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Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015

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September 2015

  • Naomi Klein and audience members at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Sydney Opera House, Australia, 5 September 2015.

    Nine dangerous ideas we discovered at the Sydney Opera House

  • Canadian author Naomi Klein

    Aylan Kurdi should not have died, Naomi Klein tells Sydney festival

  • The Moth is a storytelling collection that invites people to tell true stories - live. Australia, September 2015 #storytelling #themoth #lightbulbs

    My Moth story: how Howie changed my life (I was 81, he was 90)

  • George Dawes Green, founder of The Moth storytelling night and collective, photographed live in New York City.

    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

  • A heroin addict reaches for a pile of used syringes before trading them in for clean ones in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Nov. 3, 2000.

    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

    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
  • Naomi Klein

    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
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