The Australia Institute Press' first book is filled with bold solutions for uncertain times

What's the Big Idea? tackles urgent challenges - climate action, safeguarding democracy, nuclear weapons, gendered violence, Indigenous representation, whistleblower protection and free trade - and the solutions within our reach.

To mark The Australia Institute’s 30 years of big ideas, we have asked some of our good friends and leading thinkers from Australia and around the world to share a big idea for a better Australia.

In our first 30 years, The Australia Institute has shown how to make the impossible feel inevitable, and the radical seem reasonable. The works in this inspiring volume serve as a reminder that the solutions are there, Australia just needs the courage to implement them.

Authors

With a foreword by The Hon Michael Kirby AC

Contributors: Yanis Varoufakis, Aunty Pat Anderson, His Excellency Anote Tong, Professor Peter Doherty, Professor Brian Schmidt, Jennifer Robinson, Professor Fiona Stanley & Rebecca Glauert, Professor Clare Wright, President Jose Ramos-Horta, Professor Patrick McGorry, Thomas Mayo, Christine Milne, Professor John Langmore, Hon Melissa Parke, Lucy Hughes Turnbull, Alana Johnson, Bob Brown, Sally McManus, Karrina Nolan, Polly Hemming, Greg Jericho, Sunita Narain, Maiy Azize, Amy Remeikis, Kieran Pender, Anna Spargo-Ryan, Dr Emma Shortis, Alex Sloan, Allan Behm, Dr Joelle Gergis, Bill Browne, Louise Adler and Dr Richard Denniss