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Mar 31, 2022
Dennis Murray
May 18, 2020
Well presented podcast with detailed and informative discussions on wide range of relevant current topics.
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Feed your mind. Be provoked. One big idea at a time. Your brain will love you for it. Grab your front row seat to the best live forums and festivals with Natasha Mitchell.
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The future of health technology
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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"It's personal" — field stories from the frontline of Australia's Ambassador for Gender Equality
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Trees as an alternative crop — the future of forestry in Australia?
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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The shark net controversy — hear the debate at Bondi's Ocean Lovers Festival
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Life on Mars — and beyond
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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A heart-to-heart with Eric Bogle — his songs and his life
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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The war in Gaza, Palestinians, and Israelis – what can we learn from the past about the future?
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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A mummified mystery! Sealed shut for decades then scientists opened this coffin lid
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Mary Beard — Empress of Rome
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Michael Gawenda on Jewishness, the Australian Left, and the State of Israel
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Cheng Lei, Sean Turnell and Kylie Moore-Gilbert on the ruthless practice of hostage diplomacy
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Ripples, resilience, and rivers – the politics of water
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Forging a fire ready future
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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What makes a charity successful?
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Julia Baird on how grace saves us from a dark world
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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The Deficit Myth with Stephanie Kelton — what to ask when governments can't afford to fix things.
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Bessel van der Kolk on The Body Keeps the Score
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Why are young people more unhappy and worried?
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Are we all liberals at heart?
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Imagination and Mindset, and The Importance of Doubt (Boyer Lectures 3 and 4)
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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The Atomic Revolution and the Quantum Promise (2023 Boyer Lectures 1 and 2)
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Trump vs Biden vs the world — what will it mean for Australia?
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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I've Been to a Parallel World
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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The education gap between rural and metropolitan Australia is costing us billions
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Solving the mysteries of the universe − with philosophy
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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How Russia’s war on Ukraine ends
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Corruption at the crossroads in Australia
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Spending time with Laurie Anderson
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Finding your creativity with Holly Ringland
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Nature for people – how the natural world affects our health
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Swiftposium – the academics of Taylor Swift
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Intuition — the science of knowing WHAT without knowing WHY
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Uncivil society – polarisation and breakdown in our conversations
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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How to tell stories that change the course of history — from slavery abolition to gaming culture
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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A queer love letter to libraries
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Be the change you want to see — Chanel Contos, Isabelle Reinecke, Semara Jose, Sarah Brown
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Nazanin Boniadi — fighting for women's rights in Iran
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Caroline Polachek on the art of pop music
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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How to speak freely about topics no one wants to talk about
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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A new way to fix the hot mess of housing in remote Aboriginal Australia?
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Psychedelics – from magic to medicinal
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Gabriel Krauze on Who They Was — his wild life in crime and literature
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Does Australia need more tiger parents?
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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When I grow up I want to be ... why we all need to reimagine aging.
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Craig Foster on how Australia can pull its socks up on human rights
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Escaping the Burrow — Astra Taylor on The Age of Insecurity (Massey Lecture 5)
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Beyond human security — Astra Taylor on The Age of Insecurity (Massey Lecture 4)
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Consumed by Curiosity — Astra Taylor on The Age of Insecurity (Massey Lecture 3)
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Barons or Commoners? — Astra Taylor on The Age of Insecurity (Massey Lecture 2)
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Cura's Gift — Astra Taylor on The Age of Insecurity (Massey Lecture 1)
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Catherine Deveny, Shannon Burns, and Akuch Anyieth on memoir
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Will AI render human creativity worthless? The Beaker St Festival Great Debate
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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The day the invisible was made visible — Manus Island detention survivors speak
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Osman Faruqi — censoring hip hop
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Safer beaches and guilt-free seafood
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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On ya bike or not? Global movers, shakers, and city shapers reimagining car culture
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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The power, politics and cost of women speaking out
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Nuclear technology: the shady beginnings and the uncertain future
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Greek-Australian identity: Are we WHITE yet?
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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I am not my chromosomes — science, rights, and the intersex experience
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Why thinking in Deep Time is good for your head
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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It's not as simple as moving house! Meet climate refugees with a (scaly, sticky, furry) difference
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Bri Lee and fellow voyagers ponder the ethics of travel
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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George Monbiot's Regenesis — you won't think about dinner the same way again
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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(Too) hot right now — life on a sweltering planet
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Wellmania's Brigid Delaney on the gift of the Stoics
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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The buff-breasted button-quail: Is one of our rarest native birds still alive?
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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The soul in the machine — anthropologist, technologist, futurist Genevieve Bell and guests
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Sigrid Thornton, Rachael Maza, Sophie Hyde, Anousha Zarkesh — about older ladies in the movies
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Infidelity and other affairs
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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The science of happiness
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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If a home is a human right — how can citizens and architects seize control of housing design?
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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From The King and I to Miss Saigon, Australia’s new generation of stage makers are de-orientalising the canon
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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The future of photography under AI
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Test tube trailblazers — the story of Australia's pioneering female scientists
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Being you — a new science of consciousness with Anil Seth
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Has space travel changed what it means to be human? A space archaeologist, poet, theologian, astrophysicist respond
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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How calories and coercion do you harm — leading physicians on your healthy body and mind
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Food waste is bananas. So let's make fruit salad with these foodies and waste whizzes!
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Why do so many of us feel so damn lonely and too ashamed to talk about it?
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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David Marr's ancestors massacred Indigenous Australians. Marcia Langton's ancestors were among them.
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Love, lost minds, and mortality — how two storytellers met two scientists, made magic, and found meaning
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Newsroom ethics and the Israel Gaza war — part one
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Newsroom ethics and the Israel-Gaza war — part two
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Photojournalist Andrew Quilty and activist Zahra Karimi want you to see this Afghanistan
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Tracey Spicer: How AI and machine design is failing women
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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There's a sensory world unavailable to humans. So Ed Yong tried to discover it.
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Sean Turnell — how a nerdy economist was held hostage by Myanmar
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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The F Word — is Feminism too white, too middle-class, or a movement for all?
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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What would you sacrifice to give peace a chance?
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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The genius and struggles of Orson Welles
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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The Doherty's Sharon Lewin on the call that changed the world forever
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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I DON’T! Clem Ford argues the case against marriage
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Does sport unite or divide us?
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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What would Hannah Arendt make of our tumultuous present?
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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How to shut up your inner critic and anxious thoughts — Brigid Delaney, James Kirby and Ahona Guha
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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More than a fish kill — how a bunch of boys healed a scientist and found themselves
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Witchcraft in the 21st century
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Who gets to write history?
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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How disinformation disrupts the city
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Porkies to pork barrelling — real solutions to democracy's accountability crisis?
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Making cancer treatment work for every body
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Do we need compassion for men who hurt women … to stop them from doing so?
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Why Indy Johar doesn't want you to 'escape' to New Zealand
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I — what we can learn from this extraordinary mother-daughter relationship
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Ladies on the war path — why are women combatants still so disputed?
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Do you have what it takes to become a reserve astronaut?
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Content overload — how we consume culture now
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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The rise of Australian actors in Hollywood
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Decolonising Australia's fire science
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Why the stunning mystery of a Stone Age child with one foot upends medicine
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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The Voice referendum — hope or hype?
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Legendary designer Mary Featherston: how school classrooms stunt our wondrous natural-born curiosity
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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'Ok boomer' — the consternation of a generation
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Hunting for life on exoplanets — but is it life as we know it?
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Ahead of the Voice referendum, a refresher on referenda
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Open arms or closed doors — why do governments celebrate certain migrants but stigmatise others?
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Tony Wellington: How the music of the 60s and 70s changed the world forever
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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The future of Australia's literary journals — writing's great pollinators
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Why young people want to break the binaries of the Voice debate
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Artificial wombs and animal sex — philosophers weigh in on brave new futures
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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The deeper meaning of travel: Richard Fidler, Kris Kneen, Adam Liam, Vicki Shururoglou
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Keeping up with the Coppolas
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Anne Summers and the inside story of a winning campaign — pulling single parents out of poverty
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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David Suzuki's battle-cry for Now or Never
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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How to design cities that make us feel again
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Veena Sahajwalla, the 'queen of waste' starting a revolution
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Cathy McGowan's lessons for lasting change
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Unseen by design — could a world designed by blind people be better for all?
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Is patenting vaccines a threat to public health?
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Does politics neglect the needs of younger generations?
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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(Too) hot right now — life on a sweltering planet
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Is AI coming for what makes us most human — ART? Six whip-smart thinkers to provoke
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Osman Faruqi — the war on hip hop
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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COVID, Zoonotic diseases, and the next pandemic
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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From Matildas' Sam Kerr to author Alice Pung — is Australia's Asian identity centre stage?
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Will AI render human creativity worthless? The Beaker St Festival Great Debate
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Jacinda Ardern speaks frankly with Mana Wāhine (powerful women)
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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The uncertain future of the Antarctic and Arctic: why the arctic regions are crucial for global security
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Fantastic beasts get it on! Incredible stories of revival and rescue
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Perv — the kink in all of us
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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The Matildas Effect — will FIFA and other codes change their tune on sportswomen?
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Infidelity and other affairs
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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What we can learn from ancient African kings
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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The dreamers and schemers — an adventurous history of Australian politics
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Australian foreign policy after Albanese
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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How to stay hopeful and optimistic in dark times
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Barrie Kosky — a giant of Australian stage
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Young and healthy (or not)? Here's why DNA screening should be on your radar
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Benjamin Gilmour says: We should be talking to the Taliban
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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All about IVF
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Nothing about us without us
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Before Julia Gillard's misogyny speech — meet the feminists who changed Australian politics
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Shut up and (write) the hits — song writing in the streaming age
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Why do some people crave risk and extreme adventures?
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Australia's sporting myths
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Puff Piece — John Safran goes gonzo with Big Tobacco's health spin
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Whatever happened to Australian foreign aid?
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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President Penpa Tsering on the challenges and the future of Tibet
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Catherine Deveny, Shannon Burns, and Akuch Anyieth on memoir
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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The Dark Cloud — how our digital lives and Big Tech are costing the Earth
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Bri Lee and fellow voyagers ponder the ethics of travel
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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The radical act of making healthcare work for YOU, the patient
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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The secretive history and uncertain future of nuclear technology
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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The day the invisible was made visible — Manus Island detention survivors speak
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Black lives, white law
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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A Blakprint for improving First Nations' lives
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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It's not as simple as moving house! Meet some climate refugees of a different kind
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Surviving the beach ... and making sure your seafood is sustainable
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Are we living in the war century?
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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No place like an (affordable) home
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Lenore Taylor on defending facts against fake news
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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When Jon Faine met Apollo and Thelma
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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The buff-breasted button-quail: Is one of our rarest native birds still alive?
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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The scandals and rivalries that led to the fall of Boris Johnson
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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Boys behaving badly and what to do about it
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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On ya bike or not? Global movers, shakers, and city shapers reimagining car culture
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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What’s in a word? Multiculturalism
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Let's turn a Third of our oceans into marine parks — a good idea?
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Are laws to prevent crimes against nature fit for purpose?
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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I am not my chromosomes — science, rights, and the intersex experience
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Weaponising the global economy: The new global threat
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Where to for the arts and humanities?
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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First Nations law
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Aging on screen and on stage — Sigrid Thornton, Rachael Maza, Sophie Hyde, Anousha Zarkesh
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May 30, 2023 |
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Marie Coleman on feminism ... and breaking through Australia's Bamboo Ceiling
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May 29, 2023 |
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Making sense of the world when everyone is an expert
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May 25, 2023 |
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George Monbiot's Regenesis — you won't think about dinner the same way again
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May 24, 2023 |
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The power, politics and cost of women speaking out
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May 23, 2023 |
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Who is using your data?
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May 22, 2023 |
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The fantastic realm of fungi
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May 18, 2023 |
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Can science really save the world? World Science Festival Brisbane
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May 17, 2023 |
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Who your friends are makes you succeed in war and peace
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May 16, 2023 |
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Thinking bigger… how can Australian universities best meet future challenges?
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May 15, 2023 |
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What the ‘alien’ in science fiction reveals about us
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May 11, 2023 |
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Is cancel culture a thing? Zoë Coombs Marr, Courtney Act, Brittanie Shipway, Michael Zavros
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May 10, 2023 |
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Can liberal democracies 'be friends' with authoritarian states?
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May 09, 2023 |
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Craig Foster calls for national conversation on Republic
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May 08, 2023 |
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Warren Mundine, Jacinta Price, Tony McAvoy and Shireen Morris debate the proposed Voice to Parliament
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May 04, 2023 |
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General Roméo Dallaire — Rwanda's genocide and the search for peace within after war
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May 03, 2023 |
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'Allies in all but name': Japan Australia relations
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May 02, 2023 |
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Net Zero: what does it mean and is it achievable?
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May 01, 2023 |
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Barry Humphries: Come to the Cabaret
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Jurassic Park 30 years on – will we bring extinct animals back from the dead?
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Can the market solve climate change and other social ills?
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Greek-Australian identity: Are we WHITE yet?
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Sisonke Msimang and Mohammed Massoud Morsi unstitching myths in Another Australia
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Why thinking in Deep Time is good for your head
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Wellmania's Brigid Delaney on how the Stoics can change your life
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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When classical music meets pop culture
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Rupert Murdoch meets real life Succession
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Qantas CEO Alan Joyce and former diplomat John Berry on being openly gay
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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The state of America
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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The wonder of human foresight
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Do government apologies for historic wrongs make a difference?
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Modern Australia and its place in western civilisation
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Democracy in Malaysia?
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Noel Pearson on Australian identity: Ulli Helen Corbett on international Indigenous activism
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Noel Pearson on transforming education: Dot West on media portrayal of First Nation's youth
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Noel Pearson on lifting all Australians out of poverty: Ian Anderson on Indigenous health
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Noel Pearson on the road to a 'Voice to Parliament': Jeanie Bell on Indigenous languages
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Noel Pearson on 'The Voice to Parliament': Getano Lui on self determination
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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The problem with carbon credits and offsets
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Do we need ‘big’ government?
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Democracy and constitutional change
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Hope in a conflicted world
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Work, wages, and fairness
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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The global rise of unhappiness
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Fairness and Australian politics
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Human rights and Indonesia’s new criminal code
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Is end-to-end encryption good or bad?
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Behrouz Boochani and Arnold Zable: The language of resistance
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Democracy and dissent
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Truth and treaty in Victoria and indigenous archaeology
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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The new sobriety: why more of us are drinking less alcohol.
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Household energy
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Crypto in the world of finance
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Extreme heat and hybrid learning
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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'Feared and Revered': women throughout the ages
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Drug policy in Latin America and the war on drugs
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Finland's PM on the Ukraine war and European security
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Why the eucalypt tree is so important for Australia
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Food, glorious food
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Australia's Wild Odyssey
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Teaching empathy through story telling
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Can radical centre strategies solve inequality?
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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The ingredients to 'ageing well'
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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For the public good and fixing aged care
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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How new is the Metaverse really?
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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CBC Massey lecture: On Death
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Jan 26, 2023 |