If someone makes a decision you don’t like you can complain to the manager. But what if the decision-maker’s a computer not a person? Computer programs are making more and more decisions from the most mundane request right up to deciding the length of a prison sentence. How can we design ethical artificial intelligence?

The ethics of artificial intelligence and digital megatrends shaping our future

Some of you stumble at telling the slightest un-truths. Others get away with outrageous lies for years.

There are many reasons why we lie – and sometimes we do it for the good of others.

A panel of professional human lie detectors reveals the discoveries they’ve made about the inner workings of the deceitful mind.

Where have all the leaders gone? The Chancellor of Oxford University says the current crop of political leaders need to argue the case for international agreements and democracy. Otherwise populist leaders and nationalism will rule the day and we'll lose the battle on climate change.

Dr Ranjana Srivastava has spent more than 20 years treating patients with cancer, often dispensing very bad news. Along the way she has gained acute insights into life, death and the practice of medicine.  As the end approaches, what matters? How do people cope?  How do doctors deal with death?

Time management is one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century and digital technology has made it even more difficult.

Is there such a thing as a free lunch?  Can all economic problems be solved by government? Do market prices reflect the full cost of our choices? Economics professor, John Quiggin, addresses these, and many other, fundamental economic questions.

In her final Boyer Lecture Rachel Perkins makes the case for a treaty process and we hear how indigenous communities are seeking to preserve and revitalize traditional languages.

Australia doesn’t have a treaty with its indigenous people. We’ve also been slow to acknowledge our history of violent dispossession. Indigenous film-maker Rachel Perkins looks at the Uluru Statement as the way to end the silence on the unfinished business of reconciliation. It calls for Voice, Treaty and Truth.

3,000 Australians died by suicide last year. Men are most at risk and indigenous communities have much higher rates of suicide across all age groups. A federal government campaign has an ambitious target to reduce the loss of life to zero. Our first National Suicide Prevention Advisor, a psychiatrist and an indigenous psychologist outline the challenge we face.