2022 Hawkes Oration – Professor Ruth Wallace
NEW - Video of talk now available to view.
Please join Ms Vicki Telfer, President of the Institute of Public Administration NT, and colleagues at a breakfast function to hear Professor Ruth Wallace, Dean of the College of Indigenous Futures, Education & the Arts and Director of the Northern Institute at Charles Darwin University, deliver the 2022 Hawkes Oration “Indigenous co-design: opportunities, challenges and risks”. Professor Wallace’s research interests relate to the links between social policy that addresses the concerns of people and systems remote from core decision making processes. This work is situated in regional and remote areas of Northern Australia and Indonesia, with a specific focus in research approaches to improve service delivery and adaptation, undertaken with Aboriginal people in remote and regional areas.
In 2002, the NT Division of the Institute of Public Administration Australia honoured its long-serving President, David Hawkes, by naming a regular series of speeches after him, as part of its contribution to the development of public administration in the Territory. Not only did David make a significant contribution to the work of the Division over many years, he also played a major role in the development of public administration in the Territory. His leadership was instrumental in placing the Territory at the forefront of innovation in the public sector in the 1990s.