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Big Ideas

Your front row seat to big thinkers at the best live events, forums, and festivals. Feed your mind. Be provoked. One big idea at a time. Your brain will love you for it. We love hearing from you…

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Latest episodes

  1. Forget The Odyssey. These authors have their own mythical retellings — with Yann Martel, Nikita Gill and Zoe Terakes11 Aug 2026
  2. Africa in a shifting world order — can digital technology achieve what aid never could?10 Aug 2026
  3. How policy decisions today can hurt your kids in the future — are we even trying to get it right?6 Aug 2026
  4. The PNG environmental defenders taking on Australian mining giants — what is extractive justice and its toll?5 Aug 2026
  5. Australian war history — the past, present and future of remembrance. With Professor Peter Stanley4 Aug 2026
  6. What Pacific peoples know about climate justice — and Australia still needs to learn3 Aug 2026
  7. Gay rights pioneer Dennis Altman on five decades of activism, writing and social change30 Jul 2026
  8. Why didn't anyone tell me Australian history was ACTUALLY interesting!? Sita Sargeant, Santilla Chingaipe, Jacinta Mackay, Harini Rangarajan29 Jul 2026
  9. What does 'being a man' look like — today?28 Jul 2026
  10. Could the 21st century be the greatest age of exploration in the history of humankind? Ocean explorer Terry Garcia thinks so27 Jul 2026