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Listen to Julia Banks and Virginia Haussegger on Julia's new book Power Play. Breaking Through Bias, Barriers and Boys' Clubs, an honest guide for women who aspire to leadership in the workplace and in the world.
Listen to Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe in conversation with Francesca Merlan on their new book Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate, an authoritative study of pre-colonial Australia that dismantles and re-frames popular narratives of First Nations land management and food production.
Tune into this conversation between Bri Lee and Virginia Haussegger on Bri's new book, Who Gets to Be Smart: Privilege, Power and Knowledge.
Tune into this conversation between Bill Birtles and Hugh White on Bill's new book, The Truth about China
Listen to Hugh Mackay in in conversation with Alex Sloan on Hugh's new book, The Kindness Revolution. How we can restore hope, rebuild trust and inspire optimism.
Tune into this conversation between Peter van Onselen and Mark Kenny on Peter's new book, How Good is Scott Morrison?, which he co-authored with Wayne Errington.
Listen to Stan Grant in conversation with Mark Kenny on Stan's new book With the Falling of the Dusk, a deeply powerful, poetic and compelling book on the challenges facing our world.
The Flourishing and floundering podcast series aims to spotlight personal stories, shared experiences and increase the visibility of students, staff and alumni from underrepresented backgrounds at ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ National University.
Listen to Rick Morton, journalist and author of the acclaimed bestselling memoir One Hundred Years of Dirt in conversation with with Alex Sloan on Rick's new book, My Year of Living Vulnerably, a powerful, moving and highly personal book, charting his rediscovery of love.
Listen to Martin Parkinson in conversation with Katharine Murphy on Martin's essay A Decade of Drift from Monash University Publishing's new In the National Interest series.
Ross Garnaut is in conversation on his new book, Reset: Restoring Australia after the Pandemic Recession, in which Garnaut shows how the COVID-19 crisis offers Australia the opportunity to reset its economy and build a successful future - and why the old approaches will not work.
Australia and New Zealand are often considered close cousins. But why, despite being so close, do we know so little about each other? Hear from Laura Tingle in conversation with Don Russell on Laura's new quarterly essay, The High Road; What Australia Can Learn from New Zealand.
Robert Dessaix and Caroline Baum are in conversation on Robert's new book, The Time of Our Lives. What's the key to the art of growing older well? Is it an art that anyone can cultivate? How should we confront dying and death in a secular age?
Listen to Sir Peter Cosgrove in conversation with Alex Sloan on Sir Peter's book, You Shouldn't Have Joined, the warm, fascinating memoir of one of Australia's most popular and prominent public figures, which allows us an incredible insight into the role and world of Australia's Governor-General.
Marian Wilkinson is in conversation with Frank Jotzo on Marian's new book The Carbon Club, the inside story of how a network of influential climate sceptics, politicians and business leaders fought to control Australia's climate policy.
As part of the ANU/The Canberra Times Meet the Author Series, Dr Rebecca Huntley will be in conversation with the Hon. Andrew Leigh MP, Federal Member for Fenner, on Rebecca's new book How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference.
In this ANU/The Canberra Times Meet the Author podcast, social researcher and best-selling author Hugh Mackay AO chats with Alex Sloan AM on his two new books, The Inner Self, and his novel, The Question of Love.
Paddy Manning in conversation with Helen Haines on Paddy's new book Body Count. How Climate Change is Killing Us.
Julia Gillard and Quentin Bryce discuss Julia's new book, co-authored with Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Women and Leadership. An inspirational and practical book written by two high-achieving women, sharing the experience and advice of some of our most extraordinary women leaders, in their own words.
The concept of time travel is very familiar from science fiction stories. Is this concept coherent? Perhaps surprisingly, the laws of physics (as currently understood) do not rule out time travel. Listen to Dr Peter Riggs from Dept. of Quantum Science as he explains the implications of time travel.