Queensland Academy of Arts & Sciences
Many outstanding recent advances have come from interaction among individuals from various disciplines, creating new departments of knowledge. This has resulted in new insights about the world in which we live, new disease cures have been found, and new profitable industries have developed.
Some examples of such departments are – molecular biology, biotechnology, genetic engineering, computer science and information technology, space sciences, geosciences, motion picture and television arts and sciences, instrumentation, and process and control engineering. Most fields of knowledge have impact on others. So an Academy bringing members of diverse fields together has many benefits for the individual and for the community.
- Read the address by Prof. Peter Doherty on the launch of the Academy, 5 September 2000.
- Read the address in 2015 by Hon Justice Michael Kirby on “Ethics and Genetic Discrimination”.
- Read the 2016 Inaugural John O’Hagan Lecture “The Science of Australia” by Prof. Peter Doherty.
- Read an account of the establishment and achievements of the Academy, from Dr John O’Hagan.
We note with sadness the passing of Dr O’Hagan, Life Member of The Royal Society of Queensland and founder of the Academy, on Australia Day 2023 at the age of 102. Dr O’Hagan was a Council member of the Royal Society for a number of years from 1959-74 and variously President and Vice-President.