History, politics & current affairs

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

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Promo image for Human Rights Watch: The Politics of Fear

Human Rights Watch: The Politics of Fear / Freedom of speech & censorship

With Emily Howie and Kenneth Roth

3 Nov 2016

Past event

Promo image for Deng Adut: Songs of a War Boy

Deng Adut: Songs of a War Boy / Migration

With Deng Adut and Ben Mckelvey

Unexpected Passions: Tony Moclair and Jess McGuire / Performing arts & pop culture

With Jess McGuire, Tony Moclair, and Sam Pang

Ishiguro’s Robots / Technology

With Hiroshi Ishiguro

Podcast episode

The Fifth Estate

Food for Thought / Food

29 Sep 2014

Past event

Promo image for Strategies of Resistance: Beyond the Border

Strategies of Resistance: Beyond the Border / Activism

With Aran Mylvaganam, Angela Mitropoulos, Liz Thompson and 1 other

Promo image for Fightin’ Words: Poetry as a Means of Resistance

Fightin’ Words: Poetry as a Means of Resistance / Poetry

With Jacinta Le Plastrier, Samah Sabawi, Karl Lokko and 1 other

Promo image for The Fifth Estate: Mark Colvin

The Fifth Estate: Mark Colvin / Biography & memoir

With Mark Colvin and Sally Warhaft

The Fifth Estate: Defence policy in the age of ISIS / Defence, military & war

With Greg Barton, James Brown, and Sally Warhaft

Feminism Has Failed: Jennifer Byrne / Sexual & gender politics

27 Sep 2012

Past event

AMERICA

The 2012 Elections: Has America Finally Gone Mad? / Economy & development

With James Fallows

28 Nov 2014

Past event

Middlesex: Queer Week

Queering the Margins / Sexual & gender politics

With Juliana Qian (Lia Incognita), Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, Noel Tovey and 2 others

5 May 2011

Jeffrey Archer ‘in Conversation’ with Jennifer Byrne / Fiction

By Jon Tjhia

(Click to watch video.)

Politician, pensmith, (ex-) prisoner - there are many ‘P’ words that come to mind when Jeffrey Archer is in the house. Archer toured Australia recently to promote his latest book Only Time Will Tell. He was joined by Jennifer Byrne for a conversation which turned out, for all intents and purposes, to be more of a soliloquy.

In his…

9 Oct 2015

Past event