The HGSA Oration was established in 1990 in order to honour a pre-eminent member of the Human Genetics Society of Australasia (HGSA). It is a lecture given by a senior member of the HGSA who has contributed significantly to the profession over many years. The oration is given annually at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the HGSA.[1]
| 1990 | Anthony C Pollard | Birth and adolescence of the HGSA and its sibling 'ACH Chem-Path [2] | |
| 1991 | Seven little Australians | ||
| 1992 | What we can do/What we should do | ||
| 1993 | Detection of mutations in DNA | ||
| 1994 | Peter Fitzgerald | A human perspective | |
| 1995 | Gillian Turner | The X chromosome and intelligence | |
| 1996 | Fragile sites: from medium 199 to dynamic mutation | ||
| 1997 | Bridget Wilken | Mild disease carriers and problems with screening | |
| 1998 | John Rogers | From medical genetics to psychotherapy and back again | |
| 1999 | William (Bill) Carey | Lysosomes, peroxisomes and other very important matters | |
| 2000 | Dianne Webster | Newborn screening quality – lessons from the past | |
| 2001 | Ethics and public policy in the genomic era [3] | ||
| 2002 | John J Hopwood | Lysosomal storage disorders: early diagnosis and effective therapy | |
| 2003 | Ethics, the new genetics and public health | ||
| 2004 | Jack Goldblatt | Do genetics - see the world | |
| 2005 | Michael Partington | Forays in syndromology over 50 years [4] | |
| 2006 | Not held | 11th International Congress of Human Genetics | |
| 2007 | Robert (Mac) Gardner | Some reflections on the philosophy and practice of medical genetics | |
| 2008 | John C Mulley | Forty years from markers to genes | |
| 2009 | Ian Walpole | Clinical genetic services: base to horizons | |
| 2010 | Jane Halliday | A trip down memory lane: progress in prenatal testing [5] | |
| 2011 | John H Pearn | Courage in discovery | |
| 2012 | Teaching and learning in genetic medicine [6] | ||
| 2013 | Joanne W Dixon, | Genetics in clinical practice: integrating new discoveries into patient care over three decades [7] | |
| 2014 | Eric A Haan | Genetics - it's personal [8] | |
| 2015 | Alan Bittles | Why community genetics? [9] | |
| 2016 | Agnes Bankier | Links and second chances... [10] | |
| 2017 | James (Jim) McGill | A fortuitous metabolic pathway [11] [12] | |
| 2018 | Kristine Barlow-Stewart | I wanted to be a genetic counsellor ….. and this is my story [13] | |
| 2019 | Mary-Anne Young | Systems and change [14] | |
| 2020 | Not held | Not held due to the global COVID-19 pandemic | |
| 2021 | Janice Fletcher | Phenotype, proteins, and pathology [15] | |
| 2022 | Nigel Laing | Tales of a grandfather (molecular genetics) [16] |