Speakers: Brian Costar, George Williams, Geoff Gallop, Fran Bailey, Andrew Dodd
Scheduled one week before the 2014 Victorian state election, the panel tackled several important questions. What is the state of the federation? Are States still necessary in Australia? If so, what leadership skills do we want State local members, Ministers and Premiers to possess? How can we get better candidates in State parliament if all the better candidates are standing for national not State election? This Dialogue featured Prof. Brian Costar (Swinburne Institute for Social Research), Prof. Geoff Gallop (University of Sydney/ex Premier of WA), Fran Bailey, (Former Federal member for McEwen (Vic)) and Prof. George Williams (University of New South Wales). Recorded at Swinburne on 21 November 2014.