute observations about the Australian nation, politics and international relations, as shown by the recent lectures "Make Australia great again or Make the planet great again?" His analysis is infused with courage. Turning his attention to Indigenous Australia, Camilleri suggested listening to the Indigenous voice as expressed in the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
Recently, Al Gore was in Melbourne to talk about climate change, echoing the kind of figures that generations of scientists have proferred since the 1950s. In Melbourne, Professor Chris Ryan knows those figures; they have driven his vision for the future city and informed the work of establishing the blueprint by which a city builds its capacity for resilience.
Recently, Al Gore was in Melbourne to talk about climate change, echoing the kind of figures that generations of scientists have proferred since the 1950s. In Melbourne, Professor Chris Ryan knows those figures; they have driven his vision for the future city and informed the work of establishing the blueprint by which a city builds its capacity for resilience.
Working in Vancouver but originally from Melbourne, Professor Sneja Gunew is an expert on culture. Gunew acknowledges (multi)cultural Australia. With the two volumes of Displacements, collated in the early nineties, she shows that the diversity of cultural practice has to be freed from invisibility in order for it to express a contemporary Australian identity. Her latest book is Post-multicultural writers as neo-cosmopolitan mediators (Anthem Press, 2017)
In such times, there is never more a need for the voice of an esteemed intellectual with the ability to see over and above the politics of the day; one who speaks on issues within the current state of affairs and helps make the connection with the local. For those that are excluded from the round table, and that is the majority of people, it is, to say the least, a consolation.
Silvana Tuccio november 2017
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