Hugh Stretton Oration 2023
On Thursday 27 April 2023, the Stretton Institute hosted the Hugh Stretton Oration 2023 with the Hon Mark Butler MP, Minister for Health and Aged Care as orator. Hugh Stretton’s passionate concerns were about fairness and equity. This plays out in population change and ageing. Like most of the developed world Australia has an ageing population. The Minister examined the impact of the increase in Australians’ life expectancy over time and the achievement’s resultant touchpoints across policy and politics.
The Oration also included responses from Professor Renuka Visvanathan, Head of Unit of the Aged & Extended Care Services at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, and Ms Divya Narayan, a recent law graduate and lead researcher on the 2022 South Australian Law Reform Institute report on the safeguarding of vulnerable older people.
Listen to the Oration here.
Image courtesy: University Adelaide
Left to right: Professor Adam Graycar, The Hon Mark Butler MP, Deputy Vice-Chancellor External Engagement Dr Jessica Gallagher, and Professor Peter Høj AC, Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Adelaide.
