Sleep: the new health frontier
A recent report by Deloitte Access Economics found that some 40% of Australians experience some form of inadequate sleep. Sleep disorders, such as obstructive sleep apnoea, insomnia, restless legs syn...
8 Marras 20171h 14min
The 19th Party Congress: what will Xi Jinping use his power for?
The just-held 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has conferred President Xi Jinping with unprecedented authority. He is now the Party’s second more powerful leader after Mao Z...
8 Marras 20171h 30min
A moment or a movement? Black Lives Matter and the future of US race relations
Protesting police brutality, mass incarceration and racial disparities in all areas of American life, Black Lives Matter has spanned two very different presidencies, transforming political debate and ...
3 Marras 20171h 16min
David Cay Johnston - Trump's U$A: ways to fix a dishonest system
The United States, like Australia and other countries with modern economies, gets played by multinational corporations who earn profits in their country, but siphon profits out as tax-deductible expen...
1 Marras 20171h 28min
Mathematical heroes and social justice
One of the best kept secrets about mathematicians is that we are often at the tip of the spear in the struggle for social/political causes. We are inspired by the mathematical hell raisers of previous...
31 Loka 20171h 1min
Unwinnable Wars: Afghanistan and the limits of western military power
The 2017 Michael Hintze lecture presented by the Centre for International Security Studies At sixteen years and counting, Afghanistan is the longest war for western states of the post-Cold War period...
26 Loka 20171h 25min
Learning Lessons from Europe’s Multiple Crises
Professor of European Integration at the University of Athens, Loukas Tsoukalis looks into the reasons behind the successive crises in the EU in recent years. Does the European Union suffer from ove...
26 Loka 20171h 19min
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health
The forum brings together expert First Nations Community and University speakers to discuss the importance of increasing awareness about mental illness within the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...
26 Loka 20171h 14min
