A controversial figure in the Australian legal sector will speak on ‘Public education and the third great principle of secularism’ in the 2011 Bob Meyenn Lecture next week at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Albury-Wodonga. The former Australian High Court judge, the Honourable Michael Kirby, AC, CMG, will appeal for the traditional place of secularism in Australian public schools, and the protection it offers children who have no religion as well as those who are members of a religion. This year’s Bob Meyenn Lecture will commence at 7pm on Thursday 28 April in the CD Blake Lecture Theatre, off Elizabeth Mitchell Drive, Thurgoona. The annual major public lecture is named after Professor Bob Meyenn, the former inaugural Dean of CSU’s Faculty of Education.