Big Ideas
Big Ideas brings you lectures, conversations, features and special series from Australia and around the world. Prominent people are invited to present the results of their thinking on the major social, cultural, scientific or political issues that affect us all, or simply to talk frankly about their lives. Big Ideas, which includes the popular Boyer Lectures and, via the BBC, the Reith Lectures, is heard on ABC Radio National every Sunday afternoon at 5.
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4 Episodes of this Podcast:
2009-11-01 The Global Financial Crisis: how should education respond?
Published: 2009-10-31 10:00:00Did you know that in 2007-2008 education was a $13.7 billion export industry, that it is Australia´s second largest services export sector behind tourism? And that according to the ABS the education industry has achieved 15% annual average growth over the past decade. And that one in every 30 people in Australian workforce is a teacher... So how should education respond to the Global Financial Crisis? Wesley College, a co-educational school of the Uniting Church in Melbourne brought together a panel recently to discuss the way forward for education and Big Ideas recorded it.
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2009-10-25 Heroes, History and Humanity
Published: 2009-10-24 10:00:00The Forum is a program that´s heard weekly on the BBC World Service and earlier this month they came to Australia to record some programs, in partnership with Radio National, and what we are going to hear today is the one they did in Melbourne as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival. Our host is the BBC diplomatic correspondent and former foreign correspondent in Moscow and Washington Bridget Kendall and our venue is the Fairfax Studio Theatre.
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2009-10-18 The 2009 Griffith Lecture with Mary Robinson
Published: 2009-10-17 10:00:00Ms Robinson was the first female president of Ireland (1990-1997) before becoming the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997-2002). She has a long history of fighting for liberal causes, from contraception and homosexual law reform in Ireland, to Anglo-Irish relations. Her beliefs and actions have resulted in smear campaigns, family rifts and personal attacks, a hugely popular presidency, several legal landmarks and the highly sought after Human Rights role at the UN. Always an outspoken advocate, Ms Robinson has received numerous awards for human rights achievements including the Sydney Peace Prize. She stands alongside Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Carter, Aung San Suu Kyi, Kofi Annan and Desmond Tutu as one of the Elders, an independent group of respected world leaders and champions of human rights. Her newest project, Realising Rights: the Ethical Globalisation Initiative, established in October 2002, supports and promotes equitable trade, corporate responsibility, the right to health, human migration policies, gender equality and global accountability. This lecture, which was recorded on 30 September at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre as part of the 2009 Brisbane Festival is called 'Creating A World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism'
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2009-10-11 Stephen Murray-Smith Memorial Lecture 2009: The Challenges of Nuclear Disarmament
Published: 2009-10-10 10:00:00Two weeks ago Iran announced that they had testfired medium and short range missiles that had sufficient range to strike Israel, parts of Europe and American bases in the Persian Gulf. This came days after the US President had addressed the UN General Assembly, calling for all nations to adopt the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. The president also announced that he was cancelling plans to build a missile shield over Eastern Europe. Before these events happened Gareth Evans delivered the 2009 Stephen Murray-Smith memorial lecture at the State Library of Victoria on 14 September 2009. His theme was 'The Challenges of Nuclear Disarmament'.
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