Ideas at the House

Western countries are seeing a resurgence in xenophobic populism, where national identities are constructed around fear of outsiders. In a world obsessed with borders, how do we define ourselves?

Iri…

How should journalists present the climate emergency?

In this session from Antidote 2019, Kerry O'Brien hosts an exploration into the urgent ethics of climate journalism with Kyle Pope, Tim Flannery,…

Data is being used to influence elections and invade our privacy. In this episode of Ideas of the House, whistleblower Christopher Wylie and Russian investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov explain w…

Calls are increasing for settlers in Australia to acknowledge and confront the ongoing fallout from our country's history. There's an urgent need for a national truth-telling process about the violen…

In this live recording of The Sydney Morning Herald’s podcast, Please Explain, journalists David Crowe, Shane Wright and Jacqueline Maley and host Tory Maguire take a look at the first 100 days of th…

American journalist Michael Pollan is best-known for his food writing, but in the seven years since his last Sydney appearance his research has changed direction. His latest book, How to Change your …

Ladies We Need to Talk tackles taboo yet essential topics for the thinking woman.

In this live recording from All About Women 2018, host Yumi Stynes leads a discussion about the orgasm gap. Along wit…

Women are far more likely to have their health concerns belittled by GPs, get diagnosed with anxiety more often than men, and can struggle to have their health concerns taken seriously. Debilitating …

Over the next few weeks on the podcast we're featuring live recordings of podcast events from All About Women festival.

First up is The Cut On Tuesdays, a new podcast from Gimlet Media. Take a look a…

During his 2014 visit to the Sydney Opera House Michael Pollan said “I write books about what I’m interested in”. And at that point, he was interested in food production, diet, and ways we eat. Now h…

From international policy to the nuance of consent, survivor, writer and former coordinator of a rape crisis centre, Sohaila Abdulali finds ways to talk about the difficult question of rape.

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In this special episode of It’s a Long Story, host and ANTIDOTE festival curator Edwina Throsby is interviewed by Sydney Morning Herald Editor Lisa Davies about the 2019 festival.

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Arab women are so often othered in western discussions about feminism. But the reality is there are strong feminist and LGBTQI movements across the Arab world.

Artist, poet and activist Sara Saleh cu…

Identity, which is at the heart of wokeness, is often regarded as the most fundamental thing we have. But clinging too hard to your identity can lead to an emphasis on what makes us different, rather…

On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, five activists were arrested in China for handing out stickers about sexual harassment. They were jailed for 37 days. These young feminist activists b…

How can women in power can affect social change? A leading voice in international conversations on these issues, Tina Tchen has been instrumental in spearheading the Time’s Up movement’s Legal Defens…

Women are taught from birth to repress their rage. But what would happen if women learnt to embrace anger, and unleash it upon the world?

At All About Women 2019 writer and activist Soraya Chemaly ca…

Women, on average, earn less than men, and retire with half the super.

It's so simple to procrastinate on getting your finances together. And women are definitely not helped by the forces stacked aga…