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In Conversation with Dr Rebecca Huntley
As part of the ANU/The Canberra Times Meet the Author Series, Dr Rebecca Huntley will be in conversation with the Hon. Andrew Leigh MP, Federal Member for Fenner, on Rebecca's new book How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference.
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In Conversation with Hugh Mackay
In this ANU/The Canberra Times Meet the Author podcast, social researcher and best-selling author Hugh Mackay AO chats with Alex Sloan AM on his two new books, The Inner Self, and his novel, The Question of Love.
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In conversation with Paddy Manning
Paddy Manning in conversation with Helen Haines on Paddy's new book Body Count. How Climate Change is Killing Us.
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In conversation with Julia Gillard
Julia Gillard and Quentin Bryce discuss Julia's new book, co-authored with Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Women and Leadership. An inspirational and practical book written by two high-achieving women, sharing the experience and advice of some of our most extraordinary women leaders, in their own words.
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Time Travel: It Is More Than Science Fiction
The concept of time travel is very familiar from science fiction stories. Is this concept coherent? Perhaps surprisingly, the laws of physics (as currently understood) do not rule out time travel. Listen to Dr Peter Riggs from Dept. of Quantum Science as he explains the implications of time travel.
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ACLF Big Picture Series - What kind of world?
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the world. Our everyday lives changed utterly. But what effect will the pandemic have on the deeper forces shaping the world we live in?
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ACLF Big Picture Series - Asia and COVID-19
Asia's rise in recent decades has changed the world and shifted economic, geo-political and even cultural power eastward. Now Asian governments and societies are grappling with the immense damage caused by COVID-19.
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ACLF Big Picture Series - The Pacific and Australia: Our shared future
The ANU Crawford Leadership Forum 2020 presents the Big Picture Series: The Pacific and Australia: Our shared future.
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ACLF Big Picture Series - Australia, climate change & the pandemic
With governments around the world still deep in the struggle against COVID 19, there has been little time for issues that dominated policy debates before the pandemic. But is COVID-19 an opportunity to refocus attention on climate change, another grave global threat to humankind?
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Policy challenges of responding to climate change and COVID-19
In this episode of National Security Podcast, Chris Farnham talks to the former head of Emergency Management Australia Mark Crosweller about national resilience in an era of climate change and COVID-19.
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Rory Medcalf on the contest for the Indo-Pacific
On this episode, Chris Farnham chats with Professor Rory Medcalf about the future of the Indo-Pacific region and Australia's place in it.
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Foreign investment and national security
In this episode of National Security Podcast, we speak with the Perth USAsia Centre's Dr Jeffrey Wilson about Australia's new investment measures and a shift toward caution in the face of foreign purchasing power.
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ACLF Big Picture Series - Global public health & COVID-19
Part of the ANU Crawford Leadership Forum 2020, listen to international and Australian experts debate how COVID-19 has impacted different health care systems and how leadership has become one of the most significant factors in handling this crisis.
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Democracy Sausage: the $60 billion question
With the Government’s JobKeeper scheme set to cost $60 billion less than originally forecasted, this week on Democracy Sausage we look at what the government might do with its bonus billions.
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Democracy Sausage: The New Zealand election, and the politics of protest in a pandemic
Mark Kenny is joined by New Zealand experts Professor Jennifer Lees-Marshment and Professor Janine Hayward to talk about the upcoming New Zealand election, and the panel discuss the global Black Lives Matter protests.
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Democracy Sausage: Chaos, curfews and COVID-19
With cities under curfew and the national guard called out, the Democracy Sausage panel take a look at how populism and a president abdicating responsibility is dividing the US.
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Solar oration: Fleur Yaxley
The ANU Energy Update is the ECI's annual flagship event - a one-day summit that brings together energy researchers, policymakers, industry and the public to provide an overview of the latest world energy trends.
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In Conversation with Dervla McTiernan
Internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed crime fiction writer Dervla McTiernan is in conversation with Jeff Popple on Dervla's new novel The Good Turn, the third in the Cormac Reilly series, following The Rúin and The Scholar.
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In Conversation with David Kilcullen
Professor David Kilcullen is in conversation with Professor John Blaxland on David's new book, The Dragons and the Snakes.
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Imagining Australia with 100% renewable energy: how do we get there?
Demand for our exports will change as other countries decarbonise. Australia has good wind and solar resources by international standards – but is it feasible to export large amounts of solar and wind energy? What could the future hold – and what needs to change to get us there?
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