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2024
Professor Michelle Simmons, a pioneer in atomic electronics and a global leader in quantum computing, delivers a Boyer Lecture on quantum physics, manufacturing at the atomic scale, and women in science.
Episodes 2023
Indigenous community leader, lawyer, academic and land rights activist Noel Pearson reflects on "Who we were and who we can be", in his 2022 Boyer Lecture.
Episodes 2021
Boyer 2021 John Bell explores the importance of the Arts for Australian democracy, and why Shakespeare remains relevant in critiquing the quest for power, the folly of hubris and betrayal.
Philanthropist and business leader Dr Andrew Forrest delivers the Boyer Lecture, calling on Australia's business sector to invest in clean energy, ocean conservation and closing the inequality gap for the good of the nation.
Episodes 2019
Multi award-winning filmmaker and Arrernte/Kalkadoon woman, Rachel Perkins delivers the Boyer Lecture at a time of intensive debate, discussion and consultation about Indigenous constitutional recognition.
Episodes 2018
Since 1959 The Boyer Lectures have seen prominent Australians share their ideas on major social and cultural issues. Professor John Rasko examines the impact of revolutionary genetic and cell-based technologies on our lives.
Episodes 2017
After two decades in Silicon Valley helping to invent the future, Professor Genevieve Bell has returned home to spark a critical conversation about what it means to be human, and Australian, in a digital world.
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