PRIVATE EVENTS
UPCOMING
UPCOMING
First Tuesday Club.
MONTHLY PRIVATE DISCUSSION SERIES
First Tuesday Club is a monthly private discussion series for active volunteers, interns, speakers, supporters and partners. An expert guest speaker leads the discussion around a large table after social conversation over light food and drinks.
As well as providing an alternative forum to practise and demonstrate civil discourse on interesting and important subjects, First Tuesday provides a regular opportunity for remote-working volunteers and interns to meet in person and socialise with others in the Brisbane Dialogues network, to gain initial experience in event curation and management, and as an entry point for future volunteers, interns, supporters and partners.
E T H O S
First Tuesday has a good balance of ages, genders and political perspectives. Curiosity, respect and openness prevail. Numbers are limited so that everyone who wants to has an opportunity to speak and all are encouraged to.
The Brisbane Rule applies of course and the Chatham House Rule is sometimes invoked to support free-flowing discussion. Discussions can be robust, but are always civil. Meetings are not recorded. Speakers, members and guests value the opportunity to express and test positions they may not easily do in other forums.
First Tuesday was partly inspired by the Johnsonian Club, which ran in Brisbane for over a century and was the first of many inspired by the original Literary Club founded by Samuel Johnson and Sir Joshua Reynolds.
L O G I S T I C S
Meetings are held on the First Tuesday of each month except January, with the December meeting being a larger, end-of-year celebration.
Attendance is by invitation only for active or potential Brisbane Dialogues volunteers, interns, supporters, speakers and partners. Modest costs are covered by attendees’ donations on a “pay forward or what you can afford” basis, with generous contributions by older members covering free or nominal-cost attendance by younger ones.
Generously supported by JDA Co,
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P A S T S P E A K E R S
Managing Youth Crime
Associate Professor Simon Denny is an Adolescent and Young Adult Physician who is the Director of the Mater Young Adult Health Centre. He has published extensively on youth health issues in New Zealand and internationally. He brings a clinical and epidemiological focus on youth health issues, especially around risk taking behaviours and wellbeing.
TUE 7 FEB 2023
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TUE 7 FEB 2023
How Minds Change
Jesse Richardson, founder of School of Thought International, based in Brisbane, is out to change how the world thinks, seriously. His mission is highly complementary with TBD’s, which we could say is to change how a small part of the world talks, but is vastly more ambitious. His most recent project is therulesofcivilconversation.org launched by Stephen Fry a few months ago.
WED 2 NOV 2022
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WED 2 NOV 2022
A Discussion on "The Voice"
This is going to be a different First Tuesday - a small-scale trial run for the planned Big Dialogue early next year on an aspect of the Uluru Statement, rather than the usual format of a guest speaker on a topic of their choice leading into Q&A and general discussion. Having said that, it will not be completely different - our guest this time, Dominic McGann, is an expert in relevant indigenous-related subjects. Everyone who wants to say something will have the opportunity.
TUE 4 OCT 2022
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TUE 4 OCT 2022
Population Policy or Ponzi Scheme?
Jane O'Sullivan is a cross-disciplinary researcher at the University of Queensland, and a co-convenor of The Overpopulation Project. She has led international research on tropical subsistence and semi-subsistence farming systems, before shifting her focus to the threats posed by population growth to food security, economic development and ecological sustainability, and the efficacy of measures available to limit population growth.
TUE 6 SEP 2022
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TUE 6 SEP 2022
The Garden of Language
Roland (Roly) Sussex OAM has been explaining language to Australians for many years. No mere populist, he has a PhD in Russian Language from the University of London and is Emeritus Professor of Applied Language Studies at the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies of the University of Queensland; an expert in the comparative linguistics of European languages; and an honorary life member of Alliance Française!
TUE 2 AUG 2022