Hunter Broad Left
Hunter Broad Left
SEARCH Foundation
The SEARCH Foundation is part of the Hunter Broad Left, which each year organises 2 events with speakers invited who are of common interest to all of us in the left.
Broad Left 30th Annual Red Flag event
Hunter Broad Left Invitation , 30th Annual Red Flag Event, Saturday 26 November 2022.
Barrack-Nichols Room, 2nd floor, Hunter Union Building, 408 King St, Newcastle.
This popular annual event enables progressive people from the region to get together for a relaxing and informative end of year celebration, followed by dinner afterwards at City West Club.
Guest Speaker: Professor Clinton Fernandes (UNSW)
Speaking on – The International Rules Based Order, AUKUS and Australia as a Sub-Imperial Power.
Entertainment by Newcastle People’s Chorus
Organised by Hunter Broad Left:
Labor Left ; SEARCH Foundation; Progressive Labour Party, Non-party Left.
Dianne Barrack, Carmen Blanco, Gil Bunn, Joan Dawson, Steve Kelly, Giles Martin, Judy Morley, Fran Munt, Rod Noble, Leigh Shears.[1]
2018 Red Flag dinner
Melbourne activist and academic, Ms Alex Edney-Browne spoke at the Newcastle Red Flag Dinner on what she says are the increasing links between the weapons industry and Australian universities. She said universities were places that should teach the resolution of conflict through more peaceful means.
“Universities should not be doing research that contributes to the death of people,” Ms Edney-Browne said.
She said a number of Australian universities had embarked on joint ventures or partnerships with big weapons companies including Lockheed Martin, Thales, Raytheon and BAE. She said these companies liked to call themselves “defence” manufacturers but they were really about promoting war, not defence.
Hunter Broad Left spokesperson Rod Noble said: “This is very relevant to us here in Newcastle, given the proximity of the RAAF base at Williamtown and the links that the University of Newcastle has already established with the RAAF and some of the major companies,” Mr Noble said.[2]