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Big Ideas TV -The best talks, ideas, debates and lectures from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Big Ideas TV.
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Julian Burnside, barrister, human rights advocate and writer presents the Sydney Peace Prize Lecture at Town Hall.
Science of Survival

Science of Survival

2014-11-2044:48

Elizabeth Kolbert, John Williams and Krystal Evans discuss the sixth great extinction event that is currently upon us. This conversation was undertaken at the Melbourne Writers Festival.
David Walsh, the genius gambler, entrepreneur and eccentric who founded MONA, in conversation with Julian Morrow at the Wheeler Centre.
IQ2 Debate: Society Would Flourish Under Female Rule. For: Diane Smith-Gander, Kerry Chikarovski and Eva Cox. Against: Helen Razer, Nicole Vincent and Jane Caro.
A great session in the art of Australian gothic cinema, with Terry Hayes of Mad Max fame and Aaron Sterns, co-writer of Wolf Creek 2.
Professor Greg Barton from Monash University sets out the historical context and provides a rational analysis of the rise and rapid expansion of the Islamic State.
Stephen Mills and Sally Warhaft examine obscure party bureaucrats that end up the unelected party powerful at the Melbourne Writers' Festival.
Ian Narev, CEO of Commonwealth Bank, is in conversation at the St James Ethics Lab about the role of CEO on behalf of their company, but also as a private citizen contributing to the broader public debate.
Indonesian author Ahmad Fuadi and London-based writer Elizabeth Pisani explore corruption as an essential feature of Indonesian life.
The Snowden Files

The Snowden Files

2014-11-0442:26

Who really is Edward Snowden? The Guardian's Luke Harding talks about why Snowden did what he did and how he came to be the world's most wanted man.
Writer Alice Pung gives an address on bigotry followed by a conversation with Maxine Beneba Clarke and Nick Feik at the Melbourne Writers Festival.
A passionate panel from the National Young Writers Festival takes a look at the current asylum-seeker policy, featuring upcoming talent; Yassmin Abdel Magied, Mark Issacs, Laurie May and Michael Mohammed Ahmed.
The always entertaining and engaging journalist Kate McClymont delivers the 2014 Andrew Olle Lecture at Australian Technology Park in Sydney.
Vanessa Hayes, a world renowned expert, speaks with Simon Longstaff about the direction genomic research might be heading, how realistic the expectations are and the ethical implications of having your DNA sequenced.
This IQ2 debate from New York is centred on the Middle East and the steady advance of ISIS or the Islamic State through Syria and Northern Iraq. It features American policy maker Aaron David Miller and author Bret Stephens.
Bill Henson discusses art and its relationship with technology with Simon Longstaff at the St James Ethics Centre.
Black Diggers

Black Diggers

2014-10-23--:--

This is the story of the Aboriginal men who served overseas in WW1. They joined up even though, at the time, they had no voting rights and didn't count as humans in any national census. A powerful and moving session.
Sri Lanka's violent civil war ended in 2009 but is the island nation living in peace? And how should peace be defined? Academic Gilberto Algar-Faria ventures some answers to these questions in this address at the University of Sydney.
A session on federal politics that brings together widely divergent insider perspectives. Featuring former Labor Minister, Greg Combet, and editor-at-large at The Australian, Paul Kelly.
Australian filmmaker John Pilger delivers the Edward Said Memorial Lecture in Adelaide and this is a passionate address chiefly about the most recent bombings of Gaza.
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