Emerging writers run wild at this Spring Fling edition of our popular Next Big Thing series. Join us on the rooftop garden terrace of narrm ngarrgu Library and hear from some of Australia’s brightest ...

Bestselling children’s authors Sally Rippin and Anna Walker embrace their inner wild things at this special screening of Spike Jonze’s film adaptation of the classic picture book. From the scary to ...

Larissa Behrendt AO is the Laureate Fellow at Jumbunna Research, UTS. She is an award winning author and filmmaker and the host of Speaking Out on ABC Radio. Stay up to date with our upcoming events ...

Dr Simon Bradshaw is Oxfam Australia’s Climate Change specialist. His main areas of focus include climate change adaptation in the Pacific, international climate negotiations, financing climate ...

National treasure Noni Hazlehurst details her life on stage and screen and takes us behind-the-scenes of a brilliant career. At this Melbourne-exclusive event, Hazlehurst joins host Elizabeth McCarthy ...

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Debi Enker has been writing about film and television for more than 20 years – long enough to have written reviews of Mad Max 3 and Far East for the late and lamented film magazine, Cinema Papers. She ...

Daniel Browning is an Aboriginal journalist, radio broadcaster, sound artist and writer. Currently, he is produces and presents Awaye!, the Indigenous art and culture program on the ABC’s specialist ...

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One of our most daring and original novelists Michelle de Kretser discusses her new book Theory & Practice. It’s 1986 in Melbourne, and ‘beautiful, radical ideas’ are in the air. Theory & Practice’s ...

James Boyce is the author of 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia, published in July by Black Inc., and of Van Diemen’s Land, which won the 2009 Tasmania Book Prize and the ...

The Wheeler Centre exists to support writers, readers and thinkers. Through live and digital conversations, debates, readings, performances and discussions, it deepens public engagement with the most ...