Pauline Rigby is a professional speaker. Once an awarded
Toastmaster, she has now been affiliated with the National
Speakers Association of Australia since 2004. Her speeches
encompass the wide range of issues that confront our lived
experience in 2006 and she addresses them through the different
lenses of ethics, philosophy, theology and deep ecology.
Pauline studied ethics and philosophy at Griffith University
and the University of Queensland. She studied theology
at the Banyo Seminary in Brisbane and this together with
her work with Joanna Macy has given her the vision of
‘deep ecology’. She has worked at the ‘grassroots’
as a ‘community development’ worker.
Pauline has researched the nuclear industry since 1997
and has established International links with scientists,
service personnel and civilians affected by the growth
of militarism and the fallout from nuclear facilities
and uranium weapons.
Using humour and history, Pauline Rigby shines an entertaining
light on our human condition.
WHERE TO FOR HUMAN RIGHTS?
A thought provoking keynote address that questions if
human rights are possible in an Industrial Growth Society
and searches for an inclusive paradigm within philosophy
and ethics.
• Do we need to define ‘who’ is ‘human’?
• Can business ethics incorporate human rights?
• Whose voices have been silenced?
• Who are the prominent Western philosophers?
• What is an ethic of care and an ethic of justice?
• Who defines ‘a terrorist’, are you
and I terrorists?
• Have we forgotten that all life forms are inextricably
linked?
and so much more . . .
FROM URANIUM MINES TO URANIUM
WEAPONS
A keynote address detailing the history of the nuclear
industry and its impact on communities across the globe
and throughout history.
• The history behind the International Commission
on Radiological Protection and the European Committee
on Radiation Risk
• The deal between the World Health Organization
and the International Atomic Energy Agency
• The selling of uranium mining tailings to indigenous
communities to build houses
• The cancer and leukaemia clusters around nuclear
power plants
• Uranium weapons and their consequences.
and so much more . . .
SEARCHING FOR GOD
This keynote address touches the very core of spiritual
belief systems and how they shapes us and the world we
live in
• Is it possible to define who God is?
• What does it mean to be ‘created in the
image of God’?
• Ethical problems that arise from a metaphorical
theology that only images ‘God’ in the masculine
• What does it mean to have ‘dominion over
the earth’?
• What did the ancient mystics say about God?
• Has ‘someone’ been ‘editing’
the bible to secure an unjust agenda?
and so much more . . .
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