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Boyer Lectures — 109 episodes

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05 | James Curran: Trump’s gift

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04 | Amelia Lester: AI on Australia’s terms

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03 | Larissa Behrendt: Justice, ideas, inclusion

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02 | Hon John Anderson AC: Our civilisational moment

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01 | Professor Justin Wolfers: Australia is freaking amazing

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04 | Lyn Williams: The Artistry of Children

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03 | Iain Grandage: Beyond the Boundaries

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02 | Aaron Wyatt: Our Shared Humanity

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01 | Anna Goldsworthy: Kairos

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Q&A with Professor Michelle Simmons

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04 | The Importance of Doubt

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03 | Imagination and Mindset

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02 | The Quantum Promise

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01 | The Atomic Revolution

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05 | We The Australian People

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04 | Transformational School education

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03 | A Job Guarantee For The Bottom Million

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02 | A Rightful But Not Separate Place

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01 | Who we were, who we are, and who we can be

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04 | Soul of the Age - Imaginary Forces with John Bell

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03 | Soul of the Age — Shakespeare's Women with John Bell

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02 | Soul of the Age - Order vs Chaos with John Bell

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01 | Soul of the Age — Life lessons from Shakespeare with John Bell

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03 | The economics of inequality

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02 | Lighting up our ocean

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01 | Oil vs Water — Confessions of a carbon emitter

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03 |The End of Silence: Makarrata

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02 |The End of Silence: With the consent of the natives

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01 | The End of Silence: The genesis of the Uluru statement

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01 | Back to the future of eugenics

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02 | Gene genie

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03 | Sins of the flesh

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04 | Life immortal

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Fast, smart and connected: How to build our digital future

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Fast, smart and connected: Your hopes and fears for where technology is heading

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Fast, smart and connected: All technology has a history (and a country)

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Fast, smart and connected: Dealing lightning with both hands

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Fast, smart and connected: Where it all began

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Introducing 2017 Boyer Lecturer, Prof Genevieve Bell

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Social justice and health: making a difference

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Living and working

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Give every child the best start

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Health inequality and the causes of the causes

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Social justice and health: making a difference

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Living and working

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Give every child the best start

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Health inequality and the causes of the causes

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The Birthplace of the Fortunate

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Foreign policy begins at home

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A three-dimensional foreign policy

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Present at the destruction

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People for Science

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Science for a Healthy Environment

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Science for a Healthy Economy

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Science for a Healthy People

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Advance Australia Fair

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Australians at their best

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Watching the women

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Joining the neighbourhood

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05 | Counting Our Victories: the end of Garvey-ism and the soft bigotry of low expectation

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04 | The conceit of wilderness ideology

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03 | Old barriers and new models. The private sector, government and the economic empowerment of Aboriginal Australians

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02 | From Protectionism to Economic Advancement

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01 | Changing the paradigm: Mining Companies, Native Title and Aboriginal Australians

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Lecture 4: A Home in Fiction

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Lecture 3: At Home in the World

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Lecture 2: A Home on Bland Street

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Lecture 1: Our Only Home

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Lecture 6: The Republic of Learning

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Lecture 5: Fired with Enthusiasm

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Lecture 4: Becoming a Citizen

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Lecture 3: Research! A Mere Excuse for Idleness

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Lecture 2: A Lectern in a Dusty Room

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Lecture 1: The Global Moment

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Lecture 6: Australia's Future: Paying it Forward

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Lecture 5: From Nino Cullotta to Hazim El Masri

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Lecture 4: The Politics of Ordinary Australians

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Lecture 3: Leading In Australia

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Lecture 2: Australia's Regional Relationships

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Lecture 1: National Security at the Breakfast Table?

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Lecture 6: The 21st century: comforting the afflicted. And afflicting the comfortable

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Lecture 5: The global middle class roars

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Lecture 4: Fortune favours the smart

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Lecture 3: The future of newspapers: moving beyond dead trees

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Lecture 2: Who's afraid of new technology?

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Lecture 1: Aussie rules: bring back the pioneer

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Lecture 6: Shaping the Future

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Lecture 5: Brain Plasticity Gives Hope to Children

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Lecture 4: Imagination Becomes a Reality

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Lecture 2: Loss of Contact

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Lecture 1: Exploring the World Around Us

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Lecture 6: Challenges for the Future

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Lecture 5: The Long Expansion

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Lecture 4: The Recession of 1990 and its Legacy

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Lecture 3: Reform and Deregulation

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Lecture 2: From Golden Age to Stagflation

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Lecture 1: The Golden Age

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Lecture 6: Punching Above Our Weight?

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Lecture 5: Challengers

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Lecture 4: Civilisations and Cultures - Clashing or Merging?

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Lecture 3: A Democratic World

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Lecture 2: Taking on Utopia

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Lecture 1: And Then There Was One

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Lecture 4 — The companionable state

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Lecture 3 — The dark side of the warm inner glow: family and communitarians

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Lecture 2 — Raising social capital

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Lecture 6 — Towards a utopian road movie

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Lecture 5 — Change, diversity and dissent

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Lecture 1 — Broadening the views