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Intelligence Squared should shove off to Melbourne where it belongs

Sydney’s IQ² debates are not going anywhere.

However, this brute fact has done nothing to dampen a body of Southern opinion that refuses to believe that something as intelligent as IQ² could have taken root in Sydney!

Come see what happens when unabashed partisans, from Sydney and Melbourne, debate the intellectual and cultural credentials of their cities.

A light and irreverent end to the 2009 Season.

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Speakers

For:

• Waleed Aly is a lawyer and a journalist. He is a lecturer in the Global Terrorism Research Centre at Monash Univeristy. His book, People Like Us (Picador), was published last year. He speaks on issues concerning Australia’s Muslim community and the relationship between Islam and western values. He was one of forty Australians selected as a youth leadership delegate to the Future Summit in Melbourne in 2005.
• Rt Hon Robert Doyle is the Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Chairman of Melbourne Health, principal of the business consultancy Nous Group and former leader of the Victorian Liberal Party.
• Mary Delahunty entered the Victorian Parliament as member for Northcote for the Australian Labor Party in 1998. She held the ministerial portfolios of Education, the Centenary of Federation, Planning, Arts and Women's Affairs. Before entering politics, she was Managing Director of her own media consultancy company, also a former ABC journalist, winner of the pretigious Gold Walkley award for journalism, and is a long time member of the Journalist's Union. She retired from politics at the state election in November 2006.

Against:

• Richard Ackland is a prominent columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald, writing on legal and ethical issues. He is founder of Law Press of Australia, whose publications include The Justinian and The Gazette of Law and Journalism.
• Julian Morrow is a comedian, television producer, and a former lawyer,
  best known for his work as part of The Chaser comedy team.
• Hon Pru Goward is Member for Goulburn, Shadow Minister for Community Services and Shadow Minister for Women. She is the former Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner and an ABC journalist and presenter.

Chair:

Dr Simon Longstaff is Executive Director of St James Ethics Centre. Simon spent five years studying and working as a member of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Having won scholarships to study at Cambridge, he read for the degrees of Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy. He was inaugural President of The Australian Association for Professional & Applied Ethics and is a Director of a number of companies. He is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum and a member of the International Advisory Committee of the Foreign Policy Association, based in New York. Simon has been Executive Director of St James Ethics Centre since shortly after it was founded.