In 2026 author @SalmanRushdie returns to Festival of Dangerous Ideas for #FODI Opening Night 🔥 THE PRICE OF IDEAS // FRIDAY 21 AUG 2026 // SYDNEY TOWN HALL Early release tickets on sale now – limited time only. https://t.co/bq6qPEZbST #FODI2026

BE BOLD – DON’T WAIT. FINAL RELEASE TICKETS ON SALE NOW 🔥 Tickets for @SalmanRushdie's return to FODI are SELLING FAST. THE PRICE OF IDEAS // FRIDAY 21 AUG 2026 // SYDNEY TOWN HALL https://t.co/bq6qPEZJIr This session is the 2026 John Caldon Provocation at FODI.

In 2026, author @SalmanRushdie returns to Sydney's Festival of Dangerous Ideas for the Festival Opening Night 🔥 THE PRICE OF IDEAS // FRIDAY 21 AUG 2026 // SYDNEY TOWN HALL Limited early release tickets on sale now. https://t.co/bq6qPEZbST #FODI2026

@SalmanRushdie presents the 2026 John Caldon Provocation at FODI. FODI is presented by @ethics_centre, supported by @Create_NSW + by Principal Partner @Joblink_Plus. Opening Night is supported by @cityofsydney. Salman Rushdie is presented in Australia with @wheelercentre 🔥

Former member of the Westboro Baptist Church @meganphelps says that when faced with difficult conversations, empathy is a powerful tool for persuasion. Watch The Witch Trials from #FODI 2024, now streaming on demand until 8 Sept 🔥 Tickets available at https://t.co/9jZNeM9dkR

Russian American journalist @mashagessen reasons that dissidents are more useful alive than dead, even if that means exile from the very country one is seeking to liberate. Catch up on Democracy is Not Worth Dying For, streaming on demand til 8 Sept 🔥 https://t.co/ay9y20eR7v

US cultural critic Roxane Gay says that our ideological chambers can be dismantled, but only if we listen to others. Catch up on her #FODI keynote How to Have Dangerous Ideas, streaming on demand until 8 Sept🔥 Tickets available at https://t.co/GtJMYsChAe

Russian American journalist @mashagessen says in order to learn the most profound lessons of history we have to recognise the signs of when we're sliding into darkness. Stream Masha's keynote on demand until 8 Sept🔥 Tickets available at https://t.co/q45sSJTgjs #FODI

What a pleasure to talk Counterfeit People at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney this weekend. The audience was wonderful - spontaneous applause for @Lizzie_OShea's work on defending digital rights against big platforms! Thanks for a great conversation @FestOfDanger #FODI

Catch up with select sessions from this year's Fest, now streaming on demand 🔥 ROXANE GAY // DAVID BADDIEL // JEAN TWENGE // MASHA GESSEN // DAVID RUNCIMAN // MEGAN PHELPS-ROPER // ANDY MILLS // SAREE MAKDISI + MORE Digital tickets available at https://t.co/O9fwHDYPnj #FODI

Got room for more danger? Join @jean_twenge @StephanieAlis18 @sam_koslowski + @bkjabour as we stare down the generational gap at @UNSW Roundhouse this week🔥 TUE 27 AUG // 6.30PM // THE GENERATION GULF Co-presented by UNSW Sydney and #FODI Book now at https://t.co/Y6v4EDtUAB

Thoroughly enjoyed my first Festival of Dangerous Ideas #fodi and hearing from two great panels

What a spectacular Sydney weekend! From attending the Festival of Dangerous Ideas and listening to the formidable Stan Grant, a 13km coastal walk saturated with stimulating conversation…to ice creams in the bath with this incredible view! Thank you P for the perfect escape! X

Multitudes of moral dilemmas, bodacious beats and uncancelled culture 🔥 #FODI closes our weekend takeover of @Carriageworks Sydney with a BANG! 📷 Anna Kucera

It was great to be back at the @FestOfDanger Ideas taking about the realities of inequality and the hope for equality with @GDBlunt , @DrMyraHamilton and @purplepingers.

UK author @Baddiel is joined in conversation by @ethics_centre's @SimonLongstaff to present the inaugural John Caldon Provocation at @Carriageworks Sydney for #FODI 2024🔥 Missed out on The God Desire in person? Catch up with on demand tickets at https://t.co/OyRwr4zUFG

Are we too focused on race? Author and public intellectual @coldxman joins host @joshzepps for a live #FODI edition of Uncomfortable Conversations 🔥

In a world where public shaming often dominates the conversation, comedian and writer @Baddiel @rgay Andy Mills @meganphelps and @ockhamsbeard unpack what public forgiveness looks like. Catch up with on demand tickets at https://t.co/Rmd576Yu2s #FODI

Has the West been asleep at the wheel? US-based academic @sareemakdisi argues that Europe and America, in particular, are complicit in a historic wrong. Catch up with on demand tickets, now at https://t.co/Ss3FsMEG8p #FODI