UNSW Centre for Ideas Podcast
1) John Valliant: Fire Weather
Black Saturday razed towns, Canada’s Fort McMurray wildfire forced 88,000 people to flee, the LA fires obliterated over 12,000 buildings and Australia’s Black Summer fires scorched 24 mill...Show More
2) Luke McNamara on Hate Speech and the Law
As state and federal governments move to criminalise forms of hate speech, it's time to look at what evidence shows about the effect that laws can have on hate speech and its victims, with legal exper...Show More
3) Kerrie Davies on Miles Franklin’s Little Known Years
Not two years after making Australian literary history with My Brilliant Career, Miles Franklin fell into obscurity – and when publishers rejected her subsequent novels, she left Australia for C...Show More
4) Toby Walsh on the Six Ideas You Need to Understand AI
As one of the world’s leading researchers in artificial intelligence, Toby Walsh has been awarded the Humbolt Research Award and elected as a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of AI....Show More
5) Donna Strickland: Laser Jock
In 2018 Donna Strickland became the first woman in over 50 years to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, and only the third woman in history. Her award-winning work however began decades earlier. While und...Show More
6) Adam Bayes on Mind-Altering Mental Health
Adam Bayes is leader in the field of mental health, working as a clinical academic psychologist at UNSW Sydney and a senior research fellow at the Black Dog Institute specialising in mood disorders in...Show More
7) Business Behaving Badly
Soaring and crashing stock prices, resigning CEOs and out of control labour practices: what is going on with Australian businesses? Award-winning labour relations lawyer and author of Working for the ...Show More
8) Anne Summers: 50 Years of Damned Whores and God's Police
Anne Summers’s Damned Whores and God’s Police was first published 50 years ago – a time when sexual harassment, domestic violence and date rape were unnamed and often ignored ex...Show More
9) Andrew Leigh and Richard Holden on Inequality
Economics Professor at UNSW Sydney Richard Holden (Money in the Twenty First Century) and Parliamentarian Andrew Leigh (The Shortest History of Economics) unpack economics as a global force ...Show More
10) Vanishing Histories
Miles Franklin is a literary legend now, but her story, and those of women like her, were nearly lost to the passage of time. Kerrie Davies unwinds the mysteries of Miles Franklin’s lost y...Show More