Ideas at the House
Talks and conversations from the Sydney Opera House featuring the world’s greatest minds and culture creators.
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 59 minutes
- Episodes
- 456
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
Arianna Huffington in Conversation with Annabel Crabb (Ideas at the House)
Author. Entrepreneur. Visionary. Arianna Huffington is one of the world’s leading businesswomen and most influential women in media.
Born in Greece, Huffington moved to the US by way of Cambridge Univ…
00:58:48 |
Thu 18 Sep 2014
Alissa Nutting - Women Are Sexual Predators (Festival of Dangerous Ideas)
Throughout history, the cultural forces that have repressed female sexuality have also created a picture of women as sexually passive and requiring protection from the rapacious desires they inspire …
01:05:24 |
Thu 18 Sep 2014
Panel - Women For Sale (Festival of Dangerous Ideas)
Women, and their bodies, are for sale. You don’t have to go to Nigeria, where Boko Haram wants to sell kidnapped schoolgirls, to find women on the market. Throughout the world, women and children are…
01:02:34 |
Thu 18 Sep 2014
Kay Hymowitz & Bettina Arndt - Some Families Are Better Than Others (Festival of Dangerous Ideas)
For the past forty years there’s been a concerted effort to deny the growing evidence that marriage matters. Families with married parents are more likely to provide stable homes for children. Childr…
01:00:24 |
Thu 18 Sep 2014
Panel - Cat Videos Will Save Journalism (Festival of Dangerous Ideas)
There’s been great unease about the future of 'serious' investigative journalism since the eruption of the internet shook up the traditional newspaper model. What if it’s not just the money to suppor…
00:59:47 |
Thu 18 Sep 2014
Lydia Cacho - Slavery is Big Business (Festival of Dangerous Ideas)
In the West, slavery is often seen as a dark part of the colonial past. Although it’s illegal in all countries, it remains alive and well—and is growing dramatically. Impervious to recession, it form…
01:00:43 |
Thu 18 Sep 2014
John Pilger - Breaking Australia's Silence (Festival of Dangerous Ideas)
John Pilger addresses the 'great Australian silence', applying it not only to the treatment of Indigenous people but to class, great power and the limits of public debate.What are the 'unofficial tru…
00:58:50 |
Thu 18 Sep 2014
Huw Price & Jaan Tallinn - We Are Risking Our Existence (Festival of Dangerous Ideas)
Looking into the future, we can see the possibility of severe occurrences that threaten human extinction. Until recently, we haven’t taken this seriously and are therefore putting the future of human…
01:01:47 |
Thu 18 Sep 2014
Panel - The Return of the Class System (Festival of Dangerous ideas)
We like to think of Australia as an egalitarian country where social mobility is real and the concept of equality is unchallenged. But the reality is that, along with our English speaking peers, we a…
00:55:34 |
Thu 18 Sep 2014
Salman Rushdie & Emily Nussbaum - Television Has Replaced the Novel (Festival of Dangerous Ideas)
Since it emerged from its disreputable romantic beginnings, the novel replaced history and poetry to become the most significant vehicle for storytelling and the transmission of cultural values. Read…
00:59:44 |
Thu 18 Sep 2014
Masha Gessen & Tom Switzer - Putin (Festival of Dangerous ideas)
At a time when the world is coming to grips with tragic fate of MH17, and looking for answers, it is more important than ever to discuss how to deal with Vladimir Putin and the Russian regime.It’s be…
01:01:12 |
Thu 18 Sep 2014
Kay Hymowitz - The Rise of Women is Turning Men into Boys (Festival of Dangerous ideas)
While we’ve been focusing on the rise of women in the workplace, we have failed to notice the dramatic effect this has had on young men. Are we witnessing a male culture in profound decline? Young wo…
01:03:25 |
Thu 18 Sep 2014
Panel - The End Of The World As We Know It (Festival of Dangerous Ideas)
What does the future hold? A reign of world peace with stunning medical breakthroughs conquering death, illness and disease? Or a world where human beings have destroyed the web of living things and …
01:00:45 |
Thu 18 Sep 2014
Panel - Human Existence Doesn't Matter (And What Is It Anyhow?) (Festival of Dangerous ideas)
With the threat of climate change and damage to other elements of the biosphere, we may be in the process of creating a world where human existence is marginalised and modern civilisation is crushed.…
00:59:08 |
Thu 18 Sep 2014
Kajsa Ekis Ekman - Surrogacy Is Child Trafficking (Festival of Dangerous Ideas)
Surrogacy—or contract pregnancy—has become a global industry, growing at unprecedented speed. In India alone, this industry is valued at over US$450 million per year. Whereas the sex industry is incr…
00:59:52 |
Thu 18 Sep 2014
Pussy Riot/Zona Prava - Russia Is A Penal Colony (Festival of Dangerous Ideas)
(In Russian with translation.)
Pussy Riot became a global symbol of dissent in Russia with their idiosyncratic blend of feminist art and activism. When they were sent to prison, they became part of th…
01:03:46 |
Thu 18 Sep 2014
Jane Caro - How Many Dangerous Ideas Can One Person Have? (Festival of Dangerous Ideas)
Anyone who has written a book whose title refers to Australia as “The Stupid Country” is not afraid of the odd dangerous idea, and it turns out that Jane Caro has plenty. She is well-known as an advo…
01:01:29 |
Thu 18 Sep 2014
Elizabeth Pisani - Corruption Makes The World Go Round
Good governance is the buzzword of the day. Conventional wisdom has it that less corruption would translate into more economic growth, a healthier body politic and reduced likelihood of conflict. But…
01:00:15 |
Thu 18 Sep 2014
John Hewson - Your Superannuation Is Destroying The Planet (Festival of Dangerous Ideas)
To try and avoid the most catastrophic impacts of climate change, 190 countries have committed to limiting global temperature increase to below 2°C. To achieve this, 60-80% of the world’s existing ca…
00:57:43 |
Thu 18 Sep 2014
Bradley Garrett - Place - Hack Your City (Festival of Dangerous Ideas)
More of us now live in cities than ever before, and the spaces we live in are increasingly governed by agendas of safety and security. Arguing against safety may seem counter-intuitive. However, a cu…
00:58:38 |
Thu 18 Sep 2014
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