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Posted: Sunday 23 October, 2016
The Courage Party? Climbing out of the political abyss. Bonython Hall, University of Adelaide Saturday, 22 October 2016 PRESENTED BY THE INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AUSTRALIA (IPAA) WITH WALLMAN’S LAWYERS Australia is in a political abyss. How do we climb out of it? Do we need a ‘Courage Party’ to address...
Posted: Monday 17 October, 2016
The arts feature prominently in the 2016 Adelaide Festival of Ideas with poets, philosophers, curators, cultural activists and artists all finding places in the program. View the full arts program Home Saturday 22/10 6.30PM At our Saturday night special event, poets, story tellers and musicians come together to explore...
Posted: Friday 16 September, 2016
Ideas are big business in the world today. Our universities are in the ideas business and so too is civil society. That’s why, after 16 years, the Vice Chancellors of South Australia’s three public universities are continuing to back The Adelaide Festival of Ideas (AFoI) as a free event...
Posted: Tuesday 30 August, 2016
The Adelaide Festival of Ideas Inc. (AFoI) is proud to announce Australia’s Living Treasure, Phillip Adams, AO, FAHA, FRSA as it’s Festival Dedicatee, a tradition that recognises the significant contribution of individuals to Australian public life and thought leadership. AFoI founder and board Chairman, Greg Mackie says that Phillip...
Posted: Saturday 20 August, 2016
The Adelaide Festival of Ideas (AFoI) is delighted to announce that Erin Brockovich will make an Australian public appearance at the 2016 Adelaide Festival of Ideas (21-23 October). A legal clerk turned environmental activist, Brockovich gained international recognition for her courageous efforts to expose the contamination of community drinking...
Posted: Monday 15 August, 2016
The Adelaide Festival of Ideas (AFoI) is a treasured South Australian public event that this year sits at the heart of Open State. Since its inception in 1999, AFoI has been Adelaide’s signature celebration of the importance of ideas in an active democracy. The first of its kind in...
Posted: Thursday 11 February, 2016
So here we are, well into the second decade of the twenty-first century of the current era. Many of us will say that we are in a load of trouble: a world increasingly stricken by climate change, struggling economic systems, irresolvable political, religious and social conflicts, and more. Yet,...
Posted: Wednesday 10 February, 2016
Excerpt from The Australian, Life – November 21, 2015 Adelaide might be anxious about building submarines, but it’s way ahead in the building of festivals. Writers’ festivals, film festivals. Arts, fringe and cabaret festivals. Children’s, food, music and fashion festivals. OzAsia and WOMADelaide. But my favourite’s the Festival of...
Posted: Wednesday 10 February, 2016
An excerpt from The Australian October 01, 2011 Greg Mackie may not have shown it, but he was petrified. It was midwinter 1999 and, with just hours to go before the key event of Adelaide’s first Festival of Ideas, ticket sales were lousy, if not disastrous. The festival — an ideas...
Posted: Tuesday 9 February, 2016
Exerpt from InDaily, September 04, 2015 South Australia’s Festival of Ideas will return in 2016. The State Government withdrew funding for the event earlier this year but the festival’s founder, former senior public servant Greg Mackie, has convinced Premier Jay Weatherill to return ownership to him. He has established...
