Our first episode of Big Chats with the founder of FORE, Australia's first policy library of one-page briefs, Lucy Skelton.
In it we discuss: her experience as a 20-year-old Labor candidate for the 2022 Victorian State Election, Azerbaijan's controversial hosting of COP29, how Australia led the way for women getting into political office, the former member for Dunkley Peta Murphy and why politicians are expected to be sad and alone in a cave.
What does an online culture of “failed” men have to do with terrorism laws, classrooms and a stabbing at Bondi Junction? This is a video where go inside the world of incels and the “Black Pill” - a fatalistic worldview where some men decide it’s permanently “over” for them. Featuring
An interview with Maritime Historian Chris Maxworthy. We discuss his discovery of the Spanish Empire's plans to attack the British colony in Sydney, who actually discovered the 'Great Southern Land' and why Australians know so little about their own history. Chris is a Winston Churchill Fellow
Following the violent evening (9 February) where protesters met police outside Sydney’s Town Hall over Israel President Isaac Herzog’s controversial visit to Australia. We ask the question - what is the point of a protest? In this video, Professor Maria O’Sullivan from the Deakin University School of Law,
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