Big Ideas
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Feed your mind. Be provoked. One big idea at a time. Your brain will love you for it. Grab your front row seat to the best live forums and festivals with Natasha Mitchell.
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Episodes (333)
Choices created Australia's housing mess, what choices will fix it? Natasha Mitc...
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Free your attention — meditation and mindfulness in the digital age
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Mar 18, 202554:05pending
Today YOU can choose your family
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Mar 17, 202554:40pending
Riverhood — oral histories in the Murray Darling Basin
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Mar 13, 202553:53pending
Vested interests vs public interest? How the fossil fuel industry captures Austr...
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Mar 12, 202554:06pending
France — a paradoxical country
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Mar 11, 202554:05pending
Can the International Criminal Court deliver justice?
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Mar 10, 202554:11pending
Helen Garner on footy, boys, and growing old
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Mar 6, 202554:05pending
Is America on the cusp of collapse under Trump? Natasha Mitchell and guests at A...
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Mar 5, 202553:31pending
What does the internet know about you?
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Mar 4, 202554:06pending
Security in Europe hangs in the balance. Is NATO on the rocks?
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Mar 3, 20251:10:37pending
Animals — Us and them? How does loving animals go together with industrial farmi...
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Feb 24, 202543:53pending
Animals — Us and them? Are you having a whale of a time?
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Feb 24, 202553:47pending
Animals — Us and them? The cat catastrophe – pet or pest?
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Feb 24, 202553:59pending
Animals — Us and them? What is the purpose of zoos in an extinction crisis?
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Feb 24, 202552:22pending
Animals — Us and them? The true and the ugly of wildlife documentaries
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Feb 20, 202543:23pending
Jem Bendell, the fake green fairytale, and how to survive civilisational collaps...
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Feb 19, 202554:06pending
A murder in Malta — how Daphne Caruana Galizia's fight for justice lives on in h...
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Empireworld — Sathnam Sanghera on how British imperialism shaped the globe
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Feb 18, 202541:48pending
Living out your mental illness in public paves the way to lasting change
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Feb 17, 202553:17pending
Uncancelled culture — forgiveness and redemption in the digital age
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Feb 13, 202554:15pending
I can change the world! How these changemakers found their superpower
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Feb 12, 202553:00pending
Re-thinking the relationship between brain and machine
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Feb 11, 202554:06pending
Video games — a new frontier in the fight for global influence?
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Feb 10, 202552:07pending
Don’t be a D**khead — with musicians Kasey Chambers and Clare Bowditch
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Feb 6, 202553:54pending
Should scientists stand up as things fall down? Advocacy, activism, impartiality...
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Feb 5, 202554:05pending
Minority report — the new shape of Australian politics, with George Megalogenis...
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Feb 4, 202556:52pending
Why Australian politicians welcomed fascists after the Second World War
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Feb 3, 202551:19pending
What’s the secret to governments making wise decisions?
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Jan 30, 202553:33pending
Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life — how fungi do things differently, and inspire...
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Jan 29, 202554:06pending
Nicky Winmar and Rhoda Roberts − showing racism in sport the red card
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Jan 28, 202542:36pending
Chopsticks or fork? — Jennifer Wong and Lin Jie Kong with Annabel Crabb
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Jan 27, 202551:48pending
Writers who rock — on the art of music writing
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