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Men Overboard: Savages: A play reading / Theatre

With Patricia Cornelius

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Friday High Five: Guns and Japan, Drone Pilots, and Race and Casting Notices / Books, reading & writing

By Jo Case

Intelligence Squared Debate: Anzac Day is More Puff Than Substance / Defence, military & war

With Nick Jans, Marilyn Lake, John Martinkus and 3 others

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Halloween Traditions, Old & New / Performing arts & pop culture

By Alex Landragin

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Feminist Debate Has Not Failed / Sexual & gender politics

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The Hillary Hangover in US Politics / Sexual & gender politics

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Immersion and Subversion: Azar Nafisi on the Radical Power of Literature / Books, reading & writing

With Azar Nafisi and Jonathan Green

Podcast episode

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A League of One’s Own: The AFL, and Women’s Sport / Sport

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Dark Emu: Bruce Pascoe and Tony Birch in Conversation / First Nations

With Tony Birch and Bruce Pascoe

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The End of Orthodoxy: Australia in a post-pandemic world / History, politics & current affairs

With Penny Wong, Laura Tingle, and Michael Wesley

Podcast episode

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Books and Ideas at Montalto

Tony Jones / Books, reading & writing

Plot Thickens in the Story of O / Government

By Alex Landragin

Like any city devoted purely to the business of politics, Washington DC thrives on gossip. Much of the tattle inside the beltway in recent weeks has been over the publication this week of O, a speculative account of the 2012 presidential race. In the roman à clef, the presidential incumbent is a thinly-disguised Barack Obama.

Much like Joe Klein’s 1996 Primary Colors…

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Question Time

Economics, Tax and Tax Reform / Economy & development

With Madeleine Morris, Michelle Grattan, Richard Denniss and 1 other

Portrait of Juliana Qian (Lia Incognita)

Juliana Qian (Lia Incognita) / Sexual & gender politics

As one third of the Ladies of Colour Agency, Lia has been lambasted on Today Tonight and thrown her hair across the Famous Spiegeltent, and she’s facilitated many happy hook-ups through writing for flagging opinicus rampant, a Melbourne blog that reinvented traditional hanky code from a feminist and pangender perspective.

Since 2012, Lia has been a presenter and producer for Queering the Air on 3CR Community Radio.

Podcast episode

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Pass it On: Preserving Australian Indigenous Languages / Words & language

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Existence as Resistance / Activism

With Gerii Pleitez, Fadak Alfayadh, Rona Glynn-McDonald and 1 other

Podcast episode

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The Fifth Estate

Seeking Asylum / Australian politics

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Lindy West on Feminism, Fat and Fighting Trolls / Bodies

With Lindy West and Anne Summers

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