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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Natasha Mitchell |Richard Girvan |Ross Richardson |David Le May
The ghost people arrived by boat. They never left. But the stories of first encounters and what came next live large, 250 years later, in First Nations families and communities. An ambitious journey to reclaim the names and stories disappeared by Captain James Cook, but never lost. A deeply personal excavation of herstories and the women wrenched from their Country by colonial sealers. A Polish freedom fighter and the fight for the mountain that bears his name.
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3 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Natasha Mitchell |Ross Richardson |Richard Girvan |David Le May
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg has said “a lot of the corporate world has become culturally neutered” and that it needs more “masculine energy”? Has it and does it? At Meta, he recently shut down initiatives that promote equity and diversity in his workplace. In the USA, so has Ford, Mcdonalds, Walmart, and the Trump administration. But in Australia, less than 5% of CEOs in private companies are women and the gender pay gap is slow to budge.
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4 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Jonathan Green |Kim Jirik |Peter de Kruijff |Richard Girvan
The egg is an extraordinary thing. In the pantheon of miraculous food chemistry, it takes on a range of essential roles. From helping cakes and soufflés to rise, to bringing disparate ingredients and flavours into a unified whole. They can also take on a starring role, whether fried, scrambled or poached. Eggs frequently appear in art, literature, design, and philosophy, too, and they are at the heart of the age-old paradox: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Natasha Mitchell |Claire Slattery |Richard Girvan |David Le May
It's not long now until Australians find out what their next government will look like. The election has been described as a boring campaign, but a fascinating contest. So just what is going on in the minds of voters as Australia heads to the polls this weekend? This event was recorded at the Sorrento Writers Festival on 27 May 2025.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Natasha Mitchell |Richard Girvan |Ross Richardson |David Le May
Are we living through a key turning point in world history? How do we make sense of this present moment, and what's on the horizon? Trump's trade wars, long-held alliances dismantled, the deadly conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, the rise and rise of AI, the tech oligarch takeover, China's military build-up, NATO's demise, and much more. It's a confusing time. Four seasoned analysts and journalists with their finger on the pulse join Big Ideas host Natasha Mitchell to share their prognoses.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Damien Carrick |Anita Barraud |Richard Girvan
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Feb 23, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Natasha Mitchell |Richard Girvan
Seeing a whale in the wild takes your breath away. But much of what they do remains mysterious. Join Natasha Mitchell with two world leading whale researchers unearthing the secret world of cetaceans. You'll want to change jobs when you hear what they get up to! Thousands of humpback whales will soon leave their Summer feeding grounds in Antarctica with full bellies to begin the world's longest mammalian migration. How do they live, breed, behave, survive, thrive?
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Natasha Mitchell |Richard Girvan |David Le May
Why did acclaimed actor Melissa Jaffer step away from the spotlight and the swinging 60s to enter a strict cloister of Australian nuns for 4 years? Sister Marian McClelland is the last of two surviving members of the same Australian order of contemplative nuns. They became nuns at a time of radical change for women worldwide and for the Catholic Church, and have extraordinary stories to tell about how faith shaped their sense of identity and purpose.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Natasha Mitchell |Richard Girvan
One day Ariane Beeston looked at her baby son in his pram and saw a dragon looking back at her. In her memoir Because I am Not Myself You See: A memoir of madness, motherhood and coming back from the brink she takes us inside the experience of postnatal psychosis. Her extraordinary book could save lives — and cleaves open all sorts of secrets and stigma around maternal mental health, perfectionism, eating disorders, maternal love, dance school culture, and much more.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Natasha Mitchell |Claire Slattery |Marcus Hobbs |Richard Girvan
Jimmy Lai was once considered Hong Kong's quintessential rags to riches success story. But now, the newspaper publisher and democracy supporter is facing a life sentence in jail under China's crackdown on press freedom and opposition in the city. How did it come to this? And what does it mean for Hong Kong? This event was recorded on Thursday July 4 with the Melbourne Press Cub and PEN Melbourne, supported by the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne.
