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 Royce Kurmelovs, Claudia Paul and Jo Dyer.

Royce Kurmelovs is a journalist and writer whose work has been published by the ABC, CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera English, VICE, and The Guardian. Royce's bestselling first book, The Death of Holden, was published in 2016, followed by Rogue Nation and Boom and Bust. His latest book is Just Money.

Claudia Paul is an Aboriginal woman descending from the Wiradjuri people of central New South Wales, and is the third Indigenous Rhodes Scholar.   She is undertaking a DPhil in Musculoskeletal Science at Magdalen College, Oxford. In 2018, she graduated with a MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine from Magdalen College, Oxford.  Claudia also holds a Master of Traumatology from the University of Newcastle, and a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) from the University of Adelaide. Claudia has worked as a doctor with Hunter New England Local Health District and was previously a Student Representative for the Australian Indigenous Doctors Association. 

Jo Dyer is currently Director of Adelaide Writers’ Week.  She has held leadership roles at national cultural institutions including Sydney Writers’ Festival, Sydney Theatre Company and Bangarra Dance Theatre and her freelance productions have been staged at venues including the Sydney Opera House, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai and the legendary Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas. A two-time nominee for Best Picture at Australia’s AACTA awards, Jo’s films have won awards and screened worldwide, notably at the Berlin International Film Festival. Jo’s first book, Burning Down the House: Reconstructing Modern Politics, was published in February 2022 as part of Monash University Publishing’s In the National Interest series.