Kate Evans and guests reflect on cultural memory, history and place in contemporary society. As story tellers and artists they consider and untangle meaning and memory, loss and belonging, from big stories to more intimate ones - they’re all part of the Events that shape the world The second of four APT7 talks presented in...

Leadership by definition offenses against fundamental principles of democracy – John Kane and Haig Patapan discuss the unique character and always fragile legitimacy of democratic leadership in order to explain why we so frequently suspect our political leaders of being less than honest with us.

Australian playwright David Williamson says that short-sighted assault by both sides of the political divide threatens creative arts education in Australia. His 2012 National Tertiary Education Union lecture reflects on his own career, traverses what is happening to the creative arts within higher education in Australia and puts the case for greater funding and institutional...

It’s called grey literature because it’s typically unregulated and beyond the scrutiny and control of the peer reviewed journals or public service processes. But is grey literature credible? Does it genuinely add to our store of knowledge? and how much of this digital scholarship will become digital dust? Websites by their very nature tend to...

The collapse in economic growth following the Global Financial Crisis has led to millions losing their jobs, their homes and, for some, their prospects for the future. While economists and politicians argue over how to return to sustained growth, Richard Heinberg says they are missing the point. Our obsession with economic growth is the problem...