Ideas and Society Program

World-renowned climate change expert Professor David Karoly joins with Professor Robert Manne to discuss the reasons behind political inaction to address the issue of climate change.

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A panel on 'Culture and politics'

Dorota-Sach Krol - Thinking for yourself still? Pious certainties and Australia’s environmental left

David Ritter - The New Politics of Freedom

Clive Hamilton - Political Utopianism in the Anthropocene

Anne Manne - On Denial, Truth Telling and Responsibility for Our Common World: A Reflection on Hannah Arendt’s Men in Dark Times.

Introduced by Dr Raul Sanchez Urribarri, La Trobe University lecturer in Legal Studies.

This lecture was part of 'Thinking for Yourself: A Conference in Honour of Professor Robert Manne'

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A panel on 'Contemporary social democracy'

Richard Teese - Divesting ourselves of 'system': the way back to inequality?

David McKnight - Rethinking Labor's Values

Aurelien Mondon - Mainstreaming the extreme right in Australia: breaking away from the multicultural consensus

Carmen Lawrence - Exposing the truth about equal opportunity in public education

Introduced by Dr Nicholas Barry, La Trobe University lecturer in Politics and International Relations.

This lecture was part of 'Thinking for Yourself: A Conference in Honour of Professor Robert Manne'

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A panel on 'asylum seekers and the rule of law'

David Corlett - Attitudes towards asylum seekers: Are we really as bad as we seem?

Patrick McGorry - Asylum Seekers: Another Stolen Generation

David Manne - Asylum seekers and the rule of law

This lecture was part of 'Thinking for Yourself: A Conference in Honour of Professor Robert Manne'

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A panel on 'European history and politics'

Stefan Auer - Fictionalizing the Holocaust: From Andrzej Wajda’s Korczak to Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds

Adrian Jones - Politics or Political Science?: A Fifteenth-century Origin of a Concept of a “Political Wisdom of Expedience (Saigesse)”

Dirk Moses - Hannah Arendt and Raphael Lemkin on Empire and Genocide.

This lecture was part of 'Thinking for Yourself: A Conference in Honour of Professor Robert Manne'

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A panel on 'Multiculturalism and Diversity'

Geoffrey Levey - Framing the Australian Multiculturalism Debate

Sanjay Seth - Two Cheers for Humanism?

Ghassan Hage - Multiculturalism and the politics of entitlement

Tim Soutphommossane - The return of multiculturalism?

This lecture was part of 'Thinking for Yourself: A Conference in Honour of Professor Robert Manne'

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Professor Robert Manne (Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University) introduces a panel which examines the past and future of Australian universities. Speakers are Professor Raimond Giata (University of Melbourne), Dr Miriam Bankovsky (Social Sciences, La Trobe University) and Vice Chancellor John Dewar (La Trobe University).

This lecture was part of 'Thinking for Yourself: A Conference in Honour of Professor Robert Manne'

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A panel on 'The Public Sphere'

Chris Feik - Serve and Protect: thoughts on Australia’s public sphere

Ramona Koval - Reading the Culture of Forgetting, the media and Making Trouble

Dennis Altman- Gatekeepers and the Public Sphere

Morry Schwartz- Talking Back: balancing power in the new public sphere

This lecture was part of 'Thinking for Yourself: A Conference in Honour of Professor Robert Manne'

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A panel on 'Australian Political History and Culture'

Hugh White - The ANZAC ethos and the future of Australian Strategic Policy

John Hirst - 'Rudd, Gillard and Westminster'

Russell Marks - Robert Manne and Australian Universities in the Late 1960s and the Late 2000s: Contrast and Continuity; Resistance and Acquiescence.

Mark McKenna - A Forgotten Ideal: The Republic and Australia's Future

This lecture was part of 'Thinking for Yourself: A Conference in Honour of Professor Robert Manne'

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Professor Robert Manne (Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University) discusses indigenous politics with Professor Mick Dodson (Director of the National Centre for Indigenous Studies, Australian National University), including issues on the Stolen Generations’ Report, Bringing them home; the Northern Territory Intervention; and the proposed Constitutional Referendum among other topics will offer insight into the complex world of Indigenous politics and its struggle to be heard in mainstream politics.

This lecture was part of 'Thinking for Yourself: A Conference in Honour of Professor Robert Manne'

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