Last year was one of the hottest on record, with sea levels hitting all time highs and arctic ice at historic lows. We all know of the potential threat to the environment of climate change but did you know the 'financial risk' could be greater than the GFC? Or that it poses serious health risks...

Is the “female brain” better equipped for the complex challenges of the new world? Writer, commentator and journalist George Megalogenis delivers the inaugural Griffith Review lecture. He posits our economy, media, and body politic are hard-wired to the false certainty of the male brain and it’s up to women to be prepared to change the...

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is just the latest of many Australian legal processes which have been, and will be, fundamentally flawed, according to Evan Whitton. Guests Evan Whitton Legal historianFormer chief reporter of The Sydney Morning HeraldFormer editor of The National Times Credits Producer Ann Arnold

Pamela Williams, editor-at-large of the Australian Financial Review, details the part played by James Packer and Lachlan Murdoch in the fall of the once mighty Fairfax empire. Guests Pamela Williams Editor at large, Australian Financial Review and author of Killing Fairfax. Publications Title Killing Fairfax: Packer, Murdoch and the Ultimate Revenge Author Pamela Williams Publisher...

The humble light-bulb has now entered the ‘smart’ technology zone. Australian inventor Phil Bosua has created a screw-in LED bulb that’s also a Wi-Fi enabled computer. His device could do for lighting what the smart-phone did for the mobile. And he’s not alone in his efforts to reinvent and re-interpret artificial illumination. Welcome to the...