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SUMMARY:CLUB DINNER
DESCRIPTION:Thursday 30 October at 6.00pm for 6.30pm \nSpeaker: Adjunct Professor Brett Mason\nSubject: Wizards of Oz: how Mark Oliphant and Howard Florey helped win the war and shape the modern world\nAn Adjunct Professor in the School of Justice at the Queensland University of Technology and a member of the Council of Griffith University, Brett Mason was until recently the Chair of the Council of the National Library of Australia. Brett was formerly a senator for Queensland, serving in the Howard and Abbott ministries, before being appointed Australia’s Ambassador to The Hague and Permanent Representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. In his book, Wizards of Oz, Brett Mason reveals how childhood friends from Adelaide – physicist Mark Oliphant and medical researcher Howard Florey – initiated the most significant scientific and industrial projects of the Second World War: manufacturing penicillin, developing microwave radar and building the atomic bomb. These innovations gave the Allies the edge and ultimate victory over Germany and Japan. Brett Mason also tells how Oliphant and Florey were instrumental in convincing a reluctant United States to develop and deploy the three breakthrough inventions in time to change the course of the war. These two Australians not only helped win the war but shaped the peace, with their war-time contributions continuing to influence international politics and the health and wealth of nations. Oliphant and Florey emerge in Wizards of Oz as the two most consequential Australians of the Second World War – perhaps of all time.\n$125.00 three course dinner with wine.\n
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