
2025 ABC Boyer Lecture Series: Australia: A Radical Experiment in Democracy Curated and hosted by respected journalist, author and broadcaster, Dr Julia Baird, this year's Boyer Lecture Series explores the theme Australia: A Radical Experiment in Democracy, through five distinct orations examining the strengths and challenges of our democracy as we navigate unprecedented global changes in politics... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 116 | Founded | 19 years ago |
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In the second Boyer Lecture for 2025, the Hon John Anderson, AC, farmer, grazier and former deputy prime minister of Australia, takes a sweeping look over our history and concludes that the liberal world order that has so far defined us, is ending.
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The Keynote Boyer Lecturer for 2025 is Justin Wolfers, Professor of Economics and Public Policy from the University of Michigan and visiting Professor at the University of NSW.
After many years teaching in the USA, he argues that Australia’s politic... more
"Whilst our new Australian choral music began in a classical context, artistic collaborations have extended our musical realm to a point where it no longer fits this classification – it is simply choral music."
As the founder of Gondwana Choirs, Ly... more
Iain Grandage is a composer, a cellist, a pianist, a festival director, and a career collaborator.
In his Boyer Lecture, he asks whether classical music has been underestimated in its capacity to connect communities. His work with Indonesian Gamela... more
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During his lecture, he played a snippet of a beautiful piece called ‘Moonrise Waltz’, written by his grandfather John Stanley Grandage. I can’t find the full piece anywhere. Bummer.
I’ve always been a huge fan of the Boyer Lectures but am bitterly disappointed they have provided advertisement noise in the form of a lecture to Andrew Forrest in the most recent episodes. His condescending, patronising dictations are gross!
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Some of the subject matter is regurgitating the usual busy talk of how technology is revolutionizing our lives. It’s all been said before in blogs and editorials. The emergence of a digital world is not news to the younger generation maybe this is pitched to the baby boomers.
Earlier years have tackled more interesting subject matter.
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