Hugh Mackay is the founder of the Australia

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n quarterly research series The Ipsos Mackay Report (previously The Mackay Report). He is a psychologist

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, social research

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er and writer

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. He is a regular columnist in The Age

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 and a regularly appearing commentator on radio and television. He is a graduate of Sydney Grammar School

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, the University of Sydney

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 and Macquarie University

Macquarie University

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. He is one of the founders of the St James Ethics Centre

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Positions

He is an Adjunct Professor in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (a joint project of the Australian National University, the University of Melbourne and Charles Sturt University), a former honorary professorial fellow in the Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Chairman of the Board of Management for the Constable Education Program for the NSW Police, a former Chairman of Trustees of Sydney Grammar School

Sydney Grammar School

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, a former Deputy Chairman of the Australia Council

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, a member of the advisory committee for the Sydney Peace Prize

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 and a former Chairman of the ACT Government’s Community Inclusion Board.

He is a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society

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 and has been awarded honorary doctorates by The University of New South Wales

University of New South Wales

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, Charles Sturt University

Charles Sturt University

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 and Macquarie University

Macquarie University

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Publications

• What Makes Us Tick? (2010)
• Advance Australia...Where? (2007)
• The Ipsos Mackay Report quarterly research series (previously The Mackay Report).
• Right and Wrong: How to Decide for Yourself (2004).
• Media Mania: Why Our Fear of Modern Media is Misplaced (2002)
• Turning Point (1999)
• Generations: Baby Boomers, their Parents & their Children (1997)
• The Good Listener (originally Why Don't People Listen?, 1994)
• Reinventing Australia (1993) drew on 60 individual reports
• Better Communication with Caroline Jones (audio tapes, 1982)

External links

• HughMackay.com.au