Centre for Ideas

Can making fun of the cultural canon create more honesty about our private truths?

What have we learned from the pandemic about the importance of fighting inequality?

Stan Grant questions whether Australia's crisis of inequality can be addressed before the nation falls apart.

What does equality really mean in a world where inheritance influences success?

It's 2022, why is equal representation in the Australian parliament still a problem?

How Eyal Weizman and Forensic Architecture expose state violence and abuse.

Activists Peter Garrett and Jean Hinchliffe on the importance of citizen action in the face of cascading climate crises. 

What shapes the way we think about sex?

What could a more equitable and just care system look like?

Who pays for science? Does it matter? A conversation with Naomi Oreskes.

Writer, professor, commentator and self-proclaimed 'bad feminist', Roxane Gay returns to UNSW Sydney.

2021 Australian of the Year, Grace Tame reflects on the last year and the catalytic power of collective women’s voices.