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The Ideas Festival aims to work with mainstream and independant media to stimulate discussion on the Festival's five themes.

If you are interested in interviewing any of our guests or the festival director, please contact us.

The Ideas Festival's media partner, The Courier-Mail has a dedicated Ideas Festival feature page on its website. You can find all of these articles here:

	Ideas Festival feature in The Courier-Mail

Podcasts

ABC's Radio National and SlowTV recorded some of the sessions of the Ideas Festival. You can find them here:

	ABC Radio National Podcast of Peter Singer lecture - broadcast on Fora Radio 11 February, 2009

	Future of the Library - Australia Talks - ABC Radio National podcast

	Ethical Eating session on SlowTV - Part 1

	Ethical Eating session on Slow TV - Part 2

	Ethical Eating session on ABC Radio National - ABC Radio National podcast

	Charles Landry on ABC Radio National's By Design - ABC Radio National podcast

	Helen Greiner on ABC Radio National's By Design - ABC Radio National podcast

	Geoffrey Robertson - Statute of Liberty: How to give Australians back their rights - ABC Radio National podcast

	Geoffrey Robertson QC on Statute of Liberty - How Australians Can Take Back their Rights (Slow TV) - Part 1

	Geoffrey Robertson QC on Statute of Liberty - How Australians Can Take Back their Rights (Slow TV) - Part 2

	Sunday Brunch with Phillip Adams, Brian Dawe, Helen Greiner, Chris Jordan and Ian Lowe - ABC Radio National podcast

	Futures of the World's Economy with Sohail Inayatullah on Slow TV - Part 1

	Futures of the World's Economy with Sohail Inayatullah on Slow TV - Part 2

	The Big Fix: Radical Solutions for Australia's Environmental Crisis with Ian Lowe and Sandy McCutcheon on Slow TV - Part 1

	The Big Fix: Radical Solutions for Australia's Environmental Crisis with Professor Ian Lowe and Sandy McCutcheon on Slow TV - Part 2

	Nanotechnology: From sci-fi to reality on Slow TV - Part 1

	Nanotechnology: From sci-fi to reality on Slow TV - Part 2

	Carlo Ratti: Future cities on Slow TV - Part 1

	Carlo Ratti: Future cities on Slow TV - Part 2

	Carbon Neutral Futures - from Futures and Values with Richard Eckersley, Dr Sohail Inayatullah and Professor Ian Lowe - ABC Radio National podcast

	Limits to Growth - from Futures and Values with Richard Eckersley, Dr Sohail Inayatullah and Professor Ian Lowe - ABC Radio National podcast

	Q&A - from Futures and Values with Richard Eckersley, Dr Sohail Inayatullah and Professor Ian Lowe - ABC Radio National podcast

	Kelly Tambamuthu and Professor Ian Lowe discuss the potential for alternatives to traditional coal-fired baseload power production - ABC Radio National podcast

Other media coverage

	RoboWars on Brisbane Times

	Transcript - Stateline - Chris Jordan and Dr Michael Hewitt-Gleeson interviewed on Stateline

	Pitch Club on ABC Brisbane

	RoboWars Article - UQU

	Chat round the table - Gatton Star

	Reading the future - The Australian

	Year-long fest on creativity, innovation - Malayasia - The Star Online

	LANDscapers article - indesign live.com

Presentations and blogs

Some presenters have shared their presentations, and others have blogged about or recorded aspects of the festival:

	Barry Saunders on Access to Government - Powerpoint presentation

	Entries to We Are What We Share competition

	Winners of the We Are What We Share competition

	View entries to the Emerge competition - how do we improve our schools

	Michael Doneman at the Ideas Festival

	Mike Boyd at the Ideas Festival as part of Creative Entrepreneurship - The Artists of Commerce

	Photos of the graffiti style mural by the river

	RoboWars video

	Blog re: Bob Stein's talk as part of the Queensland Writers Centre's Wordpool series

	Blog by Kate

	Advocating the pursuit of rights by Judy Cannon

	Ideas Festival Wrap up - blog by Hannah Suarez

	Pitch Club, by Hannah Suarez

	Mark Lobo presenting at Pecha Kucha

	Blog entry - Digital for Good

	Blog post about Peter Singer lecture

	University of Kuala Lumpur report

	Creative Entrepreneurship: The Artists of Commerce - An overview

	Transport on the Courier-Mail Green Blog

	Readers comments on transport - The Courier-Mail

	Outcomes of transport forum

Media Releases

Find releases for the 2009 Ideas Festival here:

	Ideas Festival Program helps us shape a dynamic future - Press release 5 February 2009

	Q150 2009 Ideas Festival to unearth great ideas for the future - Release 22 October 2008

	Announcement Media Release - Announcement Media Release

Information Sheets

	Speakers bios first round

	Round two Speakers bios

	Festival Director bio - Michael Peterson

	Advisors

For highlights from past Festivals, including selected audio downloads, visit the Ideas Archive page.