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Since 2020, almost all of the Society’s meetings, either face-to-face or online, have been recorded and made available on our YouTube channel. This page provides access to such content, where permission to do so has been granted by the author(s), and is made available under either a Creative Commons (CC-BY) licence or a standard YouTube licence unless otherwise stated. It includes video and audio presentations (with links to YouTube) and slides (in pdf format) presented at Society meetings, where these are of general interest.
This page lists the content for 2023, 2024, and 2025.
Content from earlier years can be found in the following archive pages for 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
2025
Hunter Branch Meeting 2025-2 — 15 May 2025
“From Test Tubes to Terawatts: How Research Sparked a Battery Business”
Professor Thomas Nann
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Allegro Energy
Newcastle
1331st OGM and Open Lecture — 7 May 2025
“Rethinking Mobility in a Changing Climate”
Scientia Professor Jane McAdam AO FASSA FAAL
Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law
Faculty of Law & Justice
UNSW Sydney
Western NSW Branch Meeting 2025-1 — 16 April 2025
“Is my food killing me?”
Distinguished Professor Chris Blanchard
Professor of Food Science
Gulbali Institute
Charles Sturt University
Lunchtime series: Provocations and Inspirations — 15 April 2025
“Extreme Earth: Antarctica’s climate warning for
the future and what can we all do about it”
Professor Chris Turney FRSN FRSA FRMetS
Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research)
University of Technology Sydney
1330th OGM and Open Lecture — 2 April 2025
“Engineering the Future”
Professor Hugh-Durrant-Whyte FRS FRSE FAA FIEEE
NSW Chief Scientist and Engineer
State Government of New South Wales
Hunter Branch Meeting 2025-1 — 20 March 2025
“Our Magnetic Sun”
Dr Hannah Schunker
ARC Future Fellow
School of Information and Physical Sciences
University of Newcastle
Ideas@theHouse: February 2025 — 20 February 2025
“Where Worlds Collide: Exploring the wild/domestic animal-human interface in One Health”
Dr Sarah Britton
Director, One Health Unit
Interim Australian Centre for Disease Control
1329th OGM and Open Lecture — 5 February 2025
“Inspired by Nature, Designed by Science”
Distinguished Professor Ian Paulsen FRSN FAA FASM
Director, ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology
Macquarie University
2024
1328th OGM and Open Lecture — 4 December 2024
“Social media and smartphones for youth: What’s the story?”
Scientia Professor Helen Christensen AO FASSA FAHMS
Professor of Psychiatry and Mental Health, UNSW Sydney
Honorary Professorial Fellow, The Black Dog Institute
New England North West Branch Meeting 2024-1 — 25 November 2024
“Women in STEM”
Dr Amy Moss, Dr Marissa Betts and Panel
Senior Lecturers and ARC DECRA Fellows
University of New England
1327th OGM and Open Lecture — 6 November 2024
“Australian Immigration Policy and
the Federal Election”
Dr Abul Rizvi PSM
Former Deputy Secretary
Australian Department of Immigration
Ideas@theHouse: October 2024 — 31 October 2024
“The Big Thaw: Who Governs Antarctica’s Ice?”
Professor Tim Stephens FAAL
Professor of International Law
University of Sydney Law School
Hunter Branch Meeting 2024-4 — 24 October 2024
“How can we afford the healthcare system of our dreams?”
Professor Francesco Paolucci
Newcastle Business School
University of Newcastle
Western NSW Branch Meeting 2024-5 — 23 October 2024
“Equity within the Academy: Rethinking the ‘why’ of higher education”
Distinguished Professor Sarah O’Shea
Dean, Graduate Research
Charles Sturt University
Lunchtime series: Provocations and Inspirations—22 October 2024
“Inequality in Australia”
Dr Ken Henry AC
Chair, Nature Finance Council
Former Secretary to the Treasury
Former, Chair, National Australia Bank
1326th OGM and Open Lecture — 2 October 2024
“Knowledge for a Nation: the RSNSW Origin story”
Dr Anne Coote
Author and Historian
1325th OGM and Open Lecture — 4 September 2024
“HECS-HELP: History, effects, international comparisons, and the University Accord”
Emeritus Professor Bruce Chapman AO FASSA
College of Business and Economics
Australian National University
Joint UNE and RSNSW Presentation 2024-1: 3 September 2024
“Mathematics for propagation and the spreading of species”
Professor Yihong Du FAA
ARC Laureate Fellow
School of Science and Technology
University of New England
Western NSW Branch Meeting 2024-4 — 28 August 2024
“Adapting to change — invasive plants and pests take up the challenge”
Professor Leslie Weston FAA
Research Professor of Plant Biology and Natural Products Chemistry
Gulbali Research Institute
Charles Sturt University
1324th OGM and Open Lecture — 7 August
“Our Housing Crisis: Dissolving Barriers and Delivering Solutions”
Medy Hassan OAM FRSN FAIB, Founder and Managing Director, Haus Holdings
Panellists: Rebecca Pinkstone, Sue Cripps,
Wilhelm Harnisch, and Adrian Harrington
Ideas@theHouse: July 2024 — 18 July 2024
“W x 3 — The World Wide Web (we weaved)!”
Julie Inman Grant
eSafety Commissioner
Australian Government
1323rd OGM and Open Lecture — 3 July 2024
“Social Justice and Health Equity”
Professor Sir Michael Marmot CH FRCP FFPHM FMedSci FBA
Professor of Epidemiology and Director, UCL Institute of Health Equity
University College London
Western NSW Branch Meeting 2024-3 — 26 June 2024
“Keeping plants and humans healthy: onsite molecular testing methods and devices for healthcare and agriculture”
Professor Muhammad Shiddiky
Distinguished Professor of Nanotechnology
Rural Health Research Institute
Charles Sturt University
An evening with Michael Kirby AC CMG FRSN (from Charles Sturt University) — 29 May 2024
“Requiring High Court Judges to retire at 70: a sensible referendum vote or a big mistake?”
The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG FRSN
Former Justice of the High Court of Australia
1322nd OGM and Open Lecture — 5 June 2024
“RNA and me: from the origins of life and nanomedicine to building an RNA ecosystem”
Professor Pall Thordarson FRSN
Director, UNSW RNA Institute
UNSW Sydney
1321st OGM and Open Lecture — 1 May 2024
“Brain Health Equity – a new frontier for healthy longevity”
Scientia Professor Kaarin Anstey FRSN FASSA FAHMS
Deputy Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Population Ageing
Neuroscience Australia, UNSW Sydney
1320th OGM and Open Lecture — 17 April 2024
“Putting the ‘Civil’ Back in Civil Society”
Emeritus Professor Peter Shergold AC FRSN (1) and Professor Kristy Muir (2)
(1) Vice-President, Royal Society of NSW, and
(2) Chief Executive Officer, Paul Ramsay Foundation
Hunter Branch Meeting 2024-2 — 11 April 2024
“Conservation, Frogs, and Citizen Science”
John Bell AO OBE
Honorary Professor Michael Mahony AM
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
University of Newcastle
Ideas@theHouse: March 2024 — 6 March 2024
“Shakespeare on politics — what can we learn”
John Bell AO OBE
Founder and Former Artistic Director
Bell Shakespeare
Western NSW Branch Meeting 2024-1 — 28 February 2024
“Parasites, Australia’s silent threat: coincidence, nature’s hand, or policy complacency”
Professor Shokoofeh Shamsi
Professor of Veterinary Parasitology
Gulbali Institute for Agriculture, Water, and Environment
Charles Sturt University
Annual Meeting of the Four Societies 2024 — 21 February 2024
“Resilience before Readiness — ‘… for the want of a horseshoe nail’”
Vince Di Pietro AM CSC FRSN
Former Commodore, RAN and Former CEO, Lockheed-Martin Australia
1319th OGM and Open Lecture — 7 February 2024
“Productivity: what is it, and why it matters”
Emeritus Professor Roy Green AM FRSN
Special Innovation Advisor
University of TechnologySydney
2023
1318th OGM and Lecture by the 2022 James Cook Medal Winner — 29 November 2023
“What do we really know about 20th- and 21st-century sea-level change?”
Emeritus Professor John Church AO FAA FTSE
Climate Change Research Centre
UNSW Sydney
Western NSW Branch Meeting 2023-4 — 16 November 2023
“Thirst for power — the rivers of conflict in Southeast Asia”
Professor Lee Baumgartner
Executive Director
Gulbali Institute for Agriculture, Water, and Environment
Charles Sturt University
1317th OGM and 2022 Clarke Memorial Lecture — 8 November 2023
“Caves as observatories of groundwater recharge”
Professor Andy Baker FAGU
School of Biological, Earth, and Environmental Sciences
UNSW Sydney
Joint UNE SRI and RSNSW Presentation 2023-1: 30 October 2023
“CleanTech Futures 2023: Electrification and opportunities for community and business”
Professor Renate Egan
Executive Director
Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics
UNSW Sydney
1316th OGM and Open Lecture — 4 October 2023
“Australia’s nuclear future: a new discourse for the 2040s”
Helen Cook (1) and Dr Adi Paterson FRSN FTSE (2)
(1) Principal, GNE Advisory
Former CEO, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO)
1315th OGM and Open Lecture — 6 September 2023
“Challenges for Open Enquiry and Scholarship in a Divided Age”
Professor Alan Davison
Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
University of Technology, Sydney
Western NSW Branch Meeting 2023-3 — 16 August 2023
“Behavioural data science as a game changer”
Professor Ganna Pogrebna
Executive Director
Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Futures Institute
Charles Sturt University
Ideas@theHouse: August 2023 — 10 August 2023
“Ideas for marine stewardship and sustainability in a time of acceleration”
Professor Emma Johnston AO FRSN FAA FTSE
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research)
University of Sydney
1314th OGM and Open Lecture — 2 August 2023
“Convergence: the hybridisation of the future”
In conversation: Dr Catherine Ball and Maria MacNamara
RSNSW Online Meeting 2023-2 — 5 July 2023
“What we need to know about the Voice — before we vote”
Emeritus Professor Peter Baume AC DistFRSN
Professor Megan Davis FRSN FASSA
Christopher Puplick AM
Dean Ashenden
Western NSW Branch Meeting 2023-2 — 15 June 2023
“A new history of Australian political thought”
Professor Wayne Hudson FAHA
Adjunct Research Professor
Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture
Charles Sturt University
Ideas@theHouse: June 2023 — 14 June 2023
“Importance of scientific ideas and discovery to Australia’s future”
Dr Cathy Foley AO PSM DistFRSN FAA FTSE
Australia’s Chief Scientist
1313th OGM and Open Lecture — 7 June 2023
“Making rights a reality — the need for a Human Rights Act for Australia”
Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM FAAL
President
Australian Human Rights Commission
RSNSW Online Meeting 2023-1 — 5 May 2023
“Artificial Intelligence myths debunked — how AI is transforming humanity for the global good”
Professor Michael Blumenstein FACS
Acting Dean, Faculty of Engineering and IT
University of Technology Sydney
Western NSW Branch Meeting 2023-1 — 20 April 2023
“Children should be seen AND heard: the importance of communication so children can thrive”
Professor Sharynne McLeod FRSN FASSA
Professor of Speech and Language Acquisition
Charles Sturt University
1312th OGM and 2019 Clarke Memorial Lecture — 5 April 2023
“Reconstructing ancient oceans, sea-level fluctuations, the deep carbon cycle and biodiversity”
Professor Dietmar Müller FAA FAGU
Professor of Geoophysics
University of Sydney
1311th OGM and Open Lecture — 15 March 2023
“Royal Society of NSW 2022 Student Award Presentations”
Shankar Dutt (1), Clara Liu Chung Ming (2), Thomas Mesaglio (3), Anyang Zhao (1)
PhD Candidates
(1) Australian National University
(2) University of Technology Sydney
(3) UNSW Sydney
Ideas@theHouse: March 2023 — 2 March 2023
“Aristotle on life and thought in the sub-lunary sphere”
Dr John Vallance FRSN FAHA
State Librarian of New South Wales
1310th OGM and Open Lecture — 1 February 2023
“Drones, Smart Munitions and Cyberspace: 21st Century Defence of Ukraine and implications for Australia”
Major General (Retd) Fergus McLachlan AO
Colonel (Retd) Andrew Condon