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Carmen Lawrence

Carmen Lawrence is Winthrop professor and director of the Centre for the Study of Social Change in the School of Psychology at The University of Western Australia. She was formerly premier of Western Australia and held ministerial portfolios in both state and federal governments, and is currently chair of the Australian Heritage Council.

May 2017

  • Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (centre right) with fedeMalcolm Turnbull and Craig Laundy (centre left) with students at Strathfield North public school in Sydne

    Is Gonski 2.0 skilful trickery or chance to get schools funding right? Expert panel responds

    Chris Bonnor, Carmen Lawrence, Peter Goss, Meredith Peace, Jim McMorrow and Tom Bentley
    Education experts react to the Coalition’s proposed deal, with some convinced it would entrench inequality and others deeming it ‘brave but the right call’

February 2017

  • Roe 8 protesters

    Corporate corruption and government failure to act: who's running this country?

    Carmen Lawrence
    The controversial Perth freight link development shows that it’s business-as-usual in awarding government contracts to companies with a chequered past

January 2016

  • carmen lawrence

    The denial, the infantilising babble, and the fantasies that permeate politics

    Carmen Lawrence
    If we airbrush our past and ignore human psychology in favour of glib sloganeering, how will we ever devise policies that succeed?
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