Start your day the right way with Breakfast with Papers, today, hear from Rhana Devenport, Greg Mackie and Lauren Novak 

Start your day the right way, with a stimulating discussion of the latest news headlines and hot button topics from The Advertiser and Sunday Mail. Today, hear from Rhana Devenport, Greg Mackie and Lauren Novak 

Rhana Devenport
Rhana Devenport ONZM is the Director of the Art Gallery of South Australia and the first woman to hold this position. She is a museum director, curator, editor, and cultural producer whose career spans art museums, biennials and arts festivals.  As former Director of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki she, in 2017, curated the work of Lisa Reihana for the New Zealand Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Prior to that she was Director of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth, leading to the development of the Len Lye Centre. In Australia she worked on the first four Asia Pacific Triennials at Queensland Art Gallery. Her curatorial interests include contemporary art of Asia and the Pacific, time-based media and social practice.

Greg Mackie
Greg Mackie is CEO at The History Trust of SA, and is an Adelaide City Councilor, with an abundance of cultural service to his credit. As co-founder of the iconic Imprints Booksellers, Greg served many years as Chair of Adelaide Writers’ Week and founded the Adelaide Festival of Ideas in 1999. He headed up Arts SA for many years and was Deputy CE in the Premier’s Department and SA’s ‘Ageing Provocateur’ before a successful consultancy practice. Greg received an OAM in 2002, the Dame Elizabeth Murdoch Cultural Leadership Award and the Bettison James Award in 2016.  

Lauren Novak 
Lauren Novak is Social Policy Editor for The Advertiser and Sunday Mail, where she began her career as a cadet in 2005.  Lauren spent more than seven years as a State Political Reporter before specialising in her current role in coverage of child protection and domestic violence policy, for which she has won state and national awards.  She is also an Our Watch Walkley Foundation Fellow and a Board Director with Zahra Foundation Australia, which helps victims of domestic violence gain financial independence.

Listen to the Breakfast with Papers Podcast. Panel discussions from Breakfast with Papers at the 2021 Adelaide Festival.

Panel discussions from Breakfast with Papers at the 2021 Adelaide Festival.

Panel discussions from Breakfast with Papers at the 2020 Adelaide Festival.