Australian Book Review Fellowship: David Malouf in conversation with poet Michael Aiken
The 2016 Australian Book Review Laureate’s Fellow Michael Aiken in conversation with David Malouf, the ABR Laureate. The forum includes Michael Aiken reading from his verse Fellowship project, ‘Satan...
3 Aug 201657min
Food@Sydney. Food Insecurity: putting good food back on the table
According to recent reports, 1.2 million Australians regularly struggle to put good, healthy food on the table. From low incomes to high living costs, casualised labor markets to government policies, ...
1 Aug 20161h 24min
Tax Havens: What Can be Done? Evidence from a century of history
Tax evasion is as old as taxes. But with the introduction of mass income taxes at the beginning of the twentieth century, the problem took on new dimensions. After 1918, the first tax haven countries ...
27 Jul 20161h 21min
The Great War and Today’s World
The Second World War still has a defining place in how we imagine war today, despite its increasing distance from us. The west has not experienced ‘major war’ since 1945, and so our comprehension of w...
19 Jul 20161h 34min
2016 Harley Wood Lecture: Life in a Finely Tuned Cosmos
The Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA) 2016 Harley Wood Lecture for the ASA 50th anniversary Annual Scientific Meeting Over the last 40 years, scientists have uncovered evidence that if the Univ...
6 Jul 20161h 27min
Defending the Aussie Mozzie: health, ecology and emerging disease threats
The human war against the mosquito is once again garnering global public attention. An explosion in the number of cases of Zika virus in the Americas, has resulted in huge media coverage and the World...
17 Jun 20161h 19min
Insights 2016: Professor Yixu Lu on The Chinese Enigma: China through European eyes 1700-1900
For the 2016 Insight lecture Series Professor Yixu Lu, Head of School, School of Languages and Cultures talks about the images of China tantalised the European imagination throughout the eighteenth an...
16 Jun 201656min
The Middle Ages Now
The Middle Ages have never been more current. Particularly since 9/11, the term 'medieval' has been used to describe, for example, climate-change deniers, climate-change scientists, Christians, Muslim...
15 Jun 20161h 21min
