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Each week the Australia Institute tackles the big issues with Nobel laureates, current and former politicians, activists, academics, artists and other experts.

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November 2025

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Webinar, Australia's Biggest Book Club

Aiming Higher with George Williams

Join Vice Chancellor of Western Sydney University, Professor George Williams AO discussing his new essay, Aiming Higher: Universities and Australia’s future
Zoom

Decades of policy decisions have made access to higher education harder for those who need it most. Public trust and community confidence in universities in Australia and overseas are at all-time lows. Political sentiment has shifted. Our centres of higher learning have leapfrogged big business to become easy political targets. And it’s no surprise; the

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Webinar, Policy School

Policy School – How to make a parliamentary submission and appear at an inquiry

Zoom

Every year, Australian parliaments hold hundreds of inquiries on everything from health policy and environmental protection to the government is using consultants, the use of AI or how well the election was run. Politicians want to hear from you, but not everyone realises how easy it is to make a submission. Some who make submissions

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Webinar, Australia's Biggest Book Club

On belief in politics with Sean Kelly

Join journalist Sean Kelly discussing his new book, On belief in politics
Zoom

In Quarterly Essay 100, Sean Kelly considers the strange transitional moment we are in. We seem sick of neoliberalism but afraid of what might replace it. We are obsessed with work but resentful of it; desperate for community but stuck inside our phones; protective of our way of life while wanting to change everything. Amid

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December 2025

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Webinar, Australia's Biggest Book Club

The Right Hand with Phoebe Saintilan-Stocks

Join author and Missing Perspectives founder Phoebe Saintilan-Stocks talking about her new book The Right Hand
Zoom

Conversations with the chiefs of staff to world leaders ranging from Jacinda Ardern, Kamala Harris and John Howard to Nelson Mandela, Tony Blair and Julia Gillard. We all know the names: Jacinda Ardern, Kamala Harris, Tony Blair, Justin Trudeau, John Howard, Sanna Marin, Nelson Mandela and Julia Gillard. But what about the people standing just

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Big Brave Ideas

Some of the nation’s leading thinkers share a big idea for a better Australia.
Zoom
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AI Killing the Media Star?

Join Dr Richard Denniss, Clive Marshall and Emma Cowdroy as they discuss how ‘fake news’ is here for real, and the Murdoch empire’s grand plans to use ‘clone journalists’.
Zoom