One important role of the Director of the JCSMR at that time was to give lectures widely in Australia on matters of interest to the general public as well as others to explain the activities of the School. I gave a number of such lectures, few of which were published, as well as many on various aspects of virology. Several deal with environmental problems, because at the time I was a Vice-President of the Australian Conservation Foundation and Chairman of the National Committee on Problems of the Environment of the Australian Academy of Science.
They were:
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1968 |
'The Structure and Activities of the John Curtin School', at the Melbourne, Monash, Sydney and Queensland Universities. |
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1970 |
'Man and his Environment in Australia', to the First International Congress on Domiciliary Nursing. |
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1970 |
'James Cook and the Prevention of Scurvy', to the Royal Society of Queensland, on the Cook Bicentenary. |
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1970 |
'Infectious Disease and Social Change', to the Canberra Postgraduate Committee on Medicine. |
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1971 |
'How Many Australians? Immigration and Growth', to the Australian Institute of Political Science Summer School (Fenner, 1971). |
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1971 |
'Population and Resources, Local and Global', to Canberra Hospital Medical Seminars. |
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1971 |
'Abortion, Medical Questions', to the ANU Centre for Continuing Education. |
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1971 |
'Migration and Australia', to the Australia Party. |
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1972 |
'Is There an Environmental Crisis?' an ANU Public Lecture. |
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'The World Situation in Resources and Some Implications for Australia', for The BHP Review, Summer 1972. |
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1972 |
'The Environmental Crisis—Population, Resources, Pollution', at Cessnock, New South Wales. |