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Kostakidis has a long standing interest in social justice and continues to engage in public discourse, delivering lectures, chairing public forums and contributing editorial opinion articles in the mainstream press and independent online media.
Talks include:
ACCC International Women's Day Keynote Address 2012, Empower a Woman, Empower a Nation.
The Dame Roma Mitchell Memorial Address, Law Institute of Victoria, 100th Anniversary of International Women's Day 2011, The Cost of Courage: Has Freedom of Information Gone Too Far?
Department of Justice, Victoria, International Human Rights day Address, 2009, Making a Difference.
The Alice Tay Lecture on Law and Human Rights, Freilich Foundation ANU, 2009, The Protection of Human Rights in Australia - a Way Forward.
The Gilbert & Tobin Centre of Public Law, Human Rights Conference, Opening Address, 2009, Human Rights & the National Consultation.
The James Joyce Foundation, Opening Address, Bloomsday 2001, Homeric Joyce.
Australian Academy of the Humanities, University of Melbourne, 2006, The Real Future Fund: in Search of Lost Relevance.
Banff Television Conference, Canada 1999, Globalisation and Cultural Diversity in the Media.
Dept of Psychiatry, University of NSW 1990, Media Portrayals of Popular Culture - the Dilemma for Youth.
In Conversation with:
Noam Chomsky, Sydney Opera House 2011, Problems of Knowledge and Freedom.
Barry Jones, Politics in the Pub, Sydney 2012.
Angela Hewitt, inaugural Musica Viva Chamber Music Festival, Bach Masterclass Sydney 2008.
Mahvish Rukhsana Khan, "Guantanamo Bay", Glebe Books Sydney 2008
Michael Leunig, Festival of Sydney, State Theatre 2002.
Chair / Moderator:
Wikileaks, Assange and Democracy Forum, University of Technology Sydney, 2012
Don't Shoot the Messenger, Wikileaks Forum presented by the Sydney Peace Foundation, GetUp, Amnesty International Australia and Stop the War Coalition, Sydney Town Hall 2011.
Social Business Public Forum with Muhammad Yunus presented by Sydney Peace Foundation and the Centre for Social Impact, Wesley Centre Sydney, 2010.
Wolfgang Sievers Human Rights Forums: Bias in the Media, Separation of Powers and the Rule of Law, Charter of Rights, fortyfivedownstairs Melbourne 2008.
Australian Graduate School of Management - MBA course, CEO Panel discussions, 2005.
Global Television Conference, Final Plenary Session: Globalisation in Broadcasting, Banff 1999.
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 5 city link up with Washington, Trade and Investment breakfast 1995.
Editorial Opinion:
Awards include:
University of Sydney, Community Achievement 2012
Monash University, Professor John O. Miller Distinguished Achievement Medal, 1999.
University of Salonika, first post graduate scholarship awarded to an Australian student 1977.
University of NSW, Speech Competition, First Prize Qantas Round the World trip, 1972.
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Famous quotes containing the word community:
“The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prospect of success nor the consequence of failure—but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the United Nations.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)
“Populism is folkish, patriotism is not. One can be a patriot and a cosmopolitan. But a populist is inevitably a nationalist of sorts. Patriotism, too, is less racist than is populism. A patriot will not exclude a person of another nationality from the community where they have lived side by side and whom he has known for many years, but a populist will always remain suspicious of someone who does not seem to belong to his tribe.”
—John Lukacs (b. 1924)