Chris Stedman argues the importance of atheists and the religious engaging in thoughtful, compassionate ways to addre...
Controversial author, therapist and social commentator Bettina Arndt polemicises on sex in long-term heterosexual rel...
George Megalogenis discusses his incisive book on Australia's place in the global economy. With Annabel Crabb.
Ken Haley leads us on a wheeled journey through the philosophical principle of mutual incomprehension.
Growing Up Asian In Australia contributor Benjamin Law discusses the text and its topic with Andrew McDonald.
Journalist and poet Eliza Griswold discusses ideology, politics and geography - within and between faiths.
With political leadership constantly in question, Glyn Davis draws on history and sociology to suggest why this may be.
In an extensive discussion with Matt Preston, Jamie Oliver discusses his ambitious food campaigns and their challenges.
In this Lunchbox/Soapbox, Verity Burgmann explores the productive outcomes of extremist challenges to authority.
On International Women's Day, Christine Gordon speaks about contemporary feminism and the power of women's stories.
Jane-Frances Kelly, Trevor Dance, Rob Adams and Jill Garner explore density, distribution and demographics.
Alain de Botton brings his light touch and intellectual pirouettes to the topic of religion and its atheistic utility.
Hilary Charlesworth delivers her proposal for female rights and representation in post-revolutionary states.
Opium dens, illegal brothels and men with names as colourful as their pasts: we uncover Melbourne's criminal record.
Chinese dissident writer Liao Yiwu speaks with Alex Landragin about freedom, exile and books that transport him home.
Stuart Macintyre, Tim Soutphommasane, Marcia Langton and Clare Wright discuss essential works of Australian history.
Our panel explores happiness and its relationships with joy, belief, meaning, depression and life in our cities.
Key figures in the TV adaptation of Christos Tsiolkas' novel The Slap discuss its journey from page to screen.
Thomas Keneally tells a story of racism, wartime politics, empire and the life and death of White Australia.
Join Maxine McKew, John Hewson, Irving Saulwick and George Megalogenis for a talk on polls, politics and the polis.
In a climate of panic about child protection and 'sexting', Nina Funnell considers who this panic serves and controls.
Brendan Cowell, Karen Pickering and Michael Currie join Hilary Harper to discuss the truth and utility of anger.
Noni Hazlehurst, Ben Pobjie, Andrew Robb and Nicole Highet discuss sadness and 'coming out' as depressed.
In a marathon session, Paul Keating talks cultural vision, reconciliation, reform and creativity with Robert Manne.
Jane Gleeson-White traces double entry bookkeeping from monastic origins to its place at the heart of capitalism.
As the world prepares for its seven billionth person, our panel search for the soul in our ever more crowded cities.
Celebrated High Court alumnus Michael Kirby discusses love, human rights and a close encounter with Bill Heffernan.
The author of The Exotic Rissole assesses shifts in global power and the prejudices that accompany them.
Sociologist and author John Carroll examines the "excessive fearfulness" and paranoia surrounding child abduction.
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