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Big Ideas

Feed your mind. Be provoked. One big idea at a time. Your brain will love you for it. Grab your front row seat to the best live forums and festivals with Natasha Mitchell.

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0:54:06

What does the internet know about you?

Big Ideas ·

2025/03/04

A trip to Bunnings, a Medibank or Optus account, a new smart car or vacuum, every facet of our daily lives is now up for grabs. So should privacy continue to be our individual responsibility, or is it time for governments do more?This event was recorded at the State Library of Victoria on 19 November 2024.SpeakersHugh de KretserPresident, Australian Human Rights CommissionLizzie O'SheaFounder and chair of Digital Rights WatchPrincipal lawyer at Maurice BlackburnEd SantowCo-Director

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1:10:37

Security in Europe hangs in the balance. Is NATO on...

Big Ideas ·

2025/03/03

Europe needs to rethink its strategies and policies to protect the continent in the future. Russia's invasion of Ukraine, China's predatory mercantilism, and the rise of populist neoisolationism in the United States mean that depending on the status quo won't cut it anymore. But after decades of neglect, restoring Europe's military capacity, economic competitiveness, and strategic autonomy will be difficult. Can NATO evolve into a more balanced team, and may the time finally have

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0:43:53

Animals — Us and them? How does loving animals go...

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2025/02/24

Humans have a conflicted relationship with animals: We love our pets and admire our wildlife. But we continue the industrial production of dairy, meat and eggs, that often leaves animal suffering in dreadful conditions. We create a division between US and THEM, if it suits us. What does that say about how we value animals in our lives?Presented at the Byron Writers FestivalSpeakersPeter SingerBioethicist and author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, and The Buddhist and the

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0:53:47

Animals — Us and them? Are you having a whale of a time?

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2025/02/24

Seeing a whale in the wild takes your breath away. But so much of what they do remains mysterious. Join Natasha Mitchell with two world leading whale researchers unearthing the secret world of cetaceans. You'll want to change jobs when you hear what they get up to! Thousands of humpback whales will soon leave their Summer feeding grounds in Antarctica with full bellies to begin the world's longest mammalian migration. How do they live, breed, behave, survive, thrive? Commercial

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0:53:59

Animals — Us and them? The cat catastrophe – pet or...

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2025/02/24

Cherished companions, or cunning predators? Cats kill five million native animals in Australia every day — so how can we better manage our feline friends?Listen to the rest of our special series Animals — Us and Them?SpeakersAlex Patton Invasive species ecologist and PhD candidate, University of TasmaniaNoel Hunt CEO, Ten Lives Cat CentreDr Catherine "Cat" Young Biodiversity coordinator, NRM SouthDr Tiana Pirtle (host)Conservation officer, Invasive Species CouncilFurther

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0:52:22

Animals — Us and them? What is the purpose of zoos in...

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2025/02/24

Zoos are changing — they are no longer just places for us humans to gawk at animals in cages. In the midst of a global extinction crisis, they are now playing a vital role. So what is their future?This event was recorded at the International Society of Behavioural Ecology Congress in Melbourne on 2 October 2024, with thanks to organiser Professor Andy Bennett from the University of Melbourne.Listen to the rest of our special series Animals — Us and Them?SpeakersDr Sally

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0:43:23

Animals — Us and them? The true and the ugly of...

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2025/02/20

Satyajit Das presents a provocative examination of the use and abuse of images of wild animals, and how they shape our relationships with the natural world. These pictures can create an impression of abundance and untouched ecosystems, and lull us into a false sense of security, at a time when the natural world faces ecological calamity.The Attenborough Effect — Shaping Our Relationship With Wild Animals was presented by the Australian National Maritime Museum.SpeakerSatyajit

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0:54:06

Jem Bendell, the fake green fairytale, and how to...

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2025/02/19

We’re past the brink of civilisational collapse. And many environmentalists are pushing a “fake green fairytale”. Jem Bendell’s arguments have inspired the Extinction Rebellion movement’s civil disobedience pushing for climate change action. But Jem doesn’t think protest is enough now. Find out why the self-confessed eco-libertarian and author of Breaking Together: A freedom-loving response to collapse thinks we should break together not apart. Jem joins Big Ideas host Natasha

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A death in Malta — Paul Caruana Galizia on the power...

Big Ideas ·

2025/02/18

For 30 years, Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia exposed corruption and wrong doing in her country, until she was assassinated in a car bomb explosion in 2017. Her youngest son, Paul Caruana Galizia, details the impact of his mother's life, and death, and his family's fight for justice.

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0:41:48

Empireworld — how British imperialism shaped the globe

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2025/02/18

The British Empire was once the biggest in the world. But now, some countries are cutting ties, and some want reparations. So just what is the legacy of British imperialism?

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0:53:17

Living out your mental illness in public paves the...

Big Ideas ·

2025/02/17

Being who we are in public (with our mental illness) is the only way to create lasting change. Amanda Tattersall is speaking about how her experience of living with bipolar has not only informed why she makes change, but how she is using her skills in collaboration to change public life when it comes to mental illness. Her recommended tools are storytelling, the sharing your lived experience, and forging solidarity through difference.Making Change and Mental Illness — reimagining

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0:54:15

Uncancelled culture — forgiveness and redemption in...

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2025/02/13

Cancel culture has ruined careers and lives — but did they deserve it? What consequences should people face for what they say and do? And what does redemption look like in the digital age?

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0:53:00

I can change the world! How these changemakers found...

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2025/02/12

Sara Shams had both legs amputated at age six — it became her superpower. 15-year-old Taylor Ladd-Hudson turned a shark experience into something bigger. Amy Parry got subversive after she was told women's stories on screen were too niche. Jody Rallah wanted to make sense of the world and art led the way. And Anisa Nandaula turns it all into performance poetry. Meet these changemakers joining Big Ideas host Natasha Mitchell at the Women of the World (WOW) Festival in Brisbane in

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0:54:06

Re-thinking the relationship between brain and machine

Big Ideas ·

2025/02/11

Imagine a world where your brain is enhanced through cutting-edge technologies and next-generation AI, blurring the lines between organic and digital realms … and unlocking unprecedented potential. We are already some steps on the way in such a future. What would this mean for intelligence, human agency and consciousness?Your Brain on AI From organoids to consciousness was presented by the Sydney Opera House.SpeakersPaul DaviesTheoretical physicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist,

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0:52:07

Video games — a new frontier in the fight for global...

Big Ideas ·

2025/02/10

With more than 3 billion people playing video games worldwide, they have the potential to wield tremendous power and influence. So is it time to take video games more seriously?

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0:53:54

Don’t be a D**khead — with musicians Kasey Chambers...

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2025/02/06

When Kasey Chambers was growing up, her dad had one simple, yet profound piece of advice. Just don't be a d**khead.

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0:54:05

Should scientists stand up as things fall down?...

Big Ideas ·

2025/02/05

President Donald Trump’s administration is already muzzling government-funded scientists. Closer to home, Australian scientists have their own stories to tell about science censored, stymied or watered down when its findings aren’t convenient to industry or politicians. Should scientists stand up as things fall down? A Tasmanian panel argue why scientists should speak up, and consider the tensions between advocacy and impartiality when they do. SpeakersAlexandra de BlasScience and

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0:52:52

Minority report — the new shape of Australian...

Big Ideas ·

2025/02/04

From the inner cities to the outer suburbs, to rural and regional Australia, just what is going on in minds of voters as we embark on another federal election?

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0:51:19

Why Australia politicians welcomed fascists after the...

Big Ideas ·

2025/02/03

Australia resettled fascists, even war criminals after World War II as part of a worldwide program led by the International Refugee Organisation. The background of these immigrants was known to all political parties, but they were regarded as cheap – and white – labour. Historian Jayne Persian explores the impact of these characters on the trajectory of postwar politics — a phenomenon well documented in other parts of the world but with which Australia has barely begun to

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0:53:33

What’s the secret to governments making wise decisions?

Big Ideas ·

2025/01/30

Take folly, friction, pain and empathy … mix well, and you get wise governmental decisions. If it only was that simple. Zachary Shore looks at the personal qualities, group dynamics, and historical conditions that have made wise decisions more or less likely to arise. The world’s current troubles would be more manageable, he contends, if we understood more clearly what produces wisdom and how to apply it. So what can we learn from history? A Wiser World: The Global Quest for Good

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