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November 2014
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Big Ideas presents the best public talks, debates and lectures from Australia and around the world, with a focus on arts and culture.
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Big Ideas presents the best public talks, debates and lectures from Australia and around the world, with a focus on arts and culture.
Expired
Big Ideas presents the best public talks, debates and lectures from Australia and around the world, with a focus on arts and culture.
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Big Ideas presents the best public talks, debates and lectures from Australia and around the world, with a focus on arts and culture.
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Big Ideas presents the best public talks, debates and lectures from Australia and around the world, with a focus on arts and culture.
October 2014
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What's good design? And why is it important? Delving into these questions is Debbie Millman - a 'brand' specialist and a podcaster on all things to do with design. Here she is in conversation with architect Stuart Harrison
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Big Ideas presents the best public talks, debates and lectures from Australia and around the world, with a focus on arts and culture.
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Helen Garner's latest book follows the disturbing case of Robert Farquharson. She tries to understand what she sees as a very ordinary bloke, who commits an horrific act.
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Big Ideas presents the best public talks, debates and lectures from Australia and around the world, with a focus on arts and culture.
September 2014
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Big Ideas presents the best public talks, debates and lectures from Australia and around the world, with a focus on arts and culture.
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Tampa, a story about female paedophilia and the debut novel by Alissa Nutting. Here she is in conversation with Benjamin Law at the Melbourne Writers Festival.
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Philosopher Raymond Gaita speaks with Simon Longstaff, seemingly without constraint, about the "examined life and the role a philosopher might play."
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This session will lift your spirits & remind you that such good journalism is still out there and this is a great bunch of women practising it. Kate McClymont, Joanne McCarthy and Colleen Ryan shine.
August 2014
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By now, we know all there is to know about Australia's history. Or do we? Here's a fascinating discussion with Henry Reynolds, Bruce Pascoe and moderator Lydia Miller about war, memorials, commemoration and agriculture!
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Humour and Debauchery - it's a fairly hefty title to live up to at a Writers' Fest! Annabel Crabbe juggles Irvine Welsh, Gary Shteyngart and Sandy Toksvig at this session at the Sydney Writers' Festival.
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Mark Isaacs is the young bloke hired by the Salvation Army, along with a bunch of retirees and a couple of teens, all dropped into Nauru. It's on-the-ground insight into one of our off shore processing centres.
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Big Ideas presents the best public talks, debates and lectures from Australia and around the world, with a focus on arts and culture.
July 2014
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Big Ideas presents the best public talks, debates and lectures from Australia and around the world, with a focus on arts and culture.
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Mathematician, poet, translator and Oulipean; this is Jacques Roubard. He's retired as a mathematics Prof but he's still writing poetry & talking about it with Oulipo enthusiast, Chris Andrews.
Tim Cope is a young bloke who grew up in Victoria; dropped out of Arts/Law after one semester; then set off on a trek across the Eurasian steppe. No human companionship; just a dog and some unbelievably stoic horses.
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