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In his influential 1964 book The Lucky Country, Donald Horne wrote that Australians played an aristocratic role in Asia: "rich, self-centred, frivolous, blind". A lot has changed in 60 years, but does Australia still think it's better than its neighbours?
Recorded at the Australian Academy of the Humanities annual symposium, The Ideas and Ideals of Australia — The Lucky Country turns 60, on 13 — 15 November 2024 at the Australian National University.
Speakers
Louise EdwardsEmeritus Scientia Professor of Chinese History, University of New South Wales
Nick HorneEditor, Donald Horne: Selected Writings (2017)
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Australia's housing crisis hasn't always been with us. So what choices created it, and what choices are now needed to fix it? Buying a house is now out of reach if you're on an average wage, and rental options are expensive and precarious. If we don't address the issues urgently, generations to come will face homelessness or profound poverty paying rents on a pension. There are solutions. Are politicians courageous enough to try them? Join Natasha Mitchell and guests at Adelaide Writers Week.
Speakers
Maiy AzizeDeputy Director of Anglicare AustraliaNational spokesperson, Everybody's Home campaign
Alan KohlerFinance journalist and presenter with ABC NewsAuthor, Quarterly Essay: The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix it (2023)
Amy Remeikis aka @PyjamaPoliticsChief Political Analyst, The Australia Institute
Jordan van den Lamb aka @PurplePingersRental activist and advocate2025 Senate candidate, Victorian Socialists
Thank you to Adelaide Writers Week and to Anna Chang from the Australia Institute.
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How many times have you checked your phone today? How many tabs are open in your web browser? Do you feel in control of your attention?
In the digital age, attention is now a commodity. Can practices like meditation and mindfulness help us feel more free to focus on what really matters?
This event was hosted at the Brunswick Ballroom by the Sophia Club in partnership with the University of Melbourne's Contemplative Studies Centre.
Speakers
Jess HuonMeditation trainer, authorised Dharma teacher, writer (The Dark Wet)
Nicholas Van DamDirector of the Contemplative Studies Centre at the University of MelbourneAssociate professor, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne
Brigid Hains (host)Editorial director, Aeon Media
Matthias Schack-Arnott Musician
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The structures of families have gotten complex, even messy. Patchwork families are increasingly common. You can a birth mother, a genetic mother and a social mother. People choose friends as kin. How have families and communities changed? Presented at the Byron Writers Festival, supported by the Byron Shire Council.
Speakers
Kon KarapanagiotidisCEO and Founder of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre; author of A Seat at My Table: Philoxenia
Marina KamenevFormer deputy arts editor of the Moscow Times, author of Kin
Molly SchmidtWriter and journalist, author of Salt River Road
Rosemarie MilsomFounding director of Newcastle Writers Festival, journalist and broadcaster
Also listen to Future Tense: The greatest demographic shift in a century is being ignored: single living
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The Murray Darling Basin is the most important river system in Australia, and the most contested. What does it mean to live by those rivers, through the droughts, the floods, and the water politics that shape these communities. A beautiful and evocative history of the Murray Darling Basin, as told by people who live there.
This speech was recorded at the History Council of Victoria's annual lecture at the State Library of Victoria on 14 November 2024.
Speakers
Katie HolmesProfessor in History and Director of the Study of the Inland at La Trobe UniversityAuthor, Mallee Country: land, people, history, Reading the Garden: the Settlement of Australia and more
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How has the fossil fuel industry wielded influence over Australian governments and their policies? What does it take to make ambitious change in the public interest, without vested interests getting in way? Join Natasha Mitchell and guests at Adelaide Writers Week.
Speakers
Dr Richard DennissEconomist and Executive Director of The Australia InstituteAuthor of BIG: The Role of the State in the Modern Economy (2022)
Ross GarnautEconomistProfessor Emeritus in business and economics, University of MelbourneBoard director of renewable energy company ZEN ENERGYAuthor of Let's Tax Carbon: And other ideas for a better Australia (2024), Superpower: Australia's Low Carbon Opportunity (2019)
Sarah Hanson-YoungSenator for South AustraliaGreens spokesperson for arts and communications, and environment and water
Royce KurmelovsFreelance journalistAuthor of Slick: Australia's Toxic Relationship with Big Oil (2024)
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The citizens of France have a notoriously conflicted relationship with the state. Their suspicion, if not resentfulness, of state power has played out in myriad revolts over the centuries and continues with repeated protests and riots to this day. It shapes the country's political and social fabric … from the set-up of their local sports clubs to their global foreign politics ambitions. The picture that emerges is one of a nation struggling to reconcile its core political values with the realities of a diverse society.
Presented at FASStival, the University of Technology Sydney Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Festival
Speaker
Emile ChabalProfessor of Contemporary European History at the University of Edinburgh, Author of France
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The International Criminal Court has issued high-profile arrests warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over their conduct in the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. But although the court's role is to end impunity for war crimes, many are now questioning whether it has the power to perform that vital duty.
This event was recorded at the University of Tasmania on 11 February 2025.
Speakers
Alex WhitingProfessor of Practice, Harvard Law SchoolFormer Acting Specialist Prosecutor for the Kosovo Tribunal in The HagueFormer Investigation Coordinator and then Prosecution Coordinator in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The HagueTrial Attorney and then a Senior Trial Attorney with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, 2002-2007
Regina Weiss (host)Barrister, Tasmanian BarFormer war crimes prosecutor, International Criminal CourtCounsel to the ICC on victims, defense, sexual and gender-based violenceChair of the Australian Red Cross — Tasmania International Humanitarian Law Committee
Tim McCormack (host)Professor of International Law, University of TasmaniaFormer Special Adviser on War Crimes to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague (2010-2024)
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A "Homeric struggle", a desperate night-ballet, an ethical training ground for boys and men. Aussie Rules is a multimillion-dollar industry, but at its heart, to thousands of people, it's much more than that. Including to Australian literary great, Helen Garner.
This event was recorded at the National Library of Australia on 20 February 2025.
Speakers
Helen GarnerAuthor, The Season, Monkey Grip, The Children's Bach, The First Stone, Joe Cinque's Consolation, The Spare Room, This House of Grief and more
Beejay Silcox (host)Critic, writer, outgoing Artistic Director, Canberra Writers Festival
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Donald Trump's return to The White House is up-ending the way America works — at home and on the global stage. Does it herald the potential social, political, and constitutional collapse of United States? The world has watched nations sleepwalk into ultranationalist fascism before, is this that moment? Or is American democracy more resilient than any one demagogue? Are we on the cusp of new world order, and how will Australia play its cards if the USA no longer has our back?
This event was presented by Adelaide Writers Week and the Australia Institute.
Speakers
Dr Emma ShortisAuthor, Our Exceptional Friend: Australia's Fatal Alliance with the USDirector of The Australia Institute's International & Security Affairs program
Dr Nick BryantJournalist, historianAuthor, The Forever War: America's Unending Conflict with ItselfFormer BBC correspondentPresenter of Saturday Extra on ABC Radio National
Allan BehmAuthor, The Odd Couple: The Australia-America Relationship (2024)Special Advisor, International Political Affairs, The Australia Institute
Dr Prudence FlowersAuthor, The Reagan Revolution (2025)President, Australian and New Zealand American Studies AssociationSenior lecturer in US history at Flinders University
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A trip to Bunnings, a Medibank or Optus account, a new smart car or vacuum, every facet of our daily lives is now up for grabs. So should privacy continue to be our individual responsibility, or is it time for governments do more?
This event was recorded at the State Library of Victoria on 19 November 2024.
Speakers
Hugh de KretserPresident, Australian Human Rights Commission
Lizzie O'SheaFounder and chair of Digital Rights WatchPrincipal lawyer at Maurice Blackburn
Ed SantowCo-Director of the Human Technology Institute at the University of Technology SydneyCo-author, Machines in Our Image: The Need for Human Rights in the Age of AI
Daniel NellorPhilosopher, playwright and co-author, Machines in Our Image: The Need for Human Rights in the Age of AI
Further information:
First tranche of the Federal Government's privacy reformsPrivacy and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024
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Europe needs to rethink its strategies and policies to protect the continent in the future. Russia's invasion of Ukraine, China's predatory mercantilism, and the rise of populist neoisolationism in the United States mean that depending on the status quo won't cut it anymore. But after decades of neglect, restoring Europe's military capacity, economic competitiveness, and strategic autonomy will be difficult. Can NATO evolve into a more balanced team, and may the time finally have come for a European pillar within it? Can increased trade and economic dynamism be squared with increased security and international competition?
Presented by the American Academy in Berlin
Speakers
Gideon RoseFormer editor and managing editor of Foreign Affairs; 2025 Axel Springer Fellow at the American Academy in BerlinAdjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; adjunct professor of political science at Columbia University
Daniel BenjaminPresident of the American Academy in Berlin
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Humans have a conflicted relationship with animals: We love our pets and admire our wildlife. But we continue the industrial production of dairy, meat and eggs, that often leaves animal suffering in dreadful conditions. We create a division between US and THEM, if it suits us. What does that say about how we value animals in our lives?
Presented at the Byron Writers Festival
Speakers
Peter SingerBioethicist and author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, and The Buddhist and the EthicistFounder of the charity The Life You Can Save and co-hosts of the Lives Well Lived podcast
James BradleyAward-winning author of Deep Water: The World in the Ocean
Laura Jean McKayAward-winning author of The Animals in That Country and Gunflower
Dr David RolandClinical psychologist and honorary associate with the School of Medicine, University of Sydney
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Seeing a whale in the wild takes your breath away. But so much of what they do remains mysterious. Join Natasha Mitchell with two world leading whale researchers unearthing the secret world of cetaceans. You'll want to change jobs when you hear what they get up to! Thousands of humpback whales will soon leave their Summer feeding grounds in Antarctica with full bellies to begin the world's longest mammalian migration. How do they live, breed, behave, survive, thrive? Commercial whaling might have declined, but can we work out what these magnificent creatures make of what's happening in their home now — from offshore oil drilling and seismic testing to ship collisions and climate change?
This event was hosted by the Island Whale Festival Phillip Island. Find out more about the festival held annually in July.
Listen to the rest of our special series Animals — Us and Them?
Speakers
Dr Barry McGovern Cetacean scientist Australian Research Associate, Pacific Whale Foundation
Dr Pete Gill Cetacean scientist Founder and CEO of The Blue Whale Study
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Cherished companions, or cunning predators? Cats kill five million native animals in Australia every day — so how can we better manage our feline friends?
Listen to the rest of our special series Animals — Us and Them?
Speakers
Alex Patton Invasive species ecologist and PhD candidate, University of Tasmania
Noel Hunt CEO, Ten Lives Cat Centre
Dr Catherine "Cat" Young Biodiversity coordinator, NRM South
Dr Tiana Pirtle (host)Conservation officer, Invasive Species Council
Further information:
Cats in Australia - Invasive Species Council
Cat Management Actions for Eastern Quoll on Bruny Island - NRM South
Threat abatement plan for predation by feral cats - Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
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Zoos are changing — they are no longer just places for us humans to gawk at animals in cages. In the midst of a global extinction crisis, they are now playing a vital role. So what is their future?
This event was recorded at the International Society of Behavioural Ecology Congress in Melbourne on 2 October 2024, with thanks to organiser Professor Andy Bennett from the University of Melbourne.
Listen to the rest of our special series Animals — Us and Them?
Speakers
Dr Sally SherwinDirector of Wildlife Conservation and Science, Zoos Victoria
Professor John WoinarskiConservation biologist, Charles Darwin UniversityAuthor, A Bat's End: The Christmas Island Pipistrelle, Cats in Australia: companion and killer and moreDirector, Australian Wildlife ConservancyCo-chair, IUCN Australasian Marsupial and Monotreme Specialist GroupMember of the science advisory committees of Zoos Victoria and of Invertebrates Australia
Associate Professor Lee BergerMelbourne Veterinary SchoolFellow of the Australian Academy of Science
Professor Dan BlumsteinProfessor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles
Dr Jen Martin (host)Associate Professor in Science Communication, and founder of the Science Communication Teaching Program, University of MelbourneHost, Triple R community radioAuthor, Why am I like this? The science behind your weirdest thoughts and habits
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Satyajit Das presents a provocative examination of the use and abuse of images of wild animals, and how they shape our relationships with the natural world. These pictures can create an impression of abundance and untouched ecosystems, and lull us into a false sense of security, at a time when the natural world faces ecological calamity.
The Attenborough Effect — Shaping Our Relationship With Wild Animals was presented by the Australian National Maritime Museum.
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Satyajit DasAuthor of Wild Quests. Journeys into Ecotourism and the Future for Animalsformer banker, recognised as one of the world's leading financial thinkers.
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We’re past the brink of civilisational collapse. And many environmentalists are pushing a “fake green fairytale”. Jem Bendell’s arguments have inspired the Extinction Rebellion movement’s civil disobedience pushing for climate change action. But Jem doesn’t think protest is enough now. Find out why the self-confessed eco-libertarian and author of Breaking Together: A freedom-loving response to collapse thinks we should break together not apart. Jem joins Big Ideas host Natasha Mitchell at the 2024 Festival of Dangerous Ideas (FODI)
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Jem Bendell Author, Breaking Together: A freedom-loving response to collapse (2023)Author, Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy (2018, 2020)Co-founder of Bekandze Farm - Regenerative Training CentreFounder, the Deep Adaptation ForumBand member, the Barefoot StarsEmeritus Professor of Sustainability Leadership, University of CumbriaSenior Distinguished Fellow, Schumacher Institute
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For 30 years, Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia exposed corruption and wrong doing in her country. Her youngest son, Paul Caruana Galizia, details the impact of her life, her assassination in a car bomb explosion in 2017, and how her legacy lives on.
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The British Empire was once the biggest in the world. But now, some countries are cutting ties, and some want reparations. So just what is the legacy of British imperialism?
This event was recorded at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in October 2024.
Speakers
Sathnam SangheraAuthor, Empireworld: how British Imperialism shaped the globe and Empireland: how Modern Britain is Shaped by its Imperial Past, and moreColumnist with the Sunday Times
Gill Westaway Owner-operator at Villa Karingal, Lombok, IndonesiaFormer British Council employee
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