Film: HRAFF
Duty of Care
Margaret Simons
Pluck an episode from the midstream of human life and it can be hard to glean meaning. Sometimes there is just senselessness and mess. If...
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MEDIA
The Cypherpunk Revolutionary: Julian Assange
Robert Manne
Julian Assange has told the story of his childhood and adolescence twice, most recently to a journalist from the New Yorker, Raffi...
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Life Sentence
Victoria Laurie
His father, Anthony, has since graduated to one of Perth’s higher security prisons, which is also where Malcolm’s 21-year-old brother,...
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Tradition, Truth & Tomorrow
Galarrwuy Yunupingu
My land is that of the Gumatj clan nation, which is carefully defined, with boundaries and borders set out in the maps of our minds and,...
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POLITICS
The Brutal Truth: What Happened in the Gulf Country
Tony Roberts
In 1881, a massive pastoral boom commenced in the top half of the Northern Territory, administered by the colonial government in Adelaide.1...
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Paul Toohey
My interest in Driver came from a story that appeared some weeks before in the Tennant & District Times, the local paper, on 19...
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MEDIA
How to feed and clothe the world in 2050
Part 1 | Part 2 ABC journalist Fran Kelly facilitates a diverse panel of leaders from the science, agriculture, community and policy...
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WORLD
Anthony Bubalo: Where will the Arab uprisings stop?
Anthony Bubalo
Part 1 | Part 2 The recent turmoil in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain and elsewhere underlines that something fundamental is shifting in...
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WORLD
Conflict, violence and delivering aid. Pierre Krähenbühl
Part 1 | Part 2 In this thought-provoking talk, Pierre Kr?nbühl, Director of Operations of the International Committee of the Red Cross...
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MEDIA
Wikileaks, free speech and Assange's message to Australia
Part 1 | Part 2 Wikileaks has had a transformative effect on global politics and our attitudes to government power and responsibility....
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CULTURE
My friend, the terrorist. Noor Huda Ismail
In this Ubud Writers Festival event, terrorism expert Noor Huda Ismail talks to Michael Vatikiotis about terrorism and his new memoir....
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POLITICS
A Nobel Affair: Liu Xiaobo
Linda Jaivin
When I last checked, over 1 million readers had viewed this cryptic message. Among the more than 25,000 comments, the multiple effusions (“...
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POLITICS
Comment: Cronulla Five Years On
Malcolm Knox
One such line was drawn in the infamous early summer of 2005, when Sydney seemed to fracture into racial violence. From Cronulla to Lakemba...
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WORLD
Feeding tomorrow's billions. Jeb Brugmann
Part 1 | Part 2 Jeb Brugmann is one of the world?s most articulate and experienced design thinkers and innovation experts and this talk he...
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SOCIETY
Asylum seekers and Australian democracy: Manne, Lake, Burnside, Megalogenis
Part 1 | Part 2 What do we fear? At this La Trobe University event, four of the nation's leading thinkers on the subject to explore the...
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The Mission: The Bowraville Murders
Malcolm Knox
At Thomas Duroux’s house in Bowraville there are children, too. On the thin strip of his front yard, toys lie warping in the sun. Children...
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CULTURE
Responsibility, community and criminal law. Antony Duff
Part 1 | Part 2A Professor of Philosophy at the University of Stirling, and Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of...
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POLITICS
From Berlin to the Bush
Ken Inglis
After eight weeks at sea, the internees were disembarked: some in Melbourne, en route to a camp in Tatura, in northern Victoria, but most...
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WORLD
Limiting Freedom: China and human rights today. John Garnaut
Speaking at the annual Castan Centre Conference, Fairfax China correspondent John Garnaut shares some of his observations of several years...
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ECONOMICS
Civilising globalisation: Human rights and the global economy. David Kinley
Part 1 | Part 2Economic globalisation and universal human rights both have the ability to improve and enrich individuals and communities....
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