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Lunchbox / Soapbox: Michael Green on Bursting the Carbon Bubble Event · Thu, 06 Jun 2013

How does climate change threaten your savings? And how do your savings threaten climate change? Can you do anything about it?One of the world’s fastest-growing social movements calls for citizens…

 

Lunchbox/Soapbox: Sean Faircloth: Attack of the Theocrats: How the Religious Right Harms Us All Video · Thu, 28 Mar 2013

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Visiting from the United States for the Rationalist Society of Australia, Sean Faircloth speaks to the issues raised in his book Attack of the Theocrats: How the Religious Right Harms Us All – and…

 

Secrets, Lies and Digital Privacy: Liberty Victoria Event · Thu, 14 Mar 2013

Privacy in the digital age is a hot-button issue, from WikiLeaks to who owns your Facebook photos. With Liberty Victoria, we present a hypothetical discussion encompassing the church, child abuse…

 

The School of Life Melbourne Secular Sermon Series: John Safran ON UNREST Video · Sun, 24 Feb 2013

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Popular comedian and contrarian John Safran is known as a seeker of awkward and unusual truths. He infiltrates a secret world of madness, agitation and unrest. In this event, he’ll present his…

 

Intelligence Squared Debates: Euthanasia Should be Legalised Event · Wed, 07 Nov 2012

Death is the most personal of matters, but it’s also a political hot potato.Most of us don’t choose (or even expect) the way in which we die, but for the terminally ill, death is a looming certainty …

 

Intelligence Squared Debate: Euthanasia Should be Legalised Video · Wed, 07 Nov 2012

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Death is the most personal of matters, but it’s also a political hot potato.Most of us don’t choose (or even expect) the way in which we die, but for the terminally ill, death is a looming certainty …

 

Intelligence Squared Debates: Western Civilisation is in Terminal Decline Event · Tue, 25 Sep 2012

China is fast becoming the next world superpower, while India – with its vast young population, booming jobs market and burgeoning economy – is on the march. Meanwhile, Wall Street has plunged the…

 

Why Happiness is a Moral Issue: Susan... Dailies · Tue, 05 Jun 2012

Susan Neiman is an optimist; and a progressive. Hope is at the core of her quest to take back words like ‘moral clarity’ and ‘moral values’ from conservatives.Her book Moral Clarity (2008) is the…

 

Javier Cercas and Juan Gabriel Vasquez: Truth and Fiction Event · Wed, 07 Mar 2012

Join us for a unique opportunity to share the company of two of the most inventive – and critically acclaimed – writers working in Spanish today, both of them award-winning novelists, translators…

 

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