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George Negus to speak at UNE on world affairs

November 24, 2006

Negus.thumb.jpgGeorge Negus, the well-known Australian journalist, television presenter and author, will give this year’s Sir Robert Madgwick Lecture at The University of New England.

His lecture, titled “The world was never going to be the same again”, will be, he says, “a sometimes tongue-in-cheek survey” of the past decade-and-a-half of world history – with a serious point. “There have been monumental changes since the dismantling of the Berlin Wall,” Mr Negus says. “From a world in which the great divide was that between ‘communist’ and ‘non-communist’, we’ve moved to one divided between ‘Muslim’ and ‘non-Muslim’. This did not happen suddenly on September 11, 2001; it had been building up for decades, and we kept our collective head in the sand about it. So, during all that time, the world WAS never going to be the same again.”

The free public lecture will be at 6 pm on Friday 1 December in UNE’s Arts Building (Lecture Theatre A1). To book a seat ring (02) 6773 2223.

After an early career as a high-school teacher in Queensland, George Negus (pictured here) entered journalism with several years of reporting for The Australian and The Australian Financial Review newspapers. Moving to television, he became familiar to national audiences as a presenter on the current-affairs programs This Day Tonight (ABC) and the Today show (Channel Nine), as the founding presenter of 60 Minutes (Channel Nine) and Foreign Correspondent (ABC), and for his ABC program George Negus Tonight. He has been the presenter of Dateline (SBS) since 2005. His latest book is the highly-successful The World From Islam.

UNE’s Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences hosts the annual Sir Robert Madgwick Lecture, which is named in honour of the University’s first Vice-Chancellor.

Posted by Jim Scanlan at November 24, 2006 05:09 PM