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Boyer Lectures
2025 ABC Boyer Lecture Series: Australia: A Radical Experiment in Democracy Curated and hosted by respected journalist, author and broadcaster, Dr Julia Baird, this year's Boyer Lecture Series explores the theme Australia: A Radical Experiment in Democracy, through five distinct orations examining...
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104 EpisodenLyn Williams: The Artistry of Children
"Whilst our new Australian choral music began in a classical context, artistic collaborations have extended our musical realm to a point where it no l...
Iain Grandage: Beyond the Boundaries
Iain Grandage is a composer, a cellist, a pianist, a festival director, and a career collaborator.
In his Boyer Lecture, he asks whether classi...
Aaron Wyatt: Our Shared Humanity
“There is much to be gained by tapping into the tens of thousands of years of culture that we have available to us in this country. Exposing more peop...
Anna Goldsworthy: Kairos
"There is a continuity to the inner experience of what it is to be human. And it is this inner experience that this music addresses directly."
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Q&A with Professor Michelle Simmons
What will a quantum computer look like? Will quantum computing supercharge AI? Can it save us from the climate crisis? Professor Michelle Simmons has...
04 | The Importance of Doubt
Doubt is often seen as a something to be overcome — a failing, or even a sign of incompetence. But in her fourth and final lecture, Professor Michelle...
03 | Imagination and Mindset
In her third Boyer lecture, Professor Michelle Simmons maps how science has changed from 1927 to now — moving from the theoretical to the applicable.
02 | The Quantum Promise
In her second Boyer lecture, Professor Michelle Simmons details the international race underway to build the first error-corrected quantum computer.
01 | The Atomic Revolution
Computing machinery that used to fill an entire room has now shrunk to the size of individual atoms. In her first lecture, Professor Michelle Simmons...
05 | We The Australian People
In his fifth and final Boyer lecture Noel Pearson looks at the question of identity, Australian identity, and he argues that our extraordinary diversi...
04 | Transformational School education
In his fourth lecture, Noel Pearson addresses the educational barriers facing young Indigenous people, and the critical need to raise literacy and num...
03 | A Job Guarantee For The Bottom Million
In his third lecture Noel Pearson argues that Indigenous Australians have become trapped in the 'bottom million' of the nation when it comes to econom...
02 | A Rightful But Not Separate Place
In his second lecture, Noel Pearson reflects on the words of 1968 Boyer lecturer W.E.H. Stanner who said that Aboriginal people seek, 'a decent union...
01 | Who we were, who we are, and who we can be
Noel Pearson argues the case for why a Voice to parliament, enshrined in the constitution, is so important to Indigenous people, ‘to be afforded our r...
04 | Soul of the Age - Imaginary Forces with John Bell
In this fourth and final lecture, John Bell discusses how William Shakespeare imagined a different world and encouraged his audience to do the same.
03 | Soul of the Age — Shakespeare's Women with John Bell
In this third lecture of the Boyer series, John Bell discusses Shakespeare's Women and how through his female characters he imagined a better world.
02 | Soul of the Age - Order vs Chaos with John Bell
In this second lecture of the Boyer series, John Bell discusses what Shakespeare can teach us about governance, about politics and power.
01 | Soul of the Age — Life lessons from Shakespeare with John Bell
In the first lecture of the 2021 Boyer series, John Bell opens our eyes and our ears to how relevant William Shakespeare is in today's world and what...
03 | The economics of inequality
In the third Boyer lecture, Dr Andrew Forrest discusses how inequality manifests in our modern capitalist system — through intergenerational dependenc...
02 | Lighting up our ocean
In the second of his 2020 Boyer Lectures, Andrew Forrest mounts a passionate defence of our oceans. Dr Forrest argues the key issues facing our oceans...
01 | Oil vs Water — Confessions of a carbon emitter
In this first Boyer lecture, leading philanthropist and businessman Andrew Forrest calls for an urgent move to green hydrogen "on a global scale". For...
03 |The End of Silence: Makarrata
In Rachel Perkins final Boyer lecture she details the dual proposal for a Makarrata Commission and a process of truth telling about our nation.
02 |The End of Silence: With the consent of the natives
From colonial times to the present, Indigenous people have wanted a say about the laws and policies that affect them. Rachel Perkins discusses what ne...
01 | The End of Silence: The genesis of the Uluru statement
Rachel Perkins reminds us of the significance of the Uluru Statement from the Heart and why it's the most important message Indigenous people have sen...
01 | Back to the future of eugenics
How advances in genetics and biomedicine have quietly brought eugenics back from exile.
02 | Gene genie
Human GMOs already walk amongst us and the implications of this are enormous.
03 | Sins of the flesh
There's a dark side of stem cell research — John Rasko shines a light on the low points and scandals of unproven cell therapies.
04 | Life immortal
In the fields of gene and cell therapies we've already crossed many thresholds — but do we really understand the consequences of what we're doing?
Fast, smart and connected: How to build our digital future
Professor Genevieve Bell outlines her proposal for how Australia should build its digital future. This talk was recorded in front of a live audience i...
Fast, smart and connected: Your hopes and fears for where technology is heading
We asked what your hopes and fears are for where technology is heading, and here's what you told us.
Fast, smart and connected: All technology has a history (and a country)
Professor Genevieve Bell reveals how new technologies change life, but rarely in the ways we anticipate. How might the origin stories of the typewrite...
Fast, smart and connected: Dealing lightning with both hands
Professor Genevieve Bell looks at how personal computers and the internet have reshaped our lives, and the possibilities we’ve imagined for ourselves...
Fast, smart and connected: Where it all began
Professor Genevieve Bell explains why she’s returned home after decades in Silicon Valley, and explores Australia’s role in building our current digit...
Introducing 2017 Boyer Lecturer, Prof Genevieve Bell
What does it mean to be human, and Australian, in a digital world?
Social justice and health: making a difference
There are examples from around the world, of community and government actions that make a difference to health inequalities. Creating the conditions f...
Living and working
Unemployment is bad for health, but work can damage health, too. When work is no longer the way out of poverty, health suffers.
Give every child the best start
Absence of the nurturing and presence of the harmful are important for the whole of life and are strong contributors to inequalities in adult health....
Health inequality and the causes of the causes
There are large inequalities in health within and between countries. To explain this we have to look at the social determinants of health—the conditio...
Social justice and health: making a difference
There are examples from around the world, of community and government actions that make a difference to health inequalities. Creating the conditions f...
Living and working
Unemployment is bad for health, but work can damage health, too. When work is no longer the way out of poverty, health suffers.