Join host Sally Warhaft with Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, visiting from the UK, and Guardian Australia editor-in-chief Katharine Viner, to discuss the news, newspapers and Australia’s latest addition to online journalism. It’s been 192 years since the founding of the British Guardian (formerly the Manchester Guardian) and just five months since the newspaper’s launch of...

Drawing on research and fieldwork conducted for his latest book Forgotten War, acclaimed historian and writer Henry Reynolds outlines the depth and breadth of violence and conflict between white colonists and Aborigines, in Australia’s own forgotten frontier wars. Australia is dotted with memorials to soldiers who fought in wars overseas. Why are there no official...

A passionate panel of international and local arts critics debate the nature – and future – of arts criticism, right now. While we find new ways to respond to the art around us, what’s happening to formal criticism? As the digital world sees traditional publications dwindle, and self-published opinions proliferate, arts criticism finds itself in...

Sylvia Nasar’s Grand Pursuit traces the birth and progress of modern economics, which grew from the idea that humans are not, after all, powerless in the face of an all-determining god – that we can determine our own lives, on a society-sized scale. This idea, which we take for granted, is only 150-odd years old...

In this talk, Chris Sarra conveys the importance of having a strong and positive sense of what it means to be Aboriginal in today’s Australian society, and argues that indigenous students can achieve outcomes comparable to other students – but only when negative perceptions are changed, positive approaches taken, true consultation made and high expectations...