Annual Oration

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

2023 Corporate Public Affairs Oration

2023 Corporate Public Affairs Oration

Delivered by Stan Grant, Author, Journalist and Broadcaster
“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...

2022 Corporate Public Affairs Oration

2022 Corporate Public Affairs Oration

2022 Corporate Public Affairs Oration delivered by Professor Marcia Langton AO.

2019 Corporate Public Affairs Oration

2019 Corporate Public Affairs Oration

2019 Corporate Public Affairs Oration delivered by Alison Watkins, Group Managing Director Coca-Cola Amatil.   In an age of high distrust in corporations, what is the social contract that corporations need to forge with the community?

2018 Corporate Public Affairs Oration

2018 Corporate Public Affairs Oration

2018 Corporate Public Affairs Oration delivered by David Murray AO, Chairman of AMP

2017 Corporate Public Affairs Oration

2017 Corporate Public Affairs Oration

2017 Corporate Public Affairs Oration delivered by Prof David Grayson CBE, professor of Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield School of Management and chairman of Carers UK

2016 Corporate Public Affairs Oration

2016 Corporate Public Affairs Oration

2016 Annual Corporate Public Affairs Oration delivered by Diane Smith-Gander, Chairman of Broadspectrum, non-executive director of Wesfarmers and Chair of Safe Work Australia

2015 Corporate Public Affairs Oration

2015 Corporate Public Affairs Oration

2015 Annual Corporate Public Affairs Oration delivered by Mark Scott, Managing Director, Australian Broadcasting Corporation

2014 Corporate Public Affairs Oration

2014 Corporate Public Affairs Oration

Delivered by John Mahon, John M. Murphy Chair of International Business Policy and Strategy and Professor of Management at the Maine Business School, University of Maine

2012 Corporate Public Affairs Oration

2012 Corporate Public Affairs Oration

Delivered by George Megalogenis, leading journalist, policital commentator and author.

2013 Corporate Public Affairs Oration

2013 Corporate Public Affairs Oration

Delivered by Alastair Campbell, author, broadcaster and director of communications and strategy for UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.