Big Ideas brings you the best of talks, forums, debates, and festivals held in Australia and around the world, casting light on the major social, cultural, scientific and political issues
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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... |
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2024-05-08 | 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? |
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2024-05-07 | 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... |
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2024-05-06 | 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. |
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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. |
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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? |
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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... |
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2024-04-30 | You don't need that dress, you need a hug. Or so says fashion activist and writer, Aja Barber. |
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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. |
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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... |
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