SOCIETY

May 2013

Can We Feed 9 Billion in 2050?: Hosted by Tim Costello

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Tim Costello hosts panellists Snow Barlow, Philip Keane and Elizabeth Finkel as they discuss the question that exercising politicians, agri-businesses, academics and farmers. Presented by La Trobe University, April 2013

May 2013

The Feminist Supremacy?: Lette, Deveny, Maguire, Moss

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All of a sudden it seems everyone’s a feminist. Women who once rejected the term now embrace it. Anti-abortion campaigners call themselves feminist. Meryl Streep says...

April 2013

The World Until Yesterday. Jared Diamond

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The Monthly Book: Jared Diamond discusses his new book The World Until Yesterday with Ramona Koval. Diamond is an American scientist and author, and his previous books include The Third Chimpanzee, Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse. Buy the book here.

April 2013

Immigrant Nation – Tim Soutphommasane and Pat Grant

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There are few narratives as fractious here in Australia as those that concern immigration. Graphic novelist Pat Grant and social commentator, author and academic Tim Soutphommasane speak about Australia today with Peter Mares. Adelaide Writers Week

April 2013

Sri Lanka's Troubles. Niromi de Soyza and Frances Harrison

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Frances Harrison, journalist and author of Still Counting the Dead, and Niromi de Soyza, former child soldier and author of Tamil Tigress, talk to David Corlett about Sri Lanka's civil strife, then and now. Adelaide Writers Week, March 2013

April 2013

You Aren't What You Eat – Steven Poole

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In the age of Masterchef, Jamie, Nigella and too much gastro-porn, Steven Poole is a tonic. You Aren’t What You Eat is his very smart (and hilarious) polemic against the new food culture. At Adelaide Writers’ Week, he tells Caroline Baum about it.

April 2013

The Power of Negative Thinking – Oliver Burkeman

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Oliver Burkeman, a columnist for the Guardian, talks to Caroline Baum at Adelaide Writers’ Week. They discuss his thoughtful and amusing book about positive psychology and self-help, The Antidote: Happiness for people who can't stand positive thinking.

April 2013

The Fishing Fleet – Anne de Courcy

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Criticially acclaimed British biographer Anne de Courcy, at Adelaide Writers’ Week audience, paints a fascinating portrait of ‘husband-hunting in the Raj’, the subject of her new book. Adelaide, March 2013

March 2013

Asylum Seekers: Another Stolen Generation. Patrick McGorry

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Patrick McGorry, Australian of the Year in 2010, is one of Australia's leading mental health advocates and thinkers. At the Thinking For Yourself conference, McGorry speaks about the damage caused by successive governments' asylum seeker policies.

March 2013

Ahdaf Soueif: On Art and Politics

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At the Perth Writers Festival, the Man Booker Prize shortlisted writer Ahdaf Soueif explores the intersection between art and politics in this unforgettable Opening Address. February 2013

March 2013

David Corlett on Attitudes to Asylum Seekers: Are We As Bad As We Seem?

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At the Thinking For Yourself conference, organised by La Trobe to honour retiring academic Robert Manne, Corlett speaks about Australian public attitudes to asylum seekers. Presented by La Trobe University, March 2013

March 2013

Thinking for Yourself. David Manne on the Ethics of Protection

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David Manne addresses the Thinking For Yourself Conference (arranged in honour of Manne's uncle, Robert Manne) on the ethics of protecting the rights of those that seek shelter on our shores. Presented by La Trobe University, March 2013

March 2013

Tim Costello on the politics of aid and development

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Tim Costello, CEO of World Vision Australia, discusses the increasingly complex world of international aid and development. Recent experiences in Burma and China as well as...

March 2013

A Good Death (p1): Challenging Law and Medical Ethics. With Dr Rodney Syme

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Dr Rodney Syme, author of A Good Death: An argument for voluntary euthanasia, is the keynote speaker at this Sydney Law School seminar on the moral, legal and ethical issues...

March 2013

You Must Have Something to Hide. Hosted by David Marr

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“Privacy is for paedos,” News of the World journo Paul McMullan famously told the Leveson Inquiry. Privacy is dead, said Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Through social media...

March 2013

A.A. Gill is here. With Caroline Baum

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British writer A.A. Gill likes to eat well, he likes to travel and he likes to talk about sex. Visiting the Sydney Writers' Festival he managed to do all three. A.A. Gill is...

March 2013

Christopher Kremmer on Greed. PEN 3 Writers Project 2008

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In this lecture entitled "The Good, the Bad and the Greedy", acclaimed Australiam journalist and writer Christopher Kremmer (The Carpet Wars, Inhaling Mahatma) presents a...

March 2013

Marcia Langton and Clare Martin debate the NT intervention

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In a dynamic and at times tense discussion chaired by Archbishop Philip Freier, the Hon Clare Martin (former NT Chief Minister) and Professor Marcia Langton (Chair of Indigenous...