Boyer Lectures - Fast, Smart And Connected: What Is It To Be Human, And Australian, In A Digital World?
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Synopsis
Each year since 1959, the ABC has sparked conversation about critical ideas with the Boyer Lectures. In 2017, the Boyer Lectures are by Professor Genevieve Bell. Her series is called Fast, smart and connected: What is it to be human, and Australian, in a digital world?
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Social justice and health: making a difference
12/01/2017 Duration: 28minThere are examples from around the world, of community and government actions that make a difference to health inequalities. Creating the conditions for individuals to take control over their lives will enable social flourishing of all members of society.
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Living and working
11/01/2017 Duration: 28minUnemployment is bad for health, but work can damage health, too. When work is no longer the way out of poverty, health suffers.
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Give every child the best start
10/01/2017 Duration: 28minAbsence of the nurturing and presence of the harmful are important for the whole of life and are strong contributors to inequalities in adult health. There is much we can do to make things better at both the level of national policy and at the local level supporting families and children.
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Health inequality and the causes of the causes
09/01/2017 Duration: 28minThere are large inequalities in health within and between countries. To explain this we have to look at the social determinants of health—the conditions in which people are born, grow, live work and age; and inequities in power, money and resources.
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Social justice and health: making a difference
24/09/2016 Duration: 28minThere are examples from around the world, of community and government actions that make a difference to health inequalities. Creating the conditions for individuals to take control over their lives will enable social flourishing of all members of society.
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Living and working
17/09/2016 Duration: 28minUnemployment is bad for health, but work can damage health, too. When work is no longer the way out of poverty, health suffers.
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Give every child the best start
10/09/2016 Duration: 28minAbsence of the nurturing and presence of the harmful are important for the whole of life and are strong contributors to inequalities in adult health. There is much we can do to make things better at both the level of national policy and at the local level supporting families and children.
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Health inequality and the causes of the causes
03/09/2016 Duration: 57minThere are large inequalities in health within and between countries. To explain this we have to look at the social determinants of health—the conditions in which people are born, grow, live work and age; and inequities in power, money and resources.
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The Birthplace of the Fortunate
18/10/2015 Duration: 50minAustralia now finds itself on the centre stage. Staying there is the challenge. In the final of the 2015 Boyer Lectures series, Dr Michael Fullilove calls for a larger and more ambitious foreign policy; one that ensures that our national interests once again align with our national capabilities.
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Foreign policy begins at home
11/10/2015 Duration: 27minIn his third Boyer lecture, Michael Fullilove argues the need for a larger politics and some big thinking on the economy in order to respond to global challenges, like immigration and climate policy.
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A three-dimensional foreign policy
04/10/2015 Duration: 26minIn his second Boyer Lecture, Dr Michael Fullilove examines how the dizzying rise of China has pulled Australia onto a new world stage as a key player, a leap that calls for a serious examination of foreign policy
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Present at the destruction
27/09/2015 Duration: 29minIn this first lecture, delivered at Peking University in Beijing, Dr Michael Fullilove explains the crumbling of world order. As wealth and power shifts to the East, Australia finds itself in a new and precarious position.
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People for Science
27/09/2014 Duration: 27minIn the fourth and final lecture Professor Cory highlights the concerning scientific brain drain in this country: "We are losing women from all areas of science and the deficit at senior levels is particularly disturbing."
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Science for a Healthy Environment
20/09/2014 Duration: 27minIn the third lecture Professor Suzanne Cory reflects on her other great passion, the environment, and warns that 'humankind is fouling the nest' and that if action is not taken soon, by 2100 Earth will be hotter than any time in the last few million years making mass species extinctions and global human conflicts over energy and water inevitable.
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Science for a Healthy Economy
13/09/2014 Duration: 27minIn the second lecture Professor Cory shows how extraordinarily important scientific research and development is for our economy.
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Science for a Healthy People
06/09/2014 Duration: 27minIn this first lecture Professor Cory reflects on where medical science has come from and where it is heading, drawing out implications for health and the economy.
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Australians at their best
17/11/2013 Duration: 28minCourage, compassion and resilience in everyday life
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