• 'Mature-aged Workers: Policy Challenges for the Future' Evening Forum Series
• 'Changing Student Finances in Britain: A threat to widening participation?' Evening Forum  - Prof Claire Callender, London Southbank University
• Australia Electronic Governance Conference
• 'Social Insurance Reform in China' Lunchtime Seminar - Dr Mike Zhang
• 'Can Governance Learn? - Reflections on the role of Boards of NGOs in evaluation of the appropriateness of their organisation's performance ' Evening Forum - A/Prof Colin A. Sharp
• 'Democratic Equivocations: who really wants what, when and how?' Evening Forum - Dr Patrick Bishop
• 'From Welfare State to Social Investment State?' Half Day Symposium 
• 'Child rearing, relationship breakdown and the economic welfare of Australian mothers and their children' Lunchtime Seminar - Dr Matthew Gray
• 'Disability - creative funding and integrated solutions' Lunchtime Seminar - Fiona Tito-Wheatland
• 'Lifelong Learning in Germany and the Future of Standard Employment Relationship' - Evening Forum - Professor Gerhard Bosch
• 'Work Intensification in Europe' Lunchtime Seminar - Dr Brendan Burchell
• 'Capacity Building and Community Strengthening: The Role of Government' Evening Forum Series 
• 'Growth and Consumption' Evening Seminar
• The Expansion and Redirection of U.S. Foreign Aid Policy Under the Bush Administration: Combating Terrorism, Promoting Economic Growth, and Fighting HIV AIDS' Evening Forum - Larry Nowels    
• 'Women and Local Governance' Evening Forum - Professor Sylvia Bashevkin
• 'Youth Empowerment in France: Action and Reaction' Evening Forum - Professor Dan Bechmann 
• 'Higher Education: Equity and Access' Evening Forum Series
• 'Public Opinion and the 2004 American Presidential Election' Lunchtime Seminar - Professor Stanley Feldman and A/Prof Leonie Huddy
• 'Putting the Policy Back into Politics' Half-Day Symposium
• 'Governance for Sustainable Development' Evening Forum - Prof Pieter Glasbergen
• 'Changing funding regimes in research and innovation policy' Evening Forum - Prof Dietmar Braun
• 'Reprogenetics - whose rules apply' Symposium
• 11th Annual FW Barnett Oration               
• The New Zealand Government's 'Working for Families' Package - Lunchtime Seminar
• 'Women and Work' Evening Forum Series  
• Working Communities in a Global Community - Half -Day Symposium
• 'The Workplace of the Future: innovation policy, skills, work and management systems' Half-Day Symposium

• Financial Social Development: Implications for Housing Associations - Afternoon Seminar
• Transitions and Risk: New Directions in Social Policy Conference    
• 'The implications of inter-organisational contracting for the employment relationship' with Professor Jill Rubery (United Kingdom) Evening Forum
• 'The role of citizens and NGOs in creating opportunities for change' - with Nicolas Ducote (Argentina) Evening Forum     
• 'Gender Mainstreaming in European Union employment' with Dr Colette Fagan (United Kingdom) Lunchtime Seminar
• 'Government and Communities in Partnership: the Next Steps' - CPP/Brotherhood of St Laurence Symposium  (Sold Out)     
• 'Complex Clients and Joined-up Government' - Evening Forum Series
• Understanding and intervening in the dynamics of public participation in local governance' with Professor Gerard Stoker (United Kingdom) Evening Forum
• 'More or less poverty and inequality? The Howard years assessed' CPP/BSL Morning Seminar
• 'Understanding Social Capital - a New Rural Economy Perspective' Evening Forum
• 'Women, Work and Social Care in the New Welfare State' Evening Forum Series
• 'Equity in Sourcing Revenue: The Effect on the Economy and the Community' Half-day Symposium
• Social Connectedness and Communities - Day-long symposium (Sold Out)
• Don  Dunstan Foundation Lecture with Stewart Firth Towards Justice and Human Development in the South Pacific: How Australia Can do Better
• Launch of John Langmore's 'Dealing with America' and Hugh Stretton's 'Australia Fair' - Book Launch
• 12th Annual FW Barnett Oration with Professor Lyndsay Neilson, Department of Sustainability and Environment
• Beating the Road Toll: Governance, Management and the Improvement of Community Safety - Day-long symposium
• 'From Other to Us: Transforming Disability in Australia' with A/Prof Christopher Newell Public Evening Forum
• 'Transforming Disability: Community Inclusion, Employment and Innovative reform' Conference
• 'Interlocking directorates and issues for corporate governance' with Malcolm Alexander and Ian Ramsay Public Evening Forum
• 'An alternative Industrial Relations Approach: A minimum program for the states' - Public Evening Forum
• Human rights, Minority Rights and Public Policy - Public Evening Forum
• 'Skills Shortage forum with Ellen Scully-Russ - title to be advised' Public Evening Forum

May 2006

• Old-Age Policy in the United States: A Case in Institutional Politics Evening Forum

June 2006

• Strategic Issues for the Not for Profit Sector: The Road Ahead - Symposium

July 2006

• Choice and Opportunity - Welfare and the Australian Community in the 21st Century Evening Forum

August 2006

• New Directions in Australian Public Policy Symposium

September 2006

• Governments and Communities in Partnership Conference

   

November 2006

• Good Power Bad Power - Public Lecture

February 2007

• From Welfare to Social Investment: Reimagining Social Policy for the Life Course Conference

March 2007

• Housing Justice Roundtable forum (March 20)
• Water: Australia's Election Issue 2007? forum series (March 27)
• Water in 2007: Stakeholders, Policy & the Election symposium (March 30)

April 2007

• Water: Australia's Election Issue 2007? forum series (April 3)
• Nuclear policy forum with Kathleen Sullivan (April 4)
• Social inclusion public lecture with Julia Gillard (April 10)

June 2007

• Higher Education and the 2007 Federal Election: Global Markets and Local Policy - symposium (June 05)

July/August 2007

• Industry Policy Challenges and the 2007 Federal Election forum series

September 2007

• The Future of the Australian Car Industry - symposium (September 27)

October 2007

• Hamer Oration with Hugh Mackay (October 1)
• Low Paid Work in Australia: Realities and Responses symposium (October 17)

November 2007

• Alumni Association dinner (November 21)

February 2008

• Policy, Partnerships & Performance - symposium (February 29)

April 2008

• The Future of the Multilateral Trade System - symposium (April 7)
• The 2008 Presidential Election: The Character of the Campaigns, the Role of Gender, and Consequences for Presidential Leadership (April 29)