The award-winning Canadian academic, science broadcaster and environmental activist Dr David Suzuki will present at The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre on Thursday 10 March 2016.

David is recognised as a world leader in sustainable ecology. He is the recipient of UNESCO’s Kalinga Prize for Science, the United Nations Environment Program Medal, UNEPs Global 500 and in 2009 won the Right Livelihood Award that is considered the Alternative Nobel Prize.

David is renowned for his radio and television programs that explain the complexities of the natural sciences in a compelling, easily understood way. He is familiar to television audiences as host of the CBC science and natural history television series The Nature of Things, and to radio audiences as the original host of CBC Radio’s Quirks and Quarks, as well as the acclaimed series It’s a Matter of Survival and From Naked Ape to Superspecies.

Academic colleagues criticized Suzuki’s broadcasting as a waste of his talents, but Suzuki was convinced that public awareness of science would contribute to both better science policies and an enriched culture.

Whilst some believe that it is already too late to save our species David is more optimistic. Nature, if given the chance, will be more forgiving than we deserve, he says. All humans have to do is start paying attention to the flashing warning signs.

Presented by The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre and WOMADelaide Planet Talks

FREE Registration: Dr David Suzuki at The Hawke Centre
Thursday 10 March 2016, 6.00pm – 7.30pm
Allan Scott Auditorium, University of South Australia, City West campus