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Speaking with: Chris Ho and Edgar Liu about diversity and high density in our cities
This is a podcast discussing topics raised in our series, Australian Cities in the Asian Century. These articles draw on research, just published in a...
Speaking with: ‘Everybody Lies’ author Seth Stephens-Davidowitz on why we tell the (sometimes disturbing) truth online
How much do you really know about your friends? Your co-workers? Your community and your country?
The fact is that much of what we think we know...
Speaking with: Author Anita Heiss on Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
Anita Heiss is one of the most prolific writers documenting Aboriginal experiences in Australia today through non-fiction, historical fiction, poetry...
Speaking with: law professor Cass Sunstein, on why behavioural science is always nudging us
What can governments do to stop increasing obesity rates, help people save or get them to file their tax returns on time? The default answer used to b...
Speaking with: journalist David Neiwert on the rise of the alt-right in Trump’s America
The rise of the radical right-wing movement in the US has become closely linked to Donald Trump’s presidency and the mainstreaming of ideas about race...
Speaking with: Cameron McAuliffe on NIMBYs, urban planning and making community consultation work
One of the most common complaints about community involvement in the urban planning process is “NIMBYism” – the “not in my backyard” cry from local re...
Speaking with: satirist Armando Iannucci on The Death of Stalin
We’re living in something of a golden age for political satire. Politics and satire can even feel, at times, almost indistinguishable.
But poli...
Speaking with: Andrew Leigh on why we need more randomised trials in policy and law
Randomised controlled trials are the gold standard in medical research. Researchers divide participants into two groups using the equivalent of flippi...
Speaking with: David Field about unusual crimes that have changed the law
Is sleepwalking a legitimate defence for murder? Are victims of family violence protected against the premeditated killing of their abuser?
Pr...
Speaking with: social researcher and author Hugh Mackay on 2017, ‘a really disturbing year’
“I’ve found 2017 a really disturbing year.”
That’s the summary from writer, thinker and social researcher Hugh Mackay.
Mackay spoke in De...
Speaking with: Emrys Westacott on the virtue of frugal living
They say the best things in life are free – or at least, Emrys Westacott seems to think so.
For those who have the choice, the rejection of ext...
Speaking with: Bates Gill on Australia’s changing relationship with China
During Xi Jinping’s opening address at the Communist Party’s 19th National Party Congress last week, the Chinese president outlined his vision of a “n...
Speaking with: Emma Power and Jennifer Kent about why Australian cities and homes aren’t built for pets
We’re a nation of pet lovers: 60% of Australian households have some kind of pet. And with dogs in 39% of those homes, it’s only natural that we’re st...
Speaking with: John Gerrard on preventing infectious diseases
The Spanish Flu of 1918 is estimated to have infected around 500 million, and killed between 20 and 40 million, people around the world - all within t...
Speaking with: Nicole Gurran on Airbnb and its impact on cities
Airbnb has turned sharing our homes and living spaces with strangers from a fringe idea into a multi-million dollar business. It’s changed the way man...
Speaking with: Nancy Pachana on planning for an active and engaged ageing population
Due to advances in medicine, hygiene and nutrition we are now living longer than ever before. In our region, the percentage of people over the age of...
Speaking with: Cameron Murray on grey corruption and the ‘Game of Mates’
The role of declared gifts and donations has driven a lot of discussion around government corruption in recent years. But what about the clique of dev...
Speaking with: Dr Mark Blaskovich on antibiotic-resistant bacteria and the threat of superbugs
Since the discovery of antibiotics in the mid-20th century, millions of lives have been saved from bacterial infections. But the over-prescription of...
Speaking with: Julian Savulescu on the ethics of genetic modification in humans
What if humans are genetically unfit to overcome challenges like climate change and the growing inequality that looks set to define our future?
...
Speaking with: Professor Peter Koopman on CRISPR and the power of genome editing
CRISPR, or clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, is a technology that is able to alter DNA.
While this sounds like the rea...
Speaking with: Peter Doherty about infectious disease pandemics
Humans have had to deal with infectious diseases for centuries. Ancient Greeks and Egyptians suffered from smallpox, leprosy and tuberculosis. And whe...
Speaking with: Tony Kevin on his return to Moscow and the new Cold War with Russia
Tony Kevin first went to the Soviet Union in 1969. He was 25 years old and working in the Australian Embassy in Moscow at the peak of the Cold War. Em...
No problem too big #1: Artificial intelligence and killer robots
This is the first episode of a special Speaking With podcast series titled No Problem Too Big, where a panel of artists and researchers speculate on t...
Speaking with: Mia Woodruff about using 3D printing to replace body parts
3D printing is fundamentally changing the way we make many objects – from construction materials to toys and even food.
And being able to 3D-sc...
Speaking with: The Daily Beast’s Christopher Dickey on reporting on and living through terrorism in Paris
Since the start of 2015, more than 230 people have died in France as the result of terror attacks.
The three major attacks – the shootings at th...
Speaking with: Peter Green on saving the Christmas Island red crab
Every year tens of millions of Christmas Island red crabs migrate from the island’s dense forest to the cliffs to spawn. It’s a phenomenon that litera...
Speaking with: Nicole Cook on union ‘green bans’, housing affordability and the Sirius building
Sydney’s iconic Sirius building was scheduled for demolition by the New South Wales government in 2015. The building – a prominent Australian example...
Speaking with: Serial’s Julie Snyder about making groundbreaking podcasts
By now almost everyone has heard – or heard of – This American Life’s blockbuster podcast series Serial. The first series, originally published in 201...
Speaking with: Alanna Kamp about the erasure of Chinese-Australian women from our history books
We tend to think of Australia as having a largely European population in the years dominated by the White Australia policy. But the truth is Chinese-A...
Speaking with: Ilan Wiesel and Ray Forrest about the impact of the super rich on our cities
The “1%” – the super elite who hold a disproportionate amount of global wealth – have been the subject of reality TV, protests, media speculation and...
Speaking with: Bad Pharma author Ben Goldacre about how bad research hurts us all
We are living in a time where we have greater access to lifesaving medicines and treatments than ever before.
But we’re also seeing a surge in...
Speaking with: Juan Francisco Salazar about colonising Antarctica and Mars
Last month, a team of scientists emerged from a year-long experiment to test what survival might look like for the first colonists on Mars.
Bu...
Speaking with: Hannah Dahlen on pregnancy care
Recent studies have revealed an emerging understanding of the benefits of birthing relationships through the childbearing process. Creating a healthy...
Speaking with: ‘Poll Bludger’ William Bowe in the final week of the election campaign
On Saturday, Australians will finally go to the polls to decide who will lead the country after one of the longest election campaigns in recent histor...
Speaking with: Deb Warr on “poverty porn”
In May 2015 the mayor of the City of Blacktown, Stephen Bali, denounced the SBS documentary series Struggle Street – produced in the Blacktown suburb...
Speaking with: ‘Poll Bludger’ William Bowe on the election races to watch
In this podcast, University of Western Australia political analyst Natalie Mast speaks with “Poll Bludger” William Bowe about the election campaign so...
Speaking with: John Hattie on how to improve the quality of education in Australian schools
Do we actually know what works when it comes to improving the quality of education in schools?
A new four-part ABC documentary series, Revolutio...
Speaking with: Graeme Orr on the festival of elections
The writs have been issued, the stage has been set: Australians are about to go to an election. You can almost smell the sausages sizzling at local pr...
Speaking with: Rhonda Itaoui on navigating the city as a young Muslim
The terror attacks on the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001, changed the way we think about politics, society and safety as the world entered t...
Speaking with: Lucy Turnbull on the Greater Sydney Commission
In late 2015, the Greater Sydney Commission was established to oversee metropolitan planning and development in Sydney. The commission is intended to...