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Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr delivers a wide-ranging speech on the future of Australia-China relations for the Confucius Institute at UNSW Australia.

UNSW's Dr Tim Lambert debates climate change sceptic Lord Monckton. The debate was moderated by Alan Jones.

See the SMH online video:



http://media.smh.com.au/monckton-the-climate-debate-1133822.html

Professor Bill Randolph, Director of UNSW’s City Futures Research
Centre, on the challenges of housing policy, urban development and
metropolitan planning.

Third in the 2010 Utzon Lecture Series of of
presentations, lectures and debates on topics that address local and
global Built Environment concerns, issues and perspectives.

George Negus hosts this debate on the use of stem cells in medicine, featuring speakers Dr Bernadette Tobin and Professor Alan Trounson.

    •    Cure vs expensive waste of time?
    •    Strict control vs ethical free for all?
    •    Available to all vs the privileged few?


We face a stunning moment in time with extraordinary advances in translating stem cell discoveries – in particular changing one cell type to another. The promise is tangible for effective new approaches to incurable diseases. However, there is controversy about the risks and benefits in the future. This research involves expensive technology and only some parts of the population will have it available to them. Can we make it available to everyone? What is the community’s responsibility in this? Where are the boundaries and opportunities in how to access this reasonably across the world?

Host:
George Negus, former presenter/interviewer and reporter for ABCs Foreign Correspondent, Australia Talks, George Negus Tonight and Channel Nine's 60 Minutes and Today Show; Channel Seven's coverage of both Gulf Wars; SBS TV’s Dateline and TEN Network's news analysis program.

Speakers:
Professor Alan Trounson, President of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine in San Francisco, California.
Dr Bernadette Tobin PhD, Director of the Plunkett Centre for Ethics at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney. Reader in Philosophy at ACU.

Dr Chris Luebkeman, Director for Global Foresight and Innovation, Arup Group and Visiting Professor at UNSW, on life in 2070.

Dr Luebkeman is joined by an expert panel representing
engineering, the built environment, climate change and sustainability.


Panelists are Professor Alec Tzannes, Dean, Faculty of Built
Environment; Professor Matthew England, Co-Director Climate Change
Research Centre; and Dr Adrian Paterson, Chief Executive Officer ANSTO.

Jan Utzon, leading architect and son of world-renowned Sydney Opera
House designer Jorn Utzon, speaks about his father and his vision for
Sydney's most famous building.