Ideas at the House

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Talks and conversations from the Sydney Opera House featuring the world’s greatest minds and culture creators. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Ideas at the House episodes:

12.17.2023
All About Women of Colour Mentorship
Content disclaimer: this podcast contains content that is explicit in nature. For All About Women 2023, the Sydney Opera House partnered with Western Sydney-based literacy movement Sweatshop on an emerging writers mentorship program for women and non-binary First Nations,...
12.03.2023
An Evening with Alison Roman
Capturing global attention through recipes so popular they became viral hashtags (#TheCookies, #ThePasta, #TheDip), Alison Roman wowed Sydney audiences in May 2023 in her quest for us all to ditch “domestic goddess” perfection and embrace a no-fuss, no-nonsense approach to...
11.26.2023
AI: The Human Interface
In a year when everyone is talking about artificial intelligence, we need to talk about the human kind. What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be conscious of your existence, your thoughts, your dreams? As machines...
11.19.2023
The Opera House Would Not Be Built Today
We kick off a new five-part season with a debate from our 50th Birthday Festival, discussing whether or not the Sydney Opera House would be built today. It's an iconic building that inspires imagination and sparks conversations, but do we still have what it takes to...
09.10.2023
Maybe Baby | All About Women 2023
Unsure about parenthood? You're not alone. There's a lot to consider when it comes to reproductive choice, evolving social norms mean that women don't have to follow a one-way path to motherhood. Either flying solo or coupled, hetero or queer, when...
09.03.2023
Spinster | All About Women 2023
Independent single women are a threat to the status quo. So, it comes as no surprise that the demonisation of single women is not new. From the European witch trials to the formation of the western legal system and its...
08.27.2023
Finding love in a hopeless place | All About Women 2023
Reality tv has always been a contentious category of television especially when it comes to authenticity and finding true love. Many of us love the drama, the tropes and stereotyping, even if we’re just poking fun at it. This session at...
08.20.2023
The War on Women | All About Women 2023
From repressed women in Iran to the rollback of abortion rights in the US, alongside the return of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the continuing fight for rights for First Nations people and justice for victims of sexual assault, there appears to...
08.13.2023
Goodbye Girlboss | All About Women 2023
Being a girlboss meant that you could have it all, a renlentlessly demanding job, the side hustle that swallowed your downtime, and a phone that never stops pinging. This session explored questions such as: Is burnout the only path to...
08.06.2023
Matriarchies and Movements | All About Women 2023
Since time immemorial, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women have looked after human, spiritual and ecological wellbeing. Many First Nations women's activism is empowered through continuation of a long history of matriarchs who embody kinship and moral responsibility to community...
07.30.2023
Actually Autistic | All About Women 2023
We live in a society that is only just beginning to recognise neurodivergence in women and non-binary people. So how does it feel to be misdiagnosed for years? Does greater public awareness make socialising a little bit simpler? What are...
07.23.2023
Bikini Kill Speaks | All About Women 2023
Legendary punk band Bikini Kill headlined Sydney Opera House’s 2023 All About Women Festival with a reminder of what it was like to perform in a male-dominated music industry in the 90s. They represented anarchist feminist music and encouraged disobedience in young women, emboldening them to...
05.01.2023
How Do You Solve A Problem Like The Media | Antidote 2022
The conduct of many journalists during the 2022 federal election appeared to expose media bias on the campaign trail. Many Australians were dissatisfied with journalists who seemed more concerned with catching politicians out than helping us understand their vision and priorities...
04.23.2023
How To Have Sex | Chantelle Otten at Antidote 2022
Knowledge around sex, intimacy and pleasure is regularly dismissed as society has often shrouded the subject in shame and awkwardness. At Antidote 2022, psychosexologist Chantelle Otten delves into the many forms of desire, the vulnerability of sexual pleasure, and helps us to build sexual confidence in ourselves and our...
04.16.2023
Where Do We Go From Here | Antidote 2022
With growing momentum to enact the Uluru Statement from the Heart, and The Voice to Parliament on the agenda, is a meaningful change for First Nations people finally happening in Australia? In a First Nations led discussion at Antidote 2022, host...
04.10.2023
It Happened To Me | Antidote 2022
Can someone else's story change your life? Dai Le, Nardi Simpson, Dinesh Palipana, Antoinette Lattouf and host, Steph Tisdell, took the stage at Antidote 2022 to draw back the curtain on their worlds and reveal what happened to them. We hear stories...
04.02.2023
What Would China Do | Antidote 2022
In the wake of multiple political crises in the United States, a rich and powerful China increasingly asserts itself. How does Australia navigate this new world order? China will soon overtake the US as the world’s largest economy and...
03.27.2023
The Last White Man | Mohsin Hamid at Antidote 2022
The Last White Man is the latest novel from internationally bestselling author Mohsin Hamid. The book reimagines Kafka's Metamorphosis and taps into white anxiety about replacement in unique and enlightening ways. The British Pakistani novelist of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Booker-Prize-nominated Exit...
03.19.2023
The World Turned Upside Down | Antidote 2022
The 2022 federal election saw Australian voters moving away from the traditional two-party system, with a record number of Independents and Greens candidates elected. How will this change the way our government is formed in the future? Will we stitch coalitions together after...
03.12.2023
A Higher Calling | Antidote 2022
Would you quit your job to serve others? These two high-achievers sacrificed successful careers in journalism to take up the rigorous study necessary to become medical doctors. What drives such a sacrifice, and how does it feel to be called to...
03.05.2023
Welcome To The Pandemicene | Antidote 2022
Is Covid just the beginning? The climate crisis has created a unique situation that has the potential to breed many more viruses, forcing animals to migrate to new habitats, creating new inter-species infections. This means more and more of the world's viruses...
02.26.2023
First Languages First | Antidote 2022
There are over 150 Indigenous languages actively maintained by community groups in Australia, and a growing movement to protect, revitalise and promote Indigenous language. There are 7000 languages in use worldwide - but many Indigenous languages are falling out of...
02.19.2023
The Body Free And Powerful | Olivia Laing at Antidote 2022
Bodies carry and represent so much, these fragile vessels that we are "stuck in" can dictate privilege or oppression not only within ourselves but in wider society. In a talk recorded at our Antidote festival in September 2022, trans and non-binary author,...
02.12.2023
Unfriend The Algorithm | Ed Coper & Malcolm Turnbull AC at Antidote 2022
Should government step in to protect us from Big Social Media? Conspiracy theories and false news are spread by social media, with real and dangerous consequences for society. Is it time for governments to consider dealing with algorithm bubbles? At Antidote...
02.06.2023
Good Pop Bad Pop | Jarvis Cocker at Antidote 2022
What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? Jarvis Cocker, founder and front man of legendary English band Pulp finally found the time to rummage around his attic crawl space and wrote...
01.29.2023
Ukraine Has Changed Us | Antidote 2022
This episode of Ideas At The House features an Antidote festival event like no other. As a response to the brutal invasion and ongoing war in Ukraine, the event features sombre and beautiful works by Ukrainian poets, musicians, and storytellers Maria Tumarkin, Serhiy...
01.22.2023
Succession's Brian Cox - The Evil In Us All | Antidote 2022
This episode, we begin a season of talks from our Antidote 2022 festival, starting with an in-depth discussion with renowned actor, Brian Cox. Famed for his portrayal of the media patriarch, Logan Roy, in the television series Succession, Brian Cox has built a brilliant career exploring...
01.16.2023
BUILD: Life Below Water
This episode is the second talk from the Build conversation series, which explores new perspectives from design, architecture, engineering, science and The Arts to reflect on how these disciplines can address the urgent issues of our times. Each of the...
01.10.2023
BUILD: Life on Land
The BUILD conversation series is a new series of talks that explore new perspectives from design, architecture, engineering, science and The Arts, to reflect on how these disciplines can address the urgent issues of our times. Each of the talks...
12.11.2022
Ideas At The House: Bonus Episode - Introducing our new podcast 'Up Next'
As it nears its 50th birthday, the Sydney Opera House is looking to the future with a 'Up Next' - a new podcast which talks to the artists who'll define the next 50 years of arts and culture in Australia. Join...
12.04.2022
Pasi Sahlberg & Sharon Goldfeld | Teaching health in schools
The Pasi Sahlberg conversation series is a 3-part series of urgent discussions about the Australian Education System. In this final episode of our three-part series, Pasi Sahlberg is joined by Professor Sharon Goldfeld, a paediatrician and director of the Royal Children’s Hospital...
11.27.2022
Pasi Sahlberg, Ricky Kradolfer & Sarah Donnelly | Can Rock’n’Roll save our schools?
The Pasi Sahlberg conversation series is a 3-part series of urgent discussions about the Australian Education System. In this second episode, Pasi Sahlberg is joined by Ricky Kradolfer, music educator, guitarist and front man of The City Riots, and Sarah Donnelley,...
11.20.2022
Pasi Sahlberg, Denise Lofts & David Gonski | The Gonski Report – 10 Years On
The Pasi Sahlberg conversation series is a 3-part series of urgent discussions about the Australian Education System. In this, the first of three episodes, Pasi Sahlberg talks with the acclaimed businessman David Gonski about the impacts of the 2011 Gonski report....
08.21.2022
After Consent | All About Women 2022
New legislation is making its way through Australian state parliaments, enshrining the concept of "affirmative consent": an explicit, articulated, ongoing agreement to sexual activity. Bri Lee, Saxon Mullins, and Amy Thunig navigate these recent changes and the implications for sexual freedom....
08.14.2022
The Wendy McCarthy Effect | All About Women 2022
Wendy McCarthy is one of Australia's feminist heroes. She shares her remarkable life and achievements, and the lessons she has learned - and taught us all. In addition to the work she does that is very much in the public eye...
08.07.2022
The Future for Women in Afghanistan | All About Women 2022
The Australian and American troops are gone, the Taliban are back in power. What is life like now for women and girls in Afghanistan and what can we in the rest of the world do to help? Did the Western presence...
07.31.2022
Laura Tingle Explains It All | Laura Tingle at All About Women 2022
The tables turn for ABC's 7:30 journalist Laura Tingle, as subject rather than interviewer as she analyses the domestic and political world. Combining political insights with personal observations and anecdotes about the players who hold our fate in their hands, rest...
07.24.2022
Beyond the Binary | All About Women 2022
What would our world look like if all our current gendered expectations disappeared, and what needs to happen for this to be achieved? Jinghua Qian, Amao Leota Lu, and Sandy O'Sullivan imagine a world with no gender binary. Hosted by Dr...
07.17.2022
Why Design Matters | Debbie Millman & Yumi Stynes at All About Women 2022
How do you find the courage to make a major change in your life? How do you re-set your values? How do you reconnect with your creative self? Designer and host of the long-running and wildly popular podcast Design Matters, Debbie...
07.10.2022
For Kate | All About Women 2022
How can we find justice for friends who can no longer speak for themselves? A friend, a lawyer, and a journalist explore the profound commitment of friendship and collective action. Moderated by Julia Baird, this is a big conversation about feminism...
07.03.2022
The Right to Sex | All About Women 2022
What shapes the way we think about sex? Consent and power relations, gender justice and the state, pornography and freedom - political philosophy professor Amia Srinivasan refuses to turn away from the hard questions about society and sex. Hosted by Emma A...
06.26.2022
Protecting the Outspoken | Grace Tame & Rosie Batty at All About Women 2022
How do we support those who speak out? How can we support advocates who speak from traumatic lived experiences? When victims of violence move from silence to speech, how do we honour their stories? Rosie Batty and Grace Tame have built...
06.19.2022
Queerstories | All About Women 2022
Mothers, daughters, sisters, lovers, femmes and friends. Five incredible LGBTQI+ writers share a personal tale about their relationship to womanhood - intimate, considered and, as always, rooted in community. Hosted by Maeve Marsden, recorded live at the Sydney Opera House for...
06.12.2022
First Nations Women Speak to the Future | All About Women 2022
Indigenous women, white feminism and power; colonial violence and self-determination. What are the obstacles and pathways to a new future led by First Nations women? Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson discusses her seminal work, Talkin’ Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and...
06.06.2022
We’ve Got This | All About Women 2022
How do two parents who are blind take their children to the park? How is a mother with dwarfism treated when she walks her child down the street? How do Deaf parents know when their baby cries in the night?...
05.29.2022
Facing Up | Roxane Gay & Nakkiah Lui at All About Women 2022
Nothing is off-limits in this conversation between American writer Roxane Gay and screenwriter Nakkiah Lui as these two incredible women whose work challenges us with the hard questions about racism and misogyny today. Both known for speaking with radical authenticity about...
05.22.2022
In Colour: A Dialogue with Rising Artists | All About Women 2022
All About Women partnered with Western Sydney-based literacy movement Sweatshop on an emerging writers mentorship program for women and non-binary First Nations, culturally and linguistically diverse writers. Mentorship recipients, Yeena Kirkbright and Ayeesha Ash read their finished works inspired by...
05.16.2022
Clementine Ford: Love Sermon | All About Women 2022
Unrequited romance. Deep friendship. Motherhood. Break-ups. Self-love. Writer, broadcaster and one of Australia's most provocative feminists Clementine Ford explores the manifold ways love makes its home in our hearts. In sermon and song she shows how romantic love might be...
03.20.2022
Pasi Sahlberg, Evalyn Fechner & Michael Rich | In Conversation
Finnish educator, author, and scholar, Pasi Sahlberg, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, at Harvard Medical School, Michael Rich and High School Student Evalyn Fechner discuss the latest research on the impacts of screens and the digital world on young people and...
03.13.2022
Pasi Sahlberg, Fiona Kelly & Dr Chris Sarra | In Conversation
Finnish educator, author, and scholar, Pasi Sahlberg, Barkindji/Ngiyampaa woman and executive Principal of Menindee Central school and chairman of the Stronger Smart Institute Dr Chris Sarra discuss first nations education in Australia. The three examine the changes in thinking and...

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Ideas at the House episodes:

All About Women of Colour Mentorship

An Evening with Alison Roman

AI: The Human Interface

The Opera House Would Not Be Built Today

Maybe Baby | All About Women 2023

Spinster | All About Women 2023

Finding love in a hopeless place | All About Women 2023

The War on Women | All About Women 2023

Goodbye Girlboss | All About Women 2023

Matriarchies and Movements | All About Women 2023

Actually Autistic | All About Women 2023

Bikini Kill Speaks | All About Women 2023

How Do You Solve A Problem Like The Media | Antidote 2022

How To Have Sex | Chantelle Otten at Antidote 2022

Where Do We Go From Here | Antidote 2022

It Happened To Me | Antidote 2022

What Would China Do | Antidote 2022

The Last White Man | Mohsin Hamid at Antidote 2022

The World Turned Upside Down | Antidote 2022

A Higher Calling | Antidote 2022

Welcome To The Pandemicene | Antidote 2022

First Languages First | Antidote 2022

The Body Free And Powerful | Olivia Laing at Antidote 2022

Unfriend The Algorithm | Ed Coper & Malcolm Turnbull AC at Antidote 2022

Good Pop Bad Pop | Jarvis Cocker at Antidote 2022

Ukraine Has Changed Us | Antidote 2022

Succession's Brian Cox - The Evil In Us All | Antidote 2022

BUILD: Life Below Water

BUILD: Life on Land

Ideas At The House: Bonus Episode - Introducing our new podcast 'Up Next'

Pasi Sahlberg & Sharon Goldfeld | Teaching health in schools

Pasi Sahlberg, Ricky Kradolfer & Sarah Donnelly | Can Rock’n’Roll save our schools?

Pasi Sahlberg, Denise Lofts & David Gonski | The Gonski Report – 10 Years On

After Consent | All About Women 2022

The Wendy McCarthy Effect | All About Women 2022

The Future for Women in Afghanistan | All About Women 2022

Laura Tingle Explains It All | Laura Tingle at All About Women 2022

Beyond the Binary | All About Women 2022

Why Design Matters | Debbie Millman & Yumi Stynes at All About Women 2022

For Kate | All About Women 2022

The Right to Sex | All About Women 2022

Protecting the Outspoken | Grace Tame & Rosie Batty at All About Women 2022

Queerstories | All About Women 2022

First Nations Women Speak to the Future | All About Women 2022

We’ve Got This | All About Women 2022

Facing Up | Roxane Gay & Nakkiah Lui at All About Women 2022

In Colour: A Dialogue with Rising Artists | All About Women 2022

Clementine Ford: Love Sermon | All About Women 2022

Pasi Sahlberg, Evalyn Fechner & Michael Rich | In Conversation

Pasi Sahlberg, Fiona Kelly & Dr Chris Sarra | In Conversation