Australian politics, society & culture

La Trobe University Ideas and Society 2015

Beyond Extreme: Tariq Ali in conversation with Robert Manne (Bendigo Writers Festival 2015)
“Democracy is in serious trouble …” So begins Tariq Ali in his confronting new book, The Extreme Centre, challenging citizens and governments to ensure freedom and equality across the world. Australia, Ali says, “specialises in battery-farming politicians of a provincial cast with impressive regularity …
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The Future of the Australian University
In this La Trobe University Ideas and Society session, Professor John Dewar, vice-chancellor of La Trobe and chair of the Federal Ministerial Universities’ Legislation & Financing Working Group, looks at the prospects for the university in Australia. He then joins La Trobe’s chancellor Adrienne Clarke and
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The Rise of ISIS and Its Threat: David Kilcullen in conversation with Robert Manne
In this La Trobe University Ideas and Society session at the Wheeler Centre, David Kilcullen, author of the Quarterly Essay ‘Blood Year: Terror and the Islamic State’, and La Trobe University emeritus professor Robert Manne discuss the rise of ISIS and the threat it poses. David Kilcullen was a senior adviser to
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What Really Happened at Gallipoli? Robin Prior, Carolyn Holbrook and Robert Manne in conversation
Robin Prior, author of Gallipoli: The end of the myth, and Carolyn Holbrook, author of Anzac: The unauthorised biography, join La Trobe University emeritus professor Robert Manne at the National Gallery of Victoria’s Clemenger Theatre as part of La Trobe’s Ideas and Society program. In the words of Professor
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Why Do We Ignore Climate Change? George Marshall in conversation with Robert Manne
George Marshall is the author of Don’t Even Think About It: Why our brains are wired to ignore climate change. As part of La Trobe University's Ideas and Society program, he joins Professor Robert Manne at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne to discuss the complex psychology behind climate change denial.
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