Have you ever wondered what is at stake in the battle between those of religious persuasion and those who oppose them in today's world? <BR><BR>A.C. Grayling unravelled this complex idea and explained what is at issue from the stage of the Opera Theatre on Sunday 7 March. Watch the entire footage of A.C. Grayling's sold-out talk at Sydney Opera House and hear his own trenchant point of view on the matter.

WATCH the entire talk given by celebrated author, atheist, educator and scientist Richard Dawkins at Sydney Opera House. From the stage of the Opera Theatre on Sunday 7 March, Dawkins discussed his latest book <I>The Greatest Show On Earth</I>, in which he defends the facts of Darwinian evolution against those who claim the Earth was made in six days by an invisible supernatural power.

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AUSTRALIAN STEREOTYPES BETRAY OUR CULTURAL IDENTITY <BR><BR>Noble Savages, Outback Heroes, White Men in Charge... Does the stereotyping of the Australian character hold us back or give us a springboard for the future? Three leading Australian women, Professor Ien Ang, Larissa Behrendt and Robyn Archer challenge and discuss what they think it will mean to be Australian in the decades to come. This special recording is presented by the BBC's diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall with ABC Radio National. It was broadcasted on ABC Radio National, ABC Fora TV and globally on the BBC World Service. Link: www.bbcworldservice.com/forum

David Mutton, former Chief Psychologist for the NSW Police, argues that the insights that forensic pathology can provide into the criminal mind, can be used hand-in-hand with modern surveillance techniques to identify and exploit the psychological vulnerabilities of criminals, which will assist in the destabilisation and disruption of their criminal enterprises.

The war on drugs has failed. Despite the billions of dollars spent in law enforcement, today illicit drugs are cheaper, more potent, and easier to get than they were 35 years ago. Meanwhile, people continue dying in our streets while drug barons and terrorists continue to grow richer than ever before. Our panellists argue that all drugs should be legalized and the markets then regulated.

Christopher Hitchens is a British-American author, journalist, and literary critic. He is an anti-theist, and describes himself as a believer in the Enlightenment values of secularism, humanism and reason. <BR>Hitchens' argument against religion is not just the familiar argument against it in its "organized" form, but that the religious impulse is a means by which people deceive themselves and attempt to deceive others. He argues, that in making us submissive to the will of an Almighty, religion assaults human beings in their deepest integrity; by asserting that without acknowledging supernatural power they would have no means of distinguishing right from wrong. And by proposing a man-made authority (or in practice a series of rival man-made authorities) that are nonetheless eternal and unchallengeable, religion seeks to establish a totalitarian rule from which there can be no appeal. <BR>Talk presented in association with ABC Fora.