Intelligence Squared Australia
Intelligence Squared Australia is a project of St James Ethics Centre and John Rothnie- Jones to provide a series of live debates in Sydney, Australia.
IQ² Australia occupies a unique position in Sydney’s social and intellectual landscape. It is the only institution in town - aside from Parliament - to provide a forum for debate on the crucial issues of the day.
But unlike Parliament, its debates are consistently exciting, witty, provocative - and comfortable, held as they are at the City Recital Hall, Angel Place. Best of all, you are invited to watch the live debates and even participate.
Covered by The Sydney Morning Herald and broadcast nationally by ABC Radio and ABC Digital Television, the programs are designed to reach a wide audience and attract as speakers the top experts, specialists and passionate advocates for both sides of each issue to be debated.
The goals of IQ² Australia are to:
- raise the level of public discourse on our most challenging issues;
- provide a new forum for intelligent discussion, grounded in facts and informed by reasoned analysis;
- transcend the toxically emotional and the reflexively ideological; and
- encourage recognition that the opposing side has intellectually respectable views.
Visit the website to learn more about Intelligence Squared Australia, including details future live debates, how you can attend and to watch videos of past debates.
