History, politics & current affairs

Anything and everything in History, politics & current affairs from across our archives.

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Promo image for Marian Rakosi: The New Unionists: Early Childhood Education and the Big Steps Campaign

Marian Rakosi: The New Unionists: Early Childhood Education and the Big Steps Campaign / Australian politics

With Marian Rakosi

Podcast episode

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The Wheeler Centre

Question time: The Housing Market / Economy & development

28 Nov 2015

Past event

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The Interrobang: A Festival of Questions

Does science fiction give us an unrealistic expectation that we can effectively inhabit Mars? Questions on discovery, imagination and progress / Science & technology

With Cory Doctorow, Maggie Ryan Sandford, Sammy J and 1 other

28 Nov 2015

Past event

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The Interrobang: A Festival of Questions

Do we become more politically conservative as we get older? Tom Elliott / Young & old

With Tom Elliott

17 Nov 2010

News

David Suzuki’s Legacy / Climate change & weather

14 Sep 2012

News

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Friday High Five: Psychopathic Presidents and Slush Pile Don’ts / Books, reading & writing

By Jo Case

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Witnessing Climate Change / Energy, environment & climate

With Andi Horvath, Tony Birch, Ursula Rakova and 2 others

12 Oct 2012

Past event

Destroying the Joint / Sexual & gender politics

With Karen Pickering, Jacinda Woodhead, Stephanie Convery and 1 other

21 Apr 2017

Past event

Books and Ideas at Montalto

Jackie French / Children’s books

With Jackie French and Wendy Orr

17 Apr 2012

Past event

The Fifth Estate

A Foreign Affair / Australian politics

With Sally Warhaft, Gareth Evans, and Alexander Downer

13 Feb 2013

Past event

Ideas for Melbourne

The City of the Future / Urban design

With Jane Rawson, Alan Davies, Roz Hansen and 1 other

Eliza Griswold: The Tenth Parallel / Faith, religion & spirituality

With Rafael Epstein and Eliza Griswold

11 Oct 2012

News

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Playing the Gender Card: Gillard, Abbott and the Slipper Texts / Government

By Jo Case

Alice Waters / Food

With Alice Waters, Nina Rousseau, and Stephanie Alexander

Australian Literature 101: Watkin Tench: A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay / Fiction

With Ramona Koval and Michael Williams

8 Apr 2015

Past event

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Getting Older

Walter Lippmann Memorial Lecture: Michael Kirby / Activism

With Michael Kirby and Eddie Micallef

12 Sep 2011

Christine Nixon Praises Julia Gillard’s Leadership Style / Government

By Jon Tjhia

(Click to watch video.)

Former Victorian Police Commissioner Christine Nixon delivered last Thursday’s Lunchbox/Soapbox on the subject of leadership. Comparing what she argued are old and new models of leadership, Nixon stressed that qualities such as independence, lateral thinking and openness to the needs of others are key to leadership in a progressive society. She also acknowledged the reluctance of some to leave behind…

8 Mar 2012

Past event