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Ideas Highlights
Catch up on sessions and ideas you might have missed or want to be reacquainted with. Selected session papers, transcripts, audio grabs and reports are available online.
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ideas magazine
Ideas 2003 - Overview
Fast facts on Ideas 2003 which responds to, enacts and promotes the Brisbane 2010 and Smart State strategies. It complements the city's and the state's major events calendar and is gaining increasing national recognition as an innovative, accessible and provocative forum for the open discussion and promotion of new ideas. 
Day 4: What you said
With comments like 'inspiring', 'stimulating', ‘thought provoking’ and 'Brisbane is open to the challenges of new ideas', the city's residents have again resoundingly indicated their approval for Ideas at the Powerhouse.
Day 4: Community Ideas
Several Ideas sessions and displays presented ideas for community revival and renewal.
Day 4: The Juggling Act: Cynthia Morton
Cynthia Morton describes herself as "a recovering addict and victim of abuse" and encourages her audiences to take an honest look at themselves and the bigger picture of their lives.
Day 3: Big Ideas in a Small Tent
The Ideas Tent provides an intimate venue in which smaller groups can participate in discussions. Throughout the day, several sessions provided opportunities to demonstrate and scrutinise an array of ideas.
Day 3: When will we ever learn?
A school without discipline problems. Peace education as a viable alternative. Generations of kids missing out. Indeed, when will we ever learn? Stories of the best and worst of education from Dale Spender, Woodcrest College students, Gary Foley and Ivana Milojevic.
Day 3: Your Ideas and Your Words
Throughout the Ideas Festival, there have been several opportunities for you to have your say.
Day 3: Concept to Ca$h: Richard Braun
Richard Braun, Secretary-General of the Innovation Profession of Australia, introduces the big world of innovation and covers some of the unknowns faced by the inventors of new products.
Day 2: Healing Powers: Clare Cooper Marcus
For the first time, Clare Cooper Marcus publicly shares the story of her own recovery from cancer which parallels her research into and professional practice of healing landscapes and gardens in medical environments.
Day 2: Kruger v The Commonwealth
Background reading for those interested in human rights in Australia. This 1996 High Court case sought to challenge the constitutional validity of laws underpinning the power of the Chief Protector of Aborigines in the Northern Territory in the removal of children.
Day 2: CS Energy Generations Ahead Forum
Work, family, business, leadership and lifestyle. It’s all changing fast. Futurist Sohail Inayatullah joins Eco Futures director Molly Harriss Olson and former president of the International Council on Social Welfare Julian Disney, to present views on how this and future generations will live.
Day 2: Welcome to Invention-ville
Ever wondered what’s going on in some of those backyard sheds or makeshift labs and workshops? Ever wondered where inventors get their ideas from? Look at a few of the ingenious inventions on display in the Ideas Bazaar.
Day 2: RoboDogs are Go!
In a miniature soccer field, several robotic dogs are waiting in position. What will happen when the switch is flicked?
Day 1: Welcome to Ideas 2003
Ideas 2003 opened to capacity crowds with much to stimulate the senses and the mind.
Day 1: Who owns what and why?: Ewen C Wynne & Phillip Hourigan
Patent attorney and molecular biologist Ewen C Wynne and Deacons partner Phillip Hourigan discuss intellectual property, the creative and commercial value of ideas and what we really own.
Day 1: Survival or Self Harm: Tony McMichael & William Grey
Introduced by Ian Lowe, Tony McMichael and William Grey addressed the correlation of environmental health and human health from their respective backgrounds in epidemiology and philosophy.
Perspectives
Several Ideas speakers contributed to Radio National's Perspective segment, a short commentary program. It's personal, political, historical and thoughtful. It's an opinionated five minutes of radio. Transcripts from the programs are published here.
Does War have a Future?: Sohail Inayatullah
Is it ludicrous to think of a future without war? Sohail Inayatullah proposes that by raising the question of a war-free future, we challenge the notion that wars are inevitable.
Hope: Mary Zournazi
In this modified extract from Hope - New Philosophies for Change Mary Zournazi considers the ways in which hope and change are interrelated. "Hope can be what sustains life in the face of despair. It's the stuff of our dreams and desires, our ideas of freedom and justice and how we might conceive life," she says.
Panorama of Things to Come In the New Millennium: Graham T.T. Molitor
The next millennium will be the ride of a lifetime according to Graham Molitor. He predicts space exploration, quantum leaps in quantum physics, the end of the family and much more.
Misinformation: Camille Barbagallo
Forced deportations are currently occurring, says Camille Barbagallo, with people being chemically sedated, taken from their detention centre rooms without warning, packed on planes in the middle of the night and forced to leave Australia.
Who Pays?: Elizabeth Cham
It is often said that philanthropy does not exist in this country and Australia holds no real culture of philanthropy. Is this true? Elizabeth Cham thinks not.
The question of Charity & Advocacy: Tim Costello
Tim Costello addresses faith, hope and new charity legislation currently on the table. What will become of charity in this country if the legislation is passed?
Greed or Gumption?: Australia’s new entrepreneurs: Kimberly Palmer
At the ripe old age of 29, Kimberly Palmer took a leap of faith and established her own business. She hasn't looked back since.
Ideas Power
CS Energy and Ideas at the Powerhouse worked together to develop the Ideas Power Project. This collaboration extended access to the Brisbane based Ideas festival to a number of regional communities and schools in Queensland. Here, Ideas Magazine publishes essays by students from those communities.
:: Renewable resources for electricity generation: Jeffery Lever
Jeffery Lever, senior at Spinifex College in Mt Isa, puts the case for harnessing renewable resources to generate electricity.
:: Power in the New Age: Soeren Oppermann
Soeren Oppermann, senior at Spinifex College in Mt Isa, considers the myriad meanings of ‘power’: from the machinery of industry to the machinations of politics.
:: Sunning Ourselves: Kylie Howe
What are the benefits of solar power? Kylie Howe, senior at Spinifex College in Mt Isa, names a few.
Talk the Talk
Ideas 2003 presented 50 local and international guests, activists and ideologues who addressed a dynamic mix of ideas for now and the future. Check out the links below ...
On Tolerance: Phillip Adams quoted
This compendium of quotes highlights the nuances of tolerance in a 'dangerous world'. Inflammatory, compassionate and provocative, Phillip Adams has consistently advocated for tolerance as a personal and public issue. Are we retreating from tolerance or playing snakes-and-ladders with it?
 Are We All Masochists?: Sharon Beder
Sharon Beder interrogates the work ethic and considers whether our unhealthy addiction to work is a form of masochism.
Principles and Patterns of Economic Era Development: Graham T.T. Molitor
Graham Molitor proposes that historic economic era developmental patterns reveal principles that can be used to forecast oncoming economic eras. Drawing on the “Big Four” economic eras that have dominated human history, he presents some lessons learned. He also discusses the “Big Five” waves of economic change which he projects will dominate the millennium.
 The Jihad for Peace: Ziauddin Sardar
According to Ziauddin Sardar, Islam means both peace and submission. So why, he asks, is Islam equated with violence in the West?
 Sustainability as if Survival Mattered: Molly Harriss Olson
As communities and companies ask themselves what sustainable development means for them, Molly Harriss Olson considers that irresponsible profiteering and consumption are endured as a loss on environmental and social ledgers.
Public Interest or Common Good of the Community? - Bringing order to a dog's breakfast: Alan Demack
Alan Demack considers the proposition that the concept of 'public interest' in the commercial world has passed its use-by date as well as assesses the currency of the 'common good'.
Canaries, Coal-pits and Carbon Dioxide: The Health Impacts of Global Climate Change: Tony McMichael
What effect will global warming have on our health? Tony McMichael explores some possibilities and scenarios.
Toys: Ziauddin Sardar
In this extract from The A to Z of Postmodern Life, Ziauddin Sardar breaks away from the tyranny of toys and encounters the darker side of seemingly innocuous playthings.
 Koori Engagement with Television: Gary Foley
Gary Foley explores indigenous community engagement with, and response to, the advent of television and subsequent attempts to both control and/or subvert the intent of television manufacturers and programmers.
War Reporting, Offending ‘Good Taste’ and ‘Decency’, and the Public’s Right to Know: Angela Ward
Angela Ward examines the 'right to know' in light of recent war reporting and censorship. “To what extent, then, does removal from the airwaves of the most terrible consequences of war, do undue violence to the debate and discussion that is central to the right to free political expression?” she asks.
Could a machine think?: Stephen Law
Stephen Law interrogates questions of understanding, feeling and thought in this chapter from his book, The Philosophy Gym. Are such capacities intrinsically and exclusively human?
 Poverty-free Futures: Ivana Milojevic
Ivana Milojevic applies causal layered analysis to consider the futures of poverty. Is poverty normal or are poverty-free futures a real possibility?
Politics With A Soul. Yes, It Is Possible: Tim Costello
Tim Costello considers the convergence of politics and spirituality, rejecting the current trend of ‘triumphalism’ among public institutions.
Work, family and home in our Digital futures - more of the same or transformation, finally: Sohail Inayatullah
While full of economic benefits, working from home most likely will only worsen the anomie and social isolation many feel in modern society. But, says Inayatullah, there is a possibility that life could be much better for all of us.
Curious teenagers need to be informed about sex, not controlled: Kath Albury
Kath Albury responds to the recent report on Youth and Pornography in Australia in a recent Sydney Morning Herald article. “Young people are more sophisticated in understanding sexuality, and the internet is not their major problem,” she writes.
 Multicultural Planning: Lessons from Papakolea: Karen Umemoto
In this essay, Karen Umemoto explores what ‘multicultural planning’ means in practice and highlights key challenges for planners working on culturally diverse contexts.
Letter to a Young Muslim: Tariq Ali
In this extract from Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity, Tariq Ali addresses a 'young muslim' about recent global events and the challenges facing Muslim societies. "We are in desperate need of an Islamic Reformation that ... opens up the world of Islam to new ideas which are seen to be more advanced than what is currently on offer from the west," he writes.
 Keep the World Alive: James Bradfield Moody
What role can young people play in environmental preservation and awareness raising? As the United Nations Environment Program Youth Adviser from Australia, James Bradfield Moody proffers some ideas and suggestions.
Continuum of Change: Perspectives on Physical or “Hard” Sciences: Graham TT Molitor
In this previously unpublished essay, Graham Molitor describes “physical or hard science phenomena that surround us everyday, phenomena of our environment that we rarely take think about. Yet, mountains, oceans and the firmament of the cosmos itself - every part and parcel of it - is on a trajectory to a well understood trajectory of coming and going.” He discusses timelines that provide the setting and context for basing very long term forecasts. The longer and more complete the historic patterns of past and present, coupled with potential breakthroughs and prospective developments, the clearer the pattern of ongoing incremental development prospects become.
Psst … I wannabe white: Lillian Holt
Describing whiteness as shaming, blaming, insulting and assaulting, Lillian Holt declares that she wants to be white for change. “Whiteness defined and it delineated,” says Holt. “That is, it defined and delineated who could come into the fold and who stayed out.”
Great white noise: Mark Davis
Where will the new ideas come from? Author and commentator, Mark Davis proposes that while ‘elites’ continue to be lampooned in Australia, genuine debate has been on a downward slide and new ideas are scarce commodity.
A launch pad for Ideas
The scope and diversity of the Ideas 2003 Festival was commended by the State Government and Brisbane City Council when the full program of speakers and activities was released at a launch this month. Hosted by Broadcaster and Ideas Advisor Phillip Adams, the launch was attended by over 150 people who had a first look at the program of speakers, displays, activities and entertainment.
Public Response Powers Second Ideas Festival
Ideas at the Powerhouse, Brisbane's festival of ideas, innovation and invention is back. Ideas at the Powerhouse is an initiative of the Brisbane City Council and Queensland Government and is supported this year by CS Energy, one of the fastest growing electricity companies in Australia. According to Brisbane Lord Mayor Jim Soorley, the festival's success in 2001 created a new asset for the City.
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Ideas at the Powerhouse
a four-day festival of ideas, innovation and invention
Brisbane 14-17 August 2003
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