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,...
View ArticleJoe 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.
View ArticleOur 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...
View ArticleJay 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...
View ArticleGeeks, 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...
View ArticleWithin the Law
Polly Higgins urges the UN to recognise the Crime of Ecocide, Christine Nixon was Australias first female police commissioner and Rob Mundle's Bligh rebrands historys favourite villain. Together,...
View ArticleParty Time: Living and Working in China
Whats it like to be witness to the success of the worlds fastest growing economy and how possible is it for Western expats to really get China? Australian sinophile Linda Jaivin chairs a panel with...
View ArticlePolitical 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.
View ArticleReligion: The Next Chapter
What is the next chapter for religion? This panel from Brisbane Writers Festival discuss.
View ArticleThe All Blacks
A group of Australian and New Zealand indigenous writers in a poignant discussion from Brisbane Writers Festival on identity, language and family.
View ArticleIn 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...
View ArticleDay 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...
View ArticleCrazy 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.
View ArticlePhilipp 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...
View ArticleMossad: 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.
View ArticleThe 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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