Ideas at the House

By Sydney Opera HouseSociety & Culture Education

Ideas at the House episodes

March 11, 2016 Rosie Waterland - How to be yourself
Australian writer Rosie Waterland has lived. Before she built a global fanbase by writing hilarious online recaps of the reality television show, The Bachelor, she had to get through a tough childhood. She had to come to terms with not being 'cool'. Navigating her way through a housing commission childhood, eating disorders and mental health issues, she embraced all that she is to become an 'Anti-Cool Girl' (also the title of her debut memoir).
In this talk the ‘full frontal memoirist’ shares her rocky road to self-acceptance and what it means to be true to yourself in the social media age.
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58 min
March 08, 2016 What Needs to Change: Panel
If you could change the world overnight, what would you do first?

Featuring: Masha Gessen, Crystal Lameman, Mallory Ortberg, Ann Sherry, Anne- Marie Slaughter, Jenny Brockie (Chair)
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1 hr 13 min
January 21, 2016 Nigella Lawson in conversation with Annabel Crabb
With her feet firmly on the ground, and her finger in the mixing bowl, Nigella Lawson has charmed us with her approach to food and cooking. Based on the principle that food should be a simple pleasure to cook and to eat, her recipe books emphasise the importance of friends, family and celebration. At a time when many of the messages we get about food alternate between anxious exhortations to eat ‘clean’ and the technical wizardry of competitive cooking, her relaxed and realistic approach shows a different path, where food can be creative, a source of comfort and a joyful part of life.
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1 hr 22 min
December 02, 2015 Nicola Scott: From DC to Black Magik
Nicola Scott is an Australian comic book artist working in the American industry. After working for Dark Horse, Image and IDW, she quickly became a fan-favourite working exclusively for DC Entertainment on monthly titles Birds Of Prey, Secret Six, Wonder Woman, Teen Titans, Superman and New York Times Bestseller Earth 2.
She has recently made the gigantic leap of leaving DC comics to start a creator owned book with Greg Rucka (Gotham Central, Batwoman, Queen & Country, Lazarus and more). The new series is called Black Magick and will be released by Image Comics, debuting in late October 2015.
Join Nicola as she details her work and how she began working for the world's biggest comics publishing companies while being based in Sydney, Australia and most interestingly how she has come to leave these behind to focus on creator owned work.
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1 hr 4 min
November 30, 2015 Brendan McCarthy - Brutal Future: 2000AD to Mad Max: Fury Road
The gifted UK cult British comic artist, designer and Mad Max: Fury Road designer/co-writer, Brendan McCarthy offers a rare insight into his 35 year career – covering graphic classics such as 2000 AD's Judge Dredd, the revolutionary 80s US invasion by British comics creators, pioneering pre-Pixar computer animation on the Reboot TV show of the 90s, designing classic pop videos, movies, and a highly regarded series of unique graphic novels.
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59 min
November 30, 2015 Cory Doctorow: Saving the Internet from the Surveillance State, Carnegie Conversations
The internet is the 21st century's nervous system and it has made universal surveillance a reality. In the past, even the most repressive authoritarian states would reach a point where it was cheaper to guarantee social stability with schools and hospitals rather than with guns and surveillance devices. But the automation of surveillance has moved this point dramatically. Where the Stasi needed an entire army to surveil one country, East Germany, the NSA and its Five Eyes partners can surveil the whole planet with a single battalion.According to internet freedom advocate Cory Doctorow, it will get worse before it gets better. The Internet of Things creates the potential for everyday devices to be used by spy agencies, criminals and authoritarian states to commit wholesale mischief.
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1 hr 14 min
November 30, 2015 Yanis Varoufakis: Democracy Under Siege, Carnegie Conversations
What happens when a Professor of Economics gets his hands on the economic levers of a country in the eye of the financial storm? Yanis Varoufakis' seven month stint as Greece's Minister of Finance took him into the heart of the Eurogroup, the IMF, and the continent's top decision-making bodies. With bluntness and force, he put the case for a different solution to Greece’s ills and accused the country’s creditors of terrorism. Telling Bloomberf “I wouldprefer to cut my arm off" rather than accept a bailout that did not involve debt restructuring, Varoufakis did not make friends among the Eurocrats. Sharing his first-hand view of the global financial system and what is means for ordinary citizens and governments when things go wrong, Yanis Varoufakis will discuss his experience at the intersection of politics and economics in theory and practice.

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1 hr 10 min
October 21, 2015 Paul Keating in conversation with Kerry O'Brien
Paul Keating, visionary, reformer, true believer, rabble rouser, polymath, and our most intriguing prime minister bares his soul to the country's sharpest political interviewer, Kerry O'Brien.Kerry and Paul wrestle with history to produce a tour de force of political wisdom and personal insight that weaves through the Keating years in a unique and compelling way. Building on the transcripts of the must-watch ABC TV event of 2013 - Keating: the Interviews – Kerry has gathered an enormous bank of new material, gleaned during many hours of further conversation with Keating, to create a book that is more forensic and all-encompassing than the very successful TV series. Kerry O'Brien captures the hallmarks of the man - the nimble mind, the wit, the grandeur of vision, the complexity and the stubborn drive for power - as Keating explains the historic events, back room stoushes and moments of drama and pathos that the political world inevitably holds.
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1 hr 16 min
September 10, 2015 Next Year's News Now Panel, Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015
Peter Fray is the Deputy Editor of The Australian. He was the editor-in-chief and founder of the fact-checking website, PolitiFact Australia and had a long and distinguished career at Fairfax Media, most recently as Editor-in-Chief and publisher of the The Sydney Morning Herald and previously as Editor of The Canberra Times and The Sunday Age.
Julia Baird is a journalist, broadcaster and author. Her writing has appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times, the Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Monthly and Harper’s Bazaar. She is a regular commentator on television and radio and is the author of Media Tarts: How the Australian press frames female politicians. She is currently writing a biography of Queen Victoria.
Chris Kenny is Associate Editor-National Affairs at The Australian and host of the SkyNews Viewpoint program, as well as a regular commentator on national affairs on television, radio and in print. He brings to the task a broad range of top level experience in media, politics and foreign affairs.
John Ricketts is the CEO of Significance Systems, an applied AI platform that finds and analyses the narratives that matter in a crowded digital media world. This has application in a wide range of fields from Capital Markets and Development Aid, to Communications, Strategy and Marketing. He was awarded his PHD in Physics at 24 and lived during the 90s in Tokyo, where he pioneered the first social media.
Mark Di Stefano is the Political Editor for BuzzFeedOz, who started out in the media by fetching ABC News host Juanita Philips' tea and doing her autocue. After stints reading the news on Triple J and doing TV journalism for the ABC News in Darwin, Mark got lucky and was hired by BuzzFeed. He loves the Internet, coffee and Kendrick Lamar's latest album.
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1 hr 20 min
September 10, 2015 Indigenous Recognition Panel, Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015
Frank Brennan SJ AO has a longstanding reputation of advocacy in the areas of law, social justice, refugee protection and Aboriginal reconciliation. He is known for his 1998 involvement in the debate surrounding the Wik peoples’ landmark court case. He is a Jesuit priest, professor of law and writer. Brennan was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 1995 for services to Aboriginal Australians, particularly as an advocate in the areas of law, social justice and reconciliation. He is highly thought of in the Indigenous community
Malarndirri McCarthy is a Senior Journalist & Presenter at SBS/NITV News and the 2013 winner of the DEADLYs Inaugural Award in Journalism for her breaking story on two Indigenous brothers in Saudi Arabia and in 2013 received two Walkley nominations for her story about a car company advertisement filmed on the culturally significant site of Wave Rock in WA.
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1 hr 2 min