Not drowning waving, a modern media tale — with Geraldine Doogue
The decline of the mainstream media has forced many outlets to try new things to keep audiences engaged and informed. So what works, and what is the industry's future?The ABC's 2025 Andrew Olle Lecture was recorded in Sydney on Friday 25 July 2025.SpeakersGeraldine Doogue - Host (with Hamish Macdonald), Global Roaming, ABC Radio National
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From Con the Fruiterer to East West 101 — the changing face of Australian TV
Australia is a multicultural country, but up until recently, when you turned on the telly, you wouldn't know it. So what role has TV played in Australia's diverse communities, on screen, behind the scenes and in the living rooms across this country, over the past 70 years?This event was recorded at Sydney's Gleebooks on Friday 11 July 2025.SpeakersKate Darian-SmithProfessorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, President of the Academy of Social Sciences in AustraliaKyle HarveyCulture and media and social change historianSukhmani KhoranaAssociate Professor in the School of Arts and Media at University of NSWSue TurnbullSenior Professor of Communication and Media, University of WollongongPearl Tan (host)Discipline Lead in Directing, Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS)Further information:Season two of Heartbreak High makes diversity feel 'banal'. This is its strength - article by Sukhmani Khorana
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FAT is not an F-word! The radical practice of fat joy
Join Big Ideas host Natasha Mitchell with three women embracing the radical practice of finding joy in big bodies. Fat bodies are often stigmatised, stereotyped, shamed, medicalised, and politicised. Even the word F.A.T gets denigrated. But there is another way. Reckoning with eating disorders and society's limitations, Dani, Evie, and Kalpana are no longer holding back from the delights of food, fashion, dance, ocean swimming, and more. Hear why, for them, the personal is political. But can expectations to be fat and jolly become a burden too? What about the radical act of just being and big?This event was hosted and organised by the inaugural Fat Joy Festival and the 11th International Weight Stigma ConferenceSpeakersDani Galvin (aka Dani Adriana)Content creator and body positivity and mental health advocateFat peer support facilitatorCo-creator, plus-size pop-culture inspired costumes and accessoriesBachelor of Counselling graduateEvie (Evangeline) GardenerPublic health researcher and advocatePhD studentUniversity of QueenslandKalpana PrasadPerformer, facilitator, choreographer with Bring a Plate Dance companyPostgraduate speech pathology studentDisability support workerThanks to Dr Lily O'Hara from Griffith University, the convenor of the Fat Joy Festival and the 11th International Weight Stigma Conference.Further reading and viewingHow we think about obesity and body weight is changing, here's why (article co-athored by Evie Gardener)The Real Cost of Appearance Ideals and Discrimination report (The Butterfly Foundation)Fat Joy PodcastThe body is not an apology by Sonya Renee TaylorWhat we talk about when we talk about FAT by Aubrey GordonYou have the right to remain fat by Virgie Tovar"Fat" isn't a bad word — it's just a way I describe my body by Aubrey Gordon Selling Stigma: Afflictive Power and Fat Oppression - presentation by Rachel Fox
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How animals use natural medicine to heal themselves
Meet apes that swallow leaves to dislodge worms and sparrows that use cigarette butts to repel parasites. Many animals use medicine to treat themselves — something that for a long time has been thought to be the exclusive domain of humans. Now scientists are turning to the medical knowledge of the animal kingdom to improve agriculture, create better lives for our pets, and develop new pharmaceutical drugs.Presented at the Free Library of PhiladelphiaListen to Big Ideas: SpeakerJaap de RoodeSamuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Biology at Emory UniversityAuthor of Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves
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The dark side of collaboration — when thinking together goes wrong
At face value, collaboration sounds like a good thing: collaboration in the classroom, with colleagues, or between nations. But throughout history, collaboration was not always considered a virtuous act, and those who were identified as collaborators were shunned, humiliated or worse. This talk explores how people justify their involvement in wrongdoing, and how when collaboration devolves into conformity, it risks silencing dissent.This event was recorded at the Bundanon Art Museum.SpeakerDr Simon Longstaff — Executive Director, The Ethics Centre
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