The latest news and comment on the festival of dangerous ideas 2015
September 2015
Nine dangerous ideas we discovered at the Sydney Opera House
Aylan Kurdi should not have died, Naomi Klein tells Sydney festival
My Moth story: how Howie changed my life (I was 81, he was 90)
The Moth in Australia: not standup, not self-help, just storytelling
Paul Krugman: Australia can weather the Chinese economic downturn
Dangerous Ideas speakers: Australia's asylum seeker policies are cruel and unacceptable
Tariq Ali, Johann Hari, Naomi Klein, Laurie Penny and Jon Ronson
Naomi Klein and Tariq Ali attack festival co-curator over Australia's asylum policy
August 2015
Marc Lewis: the neuroscientist who believes addiction is not a disease
Lewis, famous for detailing his own years of drug addiction in a book, divides the medical profession by arguing it is a behavioural problem, not a medical affliction
Naomi Klein on climate change: 'I thought it best to write about my own raw terror'
A Q&A with the bestselling author before her visits to Melbourne and Sydney
Tony Abbott is a climate change 'villain', says Canadian author Naomi Klein
The writer, who is coming to Australia on a speaking tour, says she cannot tell where the coal industry ends and the federal government begins