Melbourne

  • SlowTV: Richard Dawkins in conversation with Robyn Williams

    Richard Dawkins | Melbourne | Mar. 2010
    Richard Dawkins in conversation with Robyn Williams
    Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 At the Melbourne Town Hall, presented by the Melbourne Writers Festival, outspoken and influential author and scientist Richard Dawkins speaks to Robyn Williams (ABC RN) about the ideas underpinning his new book, The Greatest Show on Earth. They discuss the intricacies, the... » play video
  • Richard Dawkins in conversation with Robyn Williams (p2)
    Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 At the Melbourne Town Hall, presented by the Melbourne Writers Festival, outspoken and influential author and scientist Richard Dawkins speaks to Robyn Williams (ABC RN) about the ideas underpinning his new book, The Greatest Show on Earth. They discuss the intricacies, the... » play video
  • Richard Dawkins in conversation with Robyn Williams (p3)
    Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 At the Melbourne Town Hall, presented by the Melbourne Writers Festival, outspoken and influential author and scientist Richard Dawkins speaks to Robyn Williams (ABC RN) about the ideas underpinning his new book, The Greatest Show on Earth. They discuss the intricacies, the... » play video
  • SlowTV: Reading in a time of change. A Meanland event at the Wheeler centre

    Marieke Hardy | Melbourne | Mar. 2010
    Reading in a time of change. A Meanland event at the Wheeler centre
    Part 1 | Part 2The way we read is changing more profoundly now than at any time since the invention of movable type. E-books, electronic ink, digital readers; the book is reinventing itself at a dizzying rate. But what does the future hold for readers, for publishers and for writers? In this inaugur... » play video
  • SlowTV: China as a Great Power. Ross Garnaut

    Ross Garnaut | Melbourne | Mar. 2010
    China as a Great Power. Ross Garnaut
    Speaking at the Asialink Chairman's Welcome 2010, Professor Ross Garnaut, a former ambassador to China (1985-1988), discusses China's illustrious history and its status as a nation returning to a position of great power in the 21st century.Asialink, Melbourne, February 2010... » play video
  • SlowTV: Peter Singer: Why we need a beef tax

    Peter Singer | Melbourne | Mar. 2010
    Peter Singer: Why we need a beef tax
    Delivering the Wheeler Centre's inaugural Lunchbox/Soapbox address, controversial ethicist Peter Singer advocates for the introduction of a beef tax in Australia. Citing the adverse health impacts (most particularly the high incidence of bowel cancer amongst meat-eaters) and the environmental im... » play video
  • SlowTV: Out to Sea: Refugee policy under the Rudd govt. Jessie Taylor

    Jessie Taylor | Melbourne | Feb. 2010
    Out to Sea: Refugee policy under the Rudd govt. Jessie Taylor
    Jessie Taylor is a Melbourne lawyer and refugee advocate. She is the Chair of the Law Institute of Victoria Refugee Law Reform Committee, has sat on the board of The Justice Project since 2004 and is the Secretary of the Victorian Council for Civil Liberties (Liberty Victoria). In this public lectur... » play video
  • SlowTV: The future of carbon trading in Australia. Garnaut, Eckersley, Thornton

    Kane Thornton | Melbourne | Mar. 2010
    The future of carbon trading in Australia. Garnaut, Eckersley, Thornton
    Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 In the wake of the government vote on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change at Copenhagen, this seminar explores the outlook for a carbon trading scheme in Australia and what it will mean for business, individual... » play video
  • The future of carbon trading in Australia. Garnaut, Eckersley, Thornton (p2)
    Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 In the wake of the government vote on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change at Copenhagen, this seminar explores the outlook for a carbon trading scheme in Australia and what it will mean for business, individual... » play video
  • The future of carbon trading in Australia. Garnaut, Eckersley, Thornton (p3)
    Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 In the wake of the government vote on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change at Copenhagen, this seminar explores the outlook for a carbon trading scheme in Australia and what it will mean for business, individual... » play video