From scanning the shelves for important texts, meeting his girlfriend in the science section or being part of a student overnight sleep-in protest in 1964, the Baillieu Library was one of many influential places for Peter Singer as a student at the University of Melbourne.

Places for discussion, debate and controversial ideas are important. "I feel that there may be a danger that people are talking more to the people who think like them and if they're not talking so much to the people that they're thrust together with, does that mean that they are less likely to be exchanging views with people with very different political or cultural values."

Listen as Peter discusses civil disobedience, safe spaces and ethical choices in our podcast 'A Third Place'.

Peter Singer, professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and Laureate professor at the University of Melbourne.

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