This Week: Prime Ministerial Material? Farmers Right to Say NO to Miners, What's the Story with the New Yorker and a rare insight into our host Waleed Aly

Home Talks This Week on TV About Subscribe Partners Contact us Follow us on Twitter Waleed Aly - Big Ideas host Tomorrow 11am on ABC1 SHORTCUTS takes a closer look at Prime Ministerial Material. David Marr discusses his recent Quarterly Essay about Tony Abbott with Robert Manne, then former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd talks to Father Frank Brennan on Eureka Street magazine's 21st anniversary. Wednesday 11am on ABC1 - We'd all be better off if farmers had the right to say NO to miners! The raw nerve at the centre of this IQ2 Debate held in City Recital Hall in Sydney is - is it time to grant farmers new legal entitlements to control access to their land? Saturday 6.30pm on ABCNEWS24 another enthralling session with The New Yorker team at the Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF). Editorial Director Henry Finder, Investigative Journalist and consummate storyteller David Grann and seasoned Pop Critic Sasha Frere-Jones trace the progression of what might be a mad, ill formed idea through to publication. What makes it through and why? Michelle Griffin, national news editor with The Age convenes this session. Saturday 10.30pm on ABCNEW24 find out a little more about our host Waleed Aly in a session from MWF called Australia II. The question the panel wrestles with is - do second generation Australians, have a unique perspective on political and social issues, and do such perspectives shift over a lifetime? George Megalogenis, Louise Adler and Waleed each give us a glimpse into their experience swapping anecdotes about family, school and politics. Esther Anatolitis moderates the session. In case you missed it last Saturday evening - this Sunday at 11.30pm on ABCNEWS24 we are rescreening a no holds barred session from MWF titled Censorship, the Body and Porn. It's a smart discussion with all the panellists (David Marr, Karen Pickering, Jeff Sparrow & Lynne Haultain) trying to fathom what drives the panic in the community about what is deemed pornographic. This Week on TV Politics Political Animal: David Marr on Tony Abbott David Marr in conversation with Robert Manne at the 2012 Brisbane Writers Festival on his recent Quartlerly Essay on prime ministerial aspirant Tony Abbott. more » Tuesday 2 October 2012, 11am on ABC1 Politics Things That Matter: A Discerning Conversation with Kevin Rudd What are the things that matter to Kevin Rudd? He appears in conversation here with Father Frank Brennan for the 21st anniversary of the Eureka Street magazine. more » Tuesday 2 October 2012, 11am on ABC1 Business IQ2 Debate: Farmers vs Miners This country has vast reserves of mineral and energy resources underground, but would we all be better off if farmers had the right to say no to miners? That's the proposition in this IQ2 Debate. more » Wednesday 3 October 2012, 11am on ABC1 Books and Authors The Other Africa A look at some of the current and exciting new writing from Africa from the 2012 Melbourne Writers Festival. more » Saturday 6 October 2012, 8.45pm on ABC News24 Editor's Picks Environment Coal Seam Gas - Economic Bonanza or Environmental Disaster? Economic bonanza or environmental disaster? This was the debate for this panel discussion at the Noosa Longweekend Festival this year. more » Politics K Rudd: Powertrip Interrupted On the eve of Kevin Rudd's demise, David Marr's influential and controversial essay in The Quarterly dug deep into the psychology of the former PM. But academic Robert Manne has some questions for Marr about his conclusions. more » Politics Personality, Politics and our Past PMs Where exactly does K Rudd fit into the traditions set by our national leaders? In this lively session from the Perth Writers Festival, political journos and biographers Robert Macklin and Paul Kelly discuss the last generation of Lodge-livers. more » Big Ideas TV| Big Ideas Radio| Contact Us You are subscribed to this ABC newsletter with the email address: "idouska1.scan@blogger.com" If you no longer wish to receive this newsletter, please unsubscribe here. If someone forwarded this newsletter to you, please feel free to subscribe here. Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 700 Harris Street, Ultimo NSW 2007 © 2011 ABC | Conditions of Use | Privacy Policy | Discover other ABC email newsletters