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Karen Green | Adelaide | Aug. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3For most of us, it is reassuring to think that scientific knowledge has some absolute quality of truth, something beyond the inevitable distortions of personal bias and the filters of social conditioning. But is it possible to disentangle the influence of political forces fro... » play video
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Kate Grenville | Melbourne | Aug. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2In this keynote address to the Festival of Ideas (University of Melbourne), Kate Grenville addresses the role of artists and writers in enacting or furthering social change.She raises this question with particular reference to climate change, an issue on which we know so much yet seem... » play video
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Amanda Lohrey | Sydney | Aug. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 Novellas and short stories versus the novel: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Robert Drewe and Amanda Lohrey have all written novels but selected shorter forms for their latest books. At this Sydney Writers' Festival event they explain their attraction to these precise forms to Kevin Ra... » play video
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Richard Canny | Melbourne | Aug. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2This 2009 Alfred Deakin Eco-Innovation Lecture presents Richard Canny and his demonstration of the near future of the family car.Richard Canny, Australian expatriate and CEO of dynamic Norwegian car company TH!NK, presents a compelling demonstration of the business model, innovations... » play video
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Simon Singh | Adelaide | Aug. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 Presenting the conclusions of his book Trick or Treatment? (co-authored with the world’s first professor of complementary medicine Professor Edzard Ernst), UK scientist and journalist Simon Singh studies the large amount of scientific evidence that has been accumulated to investiga... » play video
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Khalid Koser | Adelaide | Aug. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2At the Adelaide Festival of Ideas, this panel of international experts looks at the real-world fallout from the GFC and discuss the extent to which economists are responsible for this, and what they need to do to correct and temper their models. Is the proble... » play video
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Geoff Gallop | Adelaide | Jul. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3Yes Minister depicted a world in which guileless politicians were successfully managed by wiley civil servants determined to maintain control over the processes of government. In The Hollowmen, power has shifted to politicised backroom staffers whose only measurement of succe... » play video
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Max Barry | Sydney | Jul. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2In this Sydney PEN: 3 Voices talk, bestselling satirical novelist Max Barry explains how our attitudes toward risk define and confine us. His lecture uses the mishandling of financial risk in the corporate world as a springboard to a more general discussion about the ways our attitude... » play video
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Shai Agassi | Melbourne | Jul. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2This 2009 Alfred Deakin Eco-Innovation Lecture presents Shai Agassi, founder of Better Place as he shares his vision of freeing cars from oil, reducing exhaust emissions, and ushering in an era of sustainable transportation. He discusses the economic factors, industry dynamics, geopol... » play video
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Oron Catts | Melbourne | Jul. 2009
Artist Oron Catts, speaking at the State of Design Festival, tells of his truly innovative and ethically challenging work - designing with living tissue. His organisation SymbioticA at the University of Western Australia is the first research laboratory of its kind, enabling a critique of life scien... » play video
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