The House of Blue Glass: A life of Penelope Lucas, by Alan Atkinson
Book launch
Join award-winning historian Alan Atkinson in conversation with Catherine Gay about his latest book The House of Blue Glass: A life of Penelope Lucas (NewSouth, 2026).Following on from his acclaimed joint biography of Elizabeth and John Macarthur, in his latest work Alan pieces together the life of…
Big Malcolm and the Mulga Mafia: The Coalition under Fraser
Lecture/seminar
One of the great oddities of Australian government which baffles foreign observers – along with preferential voting and the small matter of quite when Australia became a nation – is the endurance of the coalition between the two main conservative parties, one predominantly urban, the other rural…
Dynamics of multidimensional urban poverty and child health outcomes in poor resources settings: evidence from Nigeria
Seminar
Rapid urbanisation in many developing countries is a profound demographic change, which has fundamentally reshaped the spatial distribution of poverty and health inequalities. Although many scholars have examined the impact of poverty on child health outcomes, their measures of poverty are commonly…
2nd Panel Discussion: US/ Israel War on Iran
Lecture
Photo Credit: Mehdi Khoshnejad (Pexels)A month on, multiple indicators point to how the US/ Israel War on Iran represents not a regional confrontation but a global structural shock with serious military, economic and geopolitical implications.Across the region but particularly in Iran and Lebanon,…
Slopaganda: The interaction between propaganda and generative AI
Seminar
At least since Francis Bacon, the slogan “knowledge is power” has been used to capture the relationship between decision-making at a group level and information. We know that being able to shape the informational environment for a group is a way to shape their decisions; it is essentially a way to…
Climate’s Computational Infrastructures
Lecture/seminar
What roles do computational infrastructures and their embedded values, priorities, and assumptions play in making knowledge about planetary futures? How do computational ensembles pull together computing architectures, data pipelines, calculative practices, and institutional settings to make…
Surface Rights: Aboriginal Lands and Minerals Under the Woodward Royal Commission
Lecture/seminar
On the 50-year anniversary of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act, this seminar turns to the Woodward Commission on Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory, focusing on the question of the recognition of Aboriginal mineral rights. Why were Aboriginal mineral rights not…