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Details of previous lectures from 1997-2011 are available on the University’s Speeches and presentations A N Smith Lecture in Journalism web page.

There is also a detailed history of the AN Smith Lecture courtesy of Honest History.

The Centre for Advancing Journalism is currently working on locating and archiving every lecture delivered since 1936 and we will publish a book exploring the history of Australian journalism using the AN Smith lectures.

Joyce Belfrage, the first woman to deliver the AN Smith lecture on 26 November 1970, thirty years after the lecture was established.

Joyce Belfrage, the first woman to deliver the AN Smith lecture on 26 November 1970, thirty years after the lecture was established.