Video Gallery

Music – my most profound experience

1 September 2018 thesumofpower 0

Barry Jones on Music as his most profound and consistent, intellectual and emotional experience. […]

Selwyn Cornish on Ted Theodore

20 April 2018 thesumofpower 0

On 1930s Australian Treasurer Ted Theodore’s qualities.

A Foolish Passionate Man

20 April 2018 thesumofpower 0

Biographer Paul Ormonde reflects on the title for his book on Jim Cairns – the inspirational leader of Australia’s anti-Vietnam war movement. Cairns, a controversial figure, rose to the position of Treasurer and Deputy Prime […]

Red Ted by Ross Fitzgerald

20 April 2018 thesumofpower 0

E. G. Theodore, one of Australia’s most enterprising and unusual political figures, was Treasurer and Premier of Queensland and later Federal Treasurer and Deputy Prime Minister of Australia in the Scullin Labor government. Here Ross […]

Barry Jones In Search of Lost Time – A Film Story

20 April 2018 thesumofpower 0

Barry Jones In Search of Lost Time – A Film Story uses the lens of film itself to focus on childhood, adolescence and early adulthood, training Barry’s camera eye on the shaping forces of his character and the key turning points of his life. […]

Economic Ideas

13 April 2012 thesumofpower 0

What is driving our leaders when they make critical decisions about the economy? The Sum of Power is an exploration of the influence of economic ideas upon our leaders.

L.F. Giblin – politician to expert

2 March 2012 thesumofpower 0

Co-Author of Giblin’s Platoon William Coleman reflects on the impact on Giblin’s career of WW1 and how Giblin politician re-emerges as Giblin the expert.

Keynes and the power of ideas

29 February 2012 thesumofpower 0

The shifting frame of ideas Politics Professor James Walter gives Keynes as an example of how the accepted frame of ideas can change, the once unorthodox can become the new status quo.