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Politics
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Ross Garnaut | Melbourne | Mar. 2010
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
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Jessie Taylor | Melbourne | Feb. 2010
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
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Clinton Dines | Sydney | Mar. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2Hosted by the Lowy Institute, Clinton Dines discusses the nature of change in the People’s Republic of China over the past three decades: the Reform & Opening Era. He assesses the significance of these changes in terms of China’s growing role in the world and for governments a... » play video
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Mark Danner | Melbourne | Mar. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2 In this conversation presented by the Wheeler Centre, acclaimed journalist and author Mark Danner discusses his new book Stripping Bare the Body with Fran Kelly (ABC Radio National).Stripping Bare the Body (Black Inc.) shows at close hand how terrorism works and how war looks and sme... » play video
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Peter Beilharz | Melbourne | Feb. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2Two of Australia's leading left political philosophers discuss the theory of social democracy and its place in the contemporary Australian political landscape. Is social democracy a practice without a project? Is it any different from left liberalism? Where is left political thoug... » play video
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Helen Clark | Sydney | Feb. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2 In recent times, the challenges of the developing world have been compounded by multiple crises: the food and fuel crises, the global recession, climatic events, and devastating natural disasters such as the earthquake in Haiti, the tsunami in Samoa, earthquakes in Indonesia and ma... » play video
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Part 1 | Part 2 The recent vandalisation of Christian churches in Malaysia has agin focussed attention on the challenges of communal politics in modern Malaysia. In this Lowy presentation, Barry Wain discusses how these attacks reflect a deep crisis at the heart of Malaysian politics, which develope... » play video
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Daniel Flitton | Melbourne | Feb. 2010
After two years and a whirlwind of activity in Australia's foreign affairs, what has Kevin Rudd got to show for all his global ambition? Australia has won a seat at the revamped G20 leaders' summit, while chasing another at the United Nations Security Council. But there have also been hurdles to sur... » play video
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David Brady | Melbourne | Feb. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2 In this talk presented by Grattan Institute, Professor David Brady (Hoover Institution, Stanford University) speaks about an area of great current interest: the polarisation of politics in the United States. Brady presently heads a joint project between the Brookings Institution and... » play video
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Gary Banks | Sydney | Dec. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 The past 30 years have seen a shift away from the post-war approach of governmental guidance and regulation of the economy towards an approach stressing more the primacy, efficiency and self-regulating character of markets. Most recently, the global financial crisis and the now near-... » play video
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