Dymphna Clark lecture series
- 2020 – Professor Jenny Hocking – The Palace Letters
- 2018 Clare Wright – You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians who won the vote and inspired the world.
- 2016 Drusilla Modjeska – Telling Stories
- 2014 Bill Gammage – The Future Makers
- 2013 Anna Funder
- 2012 Mark McKenna – Rethinking the Republic If Australia for the 21st Century
- 2011 Jackie French – History as Cliche’
- 2010 Maggie Beer – Domestic Harvest
- 2009 David Headon – Tomatoes, Melbourne Cups and Mark Twain: Sport and the Arts in Australia
- 2008 Kim Rubenstein – From Suffrage to Citizenship: A Republic of Equals
- 2007 Eva Sallis – Australian Dream, Australian Nightmare: Some thoughts on Multiculturalism and Racism.
- 2006 Anna Rubbo – Making Poverty History
- 2005 Gay Bilson
- 2004 Catharine Lumby – The Role of Intellectuals in Public Debate
- 2003 Katerina Clark – Women, History, Science and Ethics: Identity in Diaspora. A Case Study of the Refugees from Fascism in the 1930s.
- 2002 Anna Clark – Heritage and Responsibility