Doug Everingham Annual Lecture 2025

UN 80 Reform: Our future depends on it!

Each year, the United Nations Association of Australia Qld Division Peace and Security Program holds an event to mark United Nations Day in October. The event is titled the Doug Everingham lecture in honour of his service to the community.

We wish to honour Dr Doug Everingham, remembered for his work for well-being for all, father of Medicare and social justice advancements in Central Queensland and across Australia, before presenting papers on Peace for the United Nations in New York and Geneva. (SDG 16). His legacies live on in the hearts of our members and his professional colleagues. His UN Peace papers are in the UNAAQ office and Trove. Doug died at 94 in 2017, and, in his honour, the UNAAQ hold a memorial UN week lecture annually to appreciate his contributions to the safer and more just world we enjoy today.

Honorary Professor of International Law at the ANU College of Law Mathew Neuhaus will deliver the keynote lecture. Professor Matthew Neuhaus has been Honorary Professor (International Law) at the ANU College of Law since November 2022. He was Australian Ambassador to the Netherlands from August 2018 to October 2022, and Permanent Representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague. He represented Australia at the ICJ, ICC, PCA and other international legal bodies.

Professor Neuhaus has previously served as Australian Ambassador to Zimbabwe (2011-15) - accredited also to DRC, Zambia and Malawi - and High Commissioner to Nigeria (1997-2000) - accredited also to Ghana, Sierra Leone, The Gambia and Senegal. He has also held senior positions in DFAT and PMC, covering Africa, the Middle East, the Pacific, UN and Multilateral Engagement, and international law. Mr Neuhaus was Director of the Political Affairs Division of the Commonwealth Secretariat in London 2002-2008. (https://law.anu.edu.au/about/our-people/matthew-neuhaus)

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