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Eating with joy with Dr Joanna McMillan
“Eating and food is about much more than nutrition,” says Dr Joanna McMillan. Joanna asks when the question of what to eat became such a dilemma. In one study, more than 80% of people said they were...
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Creating brain friendly habits with Sue Langley
“I find the brain endlessly fascinating,” says Sue Langley. She tells us about how, as a child, she hit her head a lot. She thought that she was losing brain cells each time, and that when she was 80...
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Thinking outside the square with David Astle
David Astle tells us to look at the word ‘happiness’: “There in the middle is the word ‘pin’, stabbed through the heart of happiness.” Also in the middle there is ‘pine’: “We haven’t yet seen the wood...
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The power of music with Richard Gill OAM
“Something that make me very happy is the idea of music, and what music can do for us,” Richard Gill OAM says. He talks about the ability of music to completely turn someone into a different person....
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Is sitting the new smoking? with Duncan Young
“We need a vision and we need a framework for workplaces. We want you to leave healthier than when you came in,” Duncan Young says. “We’ve all got our own health journeys,” he says. The main thing is...
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Stress less, laugh more with Anthony Ackroyd
“Laughter is the correct response to life. Life is too important to be taken seriously,” Anthony Ackroyd says. “I want you to think about your own autobiography and the way you think about laughter,”...
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The how of happiness with Professor Sonja Lyubomirsky
“Everything we do in our lives is aimed at achieving greater happiness,” says Sonja Lyubomirsky. But how relevant is happiness as a life goal to people across cultures? The evidence shows that most...
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Who’s got the weirdest parents? with Richard Glover
“My mother used to tell anyone who would listen was that I was the first artificial insemination baby. The reason she gave was quite strange: she said that in her many years of marriage to my father,...
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Happiness, connection and identity with Anita Heiss
“I write because I want to break down stereotypes of Aboriginal people. I want to see Aboriginal people as real people in Australian literature. I want Aboriginal women and children to see themselves...
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Rethinking the heart of health with Dr Alan Greene
“We’re going to be talking today about the single leading underlying cause of unnecessary death. If we could change that, we could restore quality of life and health for many people – not just for...
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Compassion – the heart of service with Nickolas Yu
Nickolas Yu tells us about a time when his father invited his family to dinner in China Town. This was usually a cause for celebration, but something was different this time. As they sat down to eat,...
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Messy to magnificent with Anna-Louise Bouvier
“It’s very hard to motivate people once the pain has gone away,” Anna-Louise Bouvier says. She’s a physiotherapist, and she’s used to working with bad backs and wobbly bodies. “When we’re ‘magnificent...
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Life is not happy, get used to it with Thubten Gyasto
“The organisers weren’t happy when I suggested the name for my talk. They wanted to change it to ‘Life is not always happy,’” Thubten Gyatso says. “Happiness is just a lighter degree of suffering,” he...
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Walking free with Associate Professor Munjed Al Muderis
Munjed Al Muderis does robotic surgery: he puts robots in people who have lost their arms and legs so they can move again. He was born in Baghdad, a city a lot of us read and hear gloomy things about....
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