Sydney Ideas

With five prime ministers in five years, and shocking truths coming to light daily about our institutions – from unions to schools to detention centres – many fear our system is broken.

'Griffith Review: Fixing the System' brings together writers and analysts to provide fresh insights into how to fix the system and why it matters.

Political biographer Chris Wallace, former teacher GJ Stroud, journalist Ann Arnold and academic Tamson Pietsch join Griffith Review editor Julianne Schultz in a spirited discussion at how our institutions – political, social and legal – both support and fail us, and what we can do about it.

For further info see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2016/fixing_the_system.shtml

With five prime ministers in five years, and shocking truths coming to light daily about our institutions – from unions to schools to detention centres – many fear our system is broken.

'Griffith Review: Fixing the System' brings together writers and analysts to provide fresh insights into how to fix the system and why it matters.

Political biographer Chris Wallace, former teacher GJ Stroud, journalist Ann Arnold and academic Tamson Pietsch join Griffith Review editor Julianne Schultz in a spirited discussion at how our institutions – political, social and legal – both support and fail us, and what we can do about it.

For further info see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2016/fixing_the_system.shtml

With five prime ministers in five years, and shocking truths coming to light daily about our institutions – from unions to schools to detention centres – many fear our system is broken.

'Griffith Review: Fixing the System' brings together writers and analysts to provide fresh insights into how to fix the system and why it matters.

Political biographer Chris Wallace, former teacher GJ Stroud, journalist Ann Arnold and academic Tamson Pietsch join Griffith Review editor Julianne Schultz in a spirited discussion at how our institutions – political, social and legal – both support and fail us, and what we can do about it.

For further info see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2016/fixing_the_system.shtml

A recent series of controversial moves by the new Polish Government, especially the weakening of the Constitutional Tribunal and subjecting the public media to ministerial appointments and supervision, have triggered mass protests in Poland and concerns among EU officials.

Professor Jan Pakulski analyses these developments in the broader context of the rapid economic development, new social divisions, and the polarisation within the Polish political elite combined with electoral re-alignment.

For further info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2016/professor_jan_pakulski.shtml

A recent series of controversial moves by the new Polish Government, especially the weakening of the Constitutional Tribunal and subjecting the public media to ministerial appointments and supervision, have triggered mass protests in Poland and concerns among EU officials.

Professor Jan Pakulski analyses these developments in the broader context of the rapid economic development, new social divisions, and the polarisation within the Polish political elite combined with electoral re-alignment.

For further info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2016/professor_jan_pakulski.shtml

A recent series of controversial moves by the new Polish Government, especially the weakening of the Constitutional Tribunal and subjecting the public media to ministerial appointments and supervision, have triggered mass protests in Poland and concerns among EU officials.

Professor Jan Pakulski analyses these developments in the broader context of the rapid economic development, new social divisions, and the polarisation within the Polish political elite combined with electoral re-alignment.

For further info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2016/professor_jan_pakulski.shtml

Kim Williams AM has had a long and stellar career in news media, film and television, and music. Over four decades he has served on numerous boards in the cultural sector. In this Sydney Ideas event he gives an inaugural Australian Book Review (ABR) Patrons’ Lecture on Cultural Renewal in Modern Australia: Philanthropy, public discourse and the role of the ‘public academy’ in the modern era.

For further info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2016/kim_williams.shtml

Kim Williams AM has had a long and stellar career in news media, film and television, and music. Over four decades he has served on numerous boards in the cultural sector. In this Sydney Ideas event he gives an inaugural Australian Book Review (ABR) Patrons’ Lecture on Cultural Renewal in Modern Australia: Philanthropy, public discourse and the role of the ‘public academy’ in the modern era.

For further info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2016/kim_williams.shtml

Kim Williams AM has had a long and stellar career in news media, film and television, and music. Over four decades he has served on numerous boards in the cultural sector. In this Sydney Ideas event he gives an inaugural Australian Book Review (ABR) Patrons’ Lecture on Cultural Renewal in Modern Australia: Philanthropy, public discourse and the role of the ‘public academy’ in the modern era.

For further info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2016/kim_williams.shtml

When a pineapple soda can becomes a ‘bomb’ and takes down a Russian airliner, the everyday objects around us provoke a sense of horror. International Relations is in need of a quantum turn so that we can understand the very real consequences of events and things whose capacities defy easy or rational explanation.

SPEAKER: Jairus Grove, University of Hawaii Center for Futures Studies

The 2016 Q Lecture was presented by the Centre for International Security Studies with the support of the School of Social and Political Sciences and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

For further info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2016/q_lecture_2016.shtml