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Are economic models useful in the global macroeconomic policy debate?

Warwick McKibbin | ANU Channel
25 April 2013 | Professor Warwick J. McKibbin, ANU Chair in Public Policy, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis in the Crawford School of Public Policy, outlines some key issues in the global economy and gives insight into these questions using a global intertemporal general equilibrium model.

Tasmania's tipping point

Favel Parrett, and others | The Wheeler Centre
04 April 2013 | Tasmania’s size and isolation once made it the butt of mainland jokes. But those qualities – and its stunning natural environment – are now seen as major advantages.

The fifth estate: the ambassadors

Sally Warhaft, Michael Wesley, Amanda Vanstone | The Wheeler Centre
28 April 2013 | What is the role of the modern ambassador? How much influence do they really have?

Debating Australia's voting age

Ian McAllister, Amy MacKinnon, Uma Patel | ANU Vision
04 April 2013 | ANU undergraduate students debate Professor Ian McAllister over whether Australia's voting age should be lowered.

Permission taken

Dan Gillmor | Berkman Center for Internet and Society
25 March 2013 | As governments and tech companies are systematically restricting our liberties, and creating an online surveillance state, Dan Gillmor suggests steps we can take as individuals to be more secure and free, and to take back the permissions we're losing.

Ahdaf Soueif: On art and politics

Ahdaf Soueif | Slow TV, The Monthly
14 February 2013 | Reporting on the ground as the dramatic events unfolded in Cairo’s Tahrir Square during the 18 days of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, Soueif witnessed the impact of the revolution on the people campaigning and celebrating in the streets, as well as on the writers and artists working in the city.

Sarah Marland on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and their homelands

Sarah Marland | Wheeler Centre
08 March 2013 | Sarah Marland is a human rights campaigner, researcher and author.

The world's largest party: China

Sally Warhaft, John Garnaut | Wheeler Centre
22 February 2013 | Sally Warhaft talks to China watcher John Garnaut to examine the world's largest, and perhaps most complex and intriguing, political system — plus the country that envelopes it.

Where is the love: are our public institutions failing our young people?

Adam Smith | Wheeler Centre
01 March 2013 | This talk asks whether Australia can reinvigorate its public institutions to better educate, support and care for those who will, before long, play a central role in shaping the future?

Making the news

Margaret Simons, Greg Jericho, Jonathan Holmes | Wheeler Centre
20 February 2013 | This discussion covers how the online age has impacted the quality of journalism, and how to resolve the often difficult relationships between old media, DIY journalists and technology.

A case for pluralism in economics

John King | Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia (ASSA)
21 January 2013 | Economics is unique among the social sciences in having a single monolithic mainstream, which is either unaware of or actively hostile to alternative approaches.

Who would want to be held responsible for Australia's future?

Ken Henry | Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia (ASSA)
21 January 2013 | Future generations of Australians will identify the present generation as that which extracted unparalleled monetary reward from the continent's non-renewable natural resources.

Carey Lyon: public lecture

Carey Lyon | Design Research Institute (DRI)
21 January 2013 | Carey Lyon discusses how the urban environment can be used to create diverse spaces for both learning and research activities within the concept of a ‘vertical campus’ which aims to position students at the centre of the learning experience.

Susan Crawford on Captive Audience: the Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age

Susan Crawford | Berkman Center for Internet and Society
12 December 2012 | Susan Crawford discusses her new publication, looking into the deregulatory changes in telecommunications policy, which has created a communications crisis in America.

The Arecibo Message

Percival Bantam Sauváge | SBS Australia
In 1974, the Arecibo Message was broadcast into space. Composed by the finest scientific minds of a generation, its mission was to give intelligent alien civilisations knowledge of the people of Earth. It was, quite frankly, embarrassing. Today a new intellectual explorer Dr Percival Bantam Sauváge has emerged to boldly carry humanity’s business card to the cosmos. takes a light-hearted look at culture in the 21st Century Watch in full

The 2012 elections: has America finally gone mad?

James Fallows | The Wheeler Centre
James Fallows shares his insights to the 2012 US election, the candidates, the issues, the campaign – and the consequences for the country.

Does WikiLeaks matter?

The Wheeler Centre
La Trobe University’s Ideas and Society Program and ‘Thesis Eleven’ present a special symposium exploring the implications and ramifications of Wikileaks.

Universities, challenged

Margaret Gardner | The Wheeler Centre
What do we expect from a 21st-century university? Which ideals have survived the transition to our brave new education world? And what does it mean when students become customers?

The productivity agenda

Don Russell | ANU Vision
01 November 2012 | This presentation provides an overview of current economic challenges and opportunities and highlight the logic of incorporating industry, innovation, science, research, skills and universities in one department, Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education.

What is public policy?

Chris Eichbaum | School of Government
24 October 2012 | This video lecture at Victoria University of Wellington helps to define what public policy is, the role of governments and the policy process - including its stages and cycles.

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