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Date Title & Description Contributors
2024-05-09

  What Oppenheimer can teach us about regulating new technologies

What lessons can we learn from J. Robert Oppenheimer and the development of the nuclear bomb? How should we govern and legislate new technologies that have the power to change the world? Like nuclear technology in the mid of last century, now large dig...
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2024-05-08

  Superpowers and superpeacemakers — your guide to the key players with John Lyons, Sam Roggeveen & Ilaria Walker

Smaller conflicts than we're witnessing in the world right now have set off world wars. Who will be the crucial superpowers and super peacemakers in the next five years?
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2024-05-07

  Helen Clark on how to build a healthier future for all

We are living in an "age of crises," says former New Zealand prime minister, Helen Clark. With her leadership experience and expertise in governance, politics, and policy, Helen Clark and a panel of health and international relation experts explore the...
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2024-05-06

  A history of women’s refuges

Women’s refuges are now a central part of our response to family violence, with hundreds operating across Australia. But that hasn't always been the case.
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2024-05-06

  Tenacity and two squat houses — how an Australian movement was born for women leaving violence

Women’s refuges are now a central part of our response to family violence, with hundreds operating across Australia. But that hasn't always been the case.
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2024-05-02

  Donald Trump, American authoritarianism and how journalists should cover it

As Donald Trump makes his case for re-election in 2024, under a cloud of criminal prosecutions, how can journalists better cover such a norm-busting and rule-breaking political figure?
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2024-05-01

  Jonathan Rosen — friendship, madness and the tragedy of good intentions

New York writer Jonathan Rosen’s memoir The Best Minds: a story of friendship, madness, and the tragedy of good intentions is a story of tenderness, heartache, and horror as he explores the vexed tensions between civil rights, medical power, and the co...
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2024-04-30

  Slowing down fast fashion with Aja Barber

You don't need that dress, you need a hug. Or so says fashion activist and writer, Aja Barber.
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2024-04-29

  Mariana Mazzucato — a moonshot guide to changing capitalism

It took 400,000 people to land man to the moon. And it's using that example as inspiration that the influential Italian American economist Mariana Mazzucato argues we can change capitalism.
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2024-04-25

  Is it time to change Australia's security strategy for South East Asia?

Could Asia Pacific be with China within a couple of years? Is the independence of Taiwan worth for Australia to get involved? Would Indonesia be a better security partner for Australia than the US? On Big Ideas, a panel of foreign policy experts dissec...
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author