Each year since 1959, the ABC has sparked conversation about critical ideas with the Boyer Lectures. The 2020 Boyer Lecture series is called 'Rebooting Australia: How ethical entrepreneurs can help shape a better future' and is presented by philanthropist and business leader Dr Andrew Forrest AO.
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04| Soul of the Age - Imaginary Forces with John Bell
In this fourth and final lecture, John Bell discusses how William Shakespeare imagined a different world and encouraged his audience to do the same.
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03| Soul of the Age - Shakespeare's Women with John Bell
In this third lecture of the Boyer series, John Bell discusses Shakespeare's Women and how through his female characters he imagined a better world.
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02| Soul of the Age - Order vs Chaos with John Bell
In this second lecture of the Boyer series, John Bell discusses what Shakespeare can teach us about governance, about politics and power.
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01| Soul of the Age - Life lessons from Shakespeare with John Bell
In the first lecture of the 2021 Boyer series, John Bell opens our eyes and our ears to how relevant William Shakespeare is in today's world and what he can teach us through his ow…
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03 | The economics of inequality
In the third Boyer lecture, Dr Andrew Forrest discusses how inequality manifests in our modern capitalist system — through intergenerational dependence on welfare, lack of access t…
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02 | Lighting up our ocean
In the second of his 2020 Boyer Lectures, Andrew Forrest mounts a passionate defence of our oceans. Dr Forrest argues the key issues facing our oceans — deoxygenation, overfishing…
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01 | Oil vs Water — Confessions of a carbon emitter
In this first Boyer lecture, leading philanthropist and businessman Andrew Forrest calls for an urgent move to green hydrogen "on a global scale". For Dr Forrest, the question is n…
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03 |The End of Silence: Makarrata
In Rachel Perkins final Boyer lecture she details the dual proposal for a Makarrata Commission and a process of truth telling about our nation.
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02 |The End of Silence: With the consent of the natives
From colonial times to the present, Indigenous people have wanted a say about the laws and policies that affect them. Rachel Perkins discusses what needs to be done to guarantee th…
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01 | The End of Silence: The genesis of the Uluru statement
Rachel Perkins reminds us of the significance of the Uluru Statement from the Heart and why it's the most important message Indigenous people have sent to their fellow Australians…
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01 | Back to the future of eugenics
How advances in genetics and biomedicine have quietly brought eugenics back from exile.
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02 | Gene genie
Human GMOs already walk amongst us and the implications of this are enormous.
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03 | Sins of the flesh
There's a dark side of stem cell research — John Rasko shines a light on the low points and scandals of unproven cell therapies.
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04 | Life immortal
In the fields of gene and cell therapies we've already crossed many thresholds — but do we really understand the consequences of what we're doing?
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Fast, smart and connected: How to build our digital future
Professor Genevieve Bell outlines her proposal for how Australia should build its digital future. This talk was recorded in front of a live audience in Studio 22 at ABC Ultimo on S…
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Fast, smart and connected: Your hopes and fears for where technology is heading
We asked what your hopes and fears are for where technology is heading, and here's what you told us.
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Fast, smart and connected: All technology has a history (and a country)
Professor Genevieve Bell reveals how new technologies change life, but rarely in the ways we anticipate. How might the origin stories of the typewriter, the robot and electricity e…
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Fast, smart and connected: Dealing lightning with both hands
Professor Genevieve Bell looks at how personal computers and the internet have reshaped our lives, and the possibilities we’ve imagined for ourselves and each other.
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Fast, smart and connected: Where it all began
Professor Genevieve Bell explains why she’s returned home after decades in Silicon Valley, and explores Australia’s role in building our current digital world.
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Introducing 2017 Boyer Lecturer, Prof Genevieve Bell
What does it mean to be human, and Australian, in a digital world?