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:
2009-11-22 2009 Boyer Lectures - A Very Australian Conversation Lecture 3: Leading in Australia
Published: 2009-11-21 09:00:00Peter Cosgrove has led the army and then the entire defence force, so he is eminently well placed to talk about leadership. So for him, what makes a good leader? Does it matter if that leader is running a business, a country, or the school tuckshop? Find a transcript of this lecture after the broadcast on the Boyer Lectures website Also today Judith Wright's short story 'The Weeping Fig' read by Jane Harders.
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2009-11-15 2009 Boyer Lectures - A Very Australian Conversation Lecture 2: Australia's Regional Relationships
Published: 2009-11-14 09:00:00In General Peter Cosgrove's second Boyer lecture, he asks: if Australia were for sale how would the real estate agent describe it? If a potential buyer asked the neighbours what they thought, what would they say? In reality, the USA may be our closest ally but it's not our nearest neighbour, and how we interact with the countries closest to us will determine our challenges and our opportunities for the future. Find a transcript of this lecture on the Boyer Lectures website Also today Helen Garner's short story 'My Hard Heart' read by Glenda Linscott
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2009-11-08 2009 Boyer Lectures - A Very Australian Conversation, Lecture 1: National Security at the Breakfast Table?
Published: 2009-11-07 09:00:00The 2009 Boyer Lecture Series begins this week with General Peter Cosgrove (ret'd) Today, in the first of six lectures, he will talk about our security. National Security can rarely be seen as an absolute state -- it exists as a continuum of cost versus benefit: how much we are prepared to endure or pay or concede or surrender to achieve a particular state of security. Find a transcript of this lecture on the Boyer Lectures website Also today, former Boyer lecturer David Malouf's short story 'An Empty Lunch Tin', which is being read by Penne Hackforth-Jones
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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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