Royal Society of NSW and the Learned Academies Forums

This page provides access to the abstracts, content, and reports from the annual Forum that is conducted jointly by the Royal Society of NSW and the Learned Academies at Government House, Sydney.

Please follow the links below to the content that is available.

Video recordings of all Forums from 2019 onwards are available on the Society’s YouTube channel.

• 2024 Forum: Threats to Democracy
• 2023 Forum: Our 21st Century Brain
• 2022 Forum: Reshaping Australia—Communities in Action
• 2021 Forum: Power and Peril of the Digital Age
• 2020 Forum: After COVID-19: Creating the Best of Times from the Worst of Times
• 2019 Forum: Making SPACE for Australia
• 2018 Forum: Towards a prosperous and sustainable Australia: what now for the lucky country?
• 2017 Forum: The Future of Reason in a Post-Truth World
• 2016 Forum: Society as a complex system—implications for science, practice, and policy
• 2015 Forum: The future of work