The Backhouse Lectures are public lectures on contemporary issues delivered annually at the national gathering of Quakers in Australia. They were initiated by Australia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) on its establishment in 1964. Friends from both Australia and overseas have presented lectures. The 2021 Backhouse Lecture, Searching for Truth:Friends in a ‘post-truth’ world, was presented as a panel dicussion exploring Truth in a Post-Truth world.
