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Opening Address
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The Elephant and the Dragon
Joseph Cheng
Ramachandra Guha
Robin Jeffrey
Philippe Legrain
Colleen Ryan
Peter Mares (CHAIR)
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Survival of the Fittest, Survival of the Richest or Survival of the Thinnest
Norman Swan
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Why does everybody hate us?
John Levi
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What Endures? Thoughts on discerning what to take into the future and what to discard
Paul Chadwick
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Decent work: Nice if you can get it
John Buchanan
Charles Firth
Elisabeth Wynhausen
Barbara Pocock, Director, Centre for Work and Life, Uni of SA (PARTICIPATING CHAIR)
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Before you eat
Peter Clifton
Marion Nestle
Kerin O'Dea
Norman Swan (PARTICIPATING CHAIR)
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Troubling times: Dissent and democracy in Australia
Sarah Maddison
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High and Dry: John Howard, Climate Change and the Selling of Australia's Future
Guy Pearse
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Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them
Philippe Legrain
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Drought Proofing Australia: Heroic Fantasies and Sobering Realities
Peter Cullen
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The Joy MacLennan Oration
Beyond the Long Age of Forgetting
Simon Longstaff
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People Without Borders
Hilary Charlesworth
John Connell
Philippe Legrain
Marian Wilkinson
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Digital Ink: The Future of Journalism
Paul Chadwick
Colleen Ryan
Francis Wheen
Sarah Warhaft (PARTICIPATING CHAIR)
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Wild Mind: A manifesto for the essential wildness of the human spirit
Jay Griffiths
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Why we eat what we eat
Kerin O'Dea
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In conversation
Mahatma Gandhi or Karl Marx, which way to the future?
Ramachandra Guha
Francis Wheen
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Reason to Hope
John Levi
Simon Longstaff
Maria Tumarkin
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Islamism: the rise of a new enemy?
Riaz Hassan
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Go back you are going the wrong way
Elisabeth Wynhausen
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After the binge... the apocalypse?
Miriam Baltuck
Peter Cullen
James Lovelock
Marion Nestle
Phillip Adams (CHAIR)
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Schoolteachers, The Future of Science
John Campbell
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Going for Growth!-A fuel for obesity?
Manny Noakes
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Future Development Trends in China
Joseph Cheng
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Gagging on Freedom: Reporting in the 21st century
Marian Wilkinson
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Still Exploring: The Never-Ending Quest
Miriam Baltuck
John Campbell
Tim Radford
Duncan Steel, Space researcher, writer and broadcaster (PARTICIPATING CHAIR)
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Indigenous Futures
Tracey Bunda
Jay Griffiths
Kerin O'Dea
Wilma Mankiller
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Trading Places
John Buchanan
John Connell
Tim Harcourt
Colleen Ryan
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India at 60, 150 and a Turning Point
Robin Jeffrey
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The Mitchell Oration
Are human rights the past or the future for Australia?
Hilary Charlesworth
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What to Eat: Personal Responsibility vs Social Responsibility
Marion Nestle
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Managing China's rise through the 21st century
Colleen Ryan
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Reframing urban rural relationships in Australia: Potentials & possibilities
Janelle Allison
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Lifting the lid on whistle-blowing
Julian Morrow
Guy Pearse
Norman Swan
Marian Wilkinson
Paul Chadwick (PARTICIPATING CHAIR)
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In conversation
James Lovelock
Tim Radford
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In conversation
Joseph Cheng
Paul Monk
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Validate your trauma here. What societies can do when trauma becomes the norm.
Maria Tumarkin
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In conversation
Charles Firth
Julian Morrow
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A Passion for Science
John Campbell
Manny Noakes
Tim Radford
Norman Swan
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In conversation
Sarah Maddison
Wilma Mankiller
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Beyond our Shores-Australia's global prospects according to 'The Airport Economist'
Tim Harcourt
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The bubble-wrap age: Are we protecting ourselves too much?
Hilary Charlesworth
Sidney Jones
John Levi
Paul Monk
Peter Mares (CHAIR)
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Mumbo-jumbo, snake-oil and other delusions
Francis Wheen
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The Sustainable Retreat
James Lovelock
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In the Company of Strangers: Australia's Future in Southeast Asia
Tim Lindsey
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Building 21st century democracies
Hilary Charlesworth
Joseph Cheng
Robin Jeffrey
Tim Lindsey
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Holy Water
Janelle Allison
Peter Cullen
Jay Griffiths
John Levi
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Life Beyond Earth
Miriam Baltuck
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A way of understanding indigenous issues today
Tracey Bunda
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What does it mean to be an indigenous person in the 21st century?
Wilma Mankiller
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Why India is the most interesting country in the World
Ramachandra Guha
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Misperceptions of the Terrorist threat
Sidney Jones
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The Future of Work isn't what it used to be
John Buchanan
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Liberal Islam, what is it?
Riaz Hassan
Robin Jeffrey
Sidney Jones
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Agitators at work
Phillip Adams
Jay Griffiths
Sarah Maddison
Marion Nestle
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The mutation of the Chinese state and the question of human rights
Paul Monk
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The feet of the natives are large: Does the South Pacific have a future?
John Connell
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You cannot be serious! The boundary between reality and satire
Charles Firth
Julian Morrow
Francis Wheen
Phillip Adams (chair)
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