Terra Nullius. A No Man’s Land. Met with European notions of civilisation, Indigenous Australia was brutally overlooked. But the worlds oldest living culture survives. Indigenous approaches to architecture are gaining ground. Indigenous voices

Bookoccino China Night: The Fourth Edition

Jan 16th, 2023 1h 33m

On January night a large group gathered at Moby Dicks, Whale Beach for Bookoccino's annual 'China Night', a foreign policy conversation hosted by Jane Perlez. This year we welcomed Michael Green of the US Studies Centre, author Linda Jaivin and

Richard Fidler's 'Book of Roads and Kingdoms' with Geraldine Doogue

Nov 16th, 2022 53m 51s

On the 31st of October 2022 we welcomed the inimitable Richard Fidler, discussing his new 'Book of Roads and Kingdoms' with Geraldine Doogue.

Outsiders Looking In: A chat between two expats on Australia, America and living abroad

Jun 20th, 2022 1h 25m

It was our pleasure to host Foreign Correspondents Damien Cave and Nick Bryant on Wednesday June 13 at Moby Dicks, Whale Beach. Together they discuss the experience of living abroad, what defines the Australian character and Why America is no l

War in Ukraine

Jun 7th, 2022 1h 14m

A truly engaging and powerful discussion on the war in Ukraine. Hosted by Lowy fellow Richard McGregor, with Bobo Lo and Zoya Sheftalovich. Vladimir Putin's decision to invade Ukraine has turned global politics upside down. The US and Europe ha

Ep.4 Wade Davis, Magdalena River of Dreams

Dec 7th, 2020 28m 2s

Our guest is Anthropologist Wade Davis who’s written a best seller on Colombia... its beauty, people and the nation's entanglement with the cocaine trade and the 50 year Colombian Civil War...His new book is entitled 'Magdalena River of Dreams:

Ep.3 Hugh White AO, How to Defend Australia

Oct 12th, 2020 45m 59s

Bookoccino's Jane Perlez (NYT) interviews Hugh White to discuss the role of a divided America and a rising China in the Asia-Pacific as well as many of the themes contained in his groundbreaking 2019 book "How to Defend Australia."Can Australia

Ep.2 Malcolm Turnbull, A Bigger Picture

Sep 15th, 2020 25m 11s

A Bigger Picture has generated sensational headlines and was an instant best seller. In an interview with Peter White, a former radio journalist, the former prime minister ranges from the affect that his mother walking out on him at age nine h

Ep.1 Bill Finnegan, a surfing life

Aug 19th, 2020 23m 56s

Episode 1, Bill Finnegan, one of America's most prominent man of letters, a long-time writer at the New Yorker. Bill is also an avid surfer, which he recounts in Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, which won the Pulitzer Prize and has been a consis

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