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POLITICS
Paul Keating in Conversation with Robert Manne
Paul Keating
Part One | Part TwoAppearing at the Melbourne Recital Centre in conversation with Robert Manne, Paul Keating speaks about his life in and...
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ECONOMICS
Restructuring the economy to emit less carbon. Grattan Institute
Part 1 | Part 2Recently a report was commissioned by Grattan Institute into the likely effects of a carbon price on the operations of...
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CULTURE
What we can learn from terrorists. Tariq Ali
Part 1 | Part 2Whatever else we might think about those labelled as terrorists, it is clear that their tactics have changed the world in...
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POLITICS
American Decline: The Changing Contours of Global Order. Noam Chomsky
Professor Noam Chomsky presents a lecture entitled "Changing Contours of Global Order", a look at our drastically changing world, and the...
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POLITICS
Petro Georgiou: The Limits of Tolerance
Petro Georgiou
Diversity - racial, ethnic and religious - has been a significant public policy issue for Australian governments since the colonial period...
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WORLD
China and the new economic order. Saul Eslake, Mark Crosby and Pradeep Taneja
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3At this Festival of Ideas (University of Melbourne) session chaired by Emeritus Professor Ian Harper, a panel of...
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CULTURE
Remote Australia: The limits of government capacity. Fred Chaney
Fred Chaney
Part 1 | Part 2In this stirring address to the Adelaide Festival of Ideas, Fred Chaney takes a critical look at the long-term failures of...
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WORLD
The Sweet Spot. Peter Hartcher in Conversation
Peter Hartcher
Australians now officially have the best living conditions in the world. Our country is both fair and free - and the only developed nation...
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POLITICS
Seeking a Leader Like Keating. George Megalogenis in Conversation
George Megalogenis
In his Monthly essay, Lessons in Leadership, George Megalogenis writes about the malaise in contemporary Australian politics, and how a...
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ENVIRONMENT
A New Politics for a New Century. Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger
"To win, Nordhaus and Shellenberger persuasively argue, environmentalists must stop congratulating themselves for their own willingness to...
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CULTURE
Recollections (of a Bleeding Heart): Don Watson in Conversation
Don Watson
Don Watson reflects on ten years since the publication of his acclaimed biography, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart. Don Watson was Paul...
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MEDIA
Robert Manne Responds to 'Paul Kelly' and The Australian
Following the Australian newspaper's lengthy response to his Quarterly Essay (Bad News: Murdoch's Australian and the Shaping of the Nation...
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WORLD
Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Struggle for Democracy. Malalai Joya
Malalai Joya shot to prominence in 2005 as a female parliamentarian in the National Assembly of Afghanistan. Since then, she's defied death...
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MEDIA
Power Without Responsibility: The Australian – Manne & Beecher
Renowned essayist and public intellectual Robert Manne discusses his new Quarterly Essay 43 on the Australian newspaper...
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MEDIA
Bad News: Robert Manne on Murdoch's Australian
Robert Manne
This year has seen unprecedented scrutiny of Rupert Murdoch’s empire in Britain. But what about in Australia, where he owns 70 per cent of...
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CULTURE
Israel: War, Peace and Storytelling. Amos Oz
At a time of great upheaval in Israel, one of the country’s most admired thinkers, Amos Oz, takes to the stage in Melbourne to deliver a...
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POLITICS
Australia's Long-Term Challenges. Julia Gillard
At the inaugural Per Capita Reform Agenda series, Prime Minister Julia Gillard addresses Australia's long-term economic outlook and the...
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POLITICS
Thomas Friedman at the Melbourne Town Hall
Three-time Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and acclaimed author Thomas Friedman speaks at the Melbourne Town Hall. Freidman talks about...
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WORLD
Identities in Conflict: India, Afghanistan and Pakistan
How can peace be assured between these conflicting national identities and states? In this Festival of Ideas (University of Melbourne)...
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POLITICS
Rex Wild: Intervention, Interference or Invasion?
What happened to the Intervention?In 2007, Rex Wild and Pat Anderson produced the "Little Children Are Sacred" report on the protection of...
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7 February 2012
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