We built this thing Ep2: The competitive edge as a first-time founder in your 40s with Janet Salem
After 17 years at the United Nations, Janet Salem was growing frustrated with the gap between the sustainability data she was gathering, and...
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We built this thing Ep1: When solving the water crisis comes from thin air with Shannon Lemanski
On this episode, Shannon chats about pivoting your start-up after funding failure, committing to your mission and transforming lives in the...
Human vs Machine: Joel Pearson on staying optimistic about the intelligence revolution
The development of AI has brought humanity to the cusp of a seismic change the likes of which has never been seen before. Workforces of the...
Human vs Machine: Barbara Wilby and Joel Pearson in conversation
The development of AI has brought humanity to the cusp of a seismic change the likes of which has never been seen before. Workforces of the...
Women on Top
Statistics can sometimes paint a rosy picture. Women now make up half of federal parliamentarians in Australia, more women graduate from uni...
Whistleblowers: In defence of truth
Most whistleblowers are unknown and ordinary people shedding light on corruption and misconduct. They rarely make the front page; many pay a...
Sue-Anne Hunter: Our kids deserve better
Following the historic appointment of Sue-Anne Hunter as the inaugural National Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child...
Nalini Prasad on global oil and the Aussie wallet
The ongoing conflict between Iran, the US and Israel has not only led to the deaths of many thousands of people, it has destabilised the glo...
Nila Ibrahimi: Song of Rebellion (Re-release)
When Nila Ibrahimi posted a video of herself online, singing proudly in protest of the ban on girls over 12 singing in public, she hoped the...
Guardians of the future: Māori knowledge in the age of AI
Dr Karaitiana Taiuru is a leading global voice at the forefront of Māori data sovereignty and AI ethics. His practice draws on tikanga Māori...
Meditation on Country: Professor Angie Abdilla
Angie Abdilla creates video installations interrogating Indigenous deeptime knowledges, automation and AI, focusing on technology as cultura...
Look Again: Why AI images don’t tell the whole picture
Every day, generative AI is pumping millions of new pictures into existence. Researcher and UNSW lecturer Dr Charu Maithani is redefining ho...
The Housing Crisis with Alan Kohler (Re-release)
Richard Holden | Alan Kohler Australia, a land of sweeping plains, has one of the lowest population densities on the planet. So, how did we...
Laurie Woolever: The gluttony of life
Since its 2025 publication, Laurie Woolever's Care and Feeding was an immediate New York Times bestseller, tracing her path from small-town...
6 things you need to know about AI with Toby Walsh (Re-release)
As one of the world's leading researchers in artificial intelligence, Toby Walsh has been awarded the Humbolt Research Award and elected as...
Karen Hao: Empire of AI (Re-release)
Programs like ChatGPT have become ubiquitous with AI, promising to kick start the next industrial evolution. But the scale of resources need...
Yael Stone: Giving to gain
Many people would recognise Australian actress Yael Stone from her breakout role as the red-lipped Lorna Morello in TV series Orange is the...
Who's the Man? (Re-release)
Within today's social media landscape, a finely tuned content algorithm is serving up often unhealthy and sometimes extreme views on masculi...
Gough Whitlam: The Vista of the New
Hear acclaimed political biographer Troy Bramston in conversation with UNSW's Verity Firth and delve into his latest book Gough Whitlam: The...
Lesbians are Lovely!
We've come a long way since references to lesbians could potentially land you jail-time and lesbian culture was less visible in literature a...