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On 9 July 2015, Kapacity.org delivered a masterclass called ‘Future Leadership – Collaborative Solutions to Wicked Problems?’.

The masterclass was held in downtown Belgrade – at Beograđanka, which is a great space for civic events. The key speaker was Alex Cameron of Socia, a London-based expert in collaborative leadership. Alex has extensive experience in the oil and gas sector and in other contexts where people know they must collaborate to arrive at a better result. Their motivation to collaborate is not just about ‘doing the right thing’ – it delivers better business in terms of profit, employment and sustainability of ventures.

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As this new year opened, Paris and the wider world were stunned by violent attacks related to cartoons published by French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.

Debate’s still raging about the meaning and limits of free speech, tolerance, extremism and decency in the 21st century.

There seem to be no simple answers. But perhaps there are new questions to ask about how we negotiate diversity and disagreement – against a backdrop of which values, and whose values?

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This week I delivered the graduation address for the ANU College of Law, at the Australian National University in Canberra.

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Sitting at the edge of civilisation, Tasmania is a remote island – ‘So exotic!’ exclaim my European friends – that’s still pretty much off the global map.

Even if Chinese President Xi Jinping is coming to visit next week, with a clutch of potential investors … and this weekend a glamour-glob of celebrity food and wine personalities (including Heston Blumenthal, Alice Waters and Maggie Beer, with British writer A. A. Gill thrown in for good measure) are descending on the jurisdiction for a $1.5 million Tourism Australia Restaurant Australia gala event … and despite the delight of Tasmania’s capital city Hobart hosting one of the most vibrant cultural platforms in the Western world, the privately-owned Museum of Old and New Art (MONA).

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Tasmanian watercolour painter Max Angus turns 100 years old today.

I was privileged to meet Max in 2005 while I was beginning to think about my first book,

Pedder Dreaming – Olegas Truchanas and a Lost Tasmanian Wilderness
(UQP, 2011). Max was one of a group of Tasmanian watercolour artists who worked with explorer, photographer and post-World War II Lithuanian emigre Olegas Truchanas to try to save Lake Pedder – a glacial lake with pink sand in Tasmania’s remote south-west – from inundation by a hydro-electric scheme in the early 1970s.

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In October 2014, Kapacity.org director Natasha Cica anchored a sell-out event featuring former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard – an hour-long conversation in Adelaide Town Hall focused on Gillard’s new book, My Story.

The discussion was followed by a lively Q&A session with the capacity crowd.

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