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Marcia Langton and Aaron Corn were in conversation with Anthony Connolly on Marcia and Aaron's book, Law: The Way of the Ancestors.
Stan Grant was in conversation with Mark Kenny on Stan's new book The Queen is Dead, a searing, viscerally powerful, emotionally unstoppable, pull-no-punches book on the bitter legacy of colonialism for indigenous people. The Queen is Dead is an extraordinary and powerful call to action.
Why is there anything at all? This is the Riddle of Existence. Human beings have been puzzling over this question for millennia. In this interview, various explanations for existence are discussed including that provided by physical science. Interview of Dr Peter Riggs, Dept. of Quantum Science an
Listen to Clare Birgin and John Blaxland who was in conversation with Sue Williams on their new book, Revealing Secrets. An unofficial history of Australian Signals intelligence & the advent of cyber.
Listen to Robyn Cadwallader who was in conversation with Nigel Featherstone on Robyn's new novel, The Fire and the Rose, a vibrant, richly imagined and deeply moving novel set in the turbulent world of thirteenth-century England.
Listen to Tracey Spicer taking about her new book Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future, in which the Walkley Award-winning journalist exposes the next frontier of feminism. Man-Made enlightens readers on societal transformation and empowers them to drive positive change.
Listen to Guillaume Pitron on his new book The Dark Cloud which is about how the digital world is costing the earth, translated by Bianca Jacobsohn, a gripping new investigation into the underbelly of digital technology, which addresses the pressing question of the carbon footprint it leaves behind.
Listen to Jennifer Robinson in conversation with Kim Rubenstein on Jennifer's book, How Many More Women? Exposing how the law silences women.
Listen to Michelle Arrow moderate a conversation with three of the book’s contributors: Marie Coleman, Elizabeth Reid and Marian Sawer. They discuss how the Whitlam government transformed Australia and why the scope and scale of the reforms for Australian women are often overlooked.
Listen to Pip Williams in conversation with Karen Viggers on Pip's new novel, The Bookbinder of Jericho, set in the same world as her international bestseller The Dictionary of Lost Words.
Listen to Michelle Grattan, Brendan McCaffrie and Chris Wallace speak about their edited book, The Morrison Government. Governing through crisis, 2019-2022, in which leading thinkers assess the policies and leadership of the Morrison Government from 2019 to 2022
Listen to Saul Griffith in conversation with Taryn Lane on his new Quarterly Essay, The Wires That Bind.
Listen to Alison Pennington was in conversation with Amy Remeikis on Alison's new book Gen F'd?. How Young Australians Can Reclaim Their Uncertain Futures.
Listen to Chris Wallace in conversation with Tanya Plibersek on Chris's new book, Political Lives. Australian Prime Ministers and their Biographers, an intimate history of image-making and image-breaking in national politics.
Listen to Don Watson and Chris Wallace talk about The Passion of Private White, Don's new book. The book describes the meeting of two worlds: that of the intensely driven Vietnam veteran and anthropologist Neville White, and the world of some hunter-gatherer clans in remote north-east Arnhem Land
Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow was in conversation with Andrew Leigh on their new book, Chokepoint Capitalism, which documents how big tech and big content have captured creative labour markets and how we can win them back.
Music provides a fascinating example of co-creativity in action. Musician, academic, and head of the ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵSchool of Music, Kim Cunio, reflects on his co-creative musical projects and shares insights into the responsibilities that different cultural roles and relationships require of us.
How can our identities, knowledge, values and biases influence how we work? Our guests Kaira Zoe Cañete, Emma Blomkamp, Shona Coyne and Jilda Andrews answer this question by drawing from their co-creative experiences from sectors including social policy, academic research, and cultural institutions.
Community engagement and ensuring informed consent are highly important processes when engaging in co-creative research with Indigenous communities. Azure Hermes shares her experiences navigating these processes when consulting Indigenous communities about potential uses of historical blood samples.
Writing from Manus Prison (2018) comes Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani, translated and edited by Omid Tofighian and Monne Mansoubi. Both were involved in an introduction to the book before a conversation between Behrouz and Alex Sloan.