Episodes
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Bob Carr - UNSW Confucius Institute public lecture 2013
Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr delivers a wide-ranging speech on the future of Australia-China relations for the Confucius Institute at UNSW Australia.
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Lambert V Monckton: The Climate Debate
UNSW's Dr Tim Lambert debates climate change sceptic Lord Monckton. The debate was moderated by Alan Jones. See the SMH online video: http://media.smh.com.au/monckton-the-climate-debate-1133822.html
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Utzon Lecture Series - "Urban Consolidation"
Professor Bill Randolph, Director of UNSW’s City Futures Research Centre, on the challenges of housing policy, urban development and metropolitan planning. Third in the 2010 Utzon Lecture Series of of presentations, lectures and debates on topics that address local and global Built Environment...
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UNSW Medicine Dean's Lecture Series 2012 - Stem Cells in Medicine: Opportunities and Challenges (Audio podcast)
George Negus hosts this debate on the use of stem cells in medicine, featuring speakers Dr Bernadette Tobin and Professor Alan Trounson. • Cure vs expensive waste of time? • Strict control vs ethical free for all? • Available to all vs the privileged few? We face a stunning moment in time with...
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Brainfood - Can You Imagine The Next 60 Years?
Dr Chris Luebkeman, Director for Global Foresight and Innovation, Arup Group and Visiting Professor at UNSW, on life in 2070. Dr Luebkeman is joined by an expert panel representing engineering, the built environment, climate change and sustainability. Panelists are Professor Alec Tzannes, Dean,...
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Jan Utzon on Jorn Utzon
Jan Utzon, leading architect and son of world-renowned Sydney Opera House designer Jorn Utzon, speaks about his father and his vision for Sydney's most famous building.
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Talking Point - Jonathan Holmes interviews David McKnight on Rupert Murdoch (AUDIO)
ABC presenter Jonathan Holmes interviews Associate Professor David McKnight from UNSW's Journalism and Media Research Centre on new his book, 'Rupert Murdoch: An Investigation Of Political Power'. The book looks at Rupert Murdoch's pursuit of political goals using News Corporation as his vehicle.
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Talking Point- Dr Kath Albury and "Sexting"
Dr Kath Albury, from UNSW’s Journalism and Media Research Centre, discusses the rise of sexting – the sending of sexually explicit text messages – and the lasting legal repercussions for under-18 year olds.
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"Gandhi - Lovers and Haters" - UNSW Annual Gandhi Oration presented by Thomas Keneally AO (AUDIO)
Booker prize-winning author Tom Keneally delivers the 2014 Gandhi Oration at UNSW. In giving the Oration, Keneally challenges Australia’s policy on asylum seekers and also shines a light on a little-known period of Indian history – the Bengal Famine of 1942. Keneally delivered the Oration to a...
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Ratan Tata Wallace Wurth Dialogue (AUDIO)
UNSW has honoured the outstanding achievements of Mr Ratan Tata, Chairman of the Tata Group - India's largest corporation - with the degree of Doctor of Business honoris causa. Here Mr Tata takes part in the Wallace Wurth Dialogue with the UNSW Chancellor Mr David Gonski and Vice-Chancellor...
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What would Gandhi do today? - UNSW Annual Gandhi Oration delivered by The Hon Michael Kirby (AUDIO)
The Gandhi Oration commemorates Martyrs’ Day and is delivered by a person whose life’s work exemplifies the ideals of Gandhi. This year the oration is delivered by The Honourable Michael Kirby AC CMG who addresses the topic of What would Gandhi do today? A meditation on the contemporary…
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"It Won't Happen to Me" - Cybercrime Myths and Misconceptions
On Wednesday 30 May UNSW Alumni and friends attended the second BrainFood Lecture for 2012. They heard from an expert panel that they may well be the next victim of Cybercrime. The cost to the world economy in 2011 was $9 billion and Australians are increasingly targets. Speakers warned that one…
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Talking Point with Dr Neil Balnaves AO - on closing the gap (AUDIO)
What motivates someone to give $3 million to support Indigenous education? On the eve of the opening of Balnaves Place -- Home of Nura Gili at UNSW, businessman Dr Neil Balnaves AO spoke to Sarah Macdonald about his passion for closing the gap, the dos and don'ts of philanthropy and how UNSW...
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The new global lawyer - Talking Point with Professor David Dixon (AUDIO)
UNSW's Law graduates will be even better prepared for their chosen career thanks to changes that will equip students with more practical skills and a new global perspective. Here UNSW Law Dean Prof David Dixon outlines the new curriculum and explains why it's the biggest change to legal education...
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Help the diasadvantaged quit smoking - Talking Point with Prof Robyn Richmond (AUDIO)
Australians at high risk of smoking, such as the mentally ill and prisoners are successful in giving up the habit if they’re supported in complying with treatment regimes, according to Professor Robyn Richmond from UNSW Medicine’s School of Public Health. Here Prof Richmond tells Sarah Macdonald...
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Inside the adolescent brain - Talking Point with Dr Jay Giedd (AUDIO)
Dr Jay Giedd, guest of UNSW's 2012 Brain Sciences Symposium, is the Chief of Brain Imaging at the U.S. Institute of Mental Health and has spent more than 20 years researching the adolescent brain. He speaks with Sarah Macdonald about how the explosion of social media and other challenges of…
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Securing Our Future (AUDIO)
Security is no longer just about bombs, tanks and fighting wars. Professor Alan Dupont, Director of UNSW's new Centre for International Security and Development believes that our major challenges now include infectious diseases, climate change, terrorism, drug trafficking and illegal migration,...
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Art From Out There - Talking Point with Dr Jennifer Biddle (AUDIO)
UNSW's Dr Jennifer Biddle has been travelling to the Central and Western Desert in the Norther Territory since the late 1980s, when the Aboriginal art movement was taking off. Now a Senior Research Fellow based at COFA's National Institute for Experimental Art, her research debunks the idea that...
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Talking Point - Our waterways under threat? (AUDIO)
Plans for coal seam gas mining across Australia are expanding rapidly, yet there are no national regulations in place and a lack of information as to the possible environmental impacts. Dr Stuart Khan, from UNSW's Water Research Centre, outlines the processes involved in coal seam gas mining and...
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2012 Wallace Wurth Lecture by Judge Sang-Hyun Song (AUDIO)
The President of the International Criminal Court, Judge Sang-Hyun Song, delivers UNSW's annual Wallace Wurth Memorial Lecture. His speech, 'From Punishment to Prevention', marks the ICC's first 10 years and reflects on the future of international criminal justice.
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Until the violence stops
Creator of the award-winning The Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler, describes her global campaign to harness the power of theatre to stop gender violence, in this edited version of the Australian Human Rights Centre lecture.
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Inaugural Gandhi Oration - Professor Pat Dodson
Professor Pat Dodson, Professor of Indigenous Policy at UNSW, gives the Inaugural Gandhi Oration. The Gandhi Oration commemorates Martyrs' Day and is delivered by a person whose life's work exemplifies the ideals of Gandhi. Professor Patrick Dodson has shown great leadership promoting and…
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Corporate Governance - What Do Shareholders Really Value? (Audio Podcast)
Can corporations' relentless focus on maximising shareholder wealth actually harm investors? UNSW's Centre for Law, Markets and Regulation presents Prof Lynn Stout, the Paul Hastings Distinguished Professor of Corporate and Securities Law at UCLA, in the second seminar of the series "In Who or…
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The Matt Rap
A particular take on the dangers of cannabis use from UNSW's Dr Matthew Large, as remixed by journalist Michael "Mikey" Slezak.
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2011 Utzon Lecture Series: Peter Singer - Building Values - AUDIO VERSION
Prof Peter Singer (Princeton University) discusses the way in which our decisions about the kind of built environment we choose to create, and to live in, should take into account the interests of others, whether present or future, human or nonhuman. Australian-born philosopher Peter Singer is...
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Uniken Podcast - Bob Hall
Historian Bob Hall has turned a tour of duty in Vietnam into a life’s work. His team at UNSW@ADFA has identified the burial sites of thousands of Viet Cong missing in action.
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The Great Brain Race: Rise of the Global Education Marketplace
Ben Wildavsky's lecture, The Great Brain Race: Rise of the Global Education Marketplace, tells the story of the transformation of the global academic landscape in recent years. More than 3 million students now study outside their home nations; globe-trotting faculty hop from the United States to...
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Rusty Young on Bolivia, Colombia and the War on Cocaine
Documentary presentation and talk by Rusty Young, author of Marching Powder. 17 April 2011 at The University of New South Wales. Rusty graduated from UNSW Commerce/Law in 1999. He worked briefly in merchant banking and the legal industry. Deciding it wasn't for him, he went backpacking around…
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Wallace Wurth Memorial Lecture 2011 - Kerry O'Brien: Politics and Journalism - Who's Winning the Race to the Bottom?
Kerry O'Brien delivers the 2011 Wallace Wurth Memorial Lecture. Kerry O’Brien is one of the most well regarded names in Australian journalism. With a career spanning 45 years, Kerry has been awarded six Walkley Awards and the coveted Gold Walkley, which is the highest honour in Australian...
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The Kirby Institute (audio)
UNSW's national HIV clinical research centre has celebrated its 25th anniversary with the launch of a new name and identity – the Kirby Institute for infection and immunity in society – while welcoming a $10 million donation from Mr Chuck Feeney, founder of the US-based charity The Atlantic...
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Talking Point with Walt Dudley -- Stories from the Tsunami
Professor James Goff from the Australian Tsunami Research Centre at UNSW talks to Professor Walt Dudley from the University of Hawaii about the value of interviewing tsunami survivors.
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Talking Point with Selena Griffith - Sustainable Design
What is sustainable design? Selena Griffith, from COFA's School of Design Studies, explains the move towards a design process that minimises harm on social, economic and environmental levels.
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Dr Jose Ramos-Horta - DTP 20th Anniversary Public Lecture
East Timor’s President and Nobel Peace Laureate, Dr Jose Ramos-Horta, spoke at UNSW as part of the 20th anniversary celebrations of the Diplomacy Training Program which he founded at UNSW in 1989. In his speech President Ramos-Horta notes that modern communications mean corrupt regimes can no...
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COFA Talks: John Kaldor and Anthony Bond in conversation
Art lover and founder of Kaldor Public Art Projects, John Kaldor, in conversation with Anthony Bond, Director of Curatorial Services for the Art Gallery of N.S.W.
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Talking Point with Alec Tzannes--Future-Proofing Cities (long version)
n our Talking Point series, UNSW's Professor Alec Tzannes on the challenges of building sustainable cities. Problems watching this version? Watch it on YouTube - see link at right.
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Talking Point with Pat Dodson: Can Australia afford not to be reconciled?
A referendum on Indigenous recognition will be held before the next election - Professor Patrick Dodson and Associate Professor Sarah Maddison discuss how we can ensure the right result in a debate that's become profoundly 'stuck'.
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Talking Point: George Williams--People Power
With the Gillard government proposing changes to the Constitution, UNSW professor of law George Williams examines Australia's referendum record and explains why success has been so rare.
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Talking Point: Literary Prizes
Dr Anne Brewster, Commonwealth Writers' Prize judge, talks with Fran Strachan about the literary world's competition culture and how Indigenous writers have helped reshape Australian history.
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Defining Quantum Computing
The next big thing in computing is very small. Professor Michelle Simmons explains quantum computing, a field so complex that one pundit says you never fully understand - you just learn to live with it.
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The View From The Top
Despite its humble beginnings, where equipment had to be begged or borrowed, the UNSW/ARC Photovoltaics Centre of Excellence now leads the world in photovoltaic cell efficiency.
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Diggers and Greeks
Dr Maria Hill, Visiting Fellow at UNSW@ADFA, on why a campaign medal should be awarded to Australian soldiers who fought in Greece and Crete during WW2.
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Ban the Burqa?
resident Nicolas Sarkozy has declared that the burqa is unwelcome in France, saying that it is a symbol of subservience that makes them into "prisoners behind a screen". President Barack Obama in contrast has defended hijab as "indivisible from the freedom to practice one's religion", and has...
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On The Couch with Simon Restubog
Dr Simon Restabog chats with UNSW's Susi Hamilton about his research into bullying and other bad behaviour in the workplace. From UNITV, UNSW's fortnightly show on Aurora community channel on Foxtel and Austar.
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On The Couch with Andrew Lynch
Dr Andrew Lynch from the Gilbert+Tobin Centre Of Public Law talks terrorism and human rights. From UniTV, UNSW's Foxtel and Austar fortnightly show.
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Building a Nation
Has economic 'reform' run its course? What potential remains for constructive nation building? For a quarter of a century neo-liberal politics has made the people serve the economy. Can we recover the political capacity, the clear-sightedness, and the will to again make the economy serve the...
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