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The Oration is the corporate public affairs function's premier opportunity of the year for a prominent thinker and leader to add to the body of thought about the socio-political environment in which companies operate, and for corporate public affairs professionals to meet and connect.

Our 2023 Orator Stan Grant will address the topic "What will it take for the public square to be a more civil and attractive place for the airing and contest of ideas in liberal democracies, and what is the role of individuals, institutions, and business to engender respect in, and for, public discourse?"

Stan Grant is the International Affairs Editor for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, a multi-award winning current affairs host, an author, and an adventurer.

Stan Grant’s Aboriginal heritage has shaped his dynamic, resilient personality. Stan's mother is from the Kamilaroi people and his father is of the Wiradjuri.

Stan won a cadetship with the Macquarie Radio Network, launching a career in journalism that has spanned more than 30 years and more than 70 countries. He has hosted major news and current affairs programs on Australian commercial and public TV, and has been a political correspondent for the ABC, a Europe correspondent for the Seven Network based in London, and a senior international correspondent for the international broadcaster CNN based in Hong Kong and Beijing.

Returning to Australia in 2013, Stan continued to cover international events for Sky News Australia and reignited his passion for telling the stories of his own indigenous people. He has worked as the Indigenous editor for the Guardian Australia, managing editor for National Indigenous Television and international editor for Sky News. In 2016 Stan Grant was appointed as the special advisor to the then Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Indigenous constitutional recognition.

In 2022, Stan became the solo full-time host of the ABC’s weekly flagship discussion program Q+A.

Stan has won many major awards including an Australian TV Logie, a Columbia University Du-Pont Award (the broadcast equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize), and the prestigious US Peabody Award. He is a four-time winner of the highly prized Asia TV Awards including reporter of the year.

Stan has written The Tears of Strangers and Talking To My Country (Harper Collins), and has published numerous articles and opinion pieces for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian.

Oration details:
Date: Thursday 22 June 2023

Venue: Crown Melbourne, 8 Whiteman Street, Southbank

Time: 7.00pm for a 7.30pm start

Dress code: Business

Early registrations are encouraged.