Sesquicentenary 1999-2002

Photo gallery: Vice-Chancellor's Sesquicentenary Distinguished Lecture by Frederick Hilmer

The University of Sydney Sesquicentenary celebrations commenced in 1999 and commemorated various important phases in the foundation of the University. These included: the speech made in Parliament on 6 September 1849 by William Charles Wentworth advocating a university for Sydney; the passage through the NSW legislature of the Act of Incorporation on 1 October 1850; the first Senate meeting on 3 February 1851; and the arrival of the first students and the presentation of the first lectures in October 1852 and the inauguration of the University on 11 October 1852.

Mr Frederick Hilmer AO, CEO, John Fairfax Holdings, gave a lecture on "Re-energising Australia - the need to move forward in a revitalised society" in the Great Hall, Quadrangle, on 27 February 2002 as part of the Vice-Chancellor's Sesquicentenary Distinguished Lecture Series.

Photographs are courtesy of ZOOM Productions.

• Above: Introduction by Vice-Chancellor Professor Gavin Brown. View enlargement

• Above: Fred Hilmer.

• Above: Fred Hilmer. View enlargement

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• Above: The audience. View enlargement

• Above: Professor Gavin Brown and Fred Hilmer. View enlargement

• Above: Question from the audience. View enlargement

• Above: Vote of thanks by Chancellor Justice Kim Santow. View enlargement

• Above: Reception in the Quadrangle after the lecture. View enlargement

• Above: Reception in the Quadrangle after the lecture. View enlargement

• Above: Reception in the Quadrangle after the lecture. View enlargement

• Above: Reception in the Quadrangle after the lecture. View enlargement