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SUMMARY:Labourism and the Common Good: Australia’s Democratic Post-Liberal Tradition
DESCRIPTION:Contemporary debates about post-liberalism are often framed as a reaction against the excesses of neoliberalism and the cultural individualism of the late liberal settlement. Calls to recover the common good\, re-embed markets within society\, restore the dignity of work\, and rebuild institutions of belonging have gained traction across both the political left and right. This paper argues that Australia need not import these ideas from Britain\, Europe or the United States because it already possesses a distinctive democratic post-liberal tradition: labourism. \nDrawing on Australia’s political history\, Dr Dyrenfurth argues that labourism has long understood freedom not as radical individual autonomy but as something sustained by families\, unions\, faith communities\, voluntary associations and the nation itself. Far from being merely an economic movement concerned with wages and redistribution\, labourism advanced a moral vision rooted in reciprocity\, obligation and the common good. Religious traditions—particularly Nonconformist Protestantism\, Christian socialism and Catholic social teaching—played an important role in shaping this ethical inheritance. \nSpeaker: Dr Nick Dyrenfurth\nExecutive Director\, John Curtin Research Centre\,\nMonash University\,\nRegular Contributor\, The Australian. \nRegister to join in-person or by Zoom\nIn-person location\nGrant Room\, Old Warden’s Lodge (Gate C)\, Trinity College\n100 Royal Parade Parkville 3052 \nRegister to attend\nWollaston Theological CollegeWollaston Theological College is a college of the University of Divinity from the Anglican tradition\, based in Perth\, Western Australia.
URL:https://vox.divinity.edu.au/event/labourism-and-the-common-good-australias-democratic-post-liberal-tradition/
LOCATION:Trinity College Theological School\, 100 Royal Parade\, Parkville\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Hybrid (Online and In-person),Seminar,The Common Good Project
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260828T140000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260828T163000
DTSTAMP:20260818T070353Z
CREATED:20260716T054822Z
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SUMMARY:History Student Research Seminar
DESCRIPTION:History lovers\, join us online to hear from some of the University of Divinity’s wonderful history research students.  \nChris Philips – Sacred ground: the changing moral frameworks of church land \nMatt Cairns – “Black Nobbie Neville”: A case study into how the early Salvation Army in Australia regarded First Nations Peoples. \nTimothy Hender – Why Mission History? Why Labour History? Why Melanesia? \nDeidre Sheeran – The medieval soundscape of Conques\, France \nMarc Billimoria – The CMS Three-Self Principle as a Foundation for a synodical and autonomous Anglican Church in Sri Lanka \nThe event will be 2pm-4.30pm (AEST) on Friday 28th August 2026. All welcome! Come along and be part of an appreciative and encouraging audience of historians! \nJoin on Zoom\nWollaston Theological CollegeWollaston Theological College is a college of the University of Divinity from the Anglican tradition\, based in Perth\, Western Australia.
URL:https://vox.divinity.edu.au/event/history-student-research-seminar/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Online,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260908T190000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260908T201500
DTSTAMP:20260812T061838Z
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UID:36439-1788894000-1788898500@vox.divinity.edu.au
SUMMARY:Two-circuit economics: the future of economics
DESCRIPTION:Two circuit economics: the future of economics\npresented by Dr Sean McNelis\, Adjunct Research Fellow\, Swinburne University of Technology \nTwo-circuit economics offers an optimistic view of how transformations in an economy will lead to a just sharing of the world’s natural resources. It is the future of economics. \nChronic economic problems continue to plague every facet of human life. This seminar is an introduction to two-circuit economics which was discovered in the early 1940s by Bernard Lonergan\, a discovery ignored by the economics community. Two-circuit economics begins with facts and data\, rather than economic models. It distinguishes two distinct circuits of production\, a basic circuit and a surplus circuit. This structure is operative in all economies\, international\, national and regional. It is operative in firms of all sizes\, from small businesses to global corporations. Two-circuit economics reveals the key relationships by which to understand any economy and any economic event. \nThis is an introductory seminar which begins with data accessible to everyone seeking a better society and does not require specialist knowledge or training in economics. \nDr Sean McNelis is an Adjunct Research Fellow at Swinburne University of Technology. He has over 40 years’ experience in housing management\, housing policy and advocacy and\, housing research. \nOver the past 20 years at Swinburne University\, his research included: projects for the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) on rental systems\, homelessness services\, asset management\, housing for older people and rent regulation; housing strategies for local government; housing affordability indicators\, and; quarterly reports on the private rental market in Victoria. In 2014\, he published\, Making Progress in Housing: A Framework for Collaborative Research (Routledge\, London)\, which outlines a new framework for research and policy called Functional Collaboration based on the work of Canadian theologian\, philosopher and economist\, Bernard Lonergan. \nHis interests include: social housing policy\, in particular housing finance and rental systems; housing for older persons; housing co-operatives; the foundations of housing research; futurology\, and; the economic and philosophic writings of Bernard Lonergan. \nHis publications can be found on his website: artfulhousing.com.au/publications. \nSchedule: 40 minute presentation and 30 minutes questions and discussion. \nThis is the first of three seminars on “two-circuit economics”. The second seminar on “Introducing Innovative High School Economics” will be presented by Dr James Duffy and Professor Emeritus Terrance Quinn on Tuesday 10 November. The third seminar on “Economics as the Foundation of Democracy” will be presented by Robert Henman on Tuesday 9 March 2027. For more information about this series please visit our website. \nRegister\nWollaston Theological CollegeWollaston Theological College is a college of the University of Divinity from the Anglican tradition\, based in Perth\, Western Australia.
URL:https://vox.divinity.edu.au/event/two-circuit-economics-the-future-of-economics/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Online,Seminar,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Perth:20260914T140000
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SUMMARY:Wollaston Research Seminar September
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the next Wollaston Research Seminar on Monday 14th September at 2pm AWST both in-person and online.  \nJeremy Northcote to present: Between Life and Death: A Phenomenological and Cross‑Cultural Study of Near‑Death Experiences \nAbstract: Near‑death experiences (NDEs) arise at the intersection of bodily crisis\, consciousness\, interpretation\, and culture. They involve intense subjective states occurring under extreme physiological conditions\, yet they are also shaped by symbolic repertoires and narrative frameworks\, including traditional religious imagery\, that give those states meaning. This presentation examines the dual structure of NDEs: their striking cross‑cultural variation in imagery and symbolism\, and their deep phenomenological consistencies across traditions. It argues that NDEs accord with the staged architecture of Arnold van Gennep’s rite of passage — separation\, liminality\, and reincorporation — a universal pattern of transition that illuminates why NDEs feel both culturally specific and structurally familiar. The approach is situated in relation to Mircea Eliade and Victor Turner’s analyses of liminality and shamanic experience\, highlighting the threshold dynamics that shape consciousness during moments of profound rupture and transformation. \nJoin on Zoom\nWollaston Theological CollegeWollaston Theological College is a college of the University of Divinity from the Anglican tradition\, based in Perth\, Western Australia.
URL:https://vox.divinity.edu.au/event/wollaston-research-seminar-september/
LOCATION:Wollaston Theological College\, 5 Wollaston Road\, Mount Claremont\, WA\, 6010\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Research,Seminar,Wollaston Theological College
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260918T160000
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UID:36400-1789747200-1789752600@vox.divinity.edu.au
SUMMARY:The Return of the Common Good
DESCRIPTION:Associate Professor in Political Science\, Stefan Borg was one of the first to identify the emergence of postliberal accounts of the common good as leading the alternatives to a neoliberal policy paradigm in decay. In doing so he highlighted the clear political differences between the communitarian British strand associated with ‘Blue Labour’ etc and the more statist thinking in the US with Vermeule\, J D Vance etc. Here Stefan will take stock of their fortunes in our fast moving poilicy environments. \nTime and Date\n4.00 pm – 5.30 pm AEST\, Friday 18 September \nMode\nJoin in person \nOld Warden’s Lodge\, Trinity College\, Gate C\, 100 Royal Parade\, Parkville \nRegister to attend in person\n  \nJoin online via Zoom \nJoin on Zoom\nMeeting ID: 835 6139 8013\nPassword: 820322 \nWollaston Theological CollegeWollaston Theological College is a college of the University of Divinity from the Anglican tradition\, based in Perth\, Western Australia.
URL:https://vox.divinity.edu.au/event/the-return-of-the-common-good/
LOCATION:Trinity College Theological School\, 100 Royal Parade\, Parkville\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Hybrid (Online and In-person),Seminar,The Common Good Project,Trinity College Theological School
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261009T160000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261009T170000
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SUMMARY:Faith in Freedom and Democracy
DESCRIPTION:Professor Tim Stacey\, Endowed Professor\, Liberal Religion and Humanism\, Univ. of Humanistic Studies\, Utrecht\, The Netherlands.  Author of Saving Liberalism from Itself: The Spirit of Political Participation (2022). \nProfessor Stacey’s work is primarily concerned with restoring faith in freedom and democracy. He has written extensively on the connection between postliberal political theology and emergent sources of solidarity among those taking action on social justice and the environment. Amidst ongoing threats to freedom and democracy\, he places theology into dialogue with sociology and anthropology to argue that we must see politics as an act of collective faith that is carefully and repeatedly reenacted. He will discuss how faith is upheld\, altered\, and undermined. \nTime and Date\n4.00 pm – 5.00 pm AEST\, Friday 9 October 2026 \nMode\nJoin in person  \nCatholic Theological College\, 278 Victoria Parade\, East Melbourne\, VIC \nRegister to attend in person\n  \nJoin online via Zoom \nJoin on Zoom\nMeeting ID: 886 4049 7099\nPassword: 356743 \nWollaston Theological CollegeWollaston Theological College is a college of the University of Divinity from the Anglican tradition\, based in Perth\, Western Australia.
URL:https://vox.divinity.edu.au/event/faith-in-freedom-and-democracy/
LOCATION:Catholic Theological College\, 278 Victoria Parade\, East Melbourne\, VIC\, 3002\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Catholic Theological College,Hybrid (Online and In-person),Seminar,The Common Good Project
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