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Tim Flannery: The Climate Cure / Energy, environment & climate

With Tim Flannery and Izzy Raj-Seppings

Tim Flannery’s influential 2005 book, The Weather Makers, laid out the challenges human society faces due to global warming, from mass extinctions to devastating weather changes and human conflict over essential resources. It also proposed solutions, some of which have since been enshrined as government policy around the world.

In this event, the scientist, conservationist and Chief Councillor of the…

18 Nov 2020

Past event

Broadly Speaking

New Voices in Food / Food

With Sonia Nair, Lee Tran Lam, Hetty McKinnon and 1 other

It's been a huge year in food media and for this Broadly Speaking talk, we'll bring together three superb food writers to chew over the debates and developments of 2020.

In the US, there were mass resignations at Conde Nast's hugely popular Bon Appetit YouTube channel, following allegations of racism and inequity. In Australia, the revamped Masterchef was hailed as…

12 Nov 2020

Past event

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Future in Retrograde: Storytelling and Inclusion on Screen / TV

With Adolfo Aranjuez, Meg O’Connell, and Anna Barnes

The six-part ABC TV series Retrograde – about a group of thirty-something Australians who regularly meet, drink and commiserate online during the Covid pandemic – has been one of the big Australian TV hits of 2020.

Retrograde was shot remotely in June via a series of Zoom calls between the producers, crew, and actors and has been celebrated as an…

11 Nov 2020

Past event

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Maria Ressa: Freedom and Fakery in the Philippines Today / Activism

With Maria Ressa, Fatima Measham, and Mark Isaacs

Maria Ressa is a veteran investigative journalist and the CEO of the influential Philippine news portal Rappler. In June this year, she and a colleague were found guilty of cyberlibel, in a dubious court decision that many believe was politically motivated.

Ressa has been a dogged and long-time critic of President Rodrigo Duterte, and of his supporters. The relationship between…

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Broadly Speaking: Ann Goldstein and Mary Norris / Words & language

With Ann Goldstein, Mary Norris, and Caro Llewellyn

What's it like to devote your whole working life to language, as a literary translator or as an editor?

To find out, we're joined from New York by two brilliant bilingual friends, both of whom have shaped the linguistic landscape in distinctive ways. Ann Goldstein and Mary Norris met as young copy editors at the New Yorker magazine. Norris went…

30 Sep 2020

Past event

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Broadly Speaking

Ann Goldstein and Mary Norris / Words & language

With Ann Goldstein, Mary Norris, and Caro Llewellyn

What's it like to devote your whole working life to language, as a literary translator or as an editor?

In September, we'll be joined from New York by two brilliant bilingual friends, both of whom have shaped the linguistic landscape in distinctive ways. Ann Goldstein and Mary Norris met as young copy editors at the New Yorker magazine. Norris went…

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