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Barrie Kosky On Creativity

Has Barrie Kosky finally become too established to continue being described as the "enfant terrible" of the theatre? The Melbourne director of theatre and opera is now living working in Berlin. Here,...

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Joe Bageant: Redneck America

This self-proclaimed champion of "white trash" deconstructs class and revels in tales of his childhood in the Deep South. Bageant explains why uneducated white Americans feel the way they do.

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Our Plastic Brain: An Update

Researcher and best-selling author Norman Doidge shares some of the latest findings relating to neuro-plasticity. It's a notion that can alter our understanding of how the human brain learns, grows and...

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Jay Bahadur: The Pirates of Somalia

Pirates are back in the news after a 300-year lull. A young journalist tells the story of how he left the comforts of Canada to seek out the scary ones behind the hijackings of huge ships owned by...

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Geeks, Freaks and Eggheads

Science has transformed our world in many ways, but the popular image of scientists has remained largely unchanged. Paul Barclay asks Bryan Gaensler and Barry Brook why the stereotype of white labcoats...

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Within the Law

Polly Higgins urges the UN to recognise the Crime of Ecocide, Christine Nixon was Australia’s first female police commissioner and Rob Mundle's “Bligh” rebrands history’s favourite villain. Together,...

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Party Time: Living and Working in China

What’s it like to be witness to the success of the world’s fastest growing economy and how possible is it for Western expats to really “get” China? Australian sinophile Linda Jaivin chairs a panel with...

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Political Animal: David Marr on Tony Abbott

David Marr in conversation with Robert Manne at the 2012 Brisbane Writers Festival on his recent Quartlerly Essay on prime ministerial aspirant Tony Abbott.

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Religion: The Next Chapter

What is the next chapter for religion? This panel from Brisbane Writers Festival discuss.

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The All Blacks

A group of Australian and New Zealand indigenous writers in a poignant discussion from Brisbane Writers Festival on identity, language and family.

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In the Shadow of Terry Lewis

If you lived through the hillbilly Queensland politics before & during the time of Joh Bjelke-Peterson when the coppers were on the take in a major way, you'll be captivated by this conversation...

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Day of the Drones

Where's the moral legitimacy in using drones for surveillance and killing? That's the premise for this feisty panel discussion at Brisbane Writers Festival with Michael Bar-Zohar, Michael Mori, James...

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Crazy Rich Asians

Benjamin Law, Kevin Kwan and Oliver Phommavanh feature in this Brisbane Writers Festival panel. Between them they challenge a whole bunch of stereotypes about Asians and Asian culture.

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Philipp Meyer: Heart of America

Philipp Meyer has two acclaimed novels under his belt, American Rust and The Son. They are both powerful stories of America in the tradition of Hemingway, Steinbeck, Cormac McCarthy and Kerouac. He...

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Mossad: The Israeli Secret Service

Michael Bar-Zohar, Israeli co-author of Mossad: The Great Operations and former politician, is in conversation with Paul Barclay at the Brisbane Writers Festival.

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The Invisible Wheelchair

The Invisible Wheelchair at Brisbane Writers Festival. This discussion covers autism, but also spreads more broadly into many other disabilities, seen and unseen. It's about dealing with disability;...

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