Big Ideas brings you the best of talks, forums, debates, and festivals held in Australia and around the world. From major public speeches to intimate bookshop conversations, Big Ideas puts you in the front row.

Running Time: 60 mins

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This session from Alice Springs Eye of the Storm Festival will take you 'beyond the false battlegrounds' & the most predictable opponents, as each panellists relates diverse scenarios of 'bearing witness': Pat Grant, Beck Cole, Ben Law, Marni Cordell & Anna Krien.

A collection of topics from this years' TEDxSydney covering: blindness, technology & reading (Ron McCallum); the Lockheed Lounge (Marc Newson); Space Junk (Alice Gorman) and Robogirls (Marita Cheng).

Digital Futures - looking at the transformation of the written word into phone apps; picture books into apps; twisting poetry into Twitter feeds and getting your news and current affairs exclusively online.

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